Series III. Land Transfers includes: deeds of conveyance of land in Bakerstown; records of tracts seized by the Proprietors for non-payment of taxes and sold at auction, and miscellaneous bonds for the sale of land; and other contracts concerning Bakerstown land. It is important to note that the Bakerstown Grant was subsequently divided into the towns of Poland, Minot, and Hebron, Maine. Some deeds specify land in one of these towns while noting that the land was “formerly Bakerstown”, others simply convey land in Poland, Minot, etc., while still others refer to land in Bakerstown, even though, from the date of the deed compared with those from the individual towns, it is clear that the division had already occurred. Therefore, deeds for land in “Bakerstown”, Poland, Minot, and Hebron are not separated, as they were all within the original Bakerstown grant. Large tracts were distributed to each proprietor, according to their investments. Some portions of those tracts were surveyed, subdivided, and sold, and other portions retained by the individual proprietors. The Proprietorship itself sold or granted individual lots to settlers, and some of the granted land remained undivided until a later time. Some of the lots were leased rather than sold, mortgages taken by the Proprietors on others, and some were conveyed in exchange for labor on infrastructure such as roads. Mortgage deeds are included together with the deeds for the sale of land. Some deeds reflected transfers of land pursuant to the judicial decision of 1795, which mandated that all settlers within a certain disputed area who occupied or improved their lots prior to 1780 were to be “quieted in their titles”. Also included is a transfer of land necessitated by the error in the initial survey of the Bakerstown grant, which mistakenly included land already owned by the Pejepscot Proprietors (Box 3, Folder 2, Moses Little to the Bakerstown Proprietors, March 12, 1788). Apparently the Bakerstown Proprietors had allotted this portion of the grant to Moses Little individually, which necessitated a transfer back into the Proprietorship so that the appropriate adjustment could be made. The Proprietorship had the right to assess taxes, and to seize the lands of delinquent taxpayers to sell at public auction. Box 3, Folder 4 contains lists of delinquent landholders, announcements of public auctions (“vendues”), and land transfers resulting from those auctions. Many of the summaries are undated, making it impossible to arrange the documents in folders 1 and 2 in strict chronological order. However, these summaries are valuable to the researcher in keeping track of the fairly complex issues involved and are placed within the folders as their contents seem to dictate. The pleadings and petitions in Commonwealth v. Bakerstown not only tell the story of the Bakerstown settlement, but they illustrated the tensions between competing interests of government, speculators, individual settlers, and the traditional “frontiersman”, or squatter, in a new land. Box 1, Folder 3 contains the depositions of settlers, surveyors, and others taken as evidence to support the positions of the litigants. Depositions taken in later years relate to the amount of compensation claimed by the parties for land lost, and for the costs of brining ejectment suits in order to reclaim land awarded by the final settlement. Also included in Folder 3 are certificates of individual settlers stating their right to their lots under the conditions set by the final judicial decision in the above case. Folder 4 contains miscellaneous court papers from other lawsuits concerning Bakerstown land, many of them arising from the issues of Commonwealth v. Bakerstown Proprietors. Folder 5 contains a record book of the Bridgham Company