Contents of Sprague's Journal of Maine History (through Vol 6)

Contents of Sprague's Journal of Maine History [19 January 2011]

Volume One (April 1913-January 1914)

Number One

• An Address Delivered by Honorable Clarence Hale [Centennial Celebration of First Congregational Church at Ellsworth, 1912]: 8
• Tombstone Inscriptions from Gorham [The Old Yard, South St., includes inscriptions of free blacks]: 13
• Notes on Colonial Penobscot: 17
• Vital Statistics [of Monson, Maine]: 22
• New Maine Books: 24
• Prologue [John Francis Sprague's introduction to the Journal]: 25
• Notes and Fragments [Rev. Richard Gibson; the son of King Philip; Hiram Maxim; Foxcroft and Sebec centennials; Votes for women]: 26
• Resolve in Favor of Abbot Soldiers [Aroostook War]: 30
• Soldiers' Graves in Elmwood Cemetery [[[Place:Guilford, Piscataquis, Maine, United States|Guilford, Maine]]]: 31
• Historical Societies: 32
• Piscataquis Centennials: 32
• American Names of Places in Maine [Poem reflecting on the native place names of Maine]: 33
• Brief Notes on the Early Settlement of Bangor: 33
• Commodore Samuel Tucker [Memorial in Bremen]: 36
• The Anti-Slavery Movement in Maine: 38

Number Two

• General John Parker Boyd and Judge Henry Orne, the Original Proprietors of the Town of Orneville, Maine: 43
• The Indian Bashaba: 47
• Vital Statistics [of Monson, Maine]: 52
• Champlain's Visit to the [[[Place:Bangor, Penobscot, Maine, United States|Penobscot]]: 56
• Wayfarer's Notes [Joseph W. Porter's notes on historical topics]: 66
  • "Note of the Early History of the Catholic Church in Eastern Maine: 66
  • "The Bangor Theological Seminary: 68
• Editorial: It Spells Success: 73
• Notes and Fragments [Supreme Judicial Court Justices; John Elliot; Town of Levant]: 74
• Revolutionary Soldiers of Piscataquis County [Stevens Spooner]: 77
• St. Albans Centennial, 1913: 81

Number Three

• Odd Fellowship in Piscataquis County: 85
  • Manchester Unity: 85
  • American Odd Fellowship: 86
  • Odd Fellowship in Maine: 91
  • Odd Fellowship in Piscataquis County [includes images of prominent Odd Fellows]: 94
• Editorial: Organization: 118

Number Four

• General John Parker Boyd and Judge Henry Orne, the Original Proprietors of the Town of Orneville, Maine (continued): 131
• Wayfarer's Notes: 136
  • The Bangor Theological Seminary (continued): 136
  • The Aroostook War: 140
• Poem: Biguyduce: 144
• Editorial: Along the Old Savage Road [[[Place:Monson, Piscataquis, Maine, United States|Monson]] to Greenville]: 145
• Notes on Judge Jonathan Sayward of York, Maine: 148
• Joseph Ellery Foxcroft, the Original Proprietor of the Town of Foxcroft, Maine: 150
• The Lexington of the Seas [Sea battle at Machias, Maine]: 157
• Vital Statistics from the Early Records of the Town of Monson, Maine: 165
• Notes and Fragments [Samuel J Gurensey; Maine Catholic Historical Magazine; Revolutionary War soldier's letter; American Advocate, 1811, 1812, 1814]: 167
• John, or John Jackson Folsom: 170

Number Five

• The Lexington of the Seas [Sea battle at Machias, Maine] (continued): 175
• Wayfarer's Notes (continued): 185
  • The Bangor Theological Seminary (continued): 185
  • Stephen Jones, the First Justice of Peace East of the Penobscot: 187
• Pre-Historic Indians of Maine: 192
• A Deposition in 1776 Relating to Land in Biddeford: 193
• Editorial : The Value of a Knowledge of State History: 194
• Notes and Fragments [Hiram Maxim; Accounts of Benedict Arnold; Roads in Maine; Piscataquis Historical Society; Acadia]: 196
• An Arnold Memorial: 199
• A Massachusetts Colonial Ordinance That is the Law of Maine [regarding right to access great ponds]: 201
• The End of Volume One, (By the Editor): 206
• Index, Vol. I: 209

Volume Two (May 1914-Feb 1915)

Number One (May 1914)

• Maine Map-Makers and Their Maps [Osgood Carleton]: 3
• Mount Kineo and the Maine Summer Resort Industry: 10
• Owners of Maine Lands When Maine Became a State (Wayfarer's Notes): 16
• [John] Baker of Madawaska: 26
• Extracts From the Diary of Reverend Samuel Dean: 27
• Social Compact to Secure Independent Government, by Wells, Gorgeana and Piscataqua: 28
• Descendants of Josiah Clark of Dover, N. H.:29
• Aroostook War Documents: 31
• Maine Genealogists: 34
• Maine Society of the Sons of the American Revolution: 35
• The Battle of Lovell's Pond [by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, published when Longfellow was 13]: 36
• Governor Edward Kavanagh: 37
• Editorial: History in Our Schools: 40
• Notes and Fragments [Former Indian names for Maine places; Alcohol use; the Deliverance of Samuel Jennings; updates from readers on the Bangor Theological Seminary; Thomas Greenwood; Moses Greenleaf; Mount Katahdin; the first bank in Maine; John Gilley; the Constitution Convention for the State of Maine]: 41
• Mortuary [George H Eaton; Louis Colby Stearns; General Joshua Chamberlain; Judge Oliver Hall; Captain Henry Fairbanks; Albert Chapin; Colonel Charles Clark; Enoch Foster]: 46
• Bagaduce: 52
• Sayings of Subscribers: 53
• Sir Hiram Maxim in the Civil War: 55
• Information Wanted: 55
• Order for Submission of the Province of Maine, by the General Court of Massachusetts Bay: 56

Number Two (July, 1914)

• Centenary of War 1812-15: Naval Combat of Enterprise and Boxer September 5, 1813: 63
• How the Jesuit Relations Came to be Written and Their Historical Value: 74
• Governor Sullivan of Massachusetts and Maine (Wayfarer's Notes): 79
• Fees of the Hancock County Bar in 1810: 81
• The Ancestry of Sarah Millet Who Married David Hunt of Gray: 84
• Hannah Weston (a poem): 86
• Old Falmouth in 1749: 87
• Extract from Reverend Thomas Smith's Journal: 88
• Charles Rlanchard, Proprietor of the Town of Blanchard, Maine: 89
• Notes and Fragments [Sketches of Oxford County; Waldoboro; Annals of Bakerstown, Poland and Minot; Libraries of Bangor; Westbrook; *School records of Bangor; Bangor Historical Society; Milo; Orono]: 91
• Editorial: Very Much Alike: 97
• The Capens of Deer Island: 98
• Sayings of Subscribers: 99
• Bagaduce [letter from reader]: 100

Number Three (July, 1914, Sangerville Centennial edition)

• Sangerville Centennial: 103
• Historical Address, by John Francis Sprague: 106
• Oration, by Honorable Willis E. Parsons: 126
• Speech of Sir Hiram Maxim, read by Hiram Percy Maxim: 135
• Speech by Honorable Stanley Plummer: 138
• Remembrance in Rhyme, by Professor William S. Knowlton: 140
• List of Centennial Committees: 145
• Captain Abner Turner Wade: 146
• Letter From Honorable Stanley Plummer: 152
• Agriculture of Sangerville: 153
• The Woolen Industry of Sangerville: 155
• Documentary History of the Town of Sangerville: 155
• List of Taxpayers Assessed in the Town of Sangerville for the Year 1819: 164
• Record of Births in Town of Sangerville: 164
• Early Marriages in Sangerville: 171
• Record of Deaths in Town of Sangerville: 176
• Town Officers: 179
• County Officers From Sangerville: 181
• Notes About Sangerville From Old Maine Registers: 182

Number Four (Oct. 1914)

• The Battle of Hanupden (3 Sep 1814): 185
• The Moose Horn Sign in Abbot, Maine: 194
• John Marsh, Jr., Owner of the Orono Island that Bears His Name (Wayfarer's Notes): 202
• General Lafayette in Maine: 206
• The Hamor Mt. Desert Papers: 212
• Indians in Ancient Georgetown: 213
• The Deserted Lumber Camp: 214
• Judge George H. Smith: 216
• [Notes re history of Yarmouth and Orono]: 218
• The Proposed Province of New Ireland: 219
• Editorial: Gathering Material for History: 221
• Notes and Fragments [The Spirit's Work; Roberts Family Reunion; Piscataquis County; the good roads movement; preservation of trees; Maine State Library; Bar Harbor Times; Bangor Historical Society; Skowhegan]: 222
• Sayings of Subscribers: 226
• [Note re Waldoboro, Maine]: 230

Number Five (Feb 1915)

• Colonel John Allan: 233
• [Notes on lawyers in 1826; lyceums in Maine; Maine Medical Society]: 257
• Old Plans at the Massachusetts State House of Lands in Maine (Wayfarer's Notes): 258
• Dr. Crowell Clarington Hall [obituary]: 259
• [Notes on Portland in 1826; Academies in Maine; Customs Collectors in 1826; Indian Agents in 1826]: 260
• Society of Mayflower Descendants in the State of Maine: 261
• John F. Lamb [obituary]: 262
• [Notes on Maine Historical Society]: 262
• Wilmot L. Estabrooke: 263
• Editorial: To Our Friends: 264
• Notes and Fragments [Hiram Centennial; Samuel W Gould; Samuel Lane Boardman; Bangor House; Rodney C Penney; Thompson family of Sangerville; Penobscot Indians]: 265
• Sayings of Subscribers [Notes re Bunker Hill near Milo; Webster's birthplace]: 268
• Information Wanted: 271
• Index to Volume 2: 273

Volume Three (May 1915-April 1916)

Number One (May 1915)

• Workers With the Divining Rod; Sometimes Called "Water Witches": 3
• Honorable Peter Charles Keegan: 11
• A Famous Lawsuit Relating to Bath and the Kennebec River (Wayfarer's Notes): 15
• Biddeford, Maine, Cemetery Inscriptions [from private cemetery in Biddeford Pool]: 19
• Hon. Elias Dudley and Some of His Political Correspondence: 22
• [Sheriffs in Maine in 1826]: 25
• William Hutchings: 26
• Franklin Simmons, the Sculptor: 27
• [Bangor Historical Society discussion of Katahdin]: 29
• The Shepherd Boy of Woolwich [Poetry about William Phips]: 30
• Leading Events in the Colonial History of Maine: 32
• Maine Society of the Sons of the American Revolution: 35
• Stephen Longfellow: 36
• Androscoggin Notes: 39
• Some Early Maine Journalists: 41
• Maine History as a Popular Study [Editorial]: 44
• Notes and Fragments [Knox Memorial; Charles Horace Nelson; Bisbee Civil War memoir; Hiram Knowlton; Piscataquis County collection on the Aroostook War]: 46
• Sayings of Subscribers: 50

Number Two: Jackman and the Moose River Region (July 1915)

• Jackman and the Moose River Region: 55
• Jackman's Live Business Men: 73
• The Catholic Church and Its Schools: 74
• Abram Newton: 75
• Correspondence [re Longfellow family; divining rod; political campaigns; Moses Pearson & John East]: 77
• Maine Local Histories: 80

Number Three (October 1915)

• Brief Notes on Ancient Kennebec: 83
• Swan Island [in Merrymeeting Bay]: 89
• [Hunnewell cemetery information]: 90
• Georgetown, Maine, the Ancient and the Modern: 91
• Historical Field Days at Castine, Maine: 93
• Ralph Farnham, a Bunker Hill Patriot: 95
• A Famous Lawsuit Relating to Bath and the Kennebec River (Wayfarer's Notes) [continued]: 98
• Honorable Elias Dudley and Some of His Political Correspondence [continued]: 101
• List of Members of First Congregational Church, Bangor, Maine, 1811-1856: 106
• Aroostook, poem: 110
• Society of American Wars, Commandery of the State of Maine: 110
• Descendants of Rev. John Lovejoy in Maine, and Reminiscences of Early Maine Times: 112
• The Pines of Maine, poem: 115
• Biddeford, Maine, Cemetery Inscriptions [continued]: 116
• The Eveleth Family of Monson and Greenville, Maine: 121
• The Cabot Expedition: 123
• The Study of Maine History in Our Schools [Editorial]: 124
• A Valuable Ancient Record [Philipstown Plantation, now Sanford]: 126
• Notes and Fragments [Bath pocketbook from the Mayflower; Fay & Scott iron working; George Melville Seiders; William Cole Spaulding; Stetson family]: 127
• Sayings of Subscribers: 129

Number Four (Jan. 1916)

• The First and the Present Congressman from the Bangor, Maine Congressional District: 133
• [Brunswick's Main Street]: 138
• A Maine Militia Document: 139
• [Belfast Minister forgoes salary in war of 1812]: 140
• Kennebec Historical Items [including letter from Samuel Whitney regarding capture of Hinckley and Whitney family members]: 141
• [Old Pittston]: 142
• Hon. Elias Dudley and Some of His Political Correspondence [continued]: 143
• Hero of Wescustogo: 148
• Biddeford, Maine, Cemetery Inscriptions: 151
• Henry D Thoreau: 156
• [The "Bangor," first iron sea-going propeller steamer]: 157
• List of Members, First Congregational Church, Bangor, Maine, 1811-1856: 158
• [Horan family memorials in Catholic cemetery at West Lubec]: 163
• Maine as a Winter Resort: 164
• The County of Yorkshire Created by the General Court of Massachusetts: 166
• The Birthplace of the State of Maine: 169
• The Sebec Centennial: 172
• The Towne Family in Piscataquis County and the Salem Witchcraft: 176
• [William E Leland obituary]: 180
• David Barker, The Burns of Maine, and the Barker Family of Exeter and Bangor, Maine: 181
• Early Maine History vs. 20th Century History [Editorial]: 190
• Study of Local History: 191
• Sayings of Subscribers: 192
• Notes and Fragments [Kingsbury; Phineas Bruce of Machias; winter fishery in New England; Frank Robinson]: 193
• Correspondence [Mayflower Descendants in Maine]: 196

Number Five (April 1916)

• Autobiography of Stephen Jones: 199
• Guilford Centennial: 219
• Some Early Settlers of Barnard, Maine: 220
• Puritan or Pilgrim?: 221
• General Joseph S Smith: 223
• History Teaching: 224
• Notes and Fragments [Castine Historical Society; canoes; birds; The History of Your Own Town; Indian population in 1826; Farmer's Almanacs; Sorrento; Maine Catholic Historical Magazine]: 225
• Letter from Honorable James Phinney Baxter: 228
• Sayings of Subscribers: 229
• General Neal Dow: 232
• Index to Volume Three: 233

Volume Five (1917-18)

Number One (May-July, 1917)

• The Germans in Maine: 3
• Orono--Catholic Indian Chief: 9
• Welchville and some of its Early Families: 16
• The Northeastern Boundary Controversy: 22
• Anna Boynton Averill: 26
• Maine and the Federal Constitution: 32
• Maine Shipbuilding: 34
• Tombstone Inscriptions: Some Curious, Some Notable, Some Commonplace: 35
• Documentary:
  • Senators and Representatives in the Massachusetts Legislature from Maine: 38
  • Copy of a Parish Tax in Wells, Maine Committed to Captain James Littlefield, Parish Collector for the year 1794: 39
  • An Act for the Admission of the State of Maine into the Union: 41
• The Desire of the Moth for the Star: 42
• Editorial: The Duty of the State in State Historical Research: 44
• Notes and Fragments [Mayflower; shipbuilding; Orneville]: 46
• Sayings of Subscribers 47

Number Two (Special [Foxcroft], September 1917)

• Foxcroft's Centennial, vote of town, 1917: 51
• Foxcroft's 100th Anniversary, introductory: 52
• Centennial Poem, by Anna Boynton Averill: 60
• Historical Sketch of Foxcroft, by Rev. George A. Merrill: 62
• Foxcroft in the Civil War, by Wainwright Cushing: 81
• Clergymen of Foxcroft, by Liston P. Evans: 90
• Doctors of Foxcroft, by Edgar T. Flint, M.D.: 93
• History of Foxcroft Academy, by Willis E. Parsons: 99
• Schools and Schoolhouses, by W. H. Sturtevant: 112
• Patriotic Societies of Foxcroft, by Sarah A. Martin: 117
• The Masonic Fraternity, by John Francis Sprague: 123
• Dedication of Foxcroft's New Bridge, Remarks by Willis E. Parsons: 130

Number Three (August-October, 1917)

• Margaret Goff and her Family: 137
• The Germans in Maine [continued]: 140
• Welchville and some of its Early Families [continued]: 147
• Tombstone Inscriptions [continued]: 155
• [Letter from Wm Shirreff re sloop Molly; Joseph Chadwick, surveyor]: 158
• King's Tavern [Bath, Maine]: 159
• Uncle Tom's Cabin Written in Brunswick, Maine: 160
• A Bit of Maine Mining History: 162
• [Rev. War petition by Joshua Bragdon]: 162
• Daniel Sullivan: 163
• An Appeal to Maine Writers: 164
• [1775 Resolve to pay John Lane; Trade with Indians, 1770; Certification of those present in Machias, 1777]:165
• Documentary:
  • Names in a Parish Tax Committed to Joseph Wheelwright...in Wells, Maine...for 1794 [continued]: 166
  • A New Hampshire Revolutionary Muster Roll: 170
  • Brunswick Petition [1756]: 171
• Has Maine a History? If so, is it of Consequence? [Editorial]: 173
• Judge Henry Sewall Webster: 175
• Honorable Nahum Morrill: 176
• [Materials needed for troops in Machias, 1778]: 177
• Baron St. Castin: 178
• What Otbers Say About Us: 179
• [Deposition of Nathanael Mahew, 1777]:179
• The Telos Canal: 180
• Good Work by tbe Sullivan High Scbool: 181
• [Early Piscataquis County newspapers]: 181
• Sayings of Subscribers: 182

Number Four (Nov-Jan, 1917-18)

• Alphabetical Index of Revolutionary Soldiers in Maine: 189
• Dorothea Lynde Dix: 199
• The Pine, poem: 210
• Tombstone Inscriptions [continued]: 211
• [William DeWitt Hyde]: 215
• York County: 216
• [Early Court Records (1640); York gaol; Rev. Samuel Moody; Maine Writers Research Club]: 217
• Documentary
  • Oxford County, 1803: 219
  • Petition of The Selectmen of the Town of Bangor [re bridge, 1800]: 220
  • Fras' Waldo to the Surveyor General, 1766: 221
  • Jonathan Longfellow's Memorial to Govr Hutchinson: 222
  • Census of York County, Maine in 1820: 223
• Morrill Newman Drew: 225
• Sarah Martin: 227
• Notes and Fragments [Daniel Webster; George Cleeve; Sumner C Needham; Matthew Franklin Whittier; Graves of Menasseh & Hanah Smith, Wiscasset; Swan Island in the Kennebec; Frances Laughton Mace; Jackson's Surplus; James Monroe visit to Maine; Belfast news from 1844; Fairfield, Maine; Brackett descendants; Lebanon, Maine; Maine Commercial Travelers' Association; Maine Historical Society]: 229
• Sayings of Subscribers: 235

Number Five (Feb-Apr, 1918)

• [Fort Pownall]: 240
• Loyalists of the Kennebec, and One of them -- John Carleton: 241
• Alphabetical Index of Revolutionary Pensioners in Maine [continued]: 263
• Tombstone Inscriptions [continued]: 267
• Questionnaires: 272
• As It Appears to the Editor: 273
• [War; Taxation, Maine Writers Research Club]: 274
• Monvel's Journal: 278
• Documentary
  • North Eastern Boundary Controvery: 279
• [Elbridge A Flanders]: 281
• Sayings of Subscribers: 282
• Index to Volume Five: 285

Volume Six (1918-19)

Number One (May-July 1918)

• [Lewis' Map of Maine, 1794]: 2
• John Gilmore Deane: 3
• Some Knights of the Road: 10
• Alphabetical Index of Revolutionary Pensioners in Maine [continued]: 18
• [Maine's Montpelier (Thomaston)]: 24
• Augustine Simmons: 25
• About the U. S. Census in Maine for the Year 1800: 28
• More About Rev. Samuel Moody: 30
• Referring to the Organization of Penobscot County: 31
• Michael Philbrick, Son of Capt. Zachariah Philbrick: 33
• Browsings by the Editor in his Own Library: 34
• Correction regarding death of Otis G Hammond: 39
• Sayings of Subscribers: 39

Number Two (Aug-Oct 1918)

• [Bangor, Maine in 1836]: 42
• Sketch of Bangor, Maine, in the Early Days: 43
• Captain Benjamin Burton: 48
• Officers and Members of York County Teachers' Institute: 55
• The Fascinating Grave of Mary Chauncy: 57
• Browsings by the Editor in his Own Library: 61
• How Our State Educators Aid Study of Maine History: 67
• Pharmacy of the Red Man: 69
• Sayings of Subscribers: 71
• How the Town of Alfred Disposed of Its Share of the U.S. Revenue Surplus, 1836-7: 72

Number Three (Nov-Jan 1918-19)

• Biographic Glimpses of some Maine Men
  • John Andrew Peters: 79
  • The Edes Family of Dover-Foxcroft, Maine: 80
  • Virgil G Eaton: 82
  • George C Wing: 86
  • Josiah Bacon Mayo: 88
  • George E Mayo: 90
  • John H Danforth: 91
  • Albert Russell Savage: 91
  • David Dinsmore Stewart: 94
  • John B Madigan: 95
  • Seth M Carter: 96
  • Wainwright Cushing: 97
  • Eugene Hale and Frank Lambert Dingley: 98
  • John Appleton: 100
  • Victor Wells MacFarlane: 102
  • John E Bunker: 104
• Regarding Soldiers of the American Revolution: 105
• Revolutionary Records of Descendants of Nathaniel Oak, Marlboro, Mass.: 112
• Alphabetical Index of Revolutionary Pensioners Living in Maine [continued]: 118
• Relating to the War of 1812: 126
• Editorial: Maine Research Club Stories for a School Reader: 129
• Notes and Fragments [Wheat crop in 1839; Sophronia Farrow; end of WWI; Medical library in Waterville]: 132
• Sayings of Subscribers 134

Number Four (Feb-April 1919)

• [Birthplace of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]: 138
• Shaker Communities in Maine: 139
• Aroostook War Volunteers: 147
• Alphabetical Index of Revolutionary Pensioners Living in Maine [continued]: 153
• Salmon, Shad and Alewives, Rivers of Maine in Olden Days: 158
• Revolutionary Graves Located by Margaret Goffe Moore Chapter, DAR, Madison, Maine: 161
• Oxford County Gleanings: 162
• [Roscoe A Kingsbury; John O Whitney]: 165
• A Social Event in Augusta, Maine, in 1854: 166
• Browsings in the Editor's Library: 167
• Sayings of Subscribers: 173
• Notes and Fragments [Maine State Library; Captain Elwell Todd of Georgetown; Maine Central Railroad; Jefferson and the Constitution of Maine]: 176
• State Aid for Maine Historical Publications: 179
• Index to Volume Six: 181

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