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Amount of Surplus Revenue Belonging to the Several Towns

List of the amount of surplus revenue belonging to several towns.

Type: OBJECT
Collection: State Census 1837

Letter re Death of Rep Jonathan Cilley, 1838

An undated letter discussing the death of United States Representative Jonathan Cilley from Thomaston. The author is unknown, but they may have been J.A. Chandler, the clerk of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court. Before his election to Congress, Cilley served as the Speaker of the Maine House of Representatives. He was the son-in-law of Hezekiah Prince, a merchant from Thomaston.Jonathan Cilley, an abolitionist, was challenged to a duel by James Watson Webb, a newspaper editor from New York, after Cilley accused him of corruption. William Graves, a legislator from Kentucky, served as Webb's stand-in and killed Cilley on February 24, 1838.

Type: OBJECT
Collection: Letter Regarding the Death of U.S. Representative Jonathan Cilley

Penobscot County, Jarvis Gore

Census of Jarvis Gore, east of Eddington in Penobscot County.

Type: OBJECT
Collection: State Census 1837

T1 R5 and T3 R7 WBKP, and T4 R1, T4 R2, T5 R2 State Lands, and T5 R3 Sandy Bay land

Census of T1 R5 and T3 R7 WBKP, and T4 R1, T4 R2, T5 R2 State Lands, and T5 R3 Sandy Bay land

Type: OBJECT
Collection: State Census 1837

Affadavit of James Sagurs, owner of Atticus

Affadavit of James Sagurs, owner of Atticus, before Joseph Felt, Justice of the Peace. Joseph Sagurs and his brother Henry asserted that Captain Daniel Philbrook and first mate Edward Kellerun of the schooner Susan did "feloniously invigle, steal, take, and carry away without the limits of the State of Georgia a negro man slave named Atticus, the property of this deponent.." on May 4, 1837.

Type: OBJECT
Collection: Black History

Letter from Governor Gilmer to Governor Dunlap Enclosing Indictment and Requesting Extradition of Philbrook and Kellerun

Letter from Governor Gilmer to Governor Dunlap enclosing indictment and requesting extradition of Captain Daniel Philbrook and Edward Kellerun of the Schooner Susan.

Type: OBJECT
Collection: Black History