Description: The Mount Desert Bridge Corporation. Chartered in January, 1836. Booklet with the bylaws adopted July 13, 1836. Printed by W.H. Sherman, Printer, Bar Harbor, ME. 1900. Previously archived as 016.FIC.00.23
Description: Five ledgers (A-E) 1830-1850s of a collection of 18 small, 19th-century ledgers or account journals belonging to William P. Preble; very difficult to decipher, many entries not in chronological order, often several years of entries not made in sequential order. (Only exterior and one page of each ledger scanned. A= Small marble covered ledger 1836, 1837. Mentions Brig Hannah & Abigail. Fabric goods like calico and cotton, pants and clothing. B= Small tan ledger with blue pages, entries made in very faint pencil. Boston 1849 – payments to individuals. November 28, 1849 lists of quantities of [fish?]. Individual accounts/expenses. Hardware. Provisions. C= 1856 Samuel S. Bunker one of the Surveyors of Highways in the Town of Cranberry Isles. Small ledger lists residents and poll tax for each D= 1855-1856 Brig Factor items, supplies, and expenses, tallies of fish, payments and expenses for sailors/fishermen, mentions lobsters, mention of the Schooner Sea Flower and Quickstep. Entries written in two directions, as if it was used for different years. The only year found so far is 1856 with entry for Nathan Stanley with balance due to Haynes. Lobsters for June 1855. E= 1855-1858. Black leather journal with blue pages and leather clasp. Miscellaneous entries expenses, fish. 1857 and 1858 accounts of individuals. Provisions and payments for Schooner Sea Flower. 1856 payments. 1855 payments. [show more]
Description: Two deeds 1833 and 1821, receipt 1868, and 1898, and scrap of deed no date. A= 1833 deed Aaron Wasgatt of MDI, blacksmith, to Sans Stanley regarding Lots 40, 41, and 42 on Mount Desert, signed by David Wasgatt and Aaron Wasgaat 1833, Recorded 1837 Book 64/Page 213. B= Deed Joshua Mayo, blacksmith, to Sans Stanley, Jr. 75 acres, signed 1818 and recorded 1821 in Book 41/Page 367, C= Fragment of a deed transferring something to Lydia Baker, recorded by John Brooks, 19th century. D= Receipt: For labor received, promise to pay Charles Harding signed by William P. and William H. Preble 1868; on reverse "paid in full all claims on the Ship [Picayne?]" including $1.65 interest. E= Receipt for payment to Millard Spurling for hauling in hay for W.P. Preble July 22, 1898. [show more]
Description: Notes from a Seal Cove school district meeting at the residence of Captain William Heath. People Mentioned: Benjamin Atherton, George Butler Jr., George Butler, Jacob Butler, William Butler, Ezra Dodge Jr., John S. Dodge, R. F. Dodge, R. F. Dodge, Nathaniel Gott, O. Haley, William Heath Jr., Hosea Heath, Thomas Heath, William Heath, Samuel Hennison, George Murphy Jr., George Murphy, Israel Murphy, Lemuel Norton, James Reed Jr., Ezra D. Reed, James Reed, Benjamin Robins, Jonathan Robins, Joshua Sawyer, Samuel Sawyer [show more]
Description: Document, copy of request to Maine Senate & House of Representatives in Portland, Enoch Spurling & others asking for establishment of Town of Cranberry Isles, with reasons, 1 Jan 1830
Description: Letter, unsigned, Great Cranberry Island, 15 Jan 1830, complaining of turning 21-year-old students out of school on GCI. The back was re-used, mentions bills against the Brig Beaver at Halifax and elsewhere. Letter quoted in Gerry Noether's booklet 1976