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You searched for: Date: 1850sType: Document
Item Title Type Subject Creator Publisher Date
12973Letter to President Franklin Pierce
  • Document, Correspondence
  • Other, Correspondence
  • Other, Customs
  • Daniel Somes
  • 1853
Description:
Duplicate record of 002-16-20-2410. Letter from Daniel Somes Jr. (1803-1883) to President Franklin Pierce recommending Thomas Jones for office of Collector of the Customs for the District of Frenchman Bay.
11931A reciept of salary paid for B. H. Higgins from the U. S. Light-house Establishment
  • Document, Financial, Receipt
  • December 31, 1858
Description:
This appears to be a receipt showing that B. H. Higgins was paid the amount of $137.50, a quarterly salary, for the his services as the keeper of the Saddleback Ledge Lighthouse. The dates paid through are from Sept 1st, 1858 to December 31st, 1858.
16986Justice of the Peace Licence for Benjamin Higgins
  • Document, Permission, License, Occupational License
  • october 29, 1850
Description:
Justice of the Peace Licence for Benjamin Higgins, signed by Ezra B. French, Secretary of State.
16988Personal Corrispondence Aug 9th, 1855
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Aug 9th, 1855
Description:
Letter between brother and sister, Beatrice (?) and A. M. Capen (?). This letter is from A. Capen to his sister, informing her on his recent relocation to Mount Desert Island. He speaks of swimming in the ocean and how pleasent the air is.
3584Mount Desert Bridge Corporation - Minutes
  • Document, Minutes
  • Other, Bridges
  • 4/21/1851
Description:
Minutes of meeting of Directors of the Mount Desert Bridge Corporation ordering repairs to be done by William Thompson due to damage by wind and sea in storm.
17015Thompson, William to Mount Desert Bridge Corporation
  • Document, Financial, Sales Record, Invoice
  • Other, Bridges
  • 8/1/1850
Description:
Bill for repairs from William Thompson to Mount Desert Bridge Corporation
17014Thompson, William to Black, John
  • Document, Financial, Sales Record, Invoice
  • Other, Bridges
  • 6/15/1850
Description:
Statement of tolls and expenses to Col. John Black from William Thompson.
17013Black, John to Thompson, William
  • Document, Financial, Financial Statement, Bank Statement
  • Other, Bridges
  • 1/3/1851
Description:
Statement and order of dividends tp William Thompson.
16972Thompson, William to Mount Desert Bridge Corporation
  • Document, Financial, Sales Record, Invoice
  • Other, Bridges
  • 7/6/1850
Description:
Bill for repairs from William Thompson to Mount Desert Bridge Corporation
16968Black, John to Thompson, William
  • Document, Financial, Sales Record, Invoice
  • Other, Bridges
  • 7/6/1850
Description:
Bill for repairs from William Thompson to Mount Desert Bridge Corporation
16805From David Bartlett
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Other, Sailing ships
  • 1850
Description:
Re Brig. Emma Frances loaded with long lumber bound from Calais for New Haven
16804From David Bartlett
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Other, Sailing ships
  • 1850
Description:
Re arrival in Mayaguez; laying by; crew sick.
16803From David Bartlett (copy)
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Other, Sailing ships
  • 1850
Description:
Re at anchor in Mayaguez; to sail to Philadelphia; has sensitive plant seeds for Somes' daughters.
16802From Means & Clark
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Other, Insurance
  • Other, Sailing ships
  • 1851
Description:
Re insurance on "Emma Francis". Later note at bottom by Virginia Somes Sanderson.
16798From Means & Clark
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Other, Sailing ships
  • Other, Schooners
  • 1852
Description:
Concerning amounts received / owed for various ships.
16797From A.E. Milliken
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Other, Sailing ships
  • 1853
Description:
Re passage from Boston to Jacksonville, need for new sails, running rigging, painting, rats damaging sails
16796From A.C. Milliken
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Other, Sailing ships
  • 1854
Description:
Written from Campeachy re sickness (fever) among men, perhaps from drinking too many "spirits", and delay caused by a "norther."
16778Captain William Wells wage ledger, October 1852 and other years
  • Document, Financial, Bookkeeping Record, Account Book, Ledger
  • 1852
Description:
Captain William Wells wage ledger, October 1852 and other years, for Schooners H.W. Wellington and Ambassador and Brig J. Means
16759Isaac Somes' ledger of items purchased in Boston
  • Document, Financial, Bookkeeping Record, Account Book, Ledger
  • Begins in 1850
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]
13893Poem: Life of Nicholas Thomas
  • Document, Manuscript
  • Thomas, Nicholas
  • 1857
Description:
Photocopy of handwritten poem about Nicholas Thomas of Eden "written by himself in the 78th year of his age." Donor was given this personally by Augustus Phillips 25 years or so ago when he (donor) was researching doggerel by Bill Ayles. The poem was printed in Vol. VI 2004 issue of Chebacco.
13857The Practical Arithmetic, Designed for the Use of Schools and Academies...
  • Document, Instructional, Instruction Book
  • Other, Education
  • Other, Elementary school teaching
  • Other, Mathematics
  • Stoddard, John F.
  • Sheldon & Company
  • 1852
12560Receipt for 11.5 cords of wook
  • Document, Financial, Receipt
  • 1850
Description:
Receipt surveyed from Capt. Parker Bridges (?) to Thomas Lothock (?) for 11.5 cords of wood, attested by Litchfield Kimball. NB: Difficult to read names and to tell just what this was for.
12558Bill or Receipt
  • Document, Financial, Receipt
  • 1854
Description:
Letterhead indicates this is a bill or receipt from Blanchard, Blanchard and Gilmore, Dealers in W.I. Goods, Ship Stores & Chandlery for clasps, locks, rings, and other things, sent by the Schr (Schooner) Olive Branch.
12557Receipt for goods bought from Phineas E. Gay & Co.
  • Document, Financial, Receipt
  • 1854
Description:
Casks and spikes purchased by Mr. B. Higgins from Phineas E. Gay, Iron Dealers.
12551Letter from ESJ Nealle (?) to AJ Heath
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • 1851
Description:
Letter written from the Custom House in Bath [Maine]; writer's name hard to read. Letter dated Nov. 6, 1851 responds to letter from Mr. Heath; indicates that a Capt. McMullin cleared [customs] the previous day and had asked the writer to give him the name of a person to whom he should send money. Writer apparently gave the wrong name (A.J. Clark of Southwest Harbor);it should have been Mr. Heath.