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Item Title Type Subject Creator Publisher Date
3865Survey of the Cemetary (sic) on Baker Island
  • Document, Government, Death Record, Burial Record
  • Other, Baker's Island
  • Places, Cemetery
  • 1996
Description:
Identifies grave dates of Gilleys, Stanley, Manchester, Dolliver
2939People Buried in Lexington, Mass., including Somes
  • Document, Government, Death Record, Burial Record
  • Other, Death & burial
  • Places, Cemetery
  • Mrs. Lyman Somes
Description:
Typewritten list of people buried in Lexington, Mass., apparently having a connection to Mount Desert Island.
3590The Somes Family of Somes Cemetery, Bernard, Maine
  • Document, Government, Death Record, Burial Record
  • Other, Genealogy
  • Places, Cemetery
Description:
Handwritten notes, 3 pp., transcribing inscriptions from stones in Somes Cemetery, Bernard, Maine.
3910Revolutionary War Record
  • Document, Government, Military Record
  • Other, War
  • 1917
Description:
Photocopy of letter certifying that Eliphalet Reynolds served as private in three Companies, 1776-1781.
3956Revolutionary and Civil Wars--MDI
  • Document, Government, Military Record
  • Other, Mount Desert Island
  • Other, War
Description:
Revolutionary War and Civil War rosters, dates of service of settlers on Mt. Desert Island. Origiaonal document and hand written notes
2481Act to Establish Mt Desert Bridge District
  • Document, Government, Act
  • Other, Legislation
  • Other, Toll bridges
  • 03/29/1917
Description:
Maine Legislative Act to Establish Mt Desert Bridge District regarding the toll bridge becoming a free bridge. Appears to be original with seal Previously archived as 011.FIC.9.2
3943School Agent's Census, 1882, District 1
  • Document, Government, Census Record
  • Other, Census
  • Other, Schools
  • 1882
3908List of Persons living in Town of Mt. Desert, 1865
  • Document, Government, Census Record
  • Other, Mount Desert
  • 1865
Description:
Photocopy, pages cut apart, hard to read. Shows ages, occupations.
3502Certificate of Commissioning of Francis Sample as First Lieutenant
  • Document, Government, Military Record, Service Record
  • Other, Military officers
  • Illinois State Militia
  • 8/13/1861
Description:
One page formal certificate announcing the appointment of Francis Sample as First Lieutenant of the Sixteenth Regiment of Illinois Volunteers. Sample was maternal grandfather of LaRue Spiker. Part of LaRue Spiker Collection Previously archived as object id 012.FIC.067.4
3503Certificate of Honorable Discharge of Arthur Ailworth from the United States Army
  • Document, Government, Military Record, Military Discharge
  • Other, Military discharges
  • United States Army
  • 1/2/1919
Description:
Official copy of discharge papers for Arthur F. Ailworth. Ailworth was probably a maternal uncle of LaRue Spiker. Part of LaRue Spiker Collection Previously archived as object Id 012.FIC.067.3
3975Marriage Certificates
  • Document, Government, Marriage Record, Marriage Certificate
  • Other, Marriage certificates
Description:
Certificate of marriage between Abraham Somes and Joanna Beal (1794) and between Capt. T.S. Somes and Miss Clara Meynell (1866).
2941Rev. Johathan Scott's Record of Marriages
  • Document, Government, Marriage Record
  • Other, Marriage
  • Mayflower Descendent [??]
  • 1907
Description:
Photocopy from poorly documented source noting that Rev. Scott officiated at the marriage of Miss Sarah Somes and Nathan Brown on Jule 15, 1772.
3525Court record of dispute between Erving and Samuel Reed
  • Document, Government, Judgment
  • Other, Land
  • Mar 25, 1911
Description:
Typewritten Portion of Record from Abstract of Title of the Properties of John Somes (son of Abraham 1) regarding a dispute between Erving and Reed in which Erving won right to land but with improvements made by Erving that he would have to pay for he abandoned land to Reed. Unclear who is writing this.
3802Family Group Record of Family of Abraham and Hannah somes
  • Document, Government, Vital Record
  • Other, Genealogy
  • Barry D. Gates
  • 2001
Description:
Five typed pages of vital statistic records on Abraham and Hannah Somes and their children. These records, drawn from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Ancestral File, include some birth, death and marriage dates.
3527Administration of Estate of Joshua Moore
  • Document, Government, Probate
  • Other, Estates
  • Aug 2, 1865
Description:
3 documents appointment Caroline F. Moore as administrator of Joshua S. Moore's estate, payments of the estate
3526Probate record Joshua Moore
  • Document, Government, Probate
  • Other, Estates
  • Jan 1886
Description:
Caroline Moore, widow of Joshua Moore allowed the value $99.25 of articles from Joshua Moore's estate to be charged for administration of estate
3528Court document of debt of deceased John Somes
  • Document, Government, Probate
  • Other, Estates
  • Oct 27, 1852
Description:
Jacob Somes the administrator of the deceased's estate, John Somes, received court approval to sell real estate of John Somes to pay debts of $1107.66 through an advertised sale
2307Copy of Record of Estate of Abraham Somes
  • Document, Government, Probate
  • Other, Estates
  • nd
Description:
See 011.FIC.14.1 Duplicate of description of location of land -saw mill, grist mill of Estate Abraham Somes Sr. categroized by Abraham Somes II and expenses to administer the estate
3772Richardson Family Death Dates from McKinley Cemetery
  • Document, Government, Death Record
  • Other, Death & burial
Description:
Single handwritten page detailing death date information on Richardsons and others, possibly taken from McKinley cemetery.
3804Death Record for Jacob Richard Somes
  • Document, Government, Death Record
  • Other, Death
  • Office of the Registrar General, Ontario, Canada
  • 7/31/1981
Description:
Record of death in Sault Ste Marie, Ontario, Canada, of Jacob Richard Somes on Februaru 15, 1913.
3941Customs Service records for Schr. Ella Eudora and Kate L. Pray
  • Document, Government, Customs Record
  • Other, Customhouses
  • 1906
Description:
Lester E. Pray, part-owner and master of both vessels
3929Customs Collector Records 1856-1860, Southwest Harbor
  • Document, Government, Customs Record
  • Other, Codfish
  • Other, Custom houses
Description:
Customs Collector Records 1856-1860, Southwest Harbor. Found in Fernald Store, which had been built by A.J. Whiting. Contains cost of fishing licenses, list schooners See article, Natalie Springuel, William Leavenworth, Karen Alexander, "From Wealth to Poverty, the Rise and Fall of Cod around Mount Desert Island, Chebacco, Volume XVI, 2015, This is large, bound volume, the only item in this box.
3957Civil War Enrollment Regulations
  • Document, Government, Military Record
  • Other, Civil wars
  • 1865
Description:
Instructions for preparing list of people "liable to enrolment".
3806Census Records for Dutchess County, NY, and Hancock County, ME,
  • Document, Government, Census Record
  • Other, Census
  • Other, Mount Desert
  • 1790
Description:
Census records showing Soames in Fishkill, Dutchess Country, NY, in 1790 and census records showing Abraham Somes in Town of Mount Desert, Hancock County, ME.
39591842 Census, Hancock Co.
  • Document, Government, Census Record
  • Other, Blue Hill
  • Other, Castine
  • Other, Census
  • Other, Cranberry Islands
  • Other, Deer Isle
  • Other, Eden
  • Other, Hancock County
  • Other, Mount Desert
  • Other, Swans Island
  • Other, Trenton
  • 1842
Description:
Population figures for Mt. Desert, Eden, Cranberry Isles, Seaville, Ellsworth, Trenton, Bucksport, Orland,l Dedham, Mariaville, Plantations, Blluehill, Surry, Swan's Island, Long Island, Sedgewick, Brooksville, Hog Island, Castine, Penobscot, Gouldsborough, Sullivan, Hancock, Franklin, Eastbrook, Deer Isle.