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
Description: Capt. of Brig "Grand Turk" appeared before at Emulate of US in Gibralter re vessel taking on water,crew pumping; protests losses, damages, expenses due to gale wind, high seas.
Higgins, Benjamin H., Samuel H. Richards and Amos Clements
Date:
1846
Description: Indenture of Hariet (sic) Smith to Amos Clements of Penobscott (sic) county of Eden. Benjamin Higgins and Samuel H. Richards signed the indenture as overseers of the poor of the Town of Eden.
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.
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
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."
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. Printed at the bottom of the card "The OLD SOMESVILLE WOOLEN MILL-Built in 1847 CHRISTMAS GREETINGS". "Bob & Norma" written with pen on reverse. Image layer is torn/missing at top of postcard in a section approx 2" x 1/2" [show more]
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"
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.
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. sepia toned photograph Written on the back "Isaac Somes Woolen Mill on the Mill Stream" There is damage to the photo surface.
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.
Description: Two-sided paper: Side 1 is an inventory and valuation of taxable property (real and personal) of inhabitants of the Town of Eden for estate, county and town taxes dated May 26, 1847. Assessors are listed as Eben L. Higgins, John Salsbury, and ___ Mayo. Mill rate is given. On the reverse side is a chart showing property owners' names and the value of various kinds of property belonging to them. Paper is badly torn. and some words are missing. [show more]
Description: Poem by Sophronia Knapp, "Thoughts of the Mariner's Wife," copied by Clara S. Foster (?) and addressed to Mrs. Higgins with note: "Please accept the following lines which I take the liberty to copy for you [&} oblige, your sincere friend, Clara S. Foster. First lines of poem: "The night is dark, the tempest raves, Sleep from my pillow flies..."