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You searched for: Date: 1850sType: Document
Title Type Subject Creator Date Place Rights
Black, John to Thompson, William
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Financial, Sales Record, Invoice
  • Other, Bridges
  • 7/6/1850
Black, John to Thompson, William
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Bill for repairs from William Thompson to Mount Desert Bridge Corporation
From David Bartlett
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Other, Sailing ships
  • 1850
From David Bartlett
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Re Brig. Emma Frances loaded with long lumber bound from Calais for New Haven
From David Bartlett
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Other, Sailing ships
  • 1850
From David Bartlett
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Re arrival in Mayaguez; laying by; crew sick.
From David Bartlett (copy)
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Other, Sailing ships
  • 1850
From David Bartlett (copy)
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Re at anchor in Mayaguez; to sail to Philadelphia; has sensitive plant seeds for Somes' daughters.
From Means & Clark
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Other, Insurance
  • Other, Sailing ships
  • 1851
From Means & Clark
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Re insurance on "Emma Francis". Later note at bottom by Virginia Somes Sanderson.
From Means & Clark
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Other, Sailing ships
  • Other, Schooners
  • 1852
From Means & Clark
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Concerning amounts received / owed for various ships.
From A.E. Milliken
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Other, Sailing ships
  • 1853
From A.E. Milliken
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Re passage from Boston to Jacksonville, need for new sails, running rigging, painting, rats damaging sails
From A.C. Milliken
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Other, Sailing ships
  • 1854
From A.C. Milliken
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Written from Campeachy re sickness (fever) among men, perhaps from drinking too many "spirits", and delay caused by a "norther."
Captain William Wells wage ledger, October 1852 and other years
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Financial, Bookkeeping Record, Account Book, Ledger
  • 1852
Description:
Captain William Wells wage ledger, October 1852 and other years, for Schooners H.W. Wellington and Ambassador and Brig J. Means
Isaac Somes' ledger of items purchased in Boston
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Financial, Bookkeeping Record, Account Book, Ledger
  • Begins in 1850
Isaac Somes' ledger of items purchased in Boston
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Isaac Somes' ledger of items he bought in Boston and probably brought back to sell on Mount Desert Island. Reference on back pages to Somes' leasing of woolen mill to Richard Nanson (?) in 1879 -1883. Nanson was to agree to prohibit smoking on premises. May be a draft of a leasing agreement between Somes and Nanson (?) for operation of the woolen mill. Ledger begins in 1850 and continues to 1857. The draft fo the agreement with Nanson was written in 1878. [show more]
Poem: Life of Nicholas Thomas
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Manuscript
  • Thomas, Nicholas
  • 1857
Poem: Life of Nicholas Thomas
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Photocopy of handwritten poem about Nicholas Thomas of Eden "written by himself in the 78th year of his age." Donor was given this personally by Augustus Phillips 25 years or so ago when he (donor) was researching doggerel by Bill Ayles. The poem was printed in Vol. VI 2004 issue of Chebacco.
The Practical Arithmetic, Designed for the Use of Schools and Academies...
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Instructional, Instruction Book
  • Other, Education
  • Other, Elementary school teaching
  • Other, Mathematics
  • Stoddard, John F.
  • 1852
Receipt for 11.5 cords of wook
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Financial, Receipt
  • 1850
Receipt for 11.5 cords of wook
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Receipt surveyed from Capt. Parker Bridges (?) to Thomas Lothock (?) for 11.5 cords of wood, attested by Litchfield Kimball. NB: Difficult to read names and to tell just what this was for.
Bill or Receipt
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Financial, Receipt
  • 1854
Bill or Receipt
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Letterhead indicates this is a bill or receipt from Blanchard, Blanchard and Gilmore, Dealers in W.I. Goods, Ship Stores & Chandlery for clasps, locks, rings, and other things, sent by the Schr (Schooner) Olive Branch.
Receipt for goods bought from Phineas E. Gay & Co.
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Financial, Receipt
  • 1854
Receipt for goods bought from Phineas E. Gay & Co.
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Casks and spikes purchased by Mr. B. Higgins from Phineas E. Gay, Iron Dealers.
Letter from ESJ Nealle (?) to AJ Heath
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • 1851
Letter from ESJ Nealle (?) to AJ Heath
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Letter written from the Custom House in Bath [Maine]; writer's name hard to read. Letter dated Nov. 6, 1851 responds to letter from Mr. Heath; indicates that a Capt. McMullin cleared [customs] the previous day and had asked the writer to give him the name of a person to whom he should send money. Writer apparently gave the wrong name (A.J. Clark of Southwest Harbor);it should have been Mr. Heath.
Warrantee Deed, William T. Mason to William P. Smith
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Legal, Deed
  • 1856
Warrantee Deed, William T. Mason to William P. Smith
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
William T. Mason of Mt. Desert, ship carpenter, sells to William P. Smith, land described in deed.
Cloth Book for October 1th 1850.
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Financial, Bookkeeping Record, Account Book
  • Other, Bookkeeping
  • Other, Somes Woolen Mill
  • 1850
Cloth Book for October 1th 1850.
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Cloth Book for October 1th 1850. Appears to be from Somes woolen mill. Payments
Somes Woolen Mill Records
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Financial, Bookkeeping Record, Account Book, Ledger
  • Other, Bookkeeping
  • Other, Somes Woolen Mill
  • 1859
Somes Woolen Mill Records
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
1859 Record of Measurement and Cost of Cloth. Accounts receivable
Sale of land from Atherton to Sawyer.
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Legal, Deed
  • Other, Tremont
  • 1859
Sale of land from Atherton to Sawyer.
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Sale by B. Atherton of land in Tremont to Benjamin Sawyer.
Sale of land in Trenton by William Thompson to Benjamin Sawyer
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Legal, Deed
  • 1851
Description:
Date may be 1852. Sale of land in Trenton by William Thompson to Benjamin Sawyer
Record of Triangulation Station in Mount Desert,1856
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Pamphlet
  • Other, Writers
  • 1856
Record of Triangulation Station in Mount Desert,1856
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Card detailing geographic position of a triangulation station in Mount Desert, 1856. Research for an article by LaRue Spiker. Previously accessioned as **2004, object Id 2001.2004
Letter to Mary Newman, 1858 from Gouldsboro from daughter Nell?
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Correspondence
  • 1858
Description:
Letter o Mary Newman, 1858 from Gouldsboro from daughter Nell?
To Mary Newman from Aramenta March, Oct 1859
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Correspondence
  • 1859
To Mary Newman from Aramenta March, Oct 1859
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
To Mary Newman from Aramenta March, Oct 1859 Discusses m? is not well. Charlotte is unkind for not seeing her.Also wants Mary to come visit
Letter to President Franklin Pierce
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Correspondence
  • Other, Government - Municipal
  • Other, History - Ellsworth
  • People
  • 1853
Letter to President Franklin Pierce
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Duplicate record of 011.FIC. 29.76 Hand-written letter to President Franklin Pierce from Daniel Somes Jr. (1803-1883) submitting Thomas Jones's name to be considered for office of Collector of the Customs for the District of Frenchmen’s Bay from Mount Desert, March 1853.