TOP O THE MORN: County cash stashed in tree (whidbeynewstimes.com) Samuel Libbey came to Penn’s Cove in 1853. He left his wife and two sons in Maine in 1852 and sailed to the Pacific with his brother-in-law Capt. Benjamin Barstow.
[Benjamin] Barstow established a trading post at the [Penn] cove, and Samuel took 320 acres at Point Partridge on the north side of today’s Libbey Road. He was joined by his family in 1859.
This principle was sufficient thenceforward to rid me of all those repentings and pangs of remorse that usually disturb the consciences of such feeble and uncertain minds as, destitute of any clear and determinate principle of choice, allow themselves one day to adopt a course of action as the best, which they abandon the next, as the opposite.