Name/Title
Book, RecordEntry/Object ID
1111.643.0007Scope and Content
Marbelized cardboard covered notebook, 7 1/2" x 6" Inside front cover is written Nelson Gilkey, Islesboro, County of Waldo and on p.3 "Islesboro February 29th 1829 - Nelson Gilkey - State of Maine" with a fanciful ink drawing of a swan.
Kept by Nelson Gilkey. Accounts (schooner Brilliant earnings, work for Town, etc.) and journal entries. Also: a list with birth dates of his children (Florine, Roscoe, Parris, Lillius Lorine, Georgietta, Athamiza) and two others (?) D? L Gilkey b. Feb 1832, Lincoln N. Gilkey b Oct 29, 1860; recipes for "French Polish", "Burning Fluid"(burnishing?), Black Paint, Lime Sizing. "Oak Graining in Oil" and "Patent Drying Oil or Zinc Drier"