1 - 3 of 3 results
You searched for: Date: 1850s✖Type: Document✖Type: Certificate✖
Refine Your Search
Refine Your Search
Subject
Type
Place
  • none
Date
Contributor
Title Type Subject Creator Date Place Rights
Swearing in Certificate, Thurston, John, light keeper
Tremont Historical Society
  • Document, Certificate
  • Other, Bass Harbor Head light
  • Structures, Transportation, Lighthouse
  • 9/9/1858
Swearing in Certificate, Thurston, John, light keeper
Tremont Historical Society
Identifier:
  • ths-1434
Type:
  • Document, Certificate
Subject:
  • Other, Bass Harbor Head light
  • Structures, Transportation, Lighthouse
Date:
  • 9/9/1858
Description:
Swearing in Certificate for Thursto, John as light keeper at Bass Harbor Head Lighthouse, 09/09/1858; Bass Harbor, Tremont, Hancock, Maine. He was the first lkight keeper after the lighthouse was built.
William Preble Commissioner of Wrecks & Lost Goods
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Certificate
  • Organizations, Civic
  • 1851
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
William Preble Commissioner of Wrecks & Lost Goods
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Identifier:
  • gcihs-2018.421.2292
Type:
  • Document, Certificate
Subject:
  • Organizations, Civic
Date:
  • 1851
Description:
Certificate from Governor John Hubbard designating William Preble Commissioner of Wrecks and Lost Goods for Hancock County for four years "if he shall so long behave himself in office" signed by the Secretary of State 1851
Insurance policies for schooners and home
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Certificate
  • People
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
  • Vessels, Ship, Sailing Ship, Schooner
  • 1850
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Insurance policies for schooners and home
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Identifier:
  • gcihs-2018.416.2779
Type:
  • Document, Certificate
Subject:
  • People
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
  • Vessels, Ship, Sailing Ship, Schooner
Date:
  • 1850
Description:
Four insurance policies 1850-1860s.[See web link below for info on Schooners mentioned in policies.] Policy 1 = 1850 Lexington Fire, Life and Marine Insurance for William P. Preble $1500 on Schooner Zulma for six months from October 26, 1850 at noon, vessel valued at $3,000. [Zulma was the name of one of Preble's adopted daughters.] Policy 2 = 1854 Hancock Mutual Insurance Company William P. Preble $400 on Schooner Sea Flower and $700 on outfits for a fishing voyage from Tremont to the Magdalen Islands [Quebec] and back to port of discharge commencing the week May 2, 1854. Policy 3 = 1864 Penobscot Mutual Fire Insurance Company Joseph Bunker dwelling house for $250. Policy 4 = 1867 Ocean Insurance Company Perley S. Russell $1200 on charter of Schooner Transfer at and from Boston to one or more ports in the Bahama Isles and from thence to Port of discharge in the United States. [show more]