Item |
Accession# |
Comments |
| Letters – Maynard E. Walker to Miss Libby | 89-9-465a | 7 Mar 1959 – Alger, Plummer, Roberts, Walker |
(N/A)
The pioneers of Maine and New Hampshire, 1623 to 1660; a descriptive list, drawn from records of the colonies, towns, churches, courts and other contemporary sources
by Pope, Charles Henry, 1841-1918
Item |
Accession# |
Comments |
| Descendancy Chart: Descendants of Arthur Alger | 03.59.2 | (8 Jun 2005) |
| Family History: Alger Angle, The – 1618-1754 |
06.74.1 | |
| Family History: Alger Family | 95.40.19B | |
| Letters – Author Unk, Date Unk | Unk. | |
| Letters – Libbey to Milliken | 89.9.195 | (1976) |
See Maps: Scarborough Maine – Past & Present for Alger homestead locations.
Records and files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts.
Author: Essex County (Mass.). Quarterly Courts, Essex Institute, Dow, George Francis, 1868-1936.
See: https://archive.org/stream/recordsfilesofqu06esse#page/182/search/Alger
History of the Families Millingas and Millanges of Saxony and Normandy, comprising genealogies and biographies of their posterity surnamed Milliken, Millikin, Millikan, Millican, Milligan, Mulliken, and Mullikin, A. D. 800-A. D. 1907; containing names of thirty thousand persons, with copious notes on intermarried and collateral families, and abstracts of early land grants, wills, and other documents.
Author: Ridlon, G. T. (Gideon Tibbetts), 1841-
See: https://archive.org/stream/historyoffamilie00ridl#page/n5/search/Alger
York deeds [ Volume XIII ]
Author: Maine Historical Society, Maine Genealogical Society (1884-), York County (Me.). Register of Deeds.
See: https://archive.org/stream/yorkdeeds13main#page/142/search/Alger
Created a new Main Room Page and reorganized the links appropriate to the Main Room Page.
Created a new “Surname Files” page.
I created a product page for “Dear Mrs. Libbey” book sales.
I updated the Shop Page to highlight the “Dear Mrs. Libbey” book.
I added a scanned, OCRed, Whitten file to the Surname Files Page.
The 1841 Scarborough Tax Valuation Record Book was scanned at the Maine State Library, a PDF was created then uploaded to the Scarborough Books Collection at Digital Maine. A blog post was created to highlight the new material available online.
The 1875 Scarborough Tax Valuation Record Book was scanned at the Maine State Library, a PDF was created then uploaded to the Scarborough Books Collection at Digital Maine. A blog post was created to highlight the new material available online.
Be Witch Inn, West Scarborough
On the Books Available Online page, I added links to The Maine Historical and Genealogical Recorder.
1875 Scarborough Tax Valuation Book
The 1875 Tax Valuation Record was scanned at the Maine State Library using their Zeutschel OS 12002 multi-camera book scanner that creates high-resolution images. The scanned images were then combined and compressed into a PDF file. The resulting file was uploaded to Digital Maine along with some metadata information.
The 1875 Valuation Books provide information about property owners in two major sections.
Pages 1-28 (as numbered at the top left corner of a page) are 1875 Scarborough residents and are generally arranged alphabetically by surname. That is to say, all people whose surname begins with a “C” are together, etc.
In the second section are non-residents who owned property in Scarborough. These pages are unnumbered and are organized by the towns the individual lived in and then semi-alphabetically by surname. The towns include:
A third, unnumbered, section indicates residents and non-residents that live in Scarborough but do not own property.
If you have ancestors who lived in Scarborough in 1875, this book may provide information of great interest. It includes information on real estate values, personal property (horses, oxen, cows, swine, sheep, carriages, and furniture. Also included are stocks and bonds, money lent at interest, and logs and timber held.
The 1875 Scarborough Tax Valuation Book is a great resource to add texture to your family history and genealogical research.
The download from Digital Maine is here.
Also available: The 1841 Scarborough Tax Valuation Book.
If you have ancestors who lived in Scarborough in 1841, the 1841 Scarborough Tax Valuation Book is a great resource to add texture to your family history and genealogical research.
The online version was scanned on the Maine State Library’s (MSL) Zeutschel OS 12002 multi-camera book scanner, which creates high-resolution images. The original book is held at the Scarborough Historical Museum and is approximately 14 inches tall and 9.25 inches wide. Many thanks to Adam Fisher of the MSL for his assistance in this project.
The book is divided into two sections. First are persons who reside in Scarborough. The names are arranged in somewhat alphabetically. That is to say, all the surnames of a particular letter are together, but they are in not alphabetical within a letter, so Burnham, Berry, and Brown are on the same group of pages before the first person with the surname beginning “C.”
The second section is for people who owned property in Scarborough but lived elsewhere.
The information provided can be amazing. For example, Theodore Libby was taxed on 2 buildings and 88 acres of land in production (tilled, or mowed for hay). He also had 114 acres that were unimproved, 10 acres of which was woodland and 5 acres was salt marsh. He was taxed on 1 horse, 4 oxen, 8 cows or cattle and one swine. There are 70 Libby’s in the book. 68 were residents and two non-resident Libby’s lived elsewhere (Gorham and Saco).
Information provided for Scarborough Non-residents:
The 1841 Tax Valuation Records are available for download from the Maine State Library site, Digital Archives (https://digitalmaine.com/scarborough_books/1/).
