Deeds of Mount Desert Island
Salem Towne map - A2

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(updated 11 June 2016)



This parcel is lot No. 69 on the Salem Towne map.


33:103
   Date: 10 June 1811
   Town: Bar Harbor
   Grantor: George William Erving
   Grantee: Oliver Higgins
   Description: 63 acres, more or less
      "a certain lot of land situate in said Eden numbered sixty-nine on a plan made by Salem Town[e] Junior, Esquire, in the year 1808"
   Grantee disposed of this parcel via 89:95–96 [see note under 89:95–96 below]

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89:95–96
   Date: 28 September 1850
   Town: Bar Harbor
   Grantor: Oliver Higgins 2nd
   Grantee: Willard C. Higgins
   Description: 63 acres, more or less
      "a certain lot of land situate in said Eden numbered sixty-nine on a plan made by Salem Town[e] Junior, Esquire, in the year 1808"
   Note: It is to be determined if Oliver Higgins 2nd, the grantor in this deed, obtained the property from Oliver Higgins, the grantor in 33:103 above, through inheritance.
   Grantor obtained this parcel via 33:103
   Grantee disposed of this parcel via 89:96–97

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89:96–97
   Date: 28 September 1850
   Town: Bar Harbor
   Grantor: Willard C. Higgins
   Grantee: Oliver Higgins 2nd
   Description: 63 acres, more or less
      "a certain lot of land situate in said Eden numbered sixty-nine on a plan made by Salem Town[e] Junior, Esquire, in the year 1808"
   Note: It is to be determined why 89:95–96 and 89:96–97 were executed because they appear to be simply exchanging a parcel of land.
   Grantor obtained this parcel via 89:95–96
   Grantee disposed of this parcel via ???:???

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