Description: Signed on inside cover: E.C. Hadlock(Elmer C. Hadlock) Elmer was Ted's Cousin who spent his career in the US Navy and the Merchant Marine (Contains interesting sketches of military formations etc.)
Description: Jacob Lurvey's daughter, Hannah , married William Gilley in 1802 and lived with him on Bakers Island where William was Lightkeeper. One of their sons, Samuel, married Emily Stanley in 1842 and they established the Gilley Farm on Islesford.
Description: Job Stanwood, 1726-1776 . Is thought to have settled for a few years on Islesford before moving to Duck Brook, now Bar Harbor. His grand daughter Mary Stanwood 1816-1888 moved back to Islesford as the wife of Edwin Hadlock. For a record of the Hadlocks of Islesford, see Islesford Historical Society Occasinal Paper # 6 3/1994.
Description: Appendix C in Vol. II contains a comprehensive coverage of the last days of Samuel Hadlock who was hanged at Pownalborough on October 28th, 1790 for beating Eliab Gott to death with a fence post
Description: These frames were made of sticks and whittled from cigar boxes by surfmen at the Islesford Life Saving Station during their spare time. The photo shows the Main Road in circa. 1920's before it was paved. The photo and frame hung in the Spurling house and was given to the Islesford Historical Society by Cara Spurling in 2005.
Description: In January 1947 he was catching 85-160 lbs or so each day he got out . Selling for 40 to 50 centsa pound. In 1975 he was catching only 40 to 60 lbs a day . selling them for $1.40 to $1.60 a lb.
Description: A paper of stories told by Francis Fernald that was prepared by two young students at Southwest Harbor. The Students grandmother, Bernice Gaiser, was caring for Francis and Betty Fernald at a house in Southwest Harbor during the winter of 1994
Description: USS Chestnut Hill appears to have been an oiler caring a cargo of gasoline and diesel oil which it pumped from time to time into the fuel tanks of USNavy vessels It sailed-often a zig zag course, in "convoy consisting of SC's... also tug Uss Conestoga."