Handwritten copies of the records of the town of Eden including, active incorporation of The town (1796), notices of town meetings, minutes of town meetings, 1796 real estate and personal property holdings of the inhabitants of Eden.
Histories of the families with descriptions of marriage, children, birth and death dates. Personal descriptions of the men of the families.
Families included, Blunt.Campbell, Cousins,Chippa, DeGregiore, Doane, HIggins, Hamor, Hopkins,Hadley, Hull, Knowles, Leland, Lynam, Marcyes, Mayo, Mason, Monarch,Newmarch, Peach,Rodick, Richardson,Remick, Stanwood, Salsbury, Smalledge. Thompson, Thomas, Wasgatt, Young.
Describes activities during Revolutionary War and War of 1812
Describes conflict of the controversy of Maine and New Brunswick in 1939
LIst of names credited to the "rebellion of 1861-1865", list of those who were drafted and furnished substitutes and for whom the town paid commutation
A brief history of ministers and churches
Description of school districts and schools
Occupations
lists of the vessels
index of names in the back of book
Book is pre numbered and starts at page 84
Note at beginning from Virginia Somes Sanderson, states that she found the book in Town offfice of Northeast Harbor
“Records of Town of Eden,” Mount Desert Island Historical Society, accessed November 21, 2024, https://mdihs.digitalarchive.us/items/show/3189.Item 3555
