Peters Direct. Wm. P. Preble, Q. 1: Please state your name, age and residence. Ans. Wm. P. Preble, born April 6, 1811 Cranberry Isles, last 60 years, on Cranberry Island in the town of Cranberry Isles. Q. 2: What has been your business? Ans. Work hard for a living all kinds of work. Q. 3: How large a place do you own on cranberry Isles? Ans. I could not give you any correct idea it is in several lots. Q. 4: Do you own a farm on Cranberry Isles? Ans. I own land that I carry on as a farm perhaps the farm would amount to a 100 to a 150 acres, I own about one half of the western side of the Island. Q. 5: About how many acres in all? Ans. 100 to a 150 acres in all the lots, 150 acres surely, but it is mostly waste land, as it lays now. Q. 6: What buildings are there on the home lot? Ans. These buildings we are occupying, house, barn, store for the use of a Post office, all in one string of buildings, except the barn. Q. 7: What buildings have you had for the last six years at the shore? Ans. The upper fish house used for storing fish called the dry fish house used for that purpose formerly before six years ago when I was in the fishing business also a wet fish house a place to salt fish in call the other buildings a store house and also a boat house that makes four I believe Q. 8: How long have these buildings been on the ground? Ans. From 40 to 50 years as I have needed them I have put them up. Q. 9: What kind of repair have you kept them in? Ans. Always to meet the exigencies of the day they were kept so a person could get in and out without breaking their neck last repairs were made on the boat house to accomodate Mr. sanford? Q. 10: What kind of shape were these buildings in six years ago? Ans. The shape is oblong neither square nor round. Q. 11: What condition as to repair were they six years ago? Ans. passable order so as to use them. Q. 12: When and under what circumstances did Samuel C. Sanford come to your house on Cranberry Island? Ans. 0 Good Lord, when, much as 18 - 19 years ago as a pastime, came visiting, his mother was my wife. Q. 13: When did he first come here to live permanently? Ans. You have got me, he never came here to live permanently, he went and came as he saw fit. Q. 14: Where did he make his home the last 18 years? Ans. Where he hung up his hat. Q. 15: Where did he hang up his hat? Ans. He hung it up on a nail in my house, he made his home here. e. 16: How long has he made his home here. Ans. 18 or 19 years will probably be correct. e. 17: Did he own any property when he came here?