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| Town of Cranberry Isles records - 1856 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Town of Cranberry Isles records - 1856 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Documents. Scans of Town of Cranberry Isles records from 1856 (part of 2016.334.2100) | ||
| Town of Cranberry Isles records - 1857 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Town of Cranberry Isles records - 1857 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Documents. Scans of Town of Cranberry Isles records from 1857 (part of 2016.334.2100) | ||
| Town of Cranberry Isles records - 1858 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Town of Cranberry Isles records - 1858 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Documents. Scans of Town of Cranberry Isles records from 1858 (part of 2016.334.2100) | ||
| Town of Cranberry Isles records - 1859 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Town of Cranberry Isles records - 1859 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Documents. Scans of Town of Cranberry Isles records from 1859 (part of 2016.334.2100) | ||
| Town of Cranberry Isles records - 1850 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Town of Cranberry Isles records - 1850 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Documents. Scans of Town of Cranberry Isles records from 1850 (part of 2016.334.2100) | ||
| Description and scans of images of 1850s wet-plate postive photographs Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Description and scans of images of 1850s wet-plate postive photographs Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Documents. Two documents: (A) The first is an undated note entitled "Early pictures made at 'The Ways' " (home of the Lea family 1960s) written by George Vaux in which he describes two ca. 1850 "wet-plate positives, backed by metal plates." Two digital images in GCIHS collection, the first (D) of the ship "Express, Cranberry Isles," and the second, a wide landscape view of the Thomas Bunker wharves (C), both taken from The Ways property, may be the photos described in Vaux's note. The scans were made from photos provided by Nancy Lea ca. 2000. (2013 correspondence re: unsuccessful investigation into the whereabouts of the two original wet-plate positives was saved.) Vaux also explains that they called the house The Ways "because timbers for ships' ways were found when excavating for the basement." 2014 email from Chuck Liebow explain the photos: "Zooming in you can see another vessel "Harriett", a pinky or near double ender which Victor claimed was built by Thomas Bunker (Harriet was Thomas Bunker's wife). A 2000 email from Liebow indicates he thinks the photo shows the Thomas Bunker wharves on the site where Mrs. Lea's house is, with the Richman house with the roof half covered in snow. Liebow adds: George Vaux dated the photo to about 1852 based on the ship "Express" at the same wharf. Islesford looks funny but the Fish Point house is right where it ought to be." The second document (B) is an undated copy of a plat map (with ball point pen marks) showing the George Vaux and Robert Lea properties, Lots #30 and 31 respectively. (See also 2013.257.1987 re: modern photos of The Ways.) [show more] | ||
| Letter from Samuel Spurling to mother Abigail [Spurling] Preble Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Letter from Samuel Spurling to mother Abigail [Spurling] Preble Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Letter from Samuel E. Spurling to Mrs. Abigail C. (Spurling) Preble (son to mother), 30 Jun 1850. In this letter, Samuel writes from San Francisco, California. He had moved out west (at about age 23) to work in the gold mines about a year earlier and intends to stay 4 or 5 years before returning home to visit. Samuel mentions that when he arrived, part of San Francisco was in ashes but being rebuilt; gambling houses were open Sundays; as many boats in the harbor as Boston and NYC; fair prospects; and asks if Father Preble will cover his insurance payment if necessary. He mentions an Enoch working at the mines, and a Mr. Davis who sounds like a new friend. (Seems like Enoch may be a fellow Cranberry Islander, perhaps a Spurling or a Stanley, TBD.) [show more] | ||
| Receipt for sale of Richardson estate to Preble Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Receipt for sale of Richardson estate to Preble Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Receipt: 23 Apr 1859, Sarah H. Richardson sells her father's estate to William P. Preble for $25 plus all debts and demands. Transcribed. | ||
| Receipt for food Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Receipt for food Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Business receipt from Symmes Eaton to Enoch Stanley, Boston 7 May 1851, food, $2.11 | ||
| Note from Enoch Stanley re: selling oil Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Note from Enoch Stanley re: selling oil Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Note, from Enoch Stanley to Garent, asking to sell 5 barrels of oil and keep the account of the barrels separate, 5 Sep 1855 | ||
| Bill of sale Joseph S. Spurling to Asa Stanley Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Bill of sale Joseph S. Spurling to Asa Stanley Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Bill of sale, handwritten, for land, from Joseph S. Spurling to Asa Stanley, 11 Jan 1859 |