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Hatch, Benton L. (Benton Le Roy), 1913-1988. Collection 1696-1960.

Title: Collection 1696-1960.

The collection contains both the personal papers of Benton Hatch and items from his collection of materials on Maine and New England history. Included are personal papers of Samuel and Joseph Foxcroft from New Gloucester, Maine, and records of the town of Fryeburg, Maine. The collection also contains papers of Fannie Hardy Eckstorm including a diary and photographs taken by her in 1891 and 1892, as well as items from her personal library. Photographs from the library of Lucius L. Hubbard are also included. The collection also contains individual letters, correspondence, photographs, diaries, monographs, and various other types of documents dating mostly from the 18th and 19th centuries and connected with Maine. A few items also relate to Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Connecticut.

ArchivalResource: 7 boxes (5 linear feet)

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Dyke, Daniel, d. 1614. The mystery of self-deceiving : being some extracts from a discourse on the deceitfulness of mans heart ... / written by the late faithful minister of Gods word, Rev. Daniel Dyke : manuscript, 1796.

Title: The mystery of self-deceiving : being some extracts from a discourse on the deceitfulness of mans heart ... / written by the late faithful minister of Gods word, Rev. Daniel Dyke : manuscript, 1796.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (254 p.) ; 20 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/612822711 View

Foxcroft family. Papers, 1732-1829.

Title: Papers, 1732-1829.

This collection contains papers representing primarily Samuel and Joseph Ellery Foxcroft. The papers of Samuel Foxcroft include deeds for land in New Gloucester and Jay, Me., church business, an account book indicating money advanced to his son for specific purposes, for the period 1797 to 1803, and correspondence with his attorneys Andrew Burley ( - ) and William Symmes (1760-1807) concerning a lawsuit over land owned by Foxcroft in Waterborough, Me., that had been settled by squatters. Several letters also concern a grant to Foxcroft of Sebascodegan Island (Harpswell, Me.) by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, conditions on the island, and a letter from Eli Forbes (1726-1804) referring to the publication of Foxcroft's _New Year's Gift_ in 1798. The papers of Joseph Ellery Foxcroft include his resignation as lieutenant-colonel of a Massachusetts militia regiment, and several letters relating in detail the political situation in Maine, ca. 1820. They include suggestions by Rev. Elijah Kellogg (1761-1842) to Foxcroft (who attended the state Constitutional Convention) on the advantages of town representation vs. district representation in the new state's constitution, and comments from Sen. John Chandler (1761-1842), Rep. Josiah Willis Seaver (1742-1841), and the mayor of Portland, Me., Andrew Leonard Emerson (1802-1835) concerning schisms in the state's Democratic-Republican Party, prospective candidates for governor, nominating convention details, and Foxcroft's appointment as sheriff of Cumberland County.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder (27 items)

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Foxcroft, Samuel. Address and poem, 1790, New Gloucester, Maine.

Title: Address and poem, 1790, New Gloucester, Maine.

"Addressed to Mr. Martin Parris, by Peleg Chandler in New Gloucester Octr. 5th. 1790 -- written by Revd. Samuel Foxcroft". Also includes a poem, which begins "Observe now wisdom's son!"

ArchivalResource: 4 p. ; 20 cm.

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