Deeds of Mount Desert Island
Peters Plan - I7
a project of
V. F. Thomas Co. - P. O. Box 84 - Hulls Cove, Maine 04644
info@vfthomas.com
(updated 3 August 2025)
The earliest deed is 510:486. The relatively high page number is because the deed was not received for recording by the Registrar of Deeds until 8 December 1914, 122 years after the property was conveyed and the deed signed.
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36:434
Date: 23 December 1816
Town: Bar Harbor
Grantor: William Lynam
Grantee: William Lynam Jr.
Description: 100 acres
Beginning at a birch tree at the shore;
then S 73° W 120 rods to a stake and stone[s];
then N 14° E 160 rods to [a] stake and stone[s];
then due east to the shore;
then following the shore to the first mentioned bound.
Grantor obtained this parcel via 510:486–487
Grantee disposed of this parcel via 38:274–275 and ???:???
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38:274–275
Date: 30 January 1818
Town: Bar Harbor
Grantor: William Lynam Jr.
Grantees: Ebenezer Edgerly and Robert Edgerly
Description: 50 acres
Beginning on the northwest corner of William Lynam Jr.’s lot at a stake and stone;
from thence running due east to the sea shore;
then following said shore southerly to a stone marked E.R.E. at the north end of Schooner Head, so called;
then due west to the head line of said William Lynam’s lot;
the northerly bouned by said head line to the first-mentioned bound.
Grantor obtained this parcel via 36:434
Grantees disposed of this parcel via 38:275–276
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38:275–276
Date: 10 August 1818
Town: Bar Harbor
Grantor: Robert Edgerly
Grantee: Clement Bunker
Description: 50 acres
Beginning on the northwest corner of William Lynam Jr.’s lot at a stake and stone;
from thence running due east to the sea shore;
then following the sea shore southerly to a stone marked E.R.E. at the north end of Schooner Head, so called;
then due west to the head line of said William Lynam’s lot;
the northerly bouned by said head line to the first-mentioned bound.
Note: It is unclear what happened to Ebeneer Edgerly or his ownershp (with Robert) of this parcel.
Grantor obtained this parcel via 38:274–275
Grantee disposed of this parcel via ???:???
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510:486–487
Date: 28 March 1792
Town: Bar Harbor
Grantors: Bartholomy DeGregoire and Maria Theresa DeGregoire
Grantee: William Lynam
Description: 100 acres [not specified in deed, but shown on Peters Plan]
Beginning at a birch cast [stump?], in a cove to the south[w]ard of William Lynam’s house;
then S 73° W 120 rods to a stake and stones;
then N 14° E 160 rods;
then due east to the shore;
then following the shore to the first mentioned bound.
Grantors obtained this parcel via a grant from the General Court of Massachusetts
Grantee disposed of this parcel via 36:434
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