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Templar's Lodge Charter for Cranberry Isles Great Cranberry Island Historical Society	Document, Certificate	Organizations, Civic People	1866	No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only	Templar's Lodge Charter for Cranberry Isles Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Identifier: gcihs-2018.416.2789 Type: Document, Certificate Subject: Organizations, Civic People Date: 1866 Description: 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 Identifier: gcihs-1000.0.70 Type: Document, Certificate Subject: Organizations, Civic People Date: 1862 Description: Certificate, Appointment of Postmaster Joseph S. Spurling, 29 Apr 1862
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 Identifier: gcihs-2013.246.1944 Type: Document, Certificate Subject: Organizations, Civic People Date: 1860 Description: 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.
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 Identifier: gcihs-1000.0.165 Type: Document, Certificate Subject: Organizations, Civic People Date: 1862 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 Identifier: gcihs-1000.116.1080 Type: Document, Other Documents Subject: Businesses, Store Business Events Organizations, Civic Organizations, School Institution People Date: 1867 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]
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 Identifier: gcihs-2018.416.2774 Type: Document, Financial, Receipt Subject: Organizations, Religious People Date: 1866 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]

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