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1804 piece of Maine Territory history... Salmon Chase court document

Colonial Maine Territory letter (period copy) from The Reverend Jonathan Rogers of Kittery asking his Creditors to make an allowance on his debts due to hard times... Other names include Bartlett, Smith, Emery, Macy.

Early Deed For Sale of Land, dated June 1, 1803. It is for property in Portland, Maine (then a part of Massachusetts) sold by Shirley Erving to Martin Brimmer. Body of the document reads in part as follows:

KNOW all Men by these Presents,
That I Shirley Erving of Portland in the County of Cumberland Physician~~
in consideration of the sum of Two thousand seven hundred dollars paid to me by Martin Brimmer of Roxbury in the County of Norfolk Esq. ~~the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge, do hereby give, grant, bargain, sell and convey unto said Martin Brimmer his heirs and assigns forever a certain lot of land with the buildings thereon lying in Portland aforesaid; bounded as follows viz. beginning at a stake standing in the southwesterly side of Federal Street, said stake being south sixty one degrees west five rods and one third of a rod distant from the corner made by the southeasterly side of Federal Street, and southwesterly side of Fiddle Street and from said stake running south sixty one degrees west fifty five feet & a half more or less thence Southeasterly one hundred & thirty six feet; thence northeasterly sixty feet more or less to land belonging to Anthony Fernald thence northwesterly to the bounds first mentioned being a part of the lots of land I purchased of Elizabeth Winslow & Sarah T. Waldo~~

Shirley Erving was the Grandson of John Erving

1842 - Signed Samuel Penniman - 2-1/2" by 7-1/2" estate of Nathan Thayer document

1842 signed by Theodore Wales - 3" by 8" - Braintree, MA, Estate of Nathan Thayer document

1844 signed by Nathaniel Hunt - Braintree Mass. - 2" by 6" town tax document

1855 Signed Benjamin Rae - receipt for goods sold - 3-1/2" by 6-1/2" - from Maine although not marked as such (on blue paper)

1855 Benjamin Rae (Rea) document of goods purchased from Moore Smith & Co. - Belfast, ME - blue paper - 4-1/2" by 8"

ME  MA 1816 hand written court document from Mass. Dennis family.  Names include Lathrop Lewis, William Thompson, Ephraim Johnson,

1803 Portland, Maine:   Demand Note meas. 4 x 7” reads “For Value Reciv I Promise to pay Thaddeus Robbins on Order the Sum of Fifety Five Dollars and Thirteen Cents on Demand with Interest Untill Paid, Witneff my Hand September 7, 1803 $55.13 Atteff James Robbins Roland Yoeman To Good by Elizah Young Dated April 9, 1803 See Ledger 4th P 133  On reverse side: Georg Waterhouse Note Note $ 60.08 and 6.47 60.55

1877 Deed documenting the sale of land from Nathaniel Farier to Charles Stevens, Jr. in Kennebunk, York County, Maine. with 2 paper seals and the signature of W. J. Moody, the Justice of the Peace.  Wife Alice also mentioned.

1875 Maine deed in which Charles Stevens of Kennebunk conveys land to John E Bearse. There are 7 signatures on the document including 2 with red paper seals as well as the signature of S. E. Bryant, a trial judge. Wife Nancy Stevens is mentioned, as well as William Town(e), Samuel Town(e), Jacob Perkins, John Fiske, S. E. Bryant.

1798 LEGAL DOCUMENT FOR ATTACHMENT OF GOODS, Nichelaus Lewis vs. Ignatius Lording, both of Falmouth, Maine, County of Cumberland, Commonwealth of ‘Maffachufetts” (sic). Dated Seventh day of March 1800 Witneff (sic) John Lewis, Esquire, at Portland. Reverse side shows court costs of $5.70 signature of James Duane Hopkins from I. Inman. Document meas. 7.75 x 9”

1803 DOCUMENT Demand Note meas. 4 x 7” reads “For Value Reciv I Promise to pay Thaddeus Robbins on Order the Sum of Fifety Five Dollars and Thirteen Cents on Demand with Interest Untill Paid, Witneff my Hand September 7, 1803 $55.13 Atteff James Robbins Roland Yoeman To Good by Elizah Young Dated April 9, 1803

HENRY A. S. DEARBORN (1783-1851), General during the War of 1812, commanded the defenses of Boston. He succeeded his father as Collector of the Port of Boston. Manuscript document, signed "H Dearborn", as Collector at York District, Maine. In part, "...to have the ship, platform & dwelling soon repaired immediately on Boon Island." Sent to J Bradbury

MAINE - DOCUMENT LETTER - 1849
A Printed State of Maine Certicate from China, Kennebec County, Maine dated Feb. 23, 1849 for the recording of a Justice of Peace, David B.Fuller. Sent to the Secretary of State in Augusta Maine. Black circular date stamp, with manuscript 5 cent rate.  To:   Ezra B. French.

Real Estate deed for property sold by a David Gerrish of Beswich in the county of York, State of Maine a blacksmith to a James Brachett for the sum of one hundred dollars.Dated in 1846