1846 Sampler Wrought by Sarah Ann Cheeney (1835-1895), then of Eastport, Maine

 Tilly Laskey, curator at Maine Historical Society, has sent along a link to the sales offering of a wonderful family record sampler wrought in 1846 by Sarah Ann Cheeney (1835-1895), then in Eastport, Maine.

https://www.antiquesamplers.com/samplers/cheeney,-sarah-a.htm

Sarah was born in Pembroke, Maine, on April 27, 1835 to George Cheeney and his wife Mary A., natives of Derry, New Hampshire, and Salem, Massachusetts, respectively.  George and Mary had married in Dennysville, Maine, on July 28, 1834.

Children listed on the sampler:

• Sarah Ann Cheeney, born in Pembroke, Maine, on April 27, 1835 [Sarah's gravestone gives her year of birth as 1836 but that does not reconcile with the birth of her next younger sibling]
• Emma Sophia Cheeney, born in Pembroke, Maine, on November 14, 1836
• George Alvin Cheeney, born in Robbinston, Maine, on January 12, 1839
• James William Cheeney, born in Eastport, Maine, on April 12, 1843
• Lemuel G. Cheeney, born in Eastport, Maine, on May 12, 1849

Sarah Ann Cheeney married George Kilborn, Jr., in 1858 in Boston, Massachusetts. She and George are buried in the Forest Dale Cemetery in Malden, Massachusetts.

If you have information on the Cheeney family, please leave a comment for the benefit of other researchers.

Collection of Early 1900s Invoices/Letters to S. B. Cummings & Son of West Jonesport, Maine

Reprinted, with permission, from the Heirlooms Reunited blog

Collection of early 1900s invoices and correspondence from Maine and other New England companies to S. B. Cummings & Son of West Jonesport, Maine.

Two of the invoices were from the McLean Jones Oil & Supply Company who used a swastika in their logo, in an era before this wouldn't have been seen as a poor business practice.

Images of all of the papers appear at the end of this post.

S. B. Cummings was Samuel Bowden Cummings (1844-1916), a merchant as well as mariner, lighthouse keeper and postmaster.

Papers:

• Williams Stove Lining Company, stove linings and bricks; Taunton, Massachusetts
• July 3, 1902
• September 30, 1902
• Portland Stove Foundry, stoves; Portland, Maine
• January 18, 1910
• May 11, 1910
• July 6, 1910
• August 8, 1910
• September 22, 1910
• November 11, 1910
• November 17, 1910
• November 25, 1910
• July 27, 1916
• Brien Heater Company, stoves; Westfield, Massachusetts
• October 22, 1912
• November 7, 1912
• November 23, 1912
• May 23, 1917 - T. R. Brien
• Frye Phipps & Co., hardware and cutlery; Boston, Massachusetts
• April 24, 1908
• May 17, 1907 - two invoices
• October 9, 1907
• McLean Jones Oil & Supply Co., steamship, mill and railway supplies; Boston, Massachusetts
• dated September 16, 1912
• dated September 27, 1912
• L. N. Littlehale, dealer in flour, corn, oats, cotton seed meal and mill feeds, of Rockland, Maine; December 21, 1906
• Winslow & Co., Inc., Portland Stoneware Co., Portland, Maine; May 26, 1914
• James Bailey Company of Portland, Maine, saddlery and horse furnishings; July 1, 1913 - stamp of W. F. Boyce - presumably William Francis Boyce, born 8 December 1877 in Quebec, according to his naturalization papers; possibly this William F. Boyce with a birth date of 8 December 1876
• Boston, Massachusetts, Office of Quaker City Varnish Company; September 8, 1910 - John Weingartner - presumably John S. Weingartner, Jr. (1865 or 1866-1944) [MA Mason card gives birth year as 1865; grave marker as 1866]
• W. L. Blake & Co., Portland, Maine, steam fitting and plumbing supplies; November 21, 1913 - signed with the stamp of A. W. Blake, Sales Manager - presumably Arthur W. Blake 
• Northfield Knife Company of Northfield, Connecticut; April 1, 1903 - J. K. ?, possibly Oatley - but also possibly Cutlery, not a person.

If you have information to share on Samuel Bowden Cummings or any of the other names that appear, please leave a comment for the benefit of other researchers.

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Little Notebook, possibly Robbinston, Maine or Pembroke, Maine, area; names of Purchasers and Vendors

Reprinted, with permission, from the Heirlooms Reunited blog

Little notebook, presumably from eastern Washington County, Maine, possibly Robbinston, Maine, or Pembroke, Maine.

Names inside - please provide corrections in the comments section

Ira ?, possibly Wool	George Fenderson	Everett Peacook
Wilford Adams	Gardner House	G? Polk
Allan House	I. H. Kilby	Mrs. Sarah Rogers, Pembroke
A. O. Ayer	E. H. Lapham ?	Lest? Savage, North Anson, Maine
Leander Bailey or Basley or Bagley	Ralph Leighton	William H. Sears
Mrs. Asenath Bayers	Mrs. Geo. F. Lincoln, Robbinston	Mrs. William Seeley
Stephen W. Benson	Albert E. Lincoln	Seth Seeley, Perry
Arthur B. Blackwood	Mrs. James Lodge	Fred C. Smith
Simon Boyd	Mrs. Edward Long or Loring	Lucius Smith, Pembroke
Mrs. H. B. Cambridge	Henry Lord	Mrs. Geo. Smith
Mrs. Willis Carter	Howard W. Moore	Mrs. Henry Smith
Sam Collrer	Mrs. Harry Morgan	Mrs. E. R. Stanhope
Robert Cubbey	Oscar Morrison	Mrs. Sarah Wilder, West Pembroke
Eugene Cushing	Mrs. Maud Morrison, Rob	Theodore Wilder
L. L. Davis, Robbinston	Frank Newman
Willard E. Davie or Davis

If you have a theory as to the owner of the notebook or information on any of the people mentioned inside, please leave a comment for the benefit of other researchers.