Map of Bangor, 1834

This is an 1834 map of the newly incorporated city of Bangor, Maine. The map was published by Nourse and Smith, and printed by Pendleton of Boston. The map is mounted on a linen backing. This map was originally included with the Bangor City Directory for 1834.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/maps_bangor_city/1002/thumbnail.jp

An argument delivered before the Bangor Forensic Club on the question ought the law requiring the opening of our post-offices and the transportation of our mails on the Christian Sabbath to be repealed? Thursday evening, Jan. 6, 1831

Sample: This, sir, brings us to the shape, in which the question under consideration presents itself. It is contended that this law is an infringement of the laws of God, inasmuch as it violates the sanctity of the Christian Sabbath. Could this be proved, no conviction would sooner strike me dumb. Hence, then, the true question arises -- is the Christian Sabbath a Divine Institution? In the discussion of this momentous question, I am emboldened to proceed, only from the reflection that I rely on God\u27s own word to prove his will. And let those beware, who would presume to prove more, by arguments drawn from other sources than those of infallible truth.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1129/thumbnail.jp

Proceedings of a Meeting Held at Bangor, Maine, by the Friends of the Union, on the Subject of Northern Interference with the Domestic Relations of Master and Slave at the South

The citizens of Bangor, one and all, who are opposed to the measures of the Northern Abolitionists, and who are desirous publicly, and in the language of Washington indignantly to frown upon the first dawning of any attempt to alienate one portion of our country from the rest; or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts; who hold to the preservation of our national compact, in its original spirit and purity, as a sacred and inviolable duty, and as the only ark of our political salvation; -- who disclaiming for themselves, protest against the right of other citizens, of any one State, to interfere, directly or indirectly, in the domestic relations of the citizens of any other State; and who feel pledged by every obligation sacred to men of honor and freemen to support, at all hazards, that fundamental article in our sacred Constitution, that the United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union, a Republican form of government; and shall protect each of them against invasion, and against domestic violence, -- are requested to meet at the City Hall, on Saturday evening, the 29th August, at 7 o\u27clock, to take into consideration the measures most proper to be adopted, to counteract the attempts now making by these individuals to create civil discord and to convey to our brethren of the South the most solemn assurance of the public reprobation of their proceedings, and the insignificance of their numbers, and their utter inability to produce any public action among the independent and intelligent citizens of Maine, inconsistent with the rights of the Southern States.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1223/thumbnail.jp

The First Library in Bangor: Letter Written in 1814 Proves Existence of Earliest Known Library in Bangor

This letter written in 1814 by Williams D. Williamson, then postmaster in Bangor, to Rev. Jedediah Morse, preacher, pamphleteer, and geographer, of Charleston, Massachusetts, contains the earliest known reference to a library in Bangor. The library, when opened, was called the Bangor Athenaeum. It was one of six libraries operating in Bangor in various times between 1814 and 1883 which, in the end, all merged into the Bangor Public Library, founded in 1883. In 1814 Bangor was in the District of Maine, a part of the State of Massachusetts. The original letter and its transcription included. Also included in an April 1955 Bangor Daily News article about the Bangor Public Library\u27s recent acquisition of the letter.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1339/thumbnail.jp

Park Holland\u27s Field Book 1797

Park Holland\u27s Field Book 1797 of the survey of part of the lands on Penobscot river purchased of the Indians and including Settlers lots. This is the manuscript field book done by surveyor Park Holland in 1797. It is 37 pages on hand laid paper written with iron gall ink. The original size is: 15.7cm x 9.5cm.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1003/thumbnail.jp