The Eben M. Hamor's Mt. Desert Papers 212 SPRAGUE'S JOURNAL OF MAINE HISTORY The Eben M. Hamor's Mt. Desert Papers Eben M. Hamor of West Eden, says the Bar Harbor Times, died November 6, 1910, at the age of 88 years, 7 months and 10 days. The last few years of his life were spent in collecting and copying old records of the Island of Mt. Desert and in compiling all the important events and interesting incidents in the history of the Town of Eden and the island in general. The work fills two large volumes, written in Mr. Hamor's own hand, and it was pre- sented to the town shortly before the author's death. The Times is publishing extracts from these most valuable records from week to week and we shall occasionally reproduce some of them for the readers of the journal. The following is from this collection relating to the petition of John Bernard to the General Court of Massachusetts. The committee upon the petition of John Bernard submit the following resolve: Commonwealth of Massachusetts In the house of Representatives June 14, 1785, whereas John Bernard of Bath in the County of Lincoln hath produced to this court ample testimony of the uniformity, consistency and propriety of his political conduct, previous, to, during and since -the late war, and whereas the estate of his father Sir Francis Bernard, deceased, has been confisticated to the use of this govern- ment, part of which estate so confisticated, to wit the island of Mount Desert was by the last will and testament of said deceased made previous to said confiscation devised to said John and the only property which said John by the will aforesaid, could hold, had not said estate been confiscated, and this court viewing the conduct of said John as meritorious, and commis- crating his peculiar situation, and he having petitioned for a grant of the island aforesaid which this court consider to be in degree reasonable, there- fore Resolved that one moiety or half part of the island of Mount Desert be and hereby is granted, and from the passing of this resolve shall enure to the said John Bernard, his heirs and assigns forever to hold in fee simple, provided always, that said John shall convey to each person now in the possession of lands, which may by a division of the aforesaid island be assigned to said John such guaranty thereof and upon such terms as the committee appointed by a resolve of the General court passed Oct. 28, I783 shall direct, within eighteen months from the passing of this Resolve. Approved June 23-1785 by James Bowden-Governor. (c) 1998 Courtesy of the Androscoggin Historical Society ************************************************* * * * * NOTICE: Printing the files within by non-commercial individuals and libraries is encouraged, as long as all notices and submitter information is included. Any other use, including copying files to other sites requires permission from the submitters PRIOR to uploading to any other sites. We encourage links to the state and county table of contents. * * * * The USGenWeb Project makes no claims or estimates of the validity of the information submitted and reminds you that each new piece of information must be researched and proved or disproved by weight of evidence. It is always best to consult the original material for verification.