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| Bill of Services for the town of Eden from Selectman Benjamin Higgins Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Bill of Services for the town of Eden from Selectman Benjamin Higgins Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: This is an itemized bill from Benjamin H. Higgins to the town of Eden for his services as Selectman. Some of the charges are for transportation, distributing bills and attending meetings in Ellsworth. | ||||
| A reciept of salary paid for B. H. Higgins from the U. S. Light-house Establishment Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  A reciept of salary paid for B. H. Higgins from the U. S. Light-house Establishment Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: This appears to be a receipt showing that B. H. Higgins was paid the amount of $137.50, a quarterly salary, for the his services as the keeper of the Saddleback Ledge Lighthouse. The dates paid through are from Sept 1st, 1858 to December 31st, 1858. | ||||
| Justice of the Peace Licence for Benjamin Higgins Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Justice of the Peace Licence for Benjamin Higgins Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Justice of the Peace Licence for Benjamin Higgins, signed by Ezra B. French, Secretary of State. | ||||
| Personal Corrispondence Aug 9th, 1855 Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Personal Corrispondence Aug 9th, 1855 Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Letter between brother and sister, Beatrice (?) and A. M. Capen (?). This letter is from A. Capen to his sister, informing her on his recent relocation to Mount Desert Island. He speaks of swimming in the ocean and how pleasent the air is. | ||||
| Captain William Wells wage ledger, October 1852 and other years Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Captain William Wells wage ledger, October 1852 and other years Mount Desert Island Historical Society 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 |
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| 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] | ||||
| Copy of the sketch showing division of the Reuben, Jr. and Daniel Freeman house in Pretty Marsh Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Copy of the sketch showing division of the Reuben, Jr. and Daniel Freeman house in Pretty Marsh Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Copy of the sketch showing division of the Reuben, Jr. and Daniel Freeman house in Pretty Marsh. In 1808, settlers Reuben and George Freeman together purchased 200 acres in Pretty Marsh for $145. When George died, the property became Reuben's. Reuben in turn left it to his two sons, Reuben, Jr. and Daniel. However, there were bad feelings between Reuben, Jr. and Daniel, and they "agreed to settle" the property, dividing everything -- the house, the barns, pasturage and farm implements -- into two parts. Each family lived in a half of the house, and the kitchen was shared between the two families. [show more] | ||||
| Colton's Railroad and Township Map of Maine, 1854 Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Colton's Railroad and Township Map of Maine, 1854 Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Colton's Railroad and Township Map of Maine, 1854 | ||||
| Cosmopolitan Art Journal Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Cosmopolitan Art Journal Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Selected pages; note,"copy for Thaddeus Somes" and "see page 124 for Elizabeth Barrett Browning", which is an essay and "medallion portrait." Other articles on "Dignity of Art," Power of Beauty," sketch of Jerome B. Thompson and sketches of farm life. | ||||
| [Blue Hill] Academy Journal, vol. 2, no. 3 Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  [Blue Hill] Academy Journal, vol. 2, no. 3 Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Handwritten journal, E.H. Kimball & F.E. Somes, editors. Editorial, poems, and more. Note on blue cover says, "Garpa went to Blue Hill Academy when he was 16 years olf-1852.) Don't know who wrote this note. | ||||
| Poem: Life of Nicholas Thomas Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| 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 three eras of a woman's life: The maiden, the wife, and the mother. Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  The three eras of a woman's life: The maiden, the wife, and the mother. Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Novel includes chapters illustrating the heroine's duty before pleasure and a woman's goodcharacter, trials, disappointments, love, beauty, courting, marriage. | |||
| Cradle Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Cradle Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Made of walnut; shaped like a small boat. Sits in frame and rocks. Cradle has swan head and end like a ship’s stern. Frame is carved with flowers on each end and underneath. Donor info - made for Olive Perkins (Mrs. S.W. Smith, Jr.) of Warren, Ohio born August 17, 1858. Mattress made in 1924 for Samuel Smith Wilson. Following info from Samuel Smith Wilson who visited Museum in 1997. Olive Perkins married Judge Smith who rented the house between the Mount Desert Tavern and the Abraham Somes III house in Somesville. This house is no longer standing. She died near 1930. Her grandfather was Brig. General Simon Perkins, an Ohio land surveyor and speculator. [show more] | ||||
| Popular Legends of Brittany Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Popular Legends of Brittany Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: English version of Sonvestre's "Foyer Breton" translated by "a lady." Inscribed Edith E. Salisbury, Mt. Desert, Maine Dec.1878. | |||
| Little Kitty Brown and Her Bible Verses Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Little Kitty Brown and Her Bible Verses Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Written for the American Sunday School Union, this little book contains stories about a little girl learning Bible verses, one per day. | ||||
| The Visit; or, the Difference Between Being a Good Child and Being Like a Good Chile Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| The Visit; or, the Difference Between Being a Good Child and Being Like a Good Chile Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: One of the books in a series of Sunday School Union publications. Inscribed Sound Sabbath School No. 10 | ||||
| The Swiss Pastor Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| The Swiss Pastor Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Note on title page indicates this is "the life of the Rev. F.A.A. Gonthier". Inscribed "No. 58 Sound Sabbath School." | |||
| Stories for Village Lads Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Stories for Village Lads Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Fictional stories for Sunday School. Inscription says, "????have you got a slate pencil that you would let me have. Yes. | ||||
| Receipt for 11.5 cords of wook Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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. | ||||
| Trunk, leather and animal fur, Emily Manchester Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Trunk, leather and animal fur, Emily Manchester Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Small (doll's sized) trunk adorned with animal fur and leather on the outside, lined with printed paper on the inside. A slip of paper on the inside reads: "This trunk was given to Emily Manchester by her father Major John Manchester, in 1850, (Now in the Gilley family)" Emily was born in 1834 and would have been 16 when she got the trunk. She was one of 10 children (from 2 wives). Fur on trunk needs to be identified: could be beaver, deer?? [show more] | |||
| Sale of land in Trenton by William Thompson to Benjamin Sawyer Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Sale of land in Trenton by William Thompson to Benjamin Sawyer Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Date may be 1852. Sale of land in Trenton by William Thompson to Benjamin Sawyer |