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oai:mainememory.net:82285
2016-09-28T05:54:26Z
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oai:mainememory.net:80766
2024-02-24T09:33:24Z
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William Pitt Preble (1811-1905) descended from one of seven Preble brothers who emigrated from England to Portland in the 17th century. He was the son of the Mount Desert Rock lighthouse keeper.
In 1830, Preble moved to Great Cranberry Island as a school teacher, after marrying Abigail Cobb Hadlock Preble in 1839 and starting his family, he became a church elder, selectman, justice of the peace, Notary Public, gentleman farmer, tax appraiser, postmaster, storekeeper, shipbuilder, ship owner, and shipwreck appraiser.
Preble was the second owner of the Preble House, having married Abigail Hadlock Spurling, the widowed sister of the first owner in 1839, and then marrying the first owner's widowed daughter, Jane Matilda Hadlock Sanford, in 1875.
Cabinet photograph
http://www.mainememory.net/item/80766
1000.0.1066
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Portrait photographs
Preble, William Pitt
William Pitt Preble, Great Cranberry Island, ca. 1900
Image
circa 1900
18 cm x 12 cm x 2 cm
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Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Great Cranberry Island, Cranberry Isles, Hancock County, ME, USA
circa 1900
oai:mainememory.net:80767
2024-02-24T09:33:24Z
contributor:gcihs
Jane Matilda Hadlock Sanford Preble (1826-1898) was the Parisian-born daughter of Capt. Samuel Hadlock Jr. and Hanna Caroline Dorothea Russ.
In 1843, she married George E. Sanford (1812-1873) and bore three children.
Widowed at age 49, she became the second wife of William Pitt Preble of Great Cranberry Island. She lived in the Preble House as an infant and returned as its mistress.
Cabinet photograph
http://www.mainememory.net/item/80767
1000.0.1066B
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Portrait photogaphs
Preble, Matilda Sanford
Jane Matilda Hadlock Sanford Preble, Great Cranberry Island, ca. 1890
Image
circa 1890
18 cm x 10 cm x 1 cm
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Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Great Cranberry Island, Cranberry Isles, Hancock County, ME, USA
circa 1890
oai:mainememory.net:82283
2024-02-24T09:33:31Z
contributor:gcihs
This leather, trifold wallet was owned by William Pitt Preble. It has a tongue and strap closure, shows signs of repair and is well worn. The inscription inside the wallet reads: "William P Preble Property Cranberry Isles 1836."
Recovered from the Preble House in the mid-20th century, this is the wallet of young, single, William Pitt Preble (age 25) before he began his family and businesses at the Preble House.
Leather with ink inscription
http://www.mainememory.net/item/82283
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Accessories (Clothing & dress)
Wallets
Preble, William Pitt
William Pitt Preble wallet, Great Cranberry Island, 1836
Physical Object
1836
8.3 cm x 19 cm x 1.25 cm
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Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Great Cranberry Island, Cranberry Isles, Hancock County, ME, USA
1836
oai:mainememory.net:82284
2024-02-24T09:33:31Z
contributor:gcihs
This is an ambrotype portrait of Jane Matilda Hadlock Sanford (1826-1898) of Great Cranberry Island taken when she was the wife of George E. Sanford and mother of three children.
Born in Paris, France, she was the daughter of Samuel Hadlock, Jr. (1792-1839) and Hanna Caroline Dorothea Russ (1803-1889).
She was the second wife of William Pitt Preble, and the third Hadlock to live in the Preble House.
Ambrotype
http://www.mainememory.net/item/82284
1000.140.1843
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Daguerreotypes
Portrait photograph
Preble, Jane Matilda Hadlock Sanford
Jane Matilda Hadlock Sanford, Great Cranberry Island, ca. 1855
Image
1855–1860
6.35 cm x 5.08 cm
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Louise Marr Collection
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Great Cranberry Island, Cranberry Isles, Hancock County, ME, USA
1855–1860
oai:mainememory.net:82286
2024-02-24T09:33:31Z
contributor:gcihs
This is the rear view of the home Captain Samuel Hadlock Jr. built in 1827 when he returned from Europe with his second wife and their infant daughter.
The man in the middle is the second owner, William Pitt Preble (1811-1905), who expanded the house and added to the property. The woman on the left may be Preble's second wife (Hadlock's daughter), Jane Matilda Hadlock Sanford Preble (1826-1898). The woman on the right is unidentified.
Photographic print
http://www.mainememory.net/item/82286
2013.246.1943
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People--Maine--Great Cranberry
Houses--Maine--Great Cranberry
Preble, Jane Matilda Hadlock Sanford
Preble, William Pitt
Preble House, Great Cranberry Island, ca. 1895
Image
circa 1895
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Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Great Cranberry Island, Cranberry Isles, Hancock County, ME, USA
circa 1895
oai:mainememory.net:82287
2024-02-24T09:33:31Z
contributor:gcihs
Abigail Cobb Hadlock Spurling (1808-1874) married William Pitt Preble (1811-1905) in 1839 after her first husband, Samuel Spurling, died at sea in 1837. She was the daughter of Samuel and Sarah (Polly) Manchester Hadlock of Islesford, on Little Cranberry Island.
This photograph may have been taken on their wedding day. She brought five Spurling children to her second marriage, and had four more children with Preble.
As the first president of the Cranberry Isles Benevolent Sewing Circle, she secured funds for construction of the island's first church in 1866.
Tintype
http://www.mainememory.net/item/82287
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Portrait photographs
Tintypes
Hadlock, Samuel
Hadlock, Samuel
Manchester, Sarah
Preble, Abigail Hadlock
Preble, William Pitt
Preble, William Pitt
Spurling, Samuel
Spurling, Samuel
Abigail Preble, Great Cranberry Island, ca. 1839
Image
circa 1839
7.6 cm x 6.4 cm
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Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Great Cranberry Island, Cranberry Isles, Hancock County, ME, USA
circa 1839
oai:mainememory.net:82300
2024-02-24T09:33:31Z
contributor:gcihs
Samuel "Sammy" Sanford (1852-1933) was the son of Jane Matilda Hadlock Sanford and George E. Sanford, and stepson of William Pitt Preble.
At some point, Sanford moved from the Preble House into a one-room cabin on Preble's land. In 1898, shortly after his mother's death, Sanford sued his stepfather for "services rendered" at the Preble House and won. He continued living on the property decades after Preble's death in 1905.
Sanford's conversations with Rachel Field inspired her book, <em>God's Pocket,</em> for he was the keeper of the European exhibition journals of his maternal grandfather, Captain Samuel Hadlock, Jr. In fact, it was Sanford's initial promise to Field when he startled her in the raspberry patch by his cabin that gave the book its title. He assured her she was as safe there with him as if she was "in God's Pocket."
Photographic print
http://www.mainememory.net/item/82300
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People--Maine--Great Cranberry
Sanford, Samuel
Samuel Clark Sanford, Great Cranberry Island, ca. 1930
Image
circa 1930
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Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Great Cranberry Island, Cranberry Isles, Hancock County, ME, USA
circa 1930
oai:mainememory.net:82302
2024-02-24T09:33:31Z
contributor:gcihs
Pablo A. Ocampo
Captain Samuel Hadlock Jr. (1792-1839) built this house in 1827. However, the house got its name from its second owner, William Pitt Preble (1811-1905), who added to the home and property from 1839-1905.
Falling into disrepair after Preble's death, and passing from kin to kin for the next half century, Preble House was restored in 1947.
It sheltered the lore and relics of 19th-century expeditions, exhibitions, shipwrecks, romances, rivalries, wealth, religion, and civic duty. It served as the backdrop for two books by Rachel Field: <em>God's Pocket</em>, and <em>Hitty, Her First Hundred Years</em>.
Digital image
http://www.mainememory.net/item/82302
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Houses--Maine--Great Cranberry
Hadlock, Samuel
Preble, William Pitt
Preble House, Great Cranberry Island, 2011
Image
2011
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Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Great Cranberry Island, Cranberry Isles, Hancock County, ME, USA
2011
oai:mainememory.net:82319
2024-02-24T09:33:31Z
contributor:gcihs
This photograph of Rachel Lyman Field and her husband, Arthur Siegfried Pederson, is inscribed with a note from Field to her Cranberry Isles friend, Betty Eversman Hartley, "A coast of Maine greeting to you all from Rachel and Arthur Pederson 1935."
Rachel Lyman Field (1894-1942), novelist, poet, and artist, summered on the Cranberry Isles. Field's book, <em>Hitty, Her First Hundred Years,</em> about a wooden doll who wrote her own memoirs of adventures with Preble family children has its roots in the Preble House.
Field's book, <em>God's Pocket,</em> was based on the journals of Captain Samuel Hadlock Jr., an early 19th-century seafarer and traveling showman, who built the Preble House on Great Cranberry Island.
Digital image
http://www.mainememory.net/item/82319
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People--Maine--Great Cranberry
Field, Rachel Lyman
Pederson, Arthur Siegfried
Rachel Field, Arthur Pederson, Cranberry Isles, 1935
Image
1935
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Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Great Cranberry Island, Cranberry Isles, Hancock County, ME, USA
1935
oai:mainememory.net:82348
2024-02-24T09:33:31Z
contributor:gcihs
This is the arms element from an old balance scale dug up near the Preble House shed on Great Cranberry Island in about 1970. The shed served as the Post Office on William Pitt Preble's property when he was postmaster in 1847 and again during the 1890s. Preble also ran a store on his property where goods would have been weighed and sold.
Metal
http://www.mainememory.net/item/82348
1000.116.1123
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Stores--Maine--Great Cranberry
Post offices--Maine--Great Cranberry
Scales
Preble, William Pitt
Balance scale arms, Great Cranberry Island, ca. 1900
Physical Object
circa 190
29.21 cm x 10.16 cm
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Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Great Cranberry Island, Cranberry Isles, Hancock County, ME, USA
circa 1900
oai:mainememory.net:82349
2024-02-24T09:33:31Z
contributor:gcihs
The iron "worm" tool is similar to a large corkscrew. With a handle attached, it would have been used to insert or remove wadding from a long tube, perhaps even a ship's a cannon.
This "worm" was found buried on Preble House property on Great Cranberry Island. Among his many enterprises, William Pitt Preble built and salvaged ships on the island.
Iron
http://www.mainememory.net/item/82349
1000.116.1116
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-CR/1.0/
Equipment
Hand tools
Preble, William Pitt
Corkscrew end of iron 'worm' tool, ca. 1890
Physical Object
circa 1890
23.5 cm x 7.62 cm
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Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Great Cranberry Island, Cranberry Isles, Hancock County, ME, USA
circa 1890
oai:mainememory.net:82350
2024-02-24T09:33:31Z
contributor:gcihs
This brass candle holder with spikes was recovered from the Preble House property on Great Cranberry Island.
The spike on the candle holder was intended to be stuck into wooden beams. The device is also known as a "tommy sticker" and was developed for use in underground mines. Abigail Hadlock Spurling Preble's son was involved in mining in California and Nevada about 1850 and may have been the source of this candle spike.
Metal
http://www.mainememory.net/item/82350
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Equipment
Hand tools
Preble, William Pitt
Brass candle spike, Great Cranberry Island, ca. 1850
Physical Object
circa 1850
11.43 cm x 8.25 cm
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/82350.JPG
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Great Cranberry Island, Cranberry Isles, Hancock County, ME, USA
circa 1850
oai:mainememory.net:82352
2024-02-24T09:33:31Z
contributor:gcihs
This quilt was recovered from the Preble House on Great Cranberry Island by the home's mid-20th century owner. Known as a "crazy" quilt for its variety of fancy stitching, fabrics, and free-form patterns, this brightly colored quilt type was popular at the end of the 19th century. There is a long quilting tradition on the Cranberry Isles; this quilt may well have been made on the island.
Cloth
http://www.mainememory.net/item/82352
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-CR/1.0/
Textiles
Quilts
Preble, Abigail Hadlock
Preble, Jane Matilda Sanford
Preble, William Pitt
"Crazy quilt," Great Cranberry Island, ca. 1880
Physical Object
circa 1880
152.40 cm x 101.60 cm
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/82352.JPG
Louise Marr Collection
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Great Cranberry, Cranberry Isles, Hancock County, ME, USA
circa 1880
oai:mainememory.net:82758
2024-02-24T09:33:31Z
contributor:gcihs
This tintype photograph shows Abigail Cobb Hadlock Spurling Preble (1808-1874) of Great Cranberry Island not long before her death in 1874. For a long time, this was the only known portrait of Abigail. She was the second mistress of the Preble House and mother of nine children.
Tintype
http://www.mainememory.net/item/82758
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-CR/1.0/
Portrait photographs
Tintypes
Preble, Abigail Hadlock
Abigail Cobb Hadlock Spurling Preble, ca. 1870
Image
circa 1870
5.08 cm x 3.81 cm
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/82758.JPG
Louise Marr Collection
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Great Cranberry Island, Cranberry Isles, Hancock County, ME, USA
circa 1870
oai:mainememory.net:84814
2024-02-24T09:33:43Z
contributor:gcihs
This daguerreotype shows a middle-aged William Pitt Preble around the age of 40. During his life Preble was father to nine children, a ship builder, a ship owner, shipwreck appraiser, and pillar of his Great Cranberry Island community.
Daguerreotype
http://www.mainememory.net/item/84814
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-CR/1.0/
Portrait photographs
Preble, William Pitt
William Pitt Preble, ca. 1850
Image
circa 1850
9.52 cm x 8.25 cm x .12 cm
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Louise Marr Collection
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Great Cranberry Island, Cranberry Isles, Hancock County, ME, USA
circa 1850
oai:mainememory.net:84880
2024-02-24T09:33:43Z
contributor:gcihs
This tintype portrait of William Pitt Preble (1811-1905) is housed in a cartouche card. Preble came to Great Cranberry Island as a school teacher, then held many civic posts while pursuing his shipbuilding, shipwreck appraising, and store-keeping enterprises.
He was the second owner of the Preble House, surviving two wives and raising nine children.
Tintype
http://www.mainememory.net/item/84880
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-CR/1.0/
Portrait photographs
Tintypes
Preble, William Pitt
William Pitt Preble, ca. 1870
Image
circa 1870
5.08 cm x 3.81 cm
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/84880.JPG
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Great Cranberry Island, Cranberry Isles, Hancock County, ME, USA
circa 1870