Social History
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Account with F.W. Ridley for goods delivered to George Griffin
- Type: OBJECT
- Collection: Pauper Accounts
Account with William N. Beal for shoes purchased for Joth. Young of Bear Island
- Type: OBJECT
- Collection: Pauper Accounts
Schedule of Treasury Drafts for Two Installments Surplus Revenue
- Schedule of Treasury drafts for two installments surplus revenue. Lists names of banks and locations within Maine, payment due dates, and amounts.
- Type: OBJECT
- Collection: State Census 1837
Letter to selectmen of Dennysville regarding surplus revenue
- Letter to the Selectmen of Dennysville regarding surplus revenue.
- Type: OBJECT
- Collection: State Census 1837
Correspondence Between Maine Treasury Department and US Treasury Regarding Surplus Revenue
- Correspondence between Maine Treasury Department and US Treasury regarding surplus revenue.
- Type: OBJECT
- Collection: State Census 1837
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