Deeds of Mount Desert Island
Salem Towne map - F12
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V. F. Thomas Co. - P. O. Box 84 - Hulls Cove, Maine 04644
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(updated 4 May 2018)
This parcel is lot #53 on the Salem Towne map.
54:564
Date: 20 September 1830
Town: Mount Desert
Grantors: John Q. Adams, Nathaniel Curtis, and Alicia Boylston, executors and trustees of the last will of Ward N[icholas]. Boylston
Grantee: William Atherton
Description: 96 acres, between Long Pond and Echo Lake
“a certain piece of land lying in said Mount Desert containing ninety-six acres, more or less, and is lot No. 53 on a plan taken by Salem Towne in 1808 and recorded in said County of Hancock”
Note: William Atherton mortgaged the northern half of this parcel with John Somes Jr. (55:308; 2 April 1831)
Grantee disposed of the northern half of this parcel via ???:??? and the southern half likely through his will to son Onslow A. Atherton, who disposed of it via 145:416
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145:416
Date: 29 April 1871
Town: Mount Desert
Grantor: Onslow A. Atherton
Grantee: George D. Atherton
Description: southern half of lot 53 [Deed erroneously refers to “lot No. 96”, substituting the original lot size for the lot number]
Being the southern half of lot of land purchased by William Atherton of John L. [sic] Adams and als., executors of the last will of W. N. Boylston by their deed dated September 20, 1830.
Grantor obtained this parcel likely via will of William Atherton, his father, who obtained it via 54:564
Grantee disposed of this parcel via 538:471–472
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538:471–473
Date: 15 December 1917
Town: Mount Desert
Grantors: George D. Atherton and Mary J. Atherton
Grantee: Frank E. Abbott
Description: 50 acres, more or less, and being known as the Old Atherton Farm
bounded on the east by Echo Lake so-called; on the west by Long Pond so-called; on the south by the north line of land of John A. Somes (formerly of Asa Wasgatt) and by the north line of land of John F. Wasgatt; and on the north by a straight line running from a spruce tree and iron bolt on the east side of said Long Pond, S 82.5° E 279 rods, more or less, to an iron bolt on the west side of said Echo Lake, said last-named northern boundary line of the premises herein described as conveyed being parallel with the southern boundary line of the premises herin described as conveyed, and everywhere distant therefrom some 31 rods and 19 links measuring at right angles.
Grantors obtained this parcel via 145:416
Grantee disposed of eastern portion of this parcel via 555:462
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555:462
Date: 14 August 1920
Town: Mount Desert
Grantors: Frank E. Abbott and Mary R. Abbott
Grantee: Ruth G. Kellogg
Description: 25 acres, more or less
being a part of a lot conveyed to me [Frank E. Abbott] by warranty deed from George D. Atherton, the particular part hereby conveyed is all that part lying east of the town road, between said road and the waters of Echo Lake, so-called.
Grantors obtained this parcel via 538:471–473
Grantee disposed of this parcel via 655:545
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597:242–243
Date: 30 September 1925
Town: Mount Desert
Grantor: George D. Atherton
Grantee: Marian L. Peabody
Description: 50 acres, between Long Pond and Echo Lake; the northern half of Lot No. 53 on the Salem Towne map
Bounded on the east by Echo Lake, so-called;
on the west by Long Pond, so-called;
on the north by the south line of George S. Richardson and the south line of land of Ada M. Somes; and
on the south by the north line of land formerly of Frank E. Abbott (now of the said Marian L. Peabody) and the north line of land of Ruth G. Kellogg.
Grantor obtained this parcel via ???:???
Grantee disposed of this parcel via ???:???
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655:545
Date: 13 April 1937 [Probate Court date]
Town: Mount Desert
Grantor: estate of Ruth Greenough Kellogg
Grantee: George S. Mikhalapov
Description: 25 acres, more or less, situate in Beech Hill
the parcel of land ... which I received as a wedding present
Grantors obtained this parcel via 555:462
Grantee disposed of this parcel via ???:???
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