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Title Type Subject Creator Date Place Rights
State of Maine - Treasury Dept.
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Legal, Legal Documents
  • Organizations, School Institution
  • State of Maine
  • 1838-03-15
  • Cranberry Isles, Great Cranberry Island
  • No Copyright - United States
State of Maine - Treasury Dept.
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
State of Maine treasury office certifying an amount of money given to Cranberry Isles to build primary schools.
William P. Preble ledgers (1830-1850s)
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Financial, Bookkeeping Record, Account Book, Ledger
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • People
  • 1830
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
William P. Preble ledgers (1830-1850s)
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
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]
Miscellaneous deeds and receipts 1800s
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Other Documents
  • Businesses, Blacksmith Business
  • People
  • 1833
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Miscellaneous deeds and receipts 1800s
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
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]
Headstone for William Spurling
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Tombstone, Headstone
  • People
  • Places, Cemetery
  • 1839
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Headstone for William Spurling
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Headstone fragment discovered July 2016 during Spurling Revolutionary War Cemetery preservation project. White marble. Well worn and difficult to discern, the inscription reads: "William/Son of Thomas & Hannah/Spurling. William Spurling, 2nd, was born 9Dec1812 and died 23May1839. This is the only piece of William's headstone discovered to date; it was lying in the grass near the Robert Spurling footstone. One corner piece is broken off. One other small white marble fragment was collected and stored with this artifact. [show more]
The Holy Bible, containing the old and new testaments
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Bibles
  • Other, Religion
  • 1831
The Holy Bible, containing the old and new testaments
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
The Holy Bible, containing the old and new testaments: Translated out of the original tongues and with the former translations diligently compared and revised. Handwritten notes between Old and New Testaments. Newspaper clippings pasted inside front and back covers.
Seal Cove School Meeting Minutes, March 12, 1832
Tremont Historical Society
  • Document, Minutes
  • Organizations, School Institution
  • People
  • Structures, Institutional, School
  • 1832-03-12
  • Tremont, Seal Cove
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
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]
Town of Cranberry Isles records - 1838
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Government, Government Records
  • Organizations, Civic
  • 1838
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Town of Cranberry Isles records - 1838
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Documents. Scans of Town of Cranberry Isles records from 1838 (part of 2016.334.2100)
Town of Cranberry Isles records - 1839
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Government, Government Records
  • Organizations, Civic
  • 1839
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Town of Cranberry Isles records - 1839
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Documents. Scans of Town of Cranberry Isles records from 1839 (part of 2016.334.2100)
Town of Cranberry Isles records - 1831
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Government, Government Records
  • Organizations, Civic
  • 1831
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Town of Cranberry Isles records - 1831
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Documents. Scans of Town of Cranberry Isles records from 1831 (part of 2016.334.2100)
Town of Cranberry Isles records - 1832
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Government, Government Records
  • Organizations, Civic
  • 1832
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Town of Cranberry Isles records - 1832
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Documents. Scans of Town of Cranberry Isles records from 1832 (part of 2016.334.2100)
Town of Cranberry Isles records - 1836
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Government, Government Records
  • Organizations, Civic
  • 1836
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Town of Cranberry Isles records - 1836
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Documents. Scans of Town of Cranberry Isles records for 1836, part of 2016.334.2100
Request to Maine Senate & House of Representatives for establishment of Town of Cranberry Isles
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Organizations, Civic
  • 1830
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
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
Letter against turning 21-year-old students away
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Organizations, School Institution
  • 1830
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Letter against turning 21-year-old students away
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
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