Sources

Chapter One — Frederick Jarvis Alley

1. Last Will and Testament of Tobias Roberts, executed August 24, 1878, proved June 1880. Hancock County Probate Records. (Also cited in the Roberts chapter.)
2. Last Will and Testament of Mary Roberts, executed February 11, 1888. Hancock County Probate Records.
3. Hancock County Registry of Deeds: 1856 Higgins-to-Roberts deed; 1867 Leland-to-Alley deed; 1870 Alley-to-King mortgage; 1870 King writ of entry.
4. Civil War Enrollment, 5th District of Maine, 1863. Lists Frederick J. Alley, age 35, of Surry, as a farmer.
5. U.S. Census, 1880 — Schedule 2, Productions of Agriculture, Eden, Maine.
6. Obituary of Frederick J. Alley, May 1911 ("Capt. Frederick J. Alley died Tuesday night"). Newspapers.com.
7. Obituary of Albion P. Alley, "Hotel Man Killed," 1918. Newspapers.com.
8. Obituary of Gerard F. Alley, Bar Harbor, September 1959. Newspapers.com.
9. "Bar Harbor People Excited," Boston Globe, August 21, 1884. On the mass meeting against the proposed railroad, held at the St. Sauveur Hotel. Newspapers.com.
10. Society column on the St. Sauveur cotillion, c. 1888.
11. "F.J. Alley… manganese mine," Hancock County paper, 1887.
12. Obituary of Irene O. Alley, Bar Harbor Record, ca. April 1897. Newspapers.com.
13. H. Clark, The Bartlett Island History. Mount Desert Island Historical Society.
14. Alley family material in Maine History journal. University of Maine Digital Commons.
15. "Fred Savage" entry, Men of the Hour. Digital Maine. (Fred Savage, architect; context for Bar Harbor's hotel-era construction.)
16. "Wealthy summer residents of Bar Harbor." Library of Congress, LCCN 01008903.
17. Maine Tribal-State Commission, Phips Bounty Proclamation, 1755. Background on the colonial-era scalp bounties discussed in the Wabanaki aside.
18. Colonel David Dunbar to Mr. Secretary Popple, Boston, August 19, 1730. Reproduced in 19th-century Documentary History of the State of Maine. Internet Archive (full series; specific volume needs identification).
19. Joseph Cox, letter, Falmouth, June 28, 1757. Reproduced in Collections of the Maine Historical Society / Documentary History of the State of Maine. Internet Archive (full series; specific volume needs identification).
20. "Indian Land for Sale," U.S. Department of the Interior, 1911. Broadside advertising allotted tribal lands under the Dawes Act. Wikimedia Commons.
21. B. Bradley, stereoview of the Green Mountain Railway, c. 1870s–1880s. Robert N. Dennis Collection of Stereoscopic Views, New York Public Library. NYPL Digital Collections (search "Green Mountain Railway").

Chapter Two — Israel & Polly Higgins

1. A. L. Higgins, "Bar Harbor Memories Recalled by Recent Visit of Constitution" (letter to the editor). Bangor Commercial, August 1931. Newspapers.com.
2. Notice of the wreck of the schooner Julia Ann and recovery of the bodies of Capt. Israel Higgins and his son. Portland Gazette, April 29, 1823, p. 3. Newspapers.com.
3. Recollection of the houses along Mt. Desert Street. Bar Harbor Times, 18 October 1935, p. 4. Newspaper Archive.
4. Hancock County Registry of Deeds: Bartholomy and Maria Therese de Gregoire to Israel Higgins, 28 March 1792 (Book 2, p. 556); de Gregoires to Henry Higgins, same date; Thomas Wasgatt Jr. to Israel Higgins, 14 October 1790 (sawmill on Cromwell's Harbor Stream); Israel, Henry, and Stephen Higgins to Samuel Jackson, 2 September 1794 (mortgage bond); Samuel Jackson to Israel Higgins, 16 June 1800 (release); Stephen Higgins Jr. and Ann Maria Higgins to Tobias Roberts, 14 January 1848 (Book 7, p. 230).
5. Katharine W. Street, The History of Mount Desert Island. On Israel Higgins Sr.'s settlement at Eddy's Brook in 1771.
6. Richard Higgins and his Descendants (genealogical compendium). Entries 52, 61, 96, 122, 127, 150, and 305, on the Plymouth–Eastham–Mt. Desert line of the family.
7. Maine in the Revolution and Eden plantation records on Israel Higgins Sr.'s service in the 1779 Penobscot Expedition.
8. "More Permanent Settlers Arrive" and related entries on the Cadillac grant and the 1787 Massachusetts Resolve, in the Maine Memory Network's Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature.
9. South Street Seaport Museum, "Labor on the Waterfront." Context on early 19th-century maritime trades.
10. U.S. National Archives, "'Old Ironsides' and the Treasury Department," Prologue, Spring 2005. Background on Commodore Isaac Hull, Polly's uncle.
11. Hulls Cove map. Digital Maine.
12. Sophie Swett, Stories of Maine (1899). Project Gutenberg.
13. Jeffrey Ostler, The Business of Killing Indians: U.S. Settler-Colonialism, 1607–1898. Yale University Press. Context on the colonial policies that preceded the Higgins settlement.
14. American History Central, "The Great Dying." On epidemic mortality among Indigenous peoples of coastal Maine.
15. Smithsonian National Museum of American History, collections object NMAH_1591326.
16. Penobscot Nation, "Military Service Panels" (PDF).
17. Wabanaki painting. Maine Memory Net, record 80706.
18. "Attack of the Rebels upon Fort Penobscot." British engraving, 1779. On the Penobscot Expedition in which Israel Higgins Sr. served. Wikimedia Commons (see also Dominic Serres, Destruction of the American Fleet at Penobscot Bay, 1779).
19. Albert H. Hale, The Story of Bar Harbor. Internet Archive PDF.

Chapter Three — Tobias Lord Roberts, Sr.

1. Last Will and Testament of Tobias Roberts, executed August 24, 1878, proved June 1880. Hancock County Probate Records.
2. Last Will and Testament of Mary Roberts, executed February 11, 1888. Hancock County Probate Records.
3. Last Will and Testament of Tobias L. Roberts, executed October 16, 1906, proved February 1908. Hancock County Probate Records.
4. Hancock County Registry of Deeds: 1856 Higgins-to-Roberts (wharf lot and garden spot, Book 7 p. 230 consolidation); 1863 Higgins Jr.-to-Roberts (4 acres shoreline); 1873 Roberts-to-Tobias L. Roberts (lot near Steam Boat Wharf).
5. "A Beautiful Watering Place," Bangor Journal, August 9, 1855. First printed notice of the Agamont House. Chronicling America (Bangor Daily Whig and Courier run).
6. "Douglas and Johnson, &c., at Mt. Desert," 1860. On Tobias's Democratic flag-raising at the Agamont House. Newspapers.com.
7. "Last of the Old Agamont," Boston Globe, July 25, 1888. Fire that destroyed the original Agamont House. Newspapers.com.
8. "ROBERTS," Bar Harbor Times, March 6, 1915. Family history article. Newspapers.com.
9. Obituary of Tobias L. Roberts, Bangor Daily News, February 6, 1908. Newspapers.com.
10. Obituary of William M. Roberts, "Pioneer Bar Harbor Hotel Keeper, Dead," February 1929. Newspapers.com.
11. Charles S. Reinhart, "Rusticators canoeing in Frenchman Bay" (engraving). Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 73, No. 435, August 1886, p. 419. HathiTrust.
12. Frederic Edwin Church, "Fog Off Mount Desert." Wikimedia Commons.
13. The Gotham Center for New York City History, "New York: Art and Culture Capital of the Gilded Age."
14. Larrabee Railroad Ephemera Collection (Maine Central Railroad). Digital Maine.
15. Steamer Penobscot. Library of Congress, item 2001706275.
16. Newport House view panorama. Detroit Photographic Co., 1901; Library of Congress, LCCN 2006686137.
17. Kilburn Brothers, "Steamboat Landing, Bar Harbor, Mt. Desert, Me." Stereoview, early 1880s. Robert N. Dennis Collection of Stereoscopic Views, New York Public Library. NYPL Digital Collections (search "Kilburn Bar Harbor steamboat").
18. Bar Harbor Sanborn Insurance Maps. University of Maine Digital Commons.
19. Atlas of Hancock County, Maine, 1881. Digital Maine, page 36.
20. Champlain Society. Maine Memory Net, record 81685.
21. Wabanaki encampment. Maine Memory Net, record 80721.
22. Lynam Homestead history. Digital Maine.
23. Bar Harbor: The Hotel Era, 1868–1880. U.S. National Park Service. Overview of Bar Harbor's transformation from fishing village to resort.

Chapter Four — Lucretia Douglass

1. J. Sherman Douglas, "The Tragedy Of Newport Mountain" (letter to the editor). Bar Harbor Times, 26 March 1924. Newspapers.com.
2. Unsigned notice referring to a fall on Newport Mountain. Bar Harbor Record, 19 December 1894. Newspapers.com.
3. "John H. Douglass Dead" (obituary). Maine newspaper, January 1916. Newspapers.com.
4. Genealogical records for Rev. William Stuart Douglass (b. 12 December 1799, Montrose, Angus, Scotland; m. 8 August 1825, Bucksport, Maine; d. 16 June 1882, Eden, Maine) and Priscilla Bethiah Doane Douglass.
5. Find a Grave memorial records for Emory Woodman Douglass, Howard Emery Douglass, Lucretia Kenny Douglass, Margarette Higgins Douglass, Mary Alice Douglass, Priscilla Nickerson Doane Douglass, and Rev. William Stuart Douglass. Mount Desert Street Cemetery, Bar Harbor.

Chapter Five — Elmer Ellsworth Wasgatt

1. Records of birth and death, State of Maine: Benjamin R. Wasgatt, Eunice Rodick, Elmer Ellsworth Wasgatt.
2. Printed family genealogy of Davis and Rachel (Richardson) Wasgatt of Mt. Desert, from a Hamor / Mount Desert Island family compilation.
3. U.S. Federal Census, 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, 1900; Town of Eden / Bar Harbor, Hancock County, Maine. FamilySearch (free; search by name within each census year).
4. Maine marriage records: Eunice Rodick & Benjamin R. Wasgatt, 1 November 1849; Eunice Wasgatt & William Richards, 1 November 1867.
5. Civil War Widow's Pension card, Application 27522, Certificate 27357, filed 16 July 1863 by Eunice S. Wasgatt for service of Benjamin R. Wasgatt, Co. E, 26th Maine Infantry. Index free at FamilySearch; full images on Fold3 (paywalled; many libraries provide free access).
6. Civil War Remarried Widow's Pension card, Certificate 87357, filed 31 May 1901 by Eunice Richards. (Made possible by the Act of 3 March 1901.)
7. Chalmette National Cemetery burial register, May 1863. Entry for "Wasgadd B R, Cpl. E 26 [Maine], d. 10 May 1863, Marine Hospital, New Orleans, cause: Debility." Grave 2298.
8. 26th Maine Volunteer Infantry: roster & published history. Mustered in 11 October 1862; mustered out 17 August 1863.
9. "Maine Pensions" notice, Bangor Daily News, September 1902. Eunice S. Richards, Bar Harbor, $12. Newspapers.com.
10. Untitled and undated late-19th-century newspaper item on "the treasure seekers" at Valley Cove, Southwest Harbor, mentioning Jason Wasgatt's beliefs. Newspapers.com, image 663132155 (paywalled).
11. State of Maine, Hancock County: Letters of Administration appointing Jason Wasgatt administrator of the estate of Benjamin R. Wasgatt.
12. Meg Groeling, First Fallen: The Life of Colonel Elmer Ellsworth, the North's First Civil War Hero. Savas Beatie, 2021. Background on Elmer Ellsworth, Elmer Wasgatt's namesake.
13. Maine State Archives, Adjutant General correspondence: 26th Maine Regiment file.

Chapter Six — Irene (Roberts) Alley

Irene Alley's story is told primarily through the Alley family page and the Roberts family page. Sources specific to her chapter will appear here as that page develops.

1. Obituary of Irene O. Alley, Bar Harbor Record, ca. April 1897. Newspapers.com.
2. Last Will and Testament of Tobias Roberts, executed August 24, 1878 — the Sixth Bequest, placing Irene's inheritance beyond Frederick's reach. Hancock County Probate Records.

Chapter Seven — Juliette Nickerson

1. "Miss Nickerson Dies at Age of 86: Veteran Agent of Hancock County S.P.C.A., One of Bar Harbor's Best Known Citizens." Bar Harbor Times, 16 October 1929. Newspapers.com.
2. Retrospective on Juliette Nickerson. Ellsworth American, 29 December 1977, p. 17. Newspapers.com.
3. Item reprinted from the Bangor News. Sun-Journal (Lewiston, Me.), 7 December 1892, p. 2. newspapers.com/image/962805776.
4. "Board and Lodging" (advertisement placed by Juliette Nickerson). Bar Harbor Record, 25 May 1898. Newspapers.com.
5. "Juliette Nickerson 80 Years Old Wednesday." Bar Harbor Times, April 1923. Newspapers.com.
6. "Miss Juliette Nickerson announces…" (beefsteak contest notice). Bar Harbor Record, 16 February 1910. Newspapers.com.
7. Wesley Davis case notice. Bar Harbor Record, c. 1908–1912.
8. Notice on Juliette Nickerson and the Higgins family. Bar Harbor Times, 23 January 1929. Newspaper Archive.
9. Reminiscence of the Nickerson household. Bar Harbor Times, 18 October 1935, p. 4. Newspaper Archive.
10. Record of Death, Sparrow Nickerson, Eden, Maine, 21 September 1859. FamilySearch, Maine Death Records 1761–1922.
11. United States Federal Census, 1850, 1860, 1880; Town of Eden, Hancock County, Maine. FamilySearch (free; search by name within each census year).