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You searched for: Date: 1840sSubject: Other
Item Title Type Subject Creator Publisher Date
9285Mount Desert Bridge Corporation - statement of tolls, 1842
  • Document, Financial, Financial Statement, Bank Statement
  • Other, Bridges
  • 1/1/1842
Description:
Statement of tolls for 6 months to John Black from William Thompson.
9283Mount Desert Bridge Corporation - statement of tolls and dividend notice
  • Document, Financial, Financial Statement
  • Other, Bridges
  • 1/14/1843
Description:
Statement and notice of dividend to William Thompson from John Black. Also includes notice regarding Davis Place, formerly sold to Capt. John Cousins.
9284Mount Desert Bridge Corporation - statement of tolls and dividend notice
  • Document, Financial, Financial Statement, Bank Statement
  • Other, Bridges
  • 1/22/1842
Description:
Statement and notice of dividend to William Thompson from John Black.
3990Notes given as principle
  • Document, Financial, Bookkeeping Record
  • Other, Bookkeeping
  • 1848
Description:
List of notes given for principle as exhibited by Richard Higgins March 19th 1848. On the list are Nicholas Thomas, Gideon Mayo, Joseph Hopkins , Eben Young, William Atherton, David Leland, and many other early Eden residents. Some interest payments are shown.
12448Old Somesville Woolen Mill-built in 1847
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Other, Buildings
  • 1847
Description:
Isaac Somes' woolen mill in Somesville. Three-story building, clapboards on front, shingles on side. Side facing brook shows 15 windows, five on each story. The front shows five windows and door on left. One chimney at front end of roof. Building sits on stone foundation. Bare trees surround mill. Marked on back, “The Woolen Mill along Somes Brook to Cemetery on other side of cemetery"
18370Overseers of the Poor contract to take care of a poor girl, Harriet Smith
  • Document, Permission, Commission
  • Other, Overseer of the Poor
  • Other, Poverty
  • 1846
Description:
Feb 4, 1846 Jeremiah Higgins and Samuel Richards, overseers of the poor in Eden do bind Harriet Smith , a minor, to Amos Clements as a servant until she is 18 Clements agrees to keep and support Harriet, teach her to read and write, furnish her with suitable food and clothing in sickness and in health and furnish a physician if necessary Harriet is the daughter of Esther Smith
3914Petition re Thompson Island Bridge Deficiencies
  • Document, Request, Petition
  • Other, Thompson Island
  • 1843
Description:
1843 petition of grievances to House of Representatives concerning unattached, short piers, costly tolls, insufficient height and draw of bridge. Relates to original Trenton Bridge.
9279Petition to Mount Desert Bridge Corporation from Simeon Milliken
  • Document, Request, Petition
  • Other, Bridges
  • 7/11/1845
Description:
Petition to Mount Desert Bridge Corporation from Simeon Milliken to allow clergy relief from tolls. Note:” Voted una: that it is inexpendient to act upon it”.
3911Petition to Mt. Desert Bridge Corporation
  • Document, Request, Petition
  • Other, Bridges
  • Other, Thompson Island
  • 1843
Description:
Petition served to proprietors of Mount Desert Bridge, 1843.
9278Statement and order of dividend to Capt. William Thompson from John Black, 1846
  • Document, Financial, Financial Statement, Bank Statement
  • Other, Bridges
  • 1/8/1846
Description:
Statement and order of dividend to Capt. William Thompson from John Black.
9280Statement and order of dividends to William Thompson from John Black
  • Document, Financial, Financial Statement, Bank Statement
  • Other, Bridges
  • 1/20/1845
Description:
Statement and order of dividends to William Thompson from John Black. Copy.
9281Statement of notification of dividends to William Thompson from John Black, 1844
  • Document, Financial, Financial Statement, Bank Statement
  • Other, Bridges
  • 1/20/1844
Description:
Statement of notification of dividends to William Thompson from John Black. Copy.
12611The American Common-School Reader and Speaker...
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Readers
  • Goldsbury, John and William Russell
  • Tappan and Whittemore
  • 1844c.
Description:
Being a selection of pieces in prose and verse, with rules for reading and speaking. Pencil writing on end papers, including "When are you going to get married?" "I can't get that grammar lesson and I won't try." "Friends, my hour of trouble is nigh at hand..." "Give me the hand..." Inscribed [CG?] Salisbury, Somesville, Maine; also Roscoe G. Salisbury, Mount desert
12673The China Aster or Youth's Book of Varieties, Vol. III
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Moral & ethical aspects
  • S.H. Colesworthy
  • 1846
Description:
Collection of writings with moral lessons on various topics. Inscribed inside front cover: "Nancy C.J. Fuller, from her [?], Portland Maine, August 15, 1846? Youth literature.
17321The China Astor Vol III
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Poetry
  • S.H. Colesworthy
  • 1846.
12621The Fourth Reader or, Exercises in Reading and Speaking.
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Reading
  • Other, Textbook
  • Town, Salem
  • Phinney & Co.
  • 1847
Description:
Revised Edition.
12601The Gift of Pretty Stories.
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Fiction
  • Hale, Mrs. J., ed.
  • Edward Dunigan and Brother
  • 1849.
1541The Holy Bible
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Bible.
  • Other, Religion
  • American Bible Society
  • 1847.
Description:
"Containing the Old and New Testaments, translated out of the original tongues; and with the former translations diligently compared and revised." Written in front: "The property of Howard Richardson, Beech Hill, Mount Desert, Maine. Presented by _ _ _ _ _ . John Richardson. Sailed 1847 for South America. Lost off Cape Horn 1848." Written in back: "John Richardson's Book, Mt Desert, Me."
14158The Maine Justice; or Powers and Duties of Justices of the Peace...
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Government employees
  • Other, Justice
  • Other, Maine
  • Baker, H.K.
  • Glazier, Masters & Smith
  • 1842
Description:
Outlines the powers and duties of justices of the peace relating to Criminal Process, Civil Process, town meetings, abandonment of children, hay, and other matters.
13898The Maine Townsmen
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Handbook
  • Other, Maine
  • Lord, John P.
  • Sandborn and Carter
  • 1847.
Description:
Laws for the regulation of towns: with forms and judicial decisions. Adapted to the revisied statutes of Maine.
12666The Odd Fellows Gem
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Clubs
  • Other, Handbook
  • Henry A. Brown
  • 1846
Description:
"Sentiments of Friendship, Love, and Truth," edited by a lady.
11448The Old Somesville Woolen Mill- built in 1847
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Roll Film Negative
  • Other, Building
  • 1847
Description:
Isaac Somes' woolen mill in Somesville. Three-story building, clapboards on front, shingles on side. Side facing brook shows 15 windows, five on each story. The front shows five windows and door on left. One chimney at front end of roof. Building sits on stone foundation. Bare trees surround mill. The title The OLD SOMESVILLE WOOLEN MILL -Built in 1847" is printed at the bottom of the negative.
12703The Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs of the Rev. Isaac Watts, D.D.
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Hymn Books
  • Other, Music & songs
  • Watts, Isaac
  • Crocker and Brewster
  • 1847.
Description:
"To Which are Added Select Hymns From Other Authors; and Directions for Musical Expression by Samuel Worcester, D.D. New Edition" Contains title and subject indexes. Collection of text of psalms and hymns without musical notation.
12441The Vocal School, or,
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Schools
  • Other, Songs & music
  • Other, Textbook
  • Day, H.W.
  • Otis, Broaders & Co.
  • 1841.
17017Thompson, William to Black, John
  • Document, Financial, Financial Statement, Bank Statement
  • Other, Bridges
  • 1/5/1849
Description:
Statement to John Black from William Thompson.