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You searched for: Year end: 1910✖Contributor: Great Cranberry Island Historical Society✖Date: [blank]✖Place: [blank]✖Subject: Structures✖Type: Document✖Type: Oral History✖
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Jimmy's Point houses on GCI Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Jimmy's Point houses on GCI Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Document, from Ralph W. Stanley to Phil & Karin Whitney dated 3/4/2010. Subject: "Jimmy's Point". Article mentions the house built by Thomas Manchester Stanley, son of Jonathan R. and Irene Lorilla (Ladd) Stanely. Irene Lorilla Ladd was the daughter of Moses and Sarah (Lurvey) Ladd. Sarah was the daughter of Jacob and Hannah (Boynton) Lurvey and Mary who was a sister of Hannah Boynton. Mary was the wife of Thomas Cobb Stanley, Jr. and also sister of Hannah, wife of William Gilley of Baker Island. Sarah Ladd died in 1816. When Irene was 9 years old she went to live with Thomas Manchester and his wife, Hannah Hadlock. Hannah Hadlock was the daughter of William Nathaniel and Mary (Graham) Hadlock. Mary Graham was the mother of Jacob Lurvey. Thomas Manchester and his wife, Hannah, both died in 1861. Thomas Manchester Stanely died in 1913 and probably lived his house in that house. Documents mention Uncle Jimmy, J. L. Stanley and Sons of Manset, Bunkers's Ledge, Aunt Esther Spurling, Aunt Nan, Charles Gilley, Phoebe Jane Stanley (Aunt Nan's sister) , Baker Island, Andrew Alley, Clarence Beal, (who was Andrew's wife's son). Harold Alley, Manset, Fish Point, Manset. There is a grave on the point in the woods where a passing ship passed and buried a man who had died from typhoid fever. Uncle Jimmy's real name was William Doane Stanley (he was also known as "Pa Jim". [show more] | |||
Poem - And the Place Thereof Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| ![]() Poem - And the Place Thereof Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Document (2 copies) Rachel Field's poem "And the Place Thereof..." which refers to Sammy Sanford's cabin |