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Templar's Lodge Charter for Cranberry Isles
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Certificate
  • Organizations, Civic
  • People
  • 1866
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Templar's Lodge Charter for Cranberry Isles
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
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Charter document: Grand Lodge of North America (State of Maine) Independent Order of Good Templars, organized May 16, 1855, grant unto G. H. Pressey, C. H. Bulger, L. H. Bracy, A. M. Spurling, G. H. Spurling, Wm. P. Preble, H. A. Preble, L. G. Stanley, C. G. Kimball, A. Bunker, J. M. Bunker, S. A. Bunker and their associates this Charter for a Lodge to be known as Ocean Echo Lodge No. 157 located at Cranberry Isles… signed July 4, 1866. Wikipedia: "The IOGT originated as one of a number of fraternal organizations for temperance or total abstinence founded in the 19th century and with a structure modeled on Freemasonry, using similar ritual and regalia. Unlike many, however, it admitted men and women equally, and also made no distinction by race." According to a local 1888 newspaper article they met Tuesday evenings each week at Norwood's Cove School House. [show more]
Appointment of Postmaster Joseph S. Spurling
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Certificate
  • Organizations, Civic
  • People
  • 1862
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Appointment of Postmaster Joseph S. Spurling
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
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Certificate, Appointment of Postmaster Joseph S. Spurling, 29 Apr 1862
Speech to Ladies Benevolent Society
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Literary, Speech
  • Organizations, Civic
  • 1864
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Speech to Ladies Benevolent Society
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Speech, to Ladies Benevolent Society, by A.C. Preble, President, 1864
Certificate for William Preble as Notary Public
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Certificate
  • Organizations, Civic
  • People
  • 1860
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Certificate for William Preble as Notary Public
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
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Document. Certificate: Augusta, Maine, 14 March 1860, William P. Preble of Cranberry Isle, State of Maine, as Notary Public for Hancock County for seven years. Signed by Scott M. Morrill, Governor. Certificate has an ivory and pink impressed and raised seal the State of Maine with the signature of the Governor below it and the notation: Commission Recorded Vol. 4, Page 173. Signed at bottom by Noah Smith, Secretary of State.
Civil War draft exemption certificate
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Government, Military Record
  • Organizations, Civic
  • 1863
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Civil War draft exemption certificate
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
"Certificate of exemption for a drafted person on account of disability" for Asa D. Stanley due to disease of the right lung 28 Aug 1863
Invitation to enter military service (Civil War)
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Government, Military Record
  • Organizations, Civic
  • 1864
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Invitation to enter military service (Civil War)
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
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A Proclamation issued by Samuel Cony, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the State of Maine, 13 Jul 1864, inviting men to enter military service and promising extra pay for those who leave the state in order to drive back the rebel hordes from Washington. Item given to Komusin by Dot & Andy McSorley, when he bought his land from them.
Civil War recruitment announcement
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Government, Military Record
  • Organizations, Civic
  • 1864
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Civil War recruitment announcement
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Document, 1 page, Civil War announcement aimed to encourage recruitment into Maine Sharpshooter's Battalion, 26 Sep 1864
Brochures Civil War
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Booklet
  • Businesses, Medical Business
  • Organizations, Civic
  • 1862
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Brochures Civil War
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Three booklets: (A) Typhoid Fever Its Prevention and Restriction, Issued by the State of Maine (Form 25) undated, 4 pages. (B) Circular No. 54 State of Health of Maine, On the Prevention of Consumption undated, 4 pages. (C) What they have to do who State at Home issued by Fred. Law Olmstead, General Secretary, Washington DC 1862 (Civil War), 4 pages.
Postmaster Joseph S. Spurling, Esq. appointed
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Certificate
  • Organizations, Civic
  • People
  • 1862
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Postmaster Joseph S. Spurling, Esq. appointed
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Certificate, Post Office Appointment as postmaster of Joseph S. Spurling, Esq., 29 Apr 1862
Journal with transcriptions of protestations of ships
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Other Documents
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • Events
  • Organizations, Civic
  • Organizations, School Institution
  • People
  • 1867
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Journal with transcriptions of protestations of ships
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Journal with transcription. 38-page typed transcription of protestations of ships wrecked on the Cranberry Isles from an original 19th-century ledger/journal kept by William P. Preble 1867-1879. Journal transcribed by Michael Macfarlan c. 2002. One loose page partial protestation for 1893. The back of the journal also contains pages for the accounts pertaining to School district No. 2, the Post Office, and for various islanders (not transcribed). (See also 1000.0.934: selections from 1080 - sea captain's transcribed broadcasts for possible video production. (See also June 2018 Cranberry Chronicle, pages 20-13 - link below) [show more]
Overseers of the Poor 1867 report
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Government, Government Records
  • Organizations, Civic
  • 1867
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Overseers of the Poor 1867 report
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
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Document, 1 sheet with 1 small slip glued onto it, handwritten, "Report of the Overseers of the Poor of the Town of Cranberry Isles for the current year or 1867", detailing the sad case of William P Pung and family, and the efforts of the overseers of the poor to supply food for them and place the children in other homes. Transcribed.
Deed for Pew 19 Union Meeting House to Mary L. Bulger
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Legal, Deed
  • Organizations, Religious
  • 1866
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Deed for Pew 19 Union Meeting House to Mary L. Bulger
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
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Document, 1 handwritten sheet, 2 sides, side 1 is copy of original deed giving pew #19 in Union Meeting House to Mary L. Bulger, 25 Aug 1866. Side 2 is assigning Mary bulger 1/44 share of proceeds of sale of Meeting House, 26 Feb 1897.
Speech to Ladies Benevolent Society
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Literary, Speech
  • Organizations, Civic
  • 1863
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Speech to Ladies Benevolent Society
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Speech, to Ladies Benevolent Society, by A.C. Preble, President, 1863 (first draft)
Speech to Ladies Benevolent Society
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Literary, Speech
  • Organizations, Civic
  • 1865
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Speech to Ladies Benevolent Society
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Speech, to Ladies Benevolent Society, by A.C. Preble, President, 1865
Ladies Benevolent Society speech
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Literary, Speech
  • Organizations, Civic
  • 1863
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Ladies Benevolent Society speech
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Speech to Ladies Benevolent Society by A.C. Preble, President, 1863 (revised version)
Early church documents
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Financial, Receipt
  • Organizations, Religious
  • People
  • 1866
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Early church documents
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Five documents related to the Church: (A-C)=Three receipts February to July 1866 total $950: Money received by J. W. Osgood from the Cranberry Isles Union Benevolent Sewing Circle for J. W. Osgood to build the church; payments made ‘by the honor of A. C. Preble’ [Abigail Cobb Preble], signed by J. W. Osgood, and attested to by William P. Preble. (D)= an undated and unsigned (difficult to decipher) ledger page with note: To Whom it Does or May Concern, We the undersigned active and honorary members of Cranberry Isles Benevolent Sewing Circle respectively [represent?] that we are not willing to have the money [divided but want?] the money [kept for the purpose] in which we have agreed in and are satisfied if once divided it will be the means of destroying our fund and a waste of the money. Active members/Honorary members. (E)=Poem by William P. Preble undated, honoring the dead. [show more]
Town of Cranberry Isles records - 1864
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Government, Government Records
  • Organizations, Civic
  • 1864
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Town of Cranberry Isles records - 1864
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Documents. Scans of Town of Cranberry Isles records from 1864 (part of 2016.334.2100)
Town of Cranberry Isles records - 1865
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Government, Government Records
  • Organizations, Civic
  • 1865
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Town of Cranberry Isles records - 1865
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Documents. Scans of Town of Cranberry Isles records from 1865 (part of 2016.334.2100)
Town of Cranberry Isles records - 1866
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Government, Government Records
  • Organizations, Civic
  • 1866
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Town of Cranberry Isles records - 1866
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Documents. Scans of Town of Cranberry Isles records from 1866 (part of 2016.334.2100)
Town of Cranberry Isles records - 1867
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Government, Government Records
  • Organizations, Civic
  • 1867
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Town of Cranberry Isles records - 1867
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Documents. Scans of Town of Cranberry Isles records from 1867 (part of 2016.334.2100)
Town of Cranberry Isles records - 1868
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Government, Government Records
  • Organizations, Civic
  • 1868
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Town of Cranberry Isles records - 1868
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Documents. Scans of Town of Cranberry Isles records from 1868 (part of 2016.334.2100)
Town of Cranberry Isles records - 1869-1903
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Government, Government Records
  • Organizations, Civic
  • 1869
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Town of Cranberry Isles records - 1869-1903
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Documents. No scans of Town of Cranberry Isles records for 1869-1903 have been made as of 2018 (part of 2016.334.2100). Paper documents are in files.
Town of Cranberry Isles records - 1860
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Government, Government Records
  • Organizations, Civic
  • 1860
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Town of Cranberry Isles records - 1860
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Documents. Scans of Town of Cranberry Isles records from 1860 (part of 2016.334.2100)
Town of Cranberry Isles records - 1861
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Government, Government Records
  • Organizations, Civic
  • 1861
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Town of Cranberry Isles records - 1861
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Documents. Scans of Town of Cranberry Isles records from 1861 (part of 2016.334.2100)
Town of Cranberry Isles records - 1862
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Government, Government Records
  • Organizations, Civic
  • 1862
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Town of Cranberry Isles records - 1862
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Documents. Scans of Town of Cranberry Isles records from 1862 (part of 2016.334.2100)