Judicial records

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The collection contains the business records and personal papers of members of the Ames family of Machias, Maine. It centers on papers of John K. Ames and his sons, Frank and Alfred Ames and also has records of S.W. Pope and Company and the Machias Lumber Company.

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Legal documents and research material compiled and collected by Edwin A. Churchill in his work as an expert witness in two land cases in Wells, Maine, in 1988 and 1999, and in the boundary issue case between New Hampshire and Maine in 2000.

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The collection covers his entire legal career, his term as Treasurer of the University of Maine, and his term as Maine Supreme Court Judge. Included are correspondence, letters, bills, and receipts. The legal papers include records of cases involving assaults, divorce, estates, collections, bankruptcies, and pensions. Also included are records of the University of Maine (1896-1936), the draft board (WWI), and the town of Orono (1833-1914).

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This small collection contains copies of documents concerning the founding and operation of the Granby-Alaska Company. The documents appear to have been assembled for some purpose, perhaps to prepare for the numerous lawsuits against the company.

Abstract The collection includes correspondence, notes, deeds, land records, mortgages of the Old Town, Maine area, and Penobscot River Navigation Company certificates. Folder 1 contains bills, receipts, and letters relating to Old Town from 1833-1878; a copy of the Eagle Literary Fraternity College Gazette, v. 1, no. 3, ca. 1869; a copy of a list of plants analyzed by class in the year 1869 by Heddle Hilliard; letters from G.E. Hammond (1871-1873), E.J. Haskell, and others; and 2 letters to Cornelia...

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The collection contains personal papers and business records of members of the Hill family, early residents of Kittery and Berwick, Maine.

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Financial documents of the clerk of the Knox County, Maine, Court of County Commissioners. Documents are signed by Edwin Rose, clerk, and include justices' bills of costs, clerks' fees, accounts of travel, etc. Collection also includes a document listing committee members for an unidentified church, apparently in Rockland, Maine, and two unrelated invoices.

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A list of cases in a county court in Maine. Includes names of plaintiffs and defendants, names of judges, orders and judgments issued, hearings held.

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A collection of legal and municipal documents mostly from Lincoln County, Maine in the eighteenth and early nineteeth centuries. Includes a wide range of documents.

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Records of the county of Oxford in Maine. Included are orders from the Clerk of the County, Rufus K. Goodenow, to the Sheriff of the County to attach the goods or estate of residents to settle a debt. Included also are orders from the County Clerk to the Sheriff of the County to summons residents to court. Included also are two testimonials to the good character of Elias Monk of Hebron, Maine dated April 1834.