Bangor Historical Magazine, and Maine Historical Magazine vol. IX

A periodical of Maine local history and transcribed records, read in the archive.org full texts (vol. I also at bangorhistorical01bang; vol. II bangorhistoricalv2bang; vol. IV bangorhistorical00bang; vol. V bangorhistorica188990bang; vol. VI bangorhistoricalv6bang; Maine Historical Magazine IX at mainehistoricalm18941895bang).

Entries used for Capt. James Ginn:

• The settlers’ petition, “Penobscot River, November 4th, A.D. 1783” (1:14-15); the plantation publishments “By James Genn, plantation clerk” (1:32).
• The Orland settlement: “James Ginn moved from Brewer, and took the mill of Robert Treat and carried it on until 1797, and in the mean time he built one brig and two schooners at the upper falls, and then moved to Bucksport” (1:54).
• Rufus Buck’s history of Bucksport (written to 1857): “Capt. James Ginn came to Orrington, from Maryland, in 1775” (1:105); “In May, 1800, he moved to this town, built a wharf and store… In 1803 he built a large house… He built a number of vessels, and was the first importer of foreign goods into this town. He married Anne Riggs, of Gloucester, Mass., by whom he had six sons and six daughters. The only surviving child is William R. Ginn, who is extensively known as the best ship-builder on the river” (1:105); the schooner Favorite, 1801 (1:103); the school and meeting-house committee, 25 Jan 1802 (1:105); the church gathered “May 12th, 1803… The services were performed in a large house then building by Capt. James Ginn” (1:107-108).
• The New Worcester letter of 26 May 1784 and the grant to “John Brewer, Simeon Fowler, George Gardner, Thomas Campbell, Josiah Brewer and James Ginn, Gentlemen” (2:67-68).
• Joseph Mansell’s 1831 affidavit: “I had a lieutenant’s commission, under James Ginn, of Orrington” (4:10-11). “Penobscot River, Heads of Families, 1776” with the Province Tax (4:126).
• Porter’s Orrington sketch: “In 1785 he had in his family, three men, two women and ten children; Treasurer 1789” (4:237), and a list of his children (4:237-238) that omits Sally.
• Marriages: Abraham Ginn “of Plantation No. 2” and Hannah Downs, Oct. 15, 1794 (5:235); “Sukey Ginn, of Orland” and Samuel Keys, Jan. 20, 1801 (5:178).
• Newspaper deaths: “April, in Bucksport, Capt. James Ginn, aged 71” (6:157).
• Annals of Bangor: the first militia company “up the Penobscot: of which Capt. James Ginn, (of the present Orrington) was the Commandant” (Maine Historical Magazine 9:12).
• Also in vol. 1: Anna Ginn’s marriage to Josiah Brewer (1793) and Lavinia Brewer’s to Ebenezer Tyler (1799).
• “Deer Island Papers” (vol. 1, pp. 195-197; the archive.org copy at https://archive.org/details/mainehistorical03unkngoog is the same volume, under the title The Maine Historical Magazine): the settlers’ petition of 4 Aug 1762, and the General Court’s resolve of 22 Mar 1786 (Mass. Archives 46:488) granting each settler 100 acres and the rest of the island to Joseph Tyler and others, “Thomas Thompson” among them, “on condition, that they appropriate three hundred acres of land for the use of the ministry, and three hundred acres for the use of a grammar school.”

Entry used for Major Nathan Low:

• Rev. Jonathan Adams’s Deer Isle marriages: “Maj. Nathan Low and Hannah Hardy, both of this town,” 30 Jan 1837 (vol. 5).