History in towns: Wiscasset, Maine
Magazine Antiques, Dec, 1998 by William Nathaniel Banks
17 Quoted in Chase, Wiscasset in Pownalborough, p. 273.
18 Letter to Mr. and Mrs. William T. Glidden in Special Collections, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine.
19 Letter to Richard Hawley Tucker Jr., December 7, 1856, in Special Collections, Bowdoin College.
20 Prescott Currier, The Jails of Lincoln County 1761-1913 (Lincoln County Historical Association, Wiscasset, Maine, 1992), pp. 151-152.
21 Chase, Wiscasset in Pownalborough, p. 95.
22 (Boston, 1806), p. 63.
23 For more about Castle Tucker, see ANTIQUES July 1997, pp. 38, 40.
24 Papers of Daniel Webster vol. 4, 1835-1839, ed. Charles M. Wiltse and Harold D. Moser (1980), pp. 55-56.
WILLIAM NATHANIEL BANKS writes frequently about historic towns and houses and nineteenth-century artists.
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