Description: Four envelopes containing reciepts for printing and mailing newsletters over different years. One envelope also contains unused 29 cent stamps. Bill from Walter Capbell for chimney work.
Description: Letter about incomplete application for tax exempt status. Pretty Marsh Association tax documents for the federal tax exempt status. State of Maine 1991 Biennial Report
Description: Two large off white envelopes containing bills and receipts for services rendered to the Pretty Marsh Community Corporation. Dates on the outside of the envelopes are 1937-8, 1968-1972, 1938-44, 1989-1990
Description: Application and associated documents for the Sewing Circle applying for tax exempt status. Application to the Internal Revenue Service Bill from the law office of Fenton, Chapman, Smith and Kane P.A. for assistance in preparing IRS application. Tax exempt status approval letter from the Internal Revenue Service. Letter from Robert Patterson to Leslie Dryden at the Internal Revenue Service responding to her questions posed by the taxexempt application filed by the Sewing Circle dated July 22, 1987. Two copies. Letter from Louis Ramos, of the IRS, to the Sewing Circle requesting more information to process their taxempt application. Letter from Leslie Adryden to the Sewing Circle for requesting more information to process their taxexempt status application. Application for taxempt status to the State of Maine Revenue Service. Application date stamp October 26, 1987. [show more]
Description: Federal tax return documents for the Someville Sewing Circle. Seven First National Bank 1099-INT forms for years; 1991, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000. IRS Form 8109- Federal Tax Deposit Coupon Book. Information about if your organization needs to file Form 990. IRS Form 941 dated Jan 1, 1998, June 9, 1988, June 17, 1988, September 16, 1988
Description: Business receipt, dated 24 Sep 1910, E.B. Stanley bought of Nettie Stanley, pair of rubbers, ticking, pork, pepper, wire, etc., total $34.50, dated
Description: Business receipts, 1878 (A) and 1898 (B). 1000.3.218(A) is from Potter and Wrightington, Boston, to Enoch Stanley for the Schooners S.L. Foster, Rozella, Sea Bird, and Relief: $2553.89 for fish. 1000.3.218(B) is a receipt for the Schooner S. L. Foster bought of Sm. Newman, Manset Maine 1898 various items like rope, sail line, nails, knife, keg, coffee and tea pots, spoons etc purchased March through September 1898 total $34.82.
Description: Collection of three scanned ledger account books originally from the Lewis Stanley boatyard. Ledgers were inherited by donor from his great uncle Lewis Stanley. (See scans on gcihs-nas\photo\Museum Photos\2015.316.2077_SchmidtLedgers and on DVD; ledgers were originally returned to donor August 2015; then all were donated to museum June 2017). Ledger A1: Measures 8.25H x 7: W x .5” thick. First page: George N. Spurling, Cranberry Isles; and [unreadable name below Spurling] Machias Port. Entries run from 1855-1870, with the last four pages dated 1855 pertaining to WatterWitch (Water Witch, Waterwitch, spelling and capitalization varies) stocks and specifics. Account entries recorded for the WatterWitch, Schooner Rozella, and Schooner Caressa. Names mentioned: Walton, Guptill, Haynes, Stanley, Spurling, Ferrin, Wentworth, Young, Saddler, Ladd. Commodities: fish and oil mostly; stocks and figuring notations in pen and pencil by different hands. First page states Schooner Hannah & Abigail bought in Boston May 6th, 1849. First entry is “E.B. Stanley, Cranberry Isles Oct. 9th, 1858 for $21 dollars on account of my share of fish bought on board Sch. WatterWitch this season. Asa [D?] Stanley.”Ledger B2: Measures 8”H x 6.75” W x .5” thick. Inside front cover is written: “Jonas Blood born April 15th, 1774.” First page begins with January 1st 1859 listing sale of butter, pork, and eggs. Ledger records expenses and sales of produce and other items through April 1862 and appears to be written by all the same hand. [For some info on Jonas Blood: probably born New Hampshire. http://gen.plagge.org/individual.php?pid=I16094&ged=plagge.ged Jonas Blood:b..c1774 d.5/21/1870, age 96 By genealogy.com.] Ledger C3: 14" H x 3.75" W x 1" thick. Label on front cover: Sanborn & Carter, Publishers, Booksellers and Blank Book Manufacturers, No. 55 Exchange Street, Portland, Maine. Small envelope and letter addressed to Mrs. E. B. Stanley, Cranberry Isles, Maine, postmarked Waltham MA, Nov 17/12M/1908 (03?) with 2 cent stamp. Reverse postmark is Cranberry Isles 1908(3)? Begins "North East Harbor, Lindsay,” ends: "Hastily, Carol(?)" Many pages have been cut out from the beginning of this ledger. First entry, is on page 85 and starts: “Boston Dec. 6th 1879 Sch. S.L. Foster. Page 93 is “Boston Dec 14, 1885.” Page 98 deals with the estate of Enoch B. Stanley and Lewis B. Stanley 1903 and continues with various documents and deeds to 1908 (to page 151). Then returns to accounts for the S. L. Foster 1889. Page 176 begins accounts for the Schooner Rozella 1882, then to 1881, and goes back to deeds and correspondence p. 196 for 1908. P. 198 goes back to the Sch. Foster and alternates between accounts re: Foster and Rozella. Two small loose account papers between p. 212 and 213. The ledger goes back and forth between years and schooners and deeds throughout the book. Last pages of ledger date Jan 18, 1913 and begin with “I expressly forbade Lewis to connect the new building with the original fish house of the heirs of E. B. Stanley…..” (See also 2017.389.2164 and 2017.388.2163) See also notes from Charles Liebow email 2019 re: boat builders with this ledger. [show more]
Description: List, Assessed value of vessels as of 1 Apr 1885 (1865 also written), giving vessel name, owner's name, owner's parts, tonnage, value, & remarks, by William P. Preble, George W. Bulger, Samuel S. Brooks, assessors
Description: Bill of sale, 20 Apr 1855, Schooner Express, from Samuel S. (3/8), William P. (2/8), and Benaiah Bunker (0/8), to Jonathon, Thomas, and John Stanley, all of Cranberry Isles, for $847
Description: Ledger, handwritten, probably by William Preble, mostly running expenses and payments, apparently at a store, for various people, 1853-1857
Description: Ledger, handwritten, inscribed "William P. Preble, Property, Cranberry Isles 1839" inside front cover, records 1838-1845 are mostly running expenses and payments, apparently at a store, for various accounts: Esaias Preble, Horace Duryan, Thomas Bunker, Harriet Rosebrook, John Pung, Michael Green, Winchester Whitney, Abigail Spurling, South (school) District Cranberry Isles, Thomas Manchester, Nathaniel Gott, Edwin Hadlock, Enoch Lurvy (or Lurvey), John Dow, Capt. L.W. Gilley, B. Bunker, Edward Burroughs, Rev. Micah Strickland, Miss Mary Preble, Justis W. Gilley, John Brown, Messrs. Symms Eaton & Co., David Thompson, Haskell Lancaster, Benjamin Moor, Thomas Newman, Josiah Young, Henry Fernald, Town of Cranberry Isles To William Preble, William Pung, expenses of Estate of Benjamin Spurling, Richard Higgins, George N. Spurling, Eunice Keef, Ivory Joy, Esther Eaton, North (school) District, Thomas Marks, Schooner Brainerd (or Brainard), Elisha Young, Bills against the Brigantine Factor for repairs, Michael Bulger, Samuel Farnham, Sans Stanley, Briant Hodgkins, James Mayo, Schooner Harriet, Estate of Robert Spurling, David Winsey, William Richardson, Charles Bunker, Andrew Frisbee, William Rice, Estate of Samuel Spurling, Schooner Eastern Star. Several scraps of note paper with writing and figures also in ledger. [show more]
Description: Ledger, William Preble, 1845-1849, mostly store accounts listing customers and items and services they bought, apparently at Preble's store. Items referred to both food and nautical hardware with prices listed. Purchases listed by day and date, interspersed with records and values for Preble's business and personal services as executor, town agent, etc. Names include: John Pung, Edward Spurling, Michael Bulger, the schooner Harriet, Elisha Young, Henry Neuman, Freeman Gubtil, Estate of Nicholas Tucker [show more]