Pejepscot Proprietors

The Pejepscot Proprietors was a company of land investors who colonized the current towns of Brunswick, Topsham and Harpswell, Maine, between 1715 and 1814.

During the European colonization of the Americas, the first settler was Thomas Purchase, settling on the banks of the Androscoggin River in Brunswick, at the site of Fort Andross and Pejepscot Falls.

[2] After the Native American wars came to a close, the proprietors acquired the land holdings from Purchase's successor, Richard Wharton, in the Maine district of the Province of Massachusetts Bay,[3] and furthered the colonization of Maine.

After four years of occupancy, Purchase was issued a deed from the Plymouth Company in 1632 for the land.

Purchase moved to Boston after a raid on his house during King Philip's War and the land was bought by Richard Wharton on October 10, 1683.