A few guests are staying in a house near Eagle Point, which is the northwest corner of the island (on your left as you come into the dock). They may be interested to learn that the first white settlers to Little Cranberry landed there. From Hugh L. Dwelley's "A History of Little Cranberry Island, Maine," pp. 16-17:
One-armed Job Stanwood is thought to have come to Little Cranberry in 1762 and Benjamin Bunker to Great Cranberry. Ted Spurling tells us that Stanwood and Bunker were both veterans of the 1745 First Battle of Louisburg where Stanwood lost an arm. Both came from communities in Sussex County, Massachusetts as did Some and Richardson. They may well have known one another before they came.
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Governor Bernard returned [to Little Cranberry] in 1764 to survey his grant more fully. Wendell Hadlock wrote that: "His [Bernard's] surveyor took his departure from Sutton's Island to a spruce tree on Job Stanwood's Landing Place on Little Cranberry Island." Thus is Job Stanwood's presence and even the place of his landing (near Eagle Point) confirmed.
