Martin Green was a farmer.
David T. Thurlow at age 34 was employed as an engineer in a granite quarry (1910 Federal Census for Stonington, Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine). At age 45 he is listed as an engineer on a tug boat in the 1920 Federal Census for Stonington, ME.
William Scott Green at the time of his marriage at age 21 was a yachtsman. At age 26 he is listed as a master mariner (1900 Federal Census for Deer Isle).
William Pitt Scott was a postmaster (1880 Deer Isle census).
The Island Remembers
by Beulah Hitchcock
1979In 1888, one year before Washington became a state, Ed Haskell and his wife Mary left Deer Island, Maine, with four children, and came to Harstine, settling on the west side of the Island, near Sunset Acres. Their four children were Raymond (Henry Haskell's father), Walter, Ralph and Daisy (Mrs. Hans Bergeson later).
Ed Haskell did a lot of farming, grew a lot of vegetables, had a good-sized orchard of different fruits and raised chickens. The Shelton-Mason County Journal of 1894 told about Ed Haskell keeping a record of his produce and sales each year from two acres of rather poor, sandy ground. The amount of produce sold in dollars in 1893 was as follows:
Green onions $ .85 Corn $62.00
Rhubarb 25.00 Peas 18.93
Gooseberries 4.20 Cherries 39.40
Strawberries 18.95 Plums 4.40
Blackberries 4.45 Prunes 5.05
Cabbage 26.00 Currants .50
Potatoes 50.00 Hay 20.00In 1895 Mary Haskell sent the Journal a small box of native shrimps and prawns, which were caught with a trawl in the bay nearby. They sold one hundred sixty dollars worth that season, the first bringing sixteen cents a pound. There were nine different varieties and they were a delicacy. Mary Haskell also made very neat baskets from native scallop shells for twenty-five cents.
Ed Haskell once said, "There are a lot of fruit trees and shrubbery put out in the fall. Why shouldn't we; there is no better place in Washington, being surrounded by water, which keeps the frost away; and there are no rabbits on the Island."
In 1899, on a Thursday afternoon, a horse belonging to the Lotts (a neighbor) strayed over on Haskell's land, and Walter Lott, then a young man of twenty-eight years, and his mother went after it. As they passed a steep bridge twenty feet high, they were hailed by Haskell, who was standing over them with a heavy rock in his hand. As Lott looked up, Haskell hurled it at him striking Lott a heavy blow on the arm. Lott carried a rifle and he told Haskell that if he threw another rock he would shoot him. Haskell then seized another rock and started to throw it. As he did so, Lott fired two shots and killed him in self-defense. Lott immediately went to Shelton and gave himself up. Lott was married and bore a good name.
Mary Haskell put her children in a rowboat and rowed to Shelton to notify the authorities that Lott had shot her husband. Lott was tried and found not guilty. Three years later Mary Haskell married H. O. Hulin of Harstine and lived the rest of her life on the Island.
Samuel Saunders Scott was a stable keeper at the time of his marriage.
Francis H. Dow was a seaman (1870 census)
Whitney B. Lowe at age 35 was a yacht captain (1920 Federal Census for Deer Isle).