Surname – Alger

Posted on September 2, 2018 by Don Taylor

Alger Family of Dunstan, Scarborough Town, Cumberland County, Maine.

 

Surname File – Alger

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.

 

Known Internet Resources

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 

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August 2018 Website Activity

Posted on September 1, 2018 by Don Taylor

Main Room

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.

Middle-Room

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.

Back Room

Photo Box 1 – Businesses – Hotels

Be Witch Inn, West Scarborough

Internet

On the Books Available Online page, I added links to The Maine Historical and Genealogical Recorder.

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1875 Scarborough Tax Valuation Book

Posted on August 13, 2018 by Don Taylor

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:

  • Buxton
  • Cape Elizabeth
  • Deering
  • Gorham
  • Portland
  • Saco
  • Westbrook
  • Miscellaneous [All other locations]

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.

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1841 Scarborough Tax Valuation Book

Posted on August 4, 2018 by Don Taylor

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 Residents:

  • Names of Persons
  • Number of Poles
  • Number of Buildings and Value
  • Number of acres Mowing and Tillage and Value
  • Number of acres fresh Mowing and Value
  • Number of acres Pasturing and Value
  • Number acres unimproved Land and Value
  • Woodland and Value
  • Salt Marsh and Value
  • Tannery and Value
  • Number Horses and Value
  • Number of Horses under 4 years old and Value
  • Number Oxen and Value
  • No. Cows & Cattle 3 years old and Value
  • No. Cattle 2 years old and Value
  • No. Cattle 1 years old and Value
  • Number Swine
  • Number Chaise
  • Stock in Trade
  • Money at Interest
  • Sum Total

Information provided for Scarborough Non-residents:

  • Names of Non-resident Property Owners
  • Their Residence.
  • Number of Buildings and Value
  • Number of acres Mowing and Tillage and Value
  • Number of acres fresh Mowing and Value
  • Number of acres Pasturing and Value
  • Number acres unimproved Land and Value
  • Woodland and Value
  • Salt Marsh and Value
  • Sum Total

The 1841 Tax Valuation Records are available for download from the Maine State Library site, Digital Archives (https://digitalmaine.com/scarborough_books/1/).

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July 2018 Website Activity

Posted on August 1, 2018 by Don Taylor

Photographs

Maine Egg Producers

Maine Egg Producers

I published the following photographs from Photo Box 1, “Miscellaneous Businesses” to Digital Maine at the Maine State Library:

Maine Egg Producers
Candling Room at Maine Egg Producers

I published the following photographs from Photo Box 1, “Miscellaneous Businesses” to this site.

[No Number] – Park’s Home Bakery – Luncheonette – Route 1 – West Scarboro, Maine
64.35.2 – Googins Blacksmith Shop – Highland Ave.
79.7.1 – Dunscroft Inn, US Route 1, Dunstan, ME.
87.3.1 – The Original Len Libby’s Candy Shops
95.27.19 – Prouts Neck Garage (Cliff Googins’ Garage)
95.27.178 – State Trailer Sales & Hillcrest Trailer Park
95.27.178 – Scarborough Beach Railroad Station (with truck)
95.27.194 – Scarborough Beach Railroad Station (with station master)
95.27.194 – Donald Hall Miniature Golf – Route 1 at Heigis Pky
2016.57.01 – Lobster Fisherman (with traps)

On the Bookcase 1 Page
I added First Census of the United States 1790 – Maine and a link to download from CENSUS.GOV.

On the Education Page,
I added the Class of 1926 with three names and links to photos.
I added the Class of 1927 with one name and link to photo.

On Lateral File 1 Page.
I added 2018.29.01-LARRABEE_Genealogy_NH
and 2018.29.01-Larrabee_Generations_1_to_4

 

 

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