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: 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: 3" X 5" forms to Treasurer requesting payment to various individuals for services (e.g., rations for the soldiers, visiting schools, abatement on sundry taxes, preaching the preasant [sic] year). Also two envelopes addressed to A.C. Fernald, Mount Desert, Maine, with 2cent stamps and postmarked 1888.
Description: Repiept for membership dues July 1, 1936-1937 $10.00 Reciept for membership dues July 1, 1935-1936 $10.00 Reciept for membership dues July 1, 1934-1935 $10.00 Reciept for membership dues July 1, 1933-1934 $10.00 Certificate from the Maine State Golf Association certifying that the NEHGC is a member of the Maine State Golf Association with dues paid to July 1, 1935
Description: Collection of five documents, largely connected with the Clark family of Southwest Harbor. Copy of a charter document, dated 1864, between Nathan Clark and William Underwood, to charter the Schooner Loochoo. Letter from Railway Express Agency, August 16, 1946, to R.P. Clark thanking him for his long service. Letter from Maine Central Railroad, January 29, 1911, to R.P. Clark discussing the terms of his employment as express agent. Telegraph Blank (jokingly?) written for Grace Carroll from the Associated Press, August 6, 1903, warning her of hostile warships in Somes Sound. Receipt for goods purchased by Nathan Clark of Eaton & Lane, Boston, August 15, 1865. Goods include: flour, sugar, rum, good whiskey, butter, ticking, matches [show more]
Description: A receipt for the work done on Ben Spurling's home. Some examples of the work he had done was shingles, painting, papering. He also had to pay for labor worked. This note also mentions that he ways $2.50 in rent per month, and that the rent is due in nine months. This item is not signed or dated, but Ben Spurling was alive during the late 1800's so the date can be assumed to be around that time.
Description: Memo, mother's funeral expenses, totaling $247.50. "Mother" could be Mrs. Ellen Maria Stanley, died 1929, Addie Duren's mother. (See also 1000.7.110)
Description: Receipt from builder Samuel S. Newman, for a 1/16 share in the Schooner Carrie M. Richardson, to Capt. E.B. (Enoch) Stanley, for $945.66 and 3/8 cents, Dec 17th, 1874. This half-page, handwritten ledger entry was found in Bob LaHotan's barn when he cleaned it 2001. Barn was on the property Enoch B. Stanley owned in the 19th century. Transcribed: "Rec from Capt E B Stanley 945.66 3/8 Nine Hundred forty-five 66/100 Dollars in full for 1/16 of Schr Carrie M Richardson. [Illegible: For? Fox?] Bills not included. Tremont- Dec 17th/74 [1874]. Samuel S. Newman. Paid up to Dec 950:00/945.66, amt of 1/16 over paid 4:34. 10,00-8,68= 1:32" [show more]
Description: Receipt for purchase by E.R. Kittredge of spruce boards from L.H. Brown, July 10, 1931. E.R. Kittredge of Mount Desert purchased 217 feet of 2x10-10 spruce on July 10, 1931.
Description: Undated bill to Louise H. Marr in the amount of $2880.50, for funerial services for Frances S. Marr. Services provided by Finley Funeral Service, Inc.