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| Letter from Julia Bunker to Mariah Hamor with transcription Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Letter from Julia Bunker to Mariah Hamor with transcription Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Letter. Digital version with transcription by donor. Letter was written by Julia Bunker probably to Mariah Hamor (1857-1936) written April 15, ca. 1863-1870. Donor states the letter was sent to "Mercie M. Hamor" but he believes it was for Mariah M. Hamor. The letter was written while Warren Bunker (1824-1870) was alive and while Julia Bunker was old enough to write such a letter (after 1863).Warren was recovering from a leg injury. A new "meeting house" was supposed to be completed on "Cranberry Isles" by the 4th of July in that year. There are also other clues to the date. The letter was probably written on a Sunday, April 15th, and a Horace Edgar ______ had recentlybeen born. Letter references Mariah Hamor, Sidney Chadwick Hamor, Warren Rogers Bunker, Sarah Staples bunker or Experience Leland Hamor, Ella Hamor. ,Julia Maria Bunker. Transcription: Cranberry Isles April 15th [ca.1863-1870] Dear Little Cousin I received your nice letter this morning will now endeavour to spent a few of my leisure moments in answering it. I have been to meeting all day to day feel quite tired now I am stopping with Aunt Mary now have been here over four weeks shall stay until Mother gets home We look for them home the last of next week if the winds and weather permit. Father's health improves fast his leg heals as fast as they want it to. I should like to go to Eden and see you all think I shall this summer for if I cannot get there any other way I can go by the way of Otter Creek with Mr. Duffy wouldnt it be nice to take a trip to Otter Creek with the little Duffies and call out some those nice hotels on the way and rest Mirrie Bunker has a little boy she calls it Horace Edgar Caroline Stanley calls her baby Arno Perkins she named it for Mr. Perkins little boy that he lost. I want you to get (page 2) me a whole bushel basket full of roots and little bushes and flower seed and send them to me the first chance you get. How does Grandmother like living in her new home I should like to stop in and see her I cannot write any more now as Aunt Mary is sick and I have got to get up and get supper so good bye at present I shall try and write to Ella to night. As we have got disappointed in our evening meeting I will try to finish this homily letter you must come down the fourth of July to the fair we expect to have our new meeting house up by that time I cannot write any more to night for I have got a very bad head ache. Please write again soon I will send you some pieces of my new dresses. I will end and go to bed for it is nine Oclock From your Cousin Julia M. Bunker [show more] | ||
| Letters from Emily Gilley to Walter and Eliza Towse Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Letters from Emily Gilley to Walter and Eliza Towse Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Letters. Nine letters from Emily S. Gilley, (born 14 May 1840 at Cranberry Isles to Elisha B. Gilley (1807-1901) and Hannah Manchester Stanley (1804-1880)). The letters were written to the donor's great-grandfather, Walter William Towse and his sister, Eliza. Walter Towse was born in Lubec, ME, in 1840. The first letter is addressed to Walter Towse's sister, Eliz, in 1864. The rest are to Walter from 1866 to 1878 while he was in Denver, Nebraska City, Omaha, and elsewhere. Emily was from Cranberry Isles and lived in Boston part of the year; she worked in the cotton mills, and married an Easterbrook, from Sackville. The donor states "Eliza must have sent the first letter on to her brother, for it was included in the packet he kept in a leather wallet that managed to be handed down in the family. Eunice Durham gave them to me." (Transcripts of letters were made by the donor and sent via email to GCIHS in 2008 along with a history of the correspondence. The letters were mailed to GCIHS inside the leather wallet.) Donor later sent three scanned photos of Walter Towse (B), (C), and (D). [show more] | ||
| Early church documents Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Early church documents Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Five documents related to the Church: (A-C)=Three receipts February to July 1866 total $950: Money received by J. W. Osgood from the Cranberry Isles Union Benevolent Sewing Circle for J. W. Osgood to build the church; payments made ‘by the honor of A. C. Preble’ [Abigail Cobb Preble], signed by J. W. Osgood, and attested to by William P. Preble. (D)= an undated and unsigned (difficult to decipher) ledger page with note: To Whom it Does or May Concern, We the undersigned active and honorary members of Cranberry Isles Benevolent Sewing Circle respectively [represent?] that we are not willing to have the money [divided but want?] the money [kept for the purpose] in which we have agreed in and are satisfied if once divided it will be the means of destroying our fund and a waste of the money. Active members/Honorary members. (E)=Poem by William P. Preble undated, honoring the dead. [show more] |