Mount Desert and Cranberry Island History and Genealogy  
     Mount Desert and Cranberry Island History and
                                Genealogy

                  A Stanwood Stumper-First Draft

                                                What is known of Olive Stanwood:The Facts:


1728?-Jonathan Rich the "oldest son" born in Marblehead

 1764?-Married Mary Merritt in Marblehead

1770-Captain William Owen visits the Manchester house on Cranberry

      "anchored with the small anchor in 3 fathom of water in Manchester's Cove,Cranberry Island;the extreme points of the
        cove west by north and east 1/2 south;the entrance of Mount Desert River(now Somes Sound)north north west 1/2 west.
            I went ashore and bought of John Manchester a quantity of potatoes,turnips,cabbages and carrotss for my people"
       This house is also shown in the Des Barres map where Thomas Manchester later lived. John  Manchester
                                 removed to Machias by 1770 where his son Thomas was born

1776- The Des Barres Map of 1776 clearly shows a housesite on the end of Jimmy's Point facing Little Cranberry.

1785-Rufus Putnam survey notes Johnathan Rich as resident on West Cranberry since 1767

1790-Census shows Cranberry residents as Benj. Spurling,Johnathan Rich,Sans Thomas and Margaret Stanley,and Aaron Bunker,

1792-Hancock County deed transfers Jonathan Rich holdings to Olive Stanwood, a widower "of the same place, Cranberry Isles ,Maine...all my property in Mount Desert ..lands, house, barns, building, cattle and sheep
 After     1792-Steven Manchester marries a Rich (Perhaps Jonathan's daughter??)
Mar. 13 1799-Estate notice of Johnathan Rich deceased published in Castine Journal
Sep.  27 1799-John Rich made executor of Johnathan Rich's Estate.
Mar.   6  1800-John Rich sells(or mortgages) property to Benjamin Ward of Southwest Harbor
Apr.   2  1800-Benjamin Ward sells same property to William Norwood
Sep .  6  1800-Steven Manchester sells same property to Thomas Manchester
 

        "one hundred acres,more or less,and bounded as follows viz,Beginningat the eastern corner of Benjamin Spurlings    lot  and    running easterly on the shore to a point of land called Riche's Point , then following    said line to the first mentioned bound"
 1800- Census "Oliver" Stannard 1 woman of over 45 and one daughterof under ten living next to James Spurling
 1810-Census (Alphabetized)Olive Stanwood in Town of Mount Desert(included Cranberry)
 1820-No Olive Stanwood in State of Maine


    Clearly Olive Stanwood lived on Cranberry before 1792 and  probably after 1810. She appears to have bought out Johnathan Rich and lived on Jimmy's Point for better than twenty years.No one knows what family she was associated with to be living on Cranberry with a newborn as a widow. Was she a daughter of Johnathan Rich?
Many Stanwoods are based in Harpswell where Benjamin Bunker dwelled. Is she of that clan?Olive turns up as a given name in both Rich and Stanwood families later on.
    How does Steven Manchester suddenly sell the property to his brother Thomas? Was his wife an heir??


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