114. Daniel Shattuck surveyed and made a plan of his Merrimick’s Pasture lots. Jan 10’57
http://www.concordlibrary.org/scollect/Thoreau_surveys/87.htm
March 30, 1857. John Thoreau bought some land at 25 Main Street from Julius M. Smith which he had used as a garden and Thoreau allowed him to remove his crops. The Concord Library owns a manuscript which describes this land. The Morgan Library & Museum owns Henry Thoreau’s survey, a copy of which they have generously provided.
Plan of John Thoreau’s House Lot, Concord, Mass courtesy of Morgan Library & Museum Record ID: 116219
Accession Number: MA 2111http://www.themorgan.org/home.asp
Louis A. Surrette made a plan cemetery lot for.Mar 31, ‘57
http://www.concordlibrary.org/scollect/Thoreau_surveys/127.htm
John Keyes, Surveyed the Dennis pasture for.Apr 24, ‘57
Louis A. Surrette made a plan cemetery lot for. Mar 31, ‘57
http://www.concordlibrary.org/scollect/Thoreau_surveys/127.htm
John Keyes, Surveyed the Dennis pasture for. Apr 24, ‘57
Willard T. Farrar, Found position of his woodlot lying in Lincoln. Apr 28, ‘57
Copy of Hubbard’s? plan this farm.
http://www.concordlibrary.org/scollect/Thoreau_surveys/40.htm
Willard T. Farrar and Geo Heywood, founds bounds for on the home lot in? Apr 30, ‘57
115. Geo Brooks – measured Gibson’s Mill in Littleton and made plan for. May 9, ‘57
http://www.concordlibrary.org/scollect/Thoreau_surveys/42.htm
Daniel Shattuck, surveyed woodlot bought Peter Hutchinson; for. May 19, ‘57
Variation of timepiece observed. Jul 1, ‘57 11 ½ AM 10 3/8 W
THE. ALLEGASH AND EAST BRANCH
“I started on my third excursion to the Maine woods Monday, July 20, 1857, with one companion, arriving at Bangor the next day at noon. We had hardly left the steamer, when we passed Molly Molasses in the street. As long as she lives, the Penobscots may be considered extant as a tribe. The succeeding morning, a relative of mine, who is well acquainted with the Penobscot Indians and who had been my companion in my two previous excursions into the Maine woods, took me in his wagon to Oldtown, to assist me in obtaining an Indian for this expedition. We were ferried across to the Indian Island in a batteau . The ferryman’s boy had got the key to it, but the father, who was a blacksmith, after a little hesitation cut the chain with a cold chisel on the rock. He told me that the Indians were nearly all gone to the seaboard and to Massachusetts, partly on account of the smallpox — of which they are very much afraid -having broken out in Oldtown, and it was doubtful whether we should find a suitable one at home. The old chief Neptune, however, was there still. The first man we saw on the island was an Indian named Joseph Polis, whom my relative had known from a boy, and now addressed Familiarly as ” Joe.” He was dressing a deer-skin in his yard. The skin was spread over a slanting log, and he was scraping it with a still. Held it with both hands. He was stoutly built, perhaps a little above the middle height, with a broad face, and, as others said, perfect Indian features and complexion.”
After his return from the Allegash and East Branch he wrote as follows to Mr. Blake under date of August 18, 1857: ” I have now returned, and think I have had a quite profit.” The third of Thoreau’s excursions in the Maine woods was made very largely for the purpose of studying Indian life and character in the person of his guide.
http://www.walden.org/documents/file/Library/Thoreau/writings/Writings1906/03Maine/Allegash.pdf
http://www.concordlibrary.org/scollect/Thoreau_surveys/31a.htm
R. W. E. Wyman’s lot Dec ‘57
http://www.concordlibrary.org/scollect/Thoreau_surveys/31a.htm
Abel Moore & John Hosmer woodlot copied from Hubbard Dec ‘57
http://www.concordlibrary.org/scollect/Thoreau_surveys/68.htm
116. Plan of a Woodlot Near Walden Pond Belonging to Samuel Staples … Dec. 8, [18]57
http://www.concordlibrary.org/scollect/Thoreau_surveys/119.htm
Abel Moore & John Hosmer woodlot copied from Hubbard Dec ‘57
http://www.concordlibrary.org/scollect/Thoreau_surveys/68.htm
Rufus, Morse Surveyed and made plans of his land in Lincoln made of part of Richardson lot? Dec 8, ‘57 http://www.concordlibrary.org/scollect/Thoreau_surveys/106.htm
R. W. E. Wyman’s lot Dec ‘57
http://www.concordlibrary.org/scollect/Thoreau_surveys/31a.htm
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