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Sale of land from Babson to Somes
Item:
  • 3906   
Object ID:
  • 010.FIC.154.1
Catalog:
  • Archives
Type:
  • Document, Financial, Sales Record, Bill of Sale
Subject:
  • Other, Land transfer
  • Other, Somes Harbor
Collection:
  • Babson Genealogy
Date:
  • 1823
Description:
Hand written copy of land transfer record of property near head of Somes Sound from Eben Babson to John Somes, formerly owned by Ephraim Haynes.
Bottle
Item:
  • 17630   
Object ID:
  • 995-105-105
Catalog:
  • Objects
Type:
  • Object, Painting, Paint
Date:
  • c 1820-30
Description:
Olive in color. Sunburst in oval panel on obverse and reverse. Marked Keen. Made by Keene-Marlboro-Street Glass Works in Keene, New Hampshire. Donor info - found in barn of David Wasgatt house in Beech Hill (built approximately 1792). Bottle was half full of hardened varnish.
The Pronouncing Spelling Book
Item:
  • 14665   
Object ID:
  • 996-155-15
Catalog:
  • Library
Type:
  • Publication, Book
Subject:
  • Other, Spelling
  • Other, Word Pronounciation
Creator:
  • Cummings, J.A.
Publisher:
  • Cummings and Hilliard
Collection:
  • Books in Archival Storage
Date:
  • 1821.
Description:
Rules for spelling and guide for word pronounciation. Marian Townsend written on first page.
Elements of Elocution...
Item:
  • 14165   
Object ID:
  • 010.FIC.482
Catalog:
  • Library
Type:
  • Publication, Book
Subject:
  • Other, Public speaking
Creator:
  • Walker, John
Collection:
  • Books in Archival Storage
Date:
  • 1825
The Introduction to Ancient and Modern Geography:
Item:
  • 14135   
Object ID:
  • 996-87-87
Catalog:
  • Library
Type:
  • Publication, Book
Subject:
  • Other, Geography
Creator:
  • Cummings, J.A.
Publisher:
  • Cummings and Hilliard
Date:
  • 1820.
The Adventures of Roderick Random Vol I
Item:
  • 13891   
Object ID:
  • 996-4-4.1
Catalog:
  • Library
Type:
  • Publication, Book
Subject:
  • Other, Fiction
Creator:
  • Smollett, Tobias
Publisher:
  • J. Harding
Date:
  • 1827
Description:
fiction stamped Daniel Somes
The Adventures of Roderick Random, Vol. !!
Item:
  • 13890   
Object ID:
  • 996-4-4.2
Catalog:
  • Library
Type:
  • Publication, Book
Creator:
  • Smollett, Tobias
Publisher:
  • J. Harding
Date:
  • 1827
Description:
Stamped Daniel Somes
The Military and Political Life, Character and Anecdotes of Napoleon Bonaparte.
Item:
  • 13825   
Object ID:
  • 996-113-11
Catalog:
  • Library
Type:
  • Publication, Book
Subject:
  • Other, History
  • Other, Napoleon
Creator:
  • Las Cases, Count
Publisher:
  • Chauncey Goodrich
Collection:
  • Books in Archival Storage
Date:
  • 1823.
A New System of Mercantile Arithmetic
Item:
  • 13818   
Object ID:
  • 996-131-13
Catalog:
  • Library
Type:
  • Publication, Book
Subject:
  • Other, Mathematics
  • Other, Merchants
Creator:
  • Walsh, Michael, AM
Publisher:
  • Cushing and Appleton
Date:
  • 1820.
Description:
Sections on Numeration: tables of money, weights, measures; practical questions, bills of parcels, vulgar fractions, simple interest, insurance, and more. Inscribed in front "Haskell Norwood" and Wm. Burnett (?) Ellsworth, 1838 and in back "Haskell lNorwook Mt Desert", also Nathan Salsbury (?) Esq. (?)
Seventy-five Receipts for Pastry, Cakes, and Sweetmeats
Item:
  • 12962   
Object ID:
  • 015.FIC.457.1
Catalog:
  • Library
Type:
  • Publication, Book
Subject:
  • Other, Home Economics
Creator:
  • A Lady of Philadelphia
Publisher:
  • Munroe and Francis
Date:
  • 1828
Description:
This is a facsimile of the original 1828 publication. The writer is really Eliza Lislie
The Saint's Everlasting Rest, or A Treatise of the Blessed State of the Saints in their Enjoyment of God in Heaven
Item:
  • 12700   
Object ID:
  • 996-166-16
Catalog:
  • Library
Type:
  • Publication, Book
Subject:
  • Other, Religion
  • Other, Saints
Creator:
  • Baxter, Richard
Publisher:
  • Simeon Butler
Date:
  • 1822.
Description:
Handwritten inside front cover: "Mary Somes; From old Lewis Somes house".
Short Poems: Including a Sketch of the Scriptures to the book of Ruth: Satan's Great Devise, or Lines on Intemperance: I and Conscience, or A Dialogue on Universalism: and a few others on various subjects
Item:
  • 12701   
Object ID:
  • 008.035
Catalog:
  • Library
Type:
  • Publication, Book
Subject:
  • Other, Blue Hill
  • Other, Poetry
  • Other, Religion
Creator:
  • Fisher, Jonathan
Publisher:
  • A. Shirley [printer]
Date:
  • 1827
Description:
Handwritten inside cover:"Fred S. Thompson, Mt. Desert, Maine"
The Publications of the American Tract Society Vol III.
Item:
  • 12699   
Object ID:
  • 996-158-15
Catalog:
  • Library
Type:
  • Publication, Book
Subject:
  • Other, Religion
Publisher:
  • Flagg and Gould
Date:
  • 1824.
Description:
Various religious tracts. Handwritten inside front cover: "From old Lewis Somes house." Hnadwritten inside back cover: "Lewis Somes, Mount Desert ____".
Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy
Item:
  • 12685   
Object ID:
  • 996-153-15
Catalog:
  • Library
Type:
  • Publication, Book
Creator:
  • Paley, William
Publisher:
  • J.C. Gerrish
Date:
  • 1829
Description:
Donated by Mrs. George Somes; keep for Somes family connection, although badly damaged. On title page: "In Two Volumes. Vol. II."
The English Reader
Item:
  • 12627   
Object ID:
  • 015.003.05
Catalog:
  • Library
Type:
  • Publication, Book
Subject:
  • Other, Readers
Creator:
  • Murray, Lindley
Publisher:
  • James I. Cutler & Co.
Date:
  • 1827
Description:
" Pieces in prose and poetry selected from the best writers designed to assist young persons to read with propriety and effect..." Inscribed "the property of Sarah y Mayo Eden Maine February the 1830" [front] " the property of Sarah G (?) Wiggins" [back]
The English Reader
Item:
  • 12603   
Object ID:
  • 996-41-41
Catalog:
  • Library
Type:
  • Publication, Book
Subject:
  • Other, English language
  • Other, Readers
Creator:
  • Murray, Lindley
Publisher:
  • Cushing and Jewett
Date:
  • 1824
Description:
From the title page: "Pieces in prose and poetry, selected from the best writers. Designed to assist young persons to read with propriety and effect; to improve their language and sentiments; and to inculcate some of the most imortant principles of piety and virtue..."
English Reader; or Pieces in Prose and Poetry.
Item:
  • 12602   
Object ID:
  • 012.FIC.032
Catalog:
  • Library
Type:
  • Publication, Book
Subject:
  • Other, Readers
Creator:
  • Murray, Lindley
Publisher:
  • J.J. Williams
Date:
  • 1820
Description:
"To assist young persons to read with propriety and effect, to improve their language and sentiments; and to inculcate some of the most important principles of piety and virtue with a few preliminary observations on the principles of good reading." Inscribed Daniel Somes jr., Mt. Desert
Poems by William Cowper, Esq.; of the inner temple.
Item:
  • 12599   
Object ID:
  • 996-145-14
Catalog:
  • Library
Type:
  • Publication, Book
Subject:
  • Other, Poetry
Creator:
  • Cowper, William, Esq.
Publisher:
  • Timothy Bedlington
Date:
  • 1826.
Description:
Collection of poetry in 3 volumes. We have volumes III and III.
Scissors
Item:
  • 12179   
Object ID:
  • 002-47-682
Catalog:
  • Objects
Type:
  • Object, Scissors
Date:
  • c. 1820
Description:
Scissors rusted open with one broken shear found at kitchen midden of Israel Atherton site in Pretty Marsh. “T” relates to a map that was created by Alice Smith 002.47
Bolt
Item:
  • 11998   
Object ID:
  • 002-47-677
Catalog:
  • Objects
Type:
  • Object, Fastener, Bolt
Date:
  • c.1820
Description:
unidentified iron object remnant with large bolt from long pond fire road quarry in Pretty Marsh "W" relates to a map that was created by Alice Smith 002.47
Athalaney Fly Quilt, 1824
Item:
  • 11423   
Object ID:
  • 001-161.7
Catalog:
  • Objects
Type:
  • Object, Art, Needlework, Quilt
Subject:
  • Other, Quilts
Date:
  • 1824
Description:
Patchwork and embroidered quilt. Embroidered inscription reads, "When this you see / Remember me/ Athalaney Fly/ Mouonldefort [Mount Desert]/ August 26, 1824/ Aged 7 years / 3 months." Athlaney was the daughter of Patty Somes Flye and James Flye; she died at the age of 18 and is buried in the Flye Cemetery in Tremont.
Shotgun
Item:
  • 11411   
Object ID:
  • 995-106-106
Catalog:
  • Objects
Type:
  • Object, Armaments, Shotgun
Date:
  • c 1820-30
Description:
Boston Fowler. English barrel in 12 gauge. Pineapple finial on triggerguard tang, ornate engraving and silver barrel inlays at breach mark this as prize possession. Used with 00 buckshot or birdshot for deer or bird hunting. Silver front inset. Marked with initials W.K. Tower of London Foundry mark. Lockplate marked William Read Boston. Ramrod intact. Ignition: caplock Wood: walnut Caliber: 12ga
Sale of Fulling Mill by Isaac Somes to Jacob Somes
Item:
  • 4024   
Object ID:
  • 001.162.6
Catalog:
  • Archives
Type:
  • Document, Financial, Sales Record, Bill of Sale
Subject:
  • Other, Mills
Date:
  • 1829
Description:
Isaac Somes self-described as clothier; Jacob Somes as blacksmith.
Deed of Backer's [Sic] Baker's Island
Item:
  • 3873   
Object ID:
  • 011.FIC.1.10
Catalog:
  • Archives
Type:
  • Document, Legal, Deed
Subject:
  • Other, Baker's Island
  • Other, Deed
  • Other, Lighthouses
Date:
  • 12/28/1827
Description:
Deed from the Bingham heirs of Baker's Island, Dec 28, 1827, from State of Maine records in the National Arcives, File No. 3, handwritten, 3p
Photocopy of deed to Abraham Somes from John Somes
Item:
  • 3785   
Object ID:
  • 011.FIC.30.7
Catalog:
  • Archives
Type:
  • Document, Legal, Deed
Subject:
  • Other, Deed
Date:
  • 1826
Description:
John Somes deeding to Abraham Somes land