Wills

Scope and Contents The records mainly contain textual information created and collected by the University of Maine Darling Marine Center, but there are also photographic material and Compact Discs. The record series Sea Grant College Program Records contains items regarding the founding of the Sea Grant Program, copies of various Sea Grant Program publications, publication catalogs, and reports, reference material, project proposals, planning documents, and calendar of events. The...

Content Description

The collection contains one probate court document making Maynard C. Ingraham, Sr. executor of Susie H. Lowell estate. There are also a number of receipts that deal with the burial of Susie Lowell, as well as five savings account books from Maine banks. The accounts were active from the 1920's to the 1940's.

Content Description

The collection consists of a handwritten oath taken by Mrs. Thankful Hodgkins. It is witnessed, recorded, and signed by Stephen Longfellow on April 25, 1761 in Falmouth, Cumberland County, Maine. The oath states that any further property Mrs. Thankful Hodgkins obtains from the estate of the late Samuel Hodgkins, she will pay an amount to the Probate Office in York County.

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The bulk of the papers are family letters or materials concerning the Peirce timberlands. Included also are copies of Ada Peirce McCormick's magazine Letter, magazine articles and clippings, correspondence, genealogies, wills, diaries, and photographs.

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The collection contains notes and information on the Perkins family gathered and compiled from around 1911 to 1913 by Enoch Perkins of Malden, Massachusetts. Also included are letters to various generations of the family written between 1772 and 1885 as well as legal documents, wills, deeds, receipts and other family papers dating from 1700 to 1901.

Abstract A small collection of papers of a prominent family in Kittery, Maine. Included are two handwritten copies of the will of Nicholas Spinney dated April 18, 1797; a printed form used to record the value of household furniture and of gold and silver watches in 1815 in the eighth district of the State of Massachusetts; an account of money Caleb Spinney owed to Charles Greene covering the years 1816 to 1819; three bills for expenses incurred by Nicholas Spinney in the administration of the estate...