Col. Silas Paul's account book for the Congregational Parish of Foxcroft, Maine 1851
Sprague's Journal of Maine History
No.  I
Vol.  VII
MAY JUNE JULY 1919
pages 54

A recent issue of the Piscataquis Observer contains the following:

Mrs. W. A. Hillman has an account book which her father, the late Col. Silas 
Paul, kept wile collector of the Congregational Parish of Foxcroft and Dover 
when its meeting house was built.  The stock for "a site and for building a 
house" was divided into shares of $25 each and the first payment, one 
quarter was made May 1st, 1851, or 68 years ago.

The stockholders and the number of shares each subcribed for were:
Silas Paul		4
John H. Loring		4
William Huntress	            2
Joshua Young		1
Joel Pratt		4
Joseph and O.B. Crooker	2
Cyrus Holmes		2
Arthur Hilton		1
Salmon Holmes		2
Samuel Pierce,		1
C.S. Hammond		2
Seth C. Pratt		1
A. and L.S. Tucker	2
T. H. Chamberlain	1
Nathan Carpenter	2
John Hale		3
Samuel Greeley		2
Daniel Mansfield	1
George W. Goodwin	4
Benjamin Johnson	2
John G. Mayo		4
Sawyer & Woodbury	4
Allen Chandler		2
David Gilman, Jr.	3
George V. Edes		1
Nathaniel Chamberlain	3
Hiram Douty		1
Henry A. Cole		1
Chase Parker		2
W.F. Sampson		1
James Bush		4
S. P. Brown		4
G.H. Foss		1
H.N. Greeley		1
Moses Gray		1
William Parsons		2
C.P. Chandler,		3
John Osborn		1
Lyman  Lee		2
D. & William Mitchell	2

W. Parker & C.H.B. 
Woodbury in behalf 
of the church		30


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