#pownalborough court house

[benjhawkins]

Midafternoon in the tavern

#Pownalborough court house #mine

[goldnnavy]

In addition to my visits to the Maritime Museum, I also had a wonderful time visiting @benjhawkins and @pentecostwaite at the Pownalborough Court House! The tour was amazing, and getting to gush about my love of breeches was so much fun! Just look at how beautiful it is:

And I even got to see the famous Polly(!!):

Here's my tracing of it vs the real etching.

Again, thank you so much to @benjhawkins and @pentecostwaite for being so kind and awesome!! I look forward to meeting up again in the future!

#pownalborough court house #maine #history #colonial house #benjhawkins #pentecostwaite #personal

[pentecostwaite]

Found written in pencil on the doorframe of the 1760s jury deliberation chamber, Pownalborough Court House, Maine.

“Inhuman man has

to triffle with the happi

=ness of thy fellow creatures”

#new england #history #maine #Pownalborough Court House

[misterjudemartin]

19th-century <b>toys</b> on exhibit at Pownalborough Court House

DRESDEN — A new exhibit of children's toys is on view through Columbus Day at ... The dolls and other toys will be on exhibit until Columbus Day. from children toys http://ift.tt/2vSGcGw via children toys

#children toys

[prolistsite]

19th-century toys on exhibit at Pownalborough Court <b>House</b>

A selection of dolls arranged before a painting of children who lived at the Pownalborough Court House in the mid 1800s were common over the ... Read more http://ift.tt/2vpYfkQ Areas served: Winston-Salem, High Point, Yadkinville, Mocksville, Advance, Clemmons, Kernersville, Greensboro, Walnut Cove, Statesville, NC, North Carolina Services: House painting, roofing, deck building, landscaping, Carpentry, Flooring, tile, hardwood, remodeling, home improvement, interior, exterior

[benjhawkins]

#Pownalborough court house #autumn vibes #interiors #Maine #New England #18th century #mine

[benjhawkins]

Welcome to the courtroom where cases were tried from 1761 until 1794! Some visitors here included midwife Martha Ballard and some guy named John Adams.

Fun Fact! Can you spot the exact same two portraits of John Adams that are on the same wall?

#Pownalborough court house #18th century #Maine #mine #TikTok #*jonathan groff king George voice* JOHN ADAMS

[benjhawkins]

Spring cleaning at the court house today!

#mine #Pownalborough court house #no rest for the wicked am I right

[benjhawkins]

Hey man if you’re not gonna pay your tab you gotta leave

#Pownalborough court house #we are getting ready for Halloween

[benjhawkins]

#Pownalborough court house #18th century #interiors #mine

[benjhawkins]

Welcome to the tavern! Court sessions at Pownalborough took place twice a year in June and September, and the tavern was a communal eating and gathering space for people who were awaiting their case to be heard by the court. Carved on the wall is graffiti of the sloop Polly! Sometime in the 19th century a closet was built in front of the wall where the graffiti is carved. The closet wasn’t removed until the late 1950s, which has helped preserve the graffiti so well!

#Pownalborough court house #mine #18th century #TikTok

[benjhawkins]

#maine #18th century #interiors #Pownalborough court house #I can’t believe it’s not a tag?? #mine #original board and batten walls baby

[benjhawkins]

#good morning! #Pownalborough court house #mine #interiors

[benjhawkins]

The 1761 Pownalborough Court House with the Parson Bailey Rose in the foreground. This rose bush is a descendant of an 18th century variety cultivated by the Reverend Jacob Bailey.

#Maine #18th century #Pownalborough court house #reverend jacob bailey #I will only be talking about loyalists this weekend #mine

[benjhawkins]

Part two of one of the many rooms of the Pownalborough Court House! This is the parlor, interpreted to ca. 1820.

#Maine #mine #TikTok #18th century #19th century #wait til I do the tavern you’re gonna love it

[benjhawkins]

So the more I’m diggin into the records the more I’m thinking in my opinion that Samuel Goodwin didn’t purposefully give bad maps of the northern part of Discrict of Maine to Benedict Arnold but rather that Goodwin was just a shitty surveyor.

Here’s a 1763 map of Pownalborough, drawn by Jonas Jones and Samuel Goodwin, though Goodwin is credited as the creator and it’s in his handwriting.

It’s fine, the scale’s a little off and I can’t figure out the scale and the plots in relation to the River but it’s fine. What’s driving me crazy is this is meant to be the Pownalborough Court House:

And here is how it looks today:

As you can see, the chimneys are in wrong position and the window above the door is incorrect.

Here’s the kicker: SAMUEL GOODWIN LIVES THERE! He’s been living there for two years by the time he makes the map!

Presumably he’s working on the maps at home with Jones and he can’t be bothered to go outside and see that the court house he lives in is accurate??

According to this letter written from Goodwin too George Washington, Goodwin was only given about three weeks to produce the maps, and we know Reuben Colburn was also asked to produce the shitty bateaux in a short time span too, which is why he had to use green wood that leaked.

#amrev #local history monday #Pownalborough court house #also Goodwin was a loyalist and didnt want to give Arnold the maps anyway lest he been seen as sympathetic to the Patriots cause #happy Patriots day everyone