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You searched for: Date: 1830s
Title Type Subject Creator Date Place Rights
Amos Clement Logbook from the Schooner Golden Rule
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Book
  • People
  • Vessels, Ship, Sailing Ship, Schooner
  • Amos Clement
  • 1833
Description:
Logbook of accounts of Amos Clement on his schooner Golden Rule, Mount Desert, Maine.
History of Kennebunk Port, from its First Discovery
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Document, Chart, Family Tree
  • Other
  • People
  • Places, Town
  • Charles Bradbury
  • 1837
Description:
First Discovery by Bartholomew Gosnold, 1602, to A.D. 1837. Subject Index & Name Index. Scan available upon request.
First Report of the Geology of the Public Lands in the State of Maine
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Booklet
  • Places
  • Charles T. Jackson, M. D.
  • 1837
Description:
Resolve of the Legislature of Massachusetts, passed March 21, 1836. Senate, No. 89
The Girl’s Own Book
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Etiquette
  • Other, Home Economics
  • Child, L. Maria
  • 1834
The Girl’s Own Book
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Every girl should learn to be useful, improve her mind, exhibit elegant accomplishments, refined taste, and gracefulness of manner, according to this little book.
The American Frugal Housewife.
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, History
  • Other, Home Economics
  • Other, Housework
  • Child, Lydia
  • 1836.
The American Frugal Housewife.
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Mrs. Caroline Brewster Williston written on first page.
Kimball Store Business Ledger
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Document, Financial, Bookkeeping Record, Account Book, Ledger
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • Daniel Kimball
  • 1830's
  • Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor
Kimball Store Business Ledger
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Handwritten ledger in buff suede (13" x 8.5" x 1.75") belonging to the Great Harbor Maritime Museum and given to the Northeast Harbor Library for safekeeping.
The Malte-Brun School Geography.
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Geography
  • Goodrich, S. Griswold
  • 1836.
The Malte-Brun School Geography.
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Account of Boat Accident resulting in death of Richard Solmes (sic)
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Other, Death
  • Hallowell Free Press
  • 10/21/1833
Description:
Copy of an account from Hallowell Free Press of Oct. 21, 1833, recounting a boat accident in which Richard Solmes (Somes) died. The accident occurred when a cargo boat capsized in the Bay of Quinte, Upper Gap, Lake Ontario, Canada.
Seal Cove School Meeting Minutes March 12, 1832
Tremont Historical Society
  • Document, Minutes
  • Other, Benjamin Atherton
  • Other, Benjamin Robins
  • Other, Ezra D. Reed
  • Other, Ezra Dodge Jr.
  • Other, George Butler
  • Other, George Butler Jr.
  • Other, George Murphy
  • Other, George Murphy Jr.
  • Other, Hosea Heath
  • Other, Israel Murphy
  • Other, Jacob Butler
  • Other, James Reed
  • Other, James Reed Jr.
  • Other, John S. Dodge
  • Other, Jonathan Robins
  • Other, Joshua Sawyer
  • Other, Lemuel Norton
  • Other, Nathaniel Gott
  • Other, O. Haley
  • Other, Organizations,School Committee minutes
  • Other, R. F. Dodge
  • Other, Samuel Hennison
  • Other, Samuel Sawyer
  • Other, Thomas Heath
  • Other, William Butler
  • Other, William Heath
  • Other, William Heath Jr.
  • Other, William Heath.
  • History IT research workers
  • March 12, 1832
Description:
The History IT collection is a collection of approximately 73 items which were selected by History IT workers in June 2017 as part of an assessment of the THS collection's scope. They are digitalized in the History Trust Digital Archive, (HistoryTrust.org) but are mostly not inventoried in the Past Perfect Database. We are currently inventorying them under this Collection Name HISTORY IT RECORDS Seal Cove School Meeting Minutes,March12, 1832 Notes from a Seal Cove school district meeting at the residence of Captain William Heath. Notes from a Seal Cove school district meeting at the residence of Captain William Heath. People Mentioned: Benjamin Atherton George Butler Jr. George Butler Jacob Butler William Butler Ezra Dodge Jr. John S. Dodge R. F. Dodge R. F. Dodge Nathaniel Gott O. Haley William Heath Jr. Hosea Heath Thomas Heath William Heath Samuel Hennison George Murphy Jr. George Murphy Israel Murphy Lemuel Norton James Reed Jr. Ezra D. Reed James Reed Benjamin Robins Jonathan Robins Joshua Sawyer Samuel Sawyer [show less] [show more]
Pectoral Sandpiper
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Image, Print, Planographic Print, Lithograph
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • J. J. Audubon
  • 1836
Pectoral Sandpiper
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Engraved, printed and colored by R. Howell.
Petition to set apart Cranberry Isles as separate town.
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Document, Request, Petition
  • Places, Island
  • James Kelley
  • 1-1-1830
  • Cranberry Isles
Description:
A petition from the inhabitants of Cranberry Isles requesting that the islands be set apart from the town of Mount Desert as a separate town. James Kelley, constable of Mount Desert
Letter from Josiah Phillips to Luther A. Phillips
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Josiah Phillips
  • 1830
Letter from Josiah Phillips to Luther A. Phillips
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Photocopy of an 1830 handwritten letter from Josiah Phillips to Luther A. Phillips of Orland, Maine. The letter tells of the death of Josiah's father and Luther's father. The letter fills one-page; a photocopy of the page showing the address has also been copied. The orginal sheet of paper was approx. 15 inches wide and 12' high. It had been folded in half and the address written on the outside. The letter itself was about 7.5" in width and 12" high. [show more]
Youth's Companion
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Newspaper
  • Other
  • Nathaniel Willis
  • 1839
Youth's Companion
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Two copies: No. 18, September 14, 1939, and No. 31, December 13, 1939, of the Youth's Companion. Vol. XIII. Published weekly at the Office of the Boston Recorder.
Copy of correspondence: Ledge at Greening Island, 1830-39
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Document, Correspondence
  • Places, Island
  • National Archives
  • 1830-1839
  • Southwest Harbor, Greening Island
Description:
Copy made for S. E. Morison of petition requesting a ledge "Langley's" (Greening) Island, and of specs for a granite marker resulting. 1830-1839.
Extract from the Journal of John Nelson: Being an Account of God’s Dealing with him.
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Biography
  • Other, Fiction
  • Other, Religion
  • Nelson, John
  • 1833
Rhetorical Reader
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Reading
  • Other, Reading Aloud
  • Porter, Ebenezer, D.D.
  • 1835.
Rhetorical Reader
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Instructions and exercises for reading aloud.
Practical and Mental Arithmetic, on a New Plan...
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Smith, Roswell C.
  • 1835
Practical and Mental Arithmetic, on a New Plan...
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
"...in which mental arithmetic is combined with the use of the slate; containing a complete system for all practical purposes; being in dollars and cents, stereotype edition, revised and enlarged, with exercises for the slate, in which as added a practical system of book-keeping." Exercises cover compound numbers, fractions, and decimals.
State of Maine - Treasury Dept.
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Legal, Legal Documents
  • Organizations, School Institution
  • State of Maine
  • 1838-03-15
  • Cranberry Isles, Great Cranberry Island
  • No Copyright - United States
State of Maine - Treasury Dept.
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
State of Maine treasury office certifying an amount of money given to Cranberry Isles to build primary schools.
Improvement of the Mind.
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Self-improvement
  • Watts, Isaac
  • 1833
Improvement of the Mind.
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Isaac Watts invented the steam engine; this may have some value. A treatise for students on how to improve and enrich the mind
Poem about the view from Bald (Cadillac) Mountain as seen by Mogg Megone
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Publication, Literary, Poem
  • Places, Mountain
  • Whittier - John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892)
  • 1830
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Store Ledger 1838-1845
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Financial, Bookkeeping Record, Account Book, Ledger
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • Vessels, Ship, Sailing Ship, Schooner
  • William P. Preble
  • 1839
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Store Ledger 1838-1845
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Ledger, handwritten, inscribed "William P. Preble, Property, Cranberry Isles 1839" inside front cover, records 1838-1845 are mostly running expenses and payments, apparently at a store, for various accounts: Esaias Preble, Horace Duryan, Thomas Bunker, Harriet Rosebrook, John Pung, Michael Green, Winchester Whitney, Abigail Spurling, South (school) District Cranberry Isles, Thomas Manchester, Nathaniel Gott, Edwin Hadlock, Enoch Lurvy (or Lurvey), John Dow, Capt. L.W. Gilley, B. Bunker, Edward Burroughs, Rev. Micah Strickland, Miss Mary Preble, Justis W. Gilley, John Brown, Messrs. Symms Eaton & Co., David Thompson, Haskell Lancaster, Benjamin Moor, Thomas Newman, Josiah Young, Henry Fernald, Town of Cranberry Isles To William Preble, William Pung, expenses of Estate of Benjamin Spurling, Richard Higgins, George N. Spurling, Eunice Keef, Ivory Joy, Esther Eaton, North (school) District, Thomas Marks, Schooner Brainerd (or Brainard), Elisha Young, Bills against the Brigantine Factor for repairs, Michael Bulger, Samuel Farnham, Sans Stanley, Briant Hodgkins, James Mayo, Schooner Harriet, Estate of Robert Spurling, David Winsey, William Richardson, Charles Bunker, Andrew Frisbee, William Rice, Estate of Samuel Spurling, Schooner Eastern Star. Several scraps of note paper with writing and figures also in ledger. [show more]
The History of the State of Maine from its first discovery, A. D. 1602 to The Separation, A. D. 1820, Inclusive. Vol. II
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, History
  • Other, Maine
  • Williamson, William D.
  • 1832
Description:
Facsimile edition; only vol. II is in the collection. The contents are listed chronologically in the Contents section of the front.
Ship's Log, Schooner Marion
Great Harbor Maritime Museum
  • Document, Financial, Bookkeeping Record, Account Book, Ledger
  • Vessels, Ship, Sailing Ship, Schooner
  • 1836
  • Mount Desert
  • Copyright Undetermined
Ship's Log, Schooner Marion
Great Harbor Maritime Museum
Description:
Ship's log for the Schooner Marion, 1836-1837 This log records voyages of the Schooner Marion, commanded by Eaton Clark from February 1836 to June 1836 (potentially a bit longer). From June 1836 (and definitely by November ben 1836) until July 1836 the schooner was commanded by Jacob Sawyer. Destinations mentioned include: Puerto Rico, Mount Desert, Lubec, Williamstown, New York, Port au Plat, St. Domingo, and others
Mount Desert tax records - 1831 - 1838 - 1839
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Document, Chart, Family Tree
  • Places, Town
  • 1831-1839
  • Mount Desert
Description:
Town of Mt. Desert valuation ledgers of above years in Comb bound booklet. Eden tax records 1890 1841, stapled computer print-out.
Penobscot Journal
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Newspaper
  • Events
  • 1832
Penobscot Journal
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
February 14, 1832