Deeds of Mount Desert Island
Peters Plan - A6
a project of
V. F. Thomas Co. - P. O. Box 84 - Hulls Cove, Maine 04644
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(updated 15 August 2025)
This parcel contains Hadley Point, the northernmost point on Mount Desert Island.
1:433–434
Date: 28 March 1792
Town: Bar Harbor
Grantors: Bartholomy DeGregoire and Maria Theresa DeGregoire
Grantee: Simeon Hadley
Description: 100 acres
Beginning at an oak tree, which is a bound between Daniel Richardson and the said Simeon [Hadley];
and running first S 15° E 200 rods to a spruce tree;
then N 37° E 166 rods to the shore;
then following the shore to the first mentioned bounds.
Grantors obtained this parcel via: grant from General Court of Massachusetts
Grantee disposed this parcel via 8:590–591, 37:501–502, and ???:???
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8:590–591
Date: 23 September 1801
Town: Bar Harbor
Grantors: Simeon Hadley and Olive Hadley
Grantee: Samuel Hadley
Description: 30 acres
Beginning at a stake and stones at the shore at the corner of Nehemiah Higgins’s lot;
and running S 37° W 136 rods to the county road;
then following the road a westerly course 10 rods;
then N 17° E 136 rods to the shore;
then following the shore to the first mentioned bound.
Grantors obtained this parcel via 1:433–434
Grantee disposed of this parcel via ???:???
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37:501–502
Date: 13 March 1818
Town: Bar Harbor
Grantor: Simeon Hadley
Grantee: William Richards
Description: 49 acres, more or less
Beginning at the northern and eastward corner bound of Daniel Richardson’s lot at the sea shore;
Then following said shore to the corner bound of Reuben Cousins’ lot;
then southerly, bounded by said Cousins’s line to the county road
then crossing said road as the linne nnow runs to David Leland’s line;
Then southwesterly on said Leland’s line to the side line of Cornelius Thompson;
then following said Thompson’s line northerly and Daniel Richardson’s side line to the first-mentioned bound.
Grantor obtained this parcel via 1:433–434
Grantee disposed of this parcel via ???:???
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209:366
Date: 23 December 1886
Town: Bar Harbor
Grantor: George B. Richards
Grantee: Ellen Bradley
Description: 6 acres acres and 12 [square?] rods, more or less; “it being understood that the first and fifth lines mentioned are to extend to low water mark”
Beginning at a stake by the side of a rock and tree on the east line of John Richardson’s homestead farm;
then following said line N 7.5° W 47 rods and 14 links, more or less, to the shore at high water mark at a stake;
then N 34° E, by the shore, 10 rods to a stake;
then S 51° E by the shore, 16 rods, more or less, to a stake;
then S 36° E, by the shore, 12 rods and 19 links, more or less, to a stake;
then S 3° W 33 rods, more or less, to a stake
then S 83.5° W 17 rods, more or less, to the place of beginning.
Note: There is an associated deed for a right of way (209:365; 27 December 1886).
Grantor obtained this parcel via ???:???
Grantee disposed of this parcel via 282:74–78
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282:74–78
Date: 3 July 1894
Town: Bar Harbor
Grantor: William Fennelly, deputy sheriff (acting by authority of a decision of the Supreme Judicial Court)
Grantee: John A. Peters Jr.
Description: 6 acres acres and 12 [square?] rods, more or less; “it being understood that the first and fifth lines mentioned are to extend to low water mark”
Beginning at a stake by the side of a rock and tree on the east line of John Richardson’s homestead farm;
then following said line N 7.5° W 47 rods and 14 links, more or less, to the shore at high water mark at a stake;
then N 34° E, by the shore, 10 rods to a stake;
then S 51° E by the shore, 16 rods, more or less, to a stake;
then S 36° E, by the shore, 12 rods and 19 links, more or less, to a stake;
then S 3° W 33 rods, more or less, to a stake
then S 83.5° W 17 rods, more or less, to the place of beginning.
Grantor obtained this parcel via 209:366
Grantee disposed of this parcel via 291:401–404
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291:401–404
Date: 22 August 1895
Town: Bar Harbor
Grantor: John A. Peters Jr.
Grantee: Harry L. Bradley
Description: 6 acres acres and 12 [square?] rods, more or less; “it being understood that the first and fifth lines mentioned are to extend to low water mark”
Beginning at a stake by the side of a rock and tree on the east line of John Richardson’s homestead farm;
then following said line N 7.5° W 47 rods and 14 links, more or less, to the shore at high water mark at a stake;
then N 34° E, by the shore 10 rods to a stake;
then S 51° E by the shore 16 rods, more or less, to a stake;
then S 36° E by the shore 12 rods and 19 links, more or less, to a stake;
then S 3° W 33 rods, more or less, to a stake
then S 83.5° W 17 rods, more or less, to the place of beginning.
Grantor obtained this parcel via 282:74–78
Grantee disposed of this parcel via 628:40–41
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628:40–41
Date: 28 October 1929
Town: Bar Harbor
Grantor: Harry L. Bradley
Grantee: William Procter
Description: 6 acres acres and 12 [square?] rods, more or less; “it being understood that the first and fifth lines mentioned are to extend to low water mark”
Beginning at a stake by the side of a rock and tree on the east line of land formerly of John Richardson;
then following said line N 7.5° W 47 rods and 14 links, more or less, to the shore at high water mark at a stake;
then N 34° E, by the shore 10 rods to a stake;
then S 51° E by the shore 16 rods, more or less, to a stake;
then S 36° E by the shore 12 rods and 19 links, more or less, to a stake;
then S 3° W 33 rods, more or less, to a stake
then S 83.5° W 17 rods, more or less, to the place of beginning.
Note: A second parcel was conveyed by this deed.
Grantor obtained this parcel via 291:401–404
estate of Grantee disposed of this parcel via 741:434
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731:434
Date: 20 June 1951 [Probate Court session]
Town: Bar Harbor
Grantor: Estate of William Procter
Grantee: Town of Bar Harbor
Description: 6 acres and 12 [square?] rods, more or less; “being a tract which I purchased in the year 1929, to be used as an aviation landing field”
Grantor obtained this parcel via 628:40–41
Grantee is the current owner.
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