Abstract
SHE division of land in York County into the present twenty-eight towns has been a long and slow process, from the earliest settlements about 1623 to the latest town partitionment in 1915. After being retarded by insecurity and the danger of Indian attacks, chiefly in the last quarter of the seventeenth century, the organization of the entire area into towns was completed by the end of the Revolution, subsequent changes having come through subdivision. There have been four types of establishment, roughly chronological: grants under the Council for New England, grants by the General Court of Massachusetts Bay, purchase from the Indians, and subdivision of existing towns. Some of the present towns are the result of more than one of these proc-
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