1834, Lubec, Maine - Memorial of Inhabitants of Lubec re: Rechartering the Bank of the U.S. - Currency; 32 Names

1834 U.S. Government publication containing a request signed by 32 inhabitants, presumably merchants and professionals, of Lubec, Maine.  

Reprinted, with permission from the Heirlooms Reunited blog.

Appears in a publication from the 23rd Congress, First Session, 1833-4.

Memorial of Inhabitants of Lubec, Maine, in favor of rechartering the Bank of the United States

March 17, 1834

Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means

The names, shown below, are not recorded in alphabetical order, but a list in alphabetical order follows the image.  If you have information to share on any of the men named, please leave a comment.

Names in Alphabetical Order - Note: There appears to be at least one error in a name - check the entire list if you are searching for someone you think should be here.

A	John Andrews	J	James Jordan	S	John Sampson
B	Elisha Broad	K	Ezra Knight		Ebenezer Scott
C	Levi Caswell	L	Samuel A. Lawrence		Joseph Sumner
	William Chace	M	Zenos Morton, Jr.	T	Stephen Thacher
	William Chaloner		Jabez Mowry	W	Joseph Whitney
D	Clement Dinsmore	P	William Phelps
	James Dinsmore	R	Andrew Ring
F	I. B. Flint		Charles L. Ring
G	Job Gibbs		Joseph Robinson
	Thomas O. Glover		Samuel Root
H	Jeremiah Hamilton		Daniel Rumery
	Clement Huckings		Stephen Rumery
	John R. Huckings		Thomas Rumery
	Sandford M. Hunt

Transcription

Memorial of Inhabitants of Lubec, Maine, in favor of rechartering the Bank of the United States

March 17, 1834

Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means

The undersigned inhabitants of the town of Lubec, in the State of Maine, take leave, most respectfully, to request an audience of the honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the United States, in Congress assembled.

They do not come forward to announce the actual existence of a state of things which cannot and will not be borne by the people of this country. This truth has already been proclaimed in every city and hamlet in the United States; it is seen in the wide-spread ruin which is marching over the land; it is heard in the cry of distress which rings from the remote West to the extreme East. Nor is it their purpose to proclaim the near approach of a fearful crisis, which must shake this confederacy of States to its centre; which already threatens the stability of the Government; which, indeed, menaces the country itself with convulsion and revolution. But their object in appearing before the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States, in Congress assembled, is to state their own sufferings, their consternation, and despair. Confidence is prostrated, credit is at an end, there is no circulation. Business is in a manner suspended; we can see no end to the present state of things; there is no prospect of its termination; a dark cloud rests upon the future. There has been a sudden and terrible change, from a state of high prosperity to the calamities, the sufferings, the dismay, and desperation of the present moment. If there is any remedy for the evils which are now crushing the country in the dust, it must be in the voice of the people, in the power of Congress, and a fixed purpose to maintain the sanctity and the supremacy of the laws.

The undersigned must respectfully ask, that the public treasure be restored to the place where the Congress of the United States have decreed that it should be kept; and they desire that it may be surrounded with new guards. In common with their fellow-citizens, they ask for a currency such as the public necessities require, which shall be the same everywhere, and which can only be furnished by a national bank. Past experience has fully tested the necessity of such an institution.

The undersigned venture to express their opinion that the present Bank of the United States ought to be rechartered. If it had consulted its interests merely, instead of the duty which it owed to the public, it would scarcely have withstood the inducements which were held out to it to become the ally of a triumphant party. It has perhaps, indeed, saved the country from despotism, by refusing to yield the purse to the same hand which grasped the sword. They feel themselves compelled to add to that, they deem the assertion which has been promulgated from high places that the public distress is merely the wilful act of the Bank to be an insult on their understandings, and a mockery of their sufferings. It is a device which can never take with the intelligent people of the United States.

The undersigned, confidently appeal to the wisdom and patriotism, and firm determination of the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States, in Congress assembled.

1834, Eastport, Maine - Memorial of Inhabitants of Eastport re: Currency; 97 Names

Reprinted with permission from the Heirlooms Reunited blog.

1834 U.S. Government publication containing a request signed by 97 inhabitants, presumably merchants and professionals, of Eastport, Maine.  

Appears in a publication from the 23rd Congress, First Session, 1833-4.

Memorial of Inhabitants of Eastport, Maine, In Relation to the Currency

March 17, 1834

Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means

To the honorable the Senate and House of Representatives in Congress assembled:

Your memorialists, inhabitants of Eastport, Maine.

The names, shown below, are not recorded in alphabetical order, but a list in alphabetical order follows the image.

Names in Alphabetical Order - Note: There's at least one error in a surname, if not more; if you don't see the name of someone you think should be on this list, check all of the names.

A	Israel D. Andrews	H	David Hatch	R	Isaac Ray
	James H. Andrews		Thomas Haycock		E. Richardson
B	Ed. Baker		Aaron Hayden		Bartlett Robbins
	Stephen Bartlet		Charles H. Hayden	S	E. Y. Sabine
	Henry Bates		Paoli Henry		F. M. Sabine
	Winslow Bates		William Herrington		Lorenzo Sabine
	J. Beech		A. Hill		W. A. Sabine
	John Beekford		John Hinkley		J. C. Shaw
	John L. Bowman		Joshua Hinkley		Leonard Shaw
	Stephen Boardman		Fred Hobbs		John Shun
	Anthony Brooks		George Hobbs		R. Smith
	C. A. Brooks		J. Hobbs		William H. C. Stearns
	Charles Brooks		Joseph Hone		Abel Stevens
	Nathan Bucknam		Partmon Houghton		Samuel Stevens
	Seward Bucknor		William Hume		John L. Storer
	Edward H. Burgin		Robert Hurton	T	S. Tinkham
	John Burgin		James Huson	W	Samuel B. Wadsworth
	John Burgin, Jr.	I	Edward Ilsley		Robert Walton
	Thomas Burnham	K	Daniel Kilby		W. B. Warriner
C	Edward Capen		Daniel Knox		John Webster
	George E. Card	L	Joseph Livermore		William N. Weston
	Jacob Clark		O. S. Livermore		Samuel Wetherell
	Thomas Colesworth	M	John Mason
D	James C. Dana		William Matthes
	Daniel Drew		G. William McLellan, per W. B. W.
	Francis H. Drew		Elias Merrill
	John C. Dutch		E. B. Morgon
F	Hiram S. Favor, rather than Pavor	N	John Norton
	George W. Folsom		Enoch Z. Noyes
G	N. T. Fosdick		Joseph C. Noyes
	Stephen F. Gale	P	Z. A. Paine
	Jesse Gleason		Thomas Parker
	Jonas Gleason		H. S. Pavor - more likely Hiram S. Favor
	John Goggins		George A. Peabody
	Daniel D. Granger		Darius Pearce
	Elijah D. Green		John R. Phelan
	Joseph Gunnison		John Pike
	W. Gustis
	Jacob Gutterson

Transcript:

Respectfully Represent:

That they are extensively engaged in the business of foreign and domestic trade, in the fisheries, in the manufacture of iron and salt, in shipbuilding, and in the mechanic arts; that, for the last seven years, they have been prosperous, beyond former example, in their various pursuits, until the close of the last season; that their proximity to the British provinces has afforded facilities for trade which few places enjoy in an equal degree, and this circumstance, among others, has necessarily caused their business to be very much extended. Their trade in bread-stuffs, American manufactures, and provisions, alone, may be estimated at one million of dollars per annum, for which they receive in return the produce of the provinces and British exchange to a large amount.

Such was their condition, when, from causes unforeseen and unlooked for, they suddenly find their affairs deranged, the current of foreign and domestic exchange turned back upon them, confidence destroyed, their properly exposed to sacrifice, and themselves threatened with bankruptcy. 

Of the several principal houses in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, who have done the business of our merchants, five have failed within two months, and they uniformly attribute their failures to the derangement of the currency consequent upon the unfriendly relation subsisting between the Executive and the Bank of the United States. But, whatever may be the cause of the present alarming and ruinous conditions of the country, your petitioners appeal to Congress for relief, and respectfully, but earnestly, request that no personal or party considerations may be permitted to outweigh the grave duty which Senators and Representatives owe to their constituents and their country.

EASTPORT, February 22, 1834

CDVs of Byron Haley Marston and daughter Esma May Marston, taken at the Loring Studio at Eastport, Maine

Reprinted, with permission from the Heirlooms Reunited blog

Cartes de Visite of a man identified as B. H. Marston and a young girl identified as Esma May Marston.  The photographs were taken at the Loring studio at Eastport, Maine.

B. H. Marston was presumably Byron Haley Marston, a school teacher.  According to his Find a Grave memorial, Byron was born December 27, 1855 at Lubec, Maine, the son of Nathan Marston and Mary E. (Wormell) Marston.

On June 26, 1884 at Northwood, New Hampshire, Byron married Lulu Esma Berry, daughter of Simeon P. Berry and Sylvia P. (Marston) Berry.  

Byron Haley Marston and Sylvia P. (Marston) Berry shared a common ancestor, Nathaniel Marston, born at Deerfield, New Hampshire, in 1773.

Esma May Marston, daughter of Byron Haley Marston and Lulu E. (Berry) Marston, was born November 21, 1885 at Northwood, New Hampshire.  At some point the family moved to Massachusetts, where Byron died in 1920.  He, Lulu and at least two of their children are buried in the Wyoming Cemetery at Melrose, Massachusetts.

On June 26, 1909 at Melrose, Massachusetts, Esma May Marston married Allan F. Downing, son of Cyrus Downing and Susan (Ellsworth) Downing.  Allan was born at Wentworth, New Hampshire, about 1886.   The 1910 Census of Wentworth lists Allan and Esma as living in a household next to that of Allan's parents.  Allan was working as a butcher.

Sadly, Allan's New Hampshire Death Record indicates that he died at age 32 of pneumonia, brought on by the Spanish Flu, at Wentworth, New Hampshire, on October 4, 1918.  His death record indicates that he had always lived at Wentworth.

By 1920, widow Esma May (Marston) Downing was rooming at Manchester, New Hampshire and working as a saleslady at a hardware store.  At some point Esma married Charles Perkins Dickinson.  She died in 1950 at Hanover, New Hampshire and is buried with Charles in the Homeland Cemetery at Bristol, New Hampshire.

If you have corrections and/or additions to the information above, please leave a comment or contact me directly.

Sources:

• U.S. Federal Census
• New Hampshire Marriage Records, 1637-1947
• New Hampshire Birth Records, Early to 1900
• Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915
• New Hampshire Death Records, 1654-1947 - death of Allan F. Downing
• New Hampshire Death Records, 1938-1959 - death of Esma May (Marston) Downing Dickinson
• Find a Grave
• The Marston Genealogy, in Two Parts, written by Byron Haley Marston's father Nathaniel Washington Marston of Lubec, Maine, and published in 1888

1853 Letter written by George Burton Dyer of Eastport, Maine; would rise from Private to Colonel in Civil War

Letter written on September 23, 1853 in Eastport, Maine, by George Burton Dyer (1835-1913) to his cousin.  

Dyer would enlist in Company B of the 9th Regiment of the Maine Volunteer Infantry in September of 1862 and rise through the ranks to eventual promotion as  Colonel in March of 1865.

The letter begins with a long apology about the tardiness of his reply and goes on to mentions his doings, those of his mother, his brother "Frank", his sister "Abbie" and C., who is presumably brother Charles.

They were:

• Mother - Hannah (Snow) Dyer (1793-1881)
• Brother - Jonah Franklin Dyer (1826-1879), "Frank", a physician who would serve as a surgeon during the Civil War
• Sister - Adelaide Dyer (1840-1923), "Addie"
• C - presumably Brother Charles Henry Dyer (1821-1906) - an Eastport, Maine, merchant

George also mentions the French family, presumably in Eastport, Maine, and a friend, Renwick, possibly Renwick Johnston. Renwick may have been a first name or middle name or nickname.

George opines about becoming a physician, like his brother "Frank", or a minister, two vocations that offer the possibility of doing good work.  Whether he pursued either of these for a time or not, I don't know, but he operated a furniture store in Boston, Massachusetts, after the Civil War until his retirement at some point between the 1900 and 1910 Censuses. 

In 1868 at Boston, Massachusetts, he married Sophia Carey Gould (1836-1876). In 1870, they were living in the household of George's brother Jonah Franklin Dyer. Sophia died in 1876, apparently in childbirth, and is buried in the Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

George's sister Addie was living with him and others at the time of the 1900 and 1910 Censuses. George died in 1913 and is buried in Eastport, Maine.  

If you have corrections and/or additions to the information above, please leave a comment or contact me directly.

Transcription below - please weigh in with corrections!

Eastport Maine

September 23 - 1853

Friday evening

Dear Cousin

I hardly know how to commence a letter to you for I have no good reason for my neglect. When I returned from "Squam" 'twas in the evening and I started for E- next morning. I promised Mr. [or Mrs.] French to come there when I came to the city and they would not allow me to leave them. I really must stop there, nothing else would do - so stop I did. But after returning house and then not writing you is too bad. My conscience will not allow me to keep silent any longer.

Talk not of total depravity - was ever a human being so utterly depraved as I, to neglect my friends thus. Last evening I told Renwick - my friend Mr. Johnston that I praised so highly - I intended to "turn over a new leaf" - that they told me I acted too boyishly. Can I make a better beginning than by trying to reinstate myself in your friendship in your "good graces" 0 as people so often say - if indeed I was ever so fortunate as to hold a place there - for if I ever did I am afraid I have lost all my hold upon your regard by my neglecting you thus. Remember the motto "Forget and forgive".

You must not expect to hear much that is new. No events of great importance have transpired since my return. Mother and Addie have not returned yet but the season is nearly over and they will be back soon I think. I do not hear very often from Addie. There is no regular mode of conveyance - and therefore our correspondence cannot be very regular.

I hear quite often from Frank. He is very busy indeed - has not time to do anything for himself. There are a great many sick persons there now. He said he intended to visit you - but when he came to the city he seldom stopped more than a few hours - and then he had considerable business to attend to. You must not think hard of him for his seeming neglect. He has a better excuse than I. Really cousin Eliza, I am almost ashamed to write - forgive me this time, and be assured you will not have to think ill of me again - on the _ of neglect, at least.

We have been very busy indeed in the store. C- has a larger business than ever, since he failed. I do not have much spare time. What I have I usually spend with Renwick, and after all we are together a great deal. How I love him. But is it strange - he was the instrument in Gods hands of leading me to cry in the spirit of adoption "abba, Father".  If you know him I am sure you would like him. And I think he loves me - though I cannot test his love as a young lady did that of her governess - in a letter I received a few days since - "because she kisses me ever so many times during the day".

What a glorious sunset. Howe beautiful the clouds look - their hues every moment deepening - and from a bright golden colour they fade into darkness. What a beautiful - what a lovely - stately world God has created for us - and we can look around and with our hearts full of joy exclaim "Our Father made them all" - and Oh how much we have to thank Him for. Even the afflictions he sends us are meant but to draw us nearer him. "Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth ever Son whom he receiveth". Some one has said that to draw near to the arm that inflicts the blow, will lessen the pain - then let us while he inflicts the blow find comfort in the arm raised against us - 'tis not in anger, 'tis in love - and if we receive them rightly they will ___ out for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory" - they will subdue our hearts - soften our feelings  and call forth the best and noblest feelings of our hearts - How little we are called upon to suffer compared with what HE suffered "That we through him might be rich" - And we know we are not separated from the loved ones forever. No - when the curtain of death gently closes around the last scenes of our existence - When on our voyage to the eternal world - when earth grows dim and its scenes fade away in the distance - heaven will open to our view - and the loved ones who had but "gone before" will welcome us to that "rest prepared for the people of God" - Let us be thankful for what we have hoping in the future - For we have One "who will never leave us nor forsake us" -

Sat morn.

I received a letter from Frank this morning. He says - I have worked very hard this month night and day and am all used up. There has not been so much sickness here for years before. I am trying to get a chance to get to Boston for a few hours on business, but I cannot. There has been a funeral nearly every day for a week - sometimes two.

Poor Frank he works hard. I hope soon he may reap the benefit of it. I think some of going there soon. I cannot tell exactly. He wants me too. Do you not think it would be a good plan for me to study with him until ready to go to college - and then practise for a Physician. Would it not look strange. George B. Dyer, M.D.  But seriously speaking t'would be a good chance - few can have a chance like it. I am quite young and will have time to study. I have thought much of it lately. 

Next to a minister - a physician has the most means of doing good - With the sick and dying always - he if a christian can exact a good influence and be the means of doing much good.

Now my dear cousin - Will you write me soon and let me know you do not think ill of me - Be assured I will be prompt in answering you and your letters will give me much satisfaction - My love to your brothers and Eliza - and don't forget to write to

Your Cousin George

Getting from Eastport to Boston during George's lifetime probably entailed sailing and, later, steamship and/or rail, as opposed to the recommended route today.

Robbinston, Maine - 1872 School Register for District #5 - Summer Term

 Reprinted, with permission, from the Heirlooms Reunited blog.

1872 Summer Term School Register for School District #5 in Robbinston, Maine, with Rose E. Knapp, Teacher, and Davis C. Diffin, School Agent

Students, Shown in Alphabetical Order:

Hannah Apt, age 7

John Apt, age 16

Josiah Apt, age 10

Herbert Brooks, age 10

John Crompton, age 13

Albert Diffin, age 14

Emily Diffin, age 5

Eva A. Diffin, age 7

George Diffin, age 10; middle initial ?

James C. Diffin, age 14

Jennie Diffin, age 7

Lyona F. Diffin, age 10

Mathers Diffin, age 14

Robert J. Diffin, age 16

Wesley A. Diffin, age 5

Annie Fader, age 13

Charles W. Ferson, age 10

Dora Ferson, age 5

Levi R. Ferson, age 12

Lottie Ferson, age 8

Maggie K. Gates, age 22

Elthere Goldin, age 16

Isaac Goldin, age 14

Charles Green, age 8

Hiram Hunt, age 12

Stephen Hunt, age 9

Elmer McDonald, age 8

Lottie McDonald, age 5

Robert McDonald, age 7

Mark McLaughlin, age 10

Amy E. Sherman, age 5

Annie E. Stanhope, age 16

Andrew J. Stanhope, age 7

Loring Stanhope, age 7

Florence Stanhope, age 6

Uriah Stanhope, age 14

Willie S. Vose, age 11

Myra Vose, age 13

Hiram Waterman, age 13

The sheet goes on to show:

• how many times they were tardy
• how many times they were dismissed
• how many days these attended

and, most of all,

• their average rank in deportment and study

I believe Rose E. Knapp was not a local but was Rose Emma Knapp (1847-1920) from East Livermore, Maine, who, presumably, took a position at Robbinston in 1872. In 1875, this Rose married Nahum Burton Pinkham, an Anson, Maine, native, who became a lawyer in Fargo, North Dakota. They're buried in Riverside Cemetery at Fargo, North Dakota.

Davis C. Diffin (1822-1908), was a native of New Brunswick who moved to Robbinston, Maine. He was the father of at least two of the students in the Summer Term of 1872.

 If you have information to share on any of the students, their teacher Rose E. Knapp or School Agent Davis C. Diffin, please leave a comment or contact me directly.

CDV of Daniel Kilby Pomroy (1832-1872), Native of Charlotte, Maine

Carte de Visite, CDV, of a man identified on the reverse as "Daniel Kilby Pomroy, father of Eva A. Pomroy; Grandfather of Millard F. Coffin, who was born March 31st 1881"

Daniel Kilby Pomroy (1832-abt 1872), a mariner, was born in Charlotte, Maine, the son of Benjamin L. Pomroy (1801-1874) and Lucretia Hussey (Morgan) Pomroy (1808-1873). Daniel married Margaret Gullifer of Bangor, Maine, in 1855. They had, I believe, 3 children, one of whom was the Eva A. Pomroy (abt 1860-1943) mentioned on the reverse. 

Eva married George W. Coffin, and they had son Millard F. Coffin (1881-1926) born in 1881, as mentioned.  His FindaGrave memorial gives his full name as Millard Fillmore Coffin, which does seem logical.  George Coffin's middle initial appears as W in an inscription in an autograph album he presented to Eva in 1878, the year before their marriage. However, the stone that appears on his FindaGrave memorial shows George M. Coffin.

The blog Heirlooms Reunited features two autograph albums with connections to the Pomroy and Gullifer families, one that belonged to Eva A. Pomroy herself and another that belonged to Eva's maternal cousin Nellie F. Barker:

1. Autograph Album Presented in 1878 to Eva A. Pomroy of Bangor, Maine, by Future Husband George W. Coffin   - among the many sentiments are those from members of the Pomroy, Austin and Barker families.
2. 1880s Autograph Album of Nellie F. Barker of Bangor, Maine - which contains the sentiment, shown below, of Eva's younger sister, Lillie F. Pomroy, who would marry Edward P. Austin. Lillie and Eva were cousins to Nellie F. Barker through her mother, Frances (Gullifer) Barker, "Fanny". Among the other inscribers were members of the Austin and Barker families.

If you have information to share on any of the people mentioned above, please leave a comment.