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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
Page 21. This plan represents an actual Survey of Part of Kennebec River at Norridgewalk Point, Skowhegan Falls, and the mouth of Wesserunsett with the river and lines adjoining excepting the north line hereof as is here laid down.
- Survey of Kennebec River beginning at Norridgewock Point.Includes front and back of page.
- Type: OBJECT
- Collection: Plan Book 1
Page 24. Plan of ten townships of land as laid out upon the road laid out by Charles Turner and others leading from the North Line of Bingham's Million of Acres to the North boundary of this Commonwealth.
- Plan of ten townships of land in Somerset County.
- Type: OBJECT
- Collection: Plan Book 1
Page 25. Plan of Wyman's Plantation and Chester
- Plan of Wyman Plantation and Chester. Includes front and back of page.
- Type: OBJECT
- Collection: Plan Book 1
Page 28. This plan represents Kennebeck River from mouth of Cobbissecontee Stream to about one mile and a half above Norridgewalk Point, a part of Sebestocook River, the mouth of Wesserunsett, part of Sandy River, part of Ammarascoggin River, together with the several incorporated towns.
- Plan of Kennebec Proprietors lands together with the several incorporated towns, for the Committee for the Sale of Eastern Lands. Includes front and back of page.
- Type: OBJECT
- Collection: Plan Book 1