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]
Description: Listed expenses and individual documents inserted between pages and in archival envelopes for such items as plowing, subscriptions to Ellsworth American, Maine Farmer; carding wool; request to buy fruit trees from Chase Bros. in Rochester, NY; tax bills; payments to Lewis Somes; flyer for an "eclectic remedy for internal and external use"; hand-written prescription; 1891 bill for doctor's vist = $1.00; 1877 letter from female children relinquishing any claims on property and designating same to whichever brother assumed responsibility for aging for Dr. and Mrs. Kittredge; l868 letter from William to his brother Ernest; record of births and deaths of Kittredges [show more]
The Mutual Improvement and Benovolent Society of Southwest Harbor, Maine
Description: Ledger with hand - written notes from 1853 - 1883 includes accounts and minutes and mention of the sewing circle. Includes many names from Southwest including Doliver, Stanley, Hadlock, Moore, Teague, Haynes, McGoffey, King, Newman, Anderson, Cleveland, Dyer
Description: Unbound ledger with accounts and “self-employment questionaire” forms and applications for the Navy as servicemen’s readustment allowance after WWII. Includes forms and business accounts and earnings 1946 - 1949