Micah Hobbs and wife Nancy (Smith) originally of Princeton, Worcester County, Mass., bought a sixty acre portion of lot 98 from William Hewitt for $400 and moved to Barrettstown in 1801.129 His home was built just a short distance from Simon Barrett's on what is now called Wiley's Hill. As a surveyor and justice of peace, Micah's services were much needed in Hope.

Micah came to Camden with his brother William to help set up Camden's first water system on April 7,1800. They contracted with Jacob Reed to lay an aqueduct at the Harbor Village. The pipes were made of hemlock, spruce and cedar in sections about ten feet in length. The conduits led from a spring at the lower base of the mountain. In his deed from William Hewitt, Micah is referred to a "pump coarer, of Princeton, Worcester County, Mass.

We have already mentioned "Squire" Micah Hobbs, surveyor and justice of the peace, whose services were ever in demand. He was called upon to settle estates and make land divisions if needed, layout roads and most important of all, to marry couples, a duty he shared with Justices Almond Gushee and Fergus McLain.

After Micah Hobbs sold his first home to Oliver Pendleton he moved to the side of Hatchet Mountain on lot 85 which is to this day still occupied by descendants of the same family, the Paysons.