Box 1

Minutes of surveys of various towns and regions, recorded on scraps of paper and in a pocket journal.

Minutes of surveys of various towns and regions, recorded in pocket journals.

Includes letters to Lewis from James Bridge regarding various aspects of separation, along with other correspondents.

Letters to Lewis regarding various surveying projects and requests, including a set of reference letters for Thomas Kimball to work as a surveyor.

Letters of land descriptions, sales, ownership, and other matters, as well as an 1812 report of the committee of valuation for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Letters and memos regarding resolutions and decisions by town selectmen, councils, Land Office commissioners, and other political positions. Lewis either member or recipient.

Papers, memos, and correspondence issued by Lewis during his tenure as justice of the peace.

Lewis' minutes during and regarding the separation process. Subjects include property records, treaty with the Penobscot, treasury statements and payments, and more.

Includes inventory of property belonging to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts on hand at the state prison and returned, March 1820; list of convicts from Maine, including dates sentences expire.

Correspondence, drafts, reflections on, and versions of the treaty.