On May 20, 1763, the first permanent English settlement in this town was established in Machias Bay by a small company that landed there. The group consisted of Samuel and Sylvanus Scott, Timothy George, David Libby, John and Solomon Stone, Daniel and Japhet Hill, Daniel Fogg, Isaiah Foster, Westbrook Berry, his wife and three children, Isaac Larrabee, his wife and three children, Joel Bonney, Wooden Foster, all of Scarborough, Thomas Buck of Plymouth, and Jonathan Carlton of Sheepscot.