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You searched for: Date: 1820s
Title Type Subject Creator Date Place Rights
Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Object, Religious Text, Bible
  • Other, Religion
  • 1827.
Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
"Translated out of the original tongues, and with the former translations diligently compared and revised with Canne's marginal notes and references" Inside cover marked: "Loaned by Mrs. A.F. Joy, No.64" Following page inscribed: "1730, David Seavey". Inside back cover marked: "Catharine Seavy".
Deed of Backer's [Sic] Baker's Island
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Legal, Deed
  • Other, Baker's Island
  • Other, Deed
  • Other, Lighthouses
  • 12/28/1827
Deed of Backer's [Sic] Baker's Island
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Deed from the Bingham heirs of Baker's Island, Dec 28, 1827, from State of Maine records in the National Arcives, File No. 3, handwritten, 3p
Photocopy of deed to Abraham Somes from John Somes
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Legal, Deed
  • Other, Deed
  • 1826
Photocopy of deed to Abraham Somes from John Somes
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
John Somes deeding to Abraham Somes land
Deed from Isaac Somes to Jacob Somes
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Legal, Deed
  • Other, Deed
  • 1823?
Deed from Isaac Somes to Jacob Somes
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Deed
The English Reader
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, English language
  • Other, Readers
  • Murray, Lindley
  • 1824
The English Reader
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
From the title page: "Pieces in prose and poetry, selected from the best writers. Designed to assist young persons to read with propriety and effect; to improve their language and sentiments; and to inculcate some of the most imortant principles of piety and virtue..."
Notice of Auction of Abraham Somes Estate
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Advertising, Advertisement
  • Other, Estates
  • 4/2/1822
Notice of Auction of Abraham Somes Estate
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Paper indicating a notice of an auction taking place 2 yrs 7 months after his death
The Adventures of Roderick Random Vol I
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Fiction
  • Smollett, Tobias
  • 1827
The Adventures of Roderick Random Vol I
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
fiction stamped Daniel Somes
The Introduction to Ancient and Modern Geography:
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Geography
  • Cummings, J.A.
  • 1820.
The Introduction to Ancient and Modern Geography:
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
The Military and Political Life, Character and Anecdotes of Napoleon Bonaparte.
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, History
  • Other, Napoleon
  • Las Cases, Count
  • 1823.
Seventy-five Receipts for Pastry, Cakes, and Sweetmeats
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Home Economics
  • A Lady of Philadelphia
  • 1828
Seventy-five Receipts for Pastry, Cakes, and Sweetmeats
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
This is a facsimile of the original 1828 publication. The writer is really Eliza Lislie
Sale of land from Babson to Somes
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Financial, Sales Record, Bill of Sale
  • Other, Land transfer
  • Other, Somes Harbor
  • 1823
Sale of land from Babson to Somes
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Hand written copy of land transfer record of property near head of Somes Sound from Eben Babson to John Somes, formerly owned by Ephraim Haynes.
A New System of Mercantile Arithmetic
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Mathematics
  • Other, Merchants
  • Walsh, Michael, AM
  • 1820.
A New System of Mercantile Arithmetic
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Sections on Numeration: tables of money, weights, measures; practical questions, bills of parcels, vulgar fractions, simple interest, insurance, and more. Inscribed in front "Haskell Norwood" and Wm. Burnett (?) Ellsworth, 1838 and in back "Haskell lNorwook Mt Desert", also Nathan Salsbury (?) Esq. (?)
Sale of Fulling Mill by Isaac Somes to Jacob Somes
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Financial, Sales Record, Bill of Sale
  • Other, Mills
  • 1829
Sale of Fulling Mill by Isaac Somes to Jacob Somes
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Isaac Somes self-described as clothier; Jacob Somes as blacksmith.
Poems by William Cowper, Esq.; of the inner temple.
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Poetry
  • Cowper, William, Esq.
  • 1826.
Poems by William Cowper, Esq.; of the inner temple.
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Collection of poetry in 3 volumes. We have volumes III and III.
Elements of Elocution...
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Public speaking
  • Walker, John
  • 1825
Elements of Elocution...
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Athalaney Fly Quilt, 1824
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Object, Art, Needlework, Quilt
  • Other, Quilts
  • 1824
Athalaney Fly Quilt, 1824
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Patchwork and embroidered quilt. Embroidered inscription reads, "When this you see / Remember me/ Athalaney Fly/ Mouonldefort [Mount Desert]/ August 26, 1824/ Aged 7 years / 3 months." Athlaney was the daughter of Patty Somes Flye and James Flye; she died at the age of 18 and is buried in the Flye Cemetery in Tremont.
English Reader; or Pieces in Prose and Poetry.
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Readers
  • Murray, Lindley
  • 1820
English Reader; or Pieces in Prose and Poetry.
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
"To assist young persons to read with propriety and effect, to improve their language and sentiments; and to inculcate some of the most important principles of piety and virtue with a few preliminary observations on the principles of good reading." Inscribed Daniel Somes jr., Mt. Desert
The English Reader
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Readers
  • Murray, Lindley
  • 1827
The English Reader
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
" Pieces in prose and poetry selected from the best writers designed to assist young persons to read with propriety and effect..." Inscribed "the property of Sarah y Mayo Eden Maine February the 1830" [front] " the property of Sarah G (?) Wiggins" [back]
The Publications of the American Tract Society Vol III.
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Religion
  • 1824.
The Publications of the American Tract Society Vol III.
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Various religious tracts. Handwritten inside front cover: "From old Lewis Somes house." Hnadwritten inside back cover: "Lewis Somes, Mount Desert ____".
The Saint's Everlasting Rest, or A Treatise of the Blessed State of the Saints in their Enjoyment of God in Heaven
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Religion
  • Other, Saints
  • Baxter, Richard
  • 1822.
Description:
Handwritten inside front cover: "Mary Somes; From old Lewis Somes house".
Short Poems: Including a Sketch of the Scriptures to the book of Ruth: Satan's Great Devise, or Lines on Intemperance: I and Conscience, or A Dialogue on Universalism: and a few others on various subjects
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Blue Hill
  • Other, Poetry
  • Other, Religion
  • Fisher, Jonathan
  • 1827
Description:
Handwritten inside cover:"Fred S. Thompson, Mt. Desert, Maine"
The Pronouncing Spelling Book
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Spelling
  • Other, Word Pronounciation
  • Cummings, J.A.
  • 1821.
The Pronouncing Spelling Book
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Rules for spelling and guide for word pronounciation. Marian Townsend written on first page.
Tax Records
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Financial, Bookkeeping Record
  • Other, Taxes
  • 1827
Tax Records
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Tax Records 1827 Mount Desert by poll tax, estate tax and total Miscellaneious pieces of paper within the book
Tax Records
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Financial, Bookkeeping Record
  • Other, Taxes
  • 1820
Tax Records
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Tax Records 1820 Mount Desert Listed as North Parrish by poll tax, estate tax and total
Taxes for 1825, Simon Milliken Assessor
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Financial, Bookkeeping Record
  • Other, Taxes
  • 1825
Taxes for 1825, Simon Milliken Assessor
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Taxes for 1825, Simon Milliken Assessor Poll tax of? $3 pays 4 cents. Highway surveyors for 1825 listed, Highway tax $2,000