[Rarebooks] F/S Nautical Manuscript & Maine Manuscript Ephemera; Ship Building; Tug Boats & Church Pews Too!

Wed May 25 16:36:03 EDT 2016

For Your consideration we offer the following list of pieces; Can't 
decide what to buy & what to pass; Buy it as a lot @ $ 165.00 postpaid. 
Individual pieces listed at net but with free shipping; Thank you for 
looking!

(Maine / Shipping) Five partially printed illustrated receipts from the 
Portland & Boothbay Steamboat Co. to C. H. MacFabb for freight cartage; 
dated with a time stamp August & September, 1893. Each measures 8.5" x 
3.75"; Each has a small engraving of a sailing ship at far left; Very 
good; Receipts are affixed to wach other at top left corner;
Incorporated 1887 in Maine, the line ran from Portland to East Boothbay, 
a small fishing. The steamer Enterprise was part of their fleet that 
made the trip 3 times weekly in good weather.  other stops during the 
run included Heron Island, Squirrel Island, Boothbay Harbor, and South 
Bristol.  The company allowed passengers to transfer to the Eastern and 
Maine Steamship companies to continue to Boston and New York.            
                             $25.00

(Rockland Maine / Shipping) Autographed note, signed, Ans; Rockland 
Maine; Richard Diebold to L. B. Nardwall, Diebold is "confirming our 
verbal agreement, you will be our Master Builder at Damariscotta, Me. 
Salary $250 / month to begin April 1, 1918"  March 25, 1918; It is 
signed by Diebold; The document measures 8.5" x 6.25'; It is in very 
good condition; Diebold's yard produced two "four masters" in 1919.
                                                      $45.00

(Maine / Shipping) Holograph Document / Receipt; (Kennebunk) Maine; John 
Perkins has paid W. F. Moody, $74.49; On behalf of the Ship; General 
Nowell; May 5, 1854; It is signed by D. & S. Ward; The document measures 
7" x 3'; It is in very good condition; The Wards were ship builders on 
the Kennebunk River in York County, Maine. The Generl Nowell was built 
in their yard and lauched at Kennebunk Landing in 1854.                
                        $65.00

(Maine / Pew Purchase) Partially Printed Document; Kennebunk Maine 
Baptist Church; "Ralph Curtis, of Kennebunk" has paid $80.00 for Pew 
#11; October 2, 1841; It is witnessed and signed by Palmer Walker, 
Edward E. Bourne, Susan Walker; The document measures 7.75" x 10'; It is 
in very good condition;   All the names on this document appear in 
Bourne's History of Wells & Kennebunk; Curtis was a seafarer, Palmer 
Walker helped establish the Baptist Church in Kennebunk.                 
                                         $25.00

(Maine / Shipping) Partially Printed Document; Portland Maine; 
Bartholomew Jordan, of Bridgeton, promises to pay Joseph McClellan & 
Son. $50.25; A financial matter; June 29, 1798; It is signed by 
Bartholomew Jordan; The document measures 7.25" x 4.5'; It is in very 
good condition; the document is on lovely laid watermarked paper;

Joseph McClellan; He participated in the French and Indian Wars and the 
Revolutionary War. He was a member of Col. Jonathan Mitchell's regiment 
during the Bagaduce Expedition. Here is Nathan Goold's description of him:
"Joseph McLellan, the commissary, was a Falmouth Neck man. He was the 
son of Brice and Jane McLellan and was born in Falmouth, in 1732. He 
married in September, 1756, Mary McLellan a daughter of Hugh McLellan of 
Gorham, Maine, and died July 5, 1820, aged eighty-eight years. He was 
one of the committee to prevent the landing of the rigging for Coulson's 
ship, at Falmouth March 2, 1775, committee of inspection, commissary of 
the Bagaduce Expedition, when he was appointed a captain of a company of 
carpenters. He was a lieutenant in Capt. Joseph Pride's company in 
Colonel Joseph Prime's regiment at Falmouth, in 1780, and commanded a 
company from December 6, 1780, until May 1, 1781.
"Capt. McLellan was first a mariner then a merchant. He was a selectman; 
county treasurer twenty-seven years, 1777-1803, and was a committee to 
build the courthouse in 1787. He was a prominent and respected citizen 
of Portland. His two sons, Hugh and Stephen McLellan were Revolutionary 
soldiers and became prominent merchants of Portland.
                                                    $35.00

(Maine) Partially Printed Document; Norway & Waterford Maine; Silas 
Jones, "a Subsciber of Waterford" promises to pay William Reed & Co. 
$5.13; A financial matter; November 21, 1803; It is witnessed and signed 
by Nathaniel Gary; The document measures 7.25" x 4.5'; It is in very 
good condition; the document is on lovely laid watermarked paper;
                                                      $25.00

(Tugboats / Shipping) A partially printed illustrated receipt from the 
Steam Tug Trojan to the Schooner A. Hammond; dated New York, August 8, 
1880. The tow is from Weehawkin (NJ) to Rikers (Island, NY), The receipt 
measures 7.75" x 2.75"; It  has a small engraving of the tug at far left 
and is printed on yellow stock; Very good;                            

         $25.00

(Tugboats / Shipping) A partially printed illustrated receipt from the 
Wm. H. Beard, a propeller tugboat to the Schooner A. Hammond; dated New 
York, August 5, 1880. The receipt measures 7.5" x 3"; It  has a small 
engraving of the tug at far left; edge wear at far right else very good; 
"The Boat Lays Up at Erie Basin"                                        
          $20.00

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Wilmington Vt. 05363
mail at austinsbooks.com
802 464-8438
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