Sources

Bibliography

Primary sources first. Scholarly secondary sources next. Local histories and archival images last.

Primary Sources

A Voyage into New England
Levett, Christopher · 1628
Levett's own account of the Casco Bay voyage.
Fort Levett records
U.S. Army Coast Artillery Corps · 1898–1945
Construction, armament, and garrison records.

Twelve Thousand Years: American Indians in Maine
Bourque, Bruce J. · 2001
Baseline for Wabanaki landscape use in coastal Maine.
NPS Cultural Landscape — Cushing's Island
National Park Service · n.d.
nps.gov/places/cushing-s-island.htm
Fort Levett (encyclopedia entry)
Wikipedia contributors · ongoing
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Levett

1888 Island Plan
Maine Memory Network · 1888
mainememory.net/record/23340
Ottawa House photographs
Maine Memory Network · late 19th c.
mainememory.net/record/12157

An Historical Sketch, Guide Book, and Prospectus of Cushing's Island
Sargent, Wm. M., A.M. · 1886
The primary written source for this manual. Traces the island's title from Levett (1623) through Cleeves, Mitton, Andrews, and later owners, with contemporary quotations from Strachey, Josselyn, Wood, and the Trelawny Papers.
'Coastal history: Discovering Cushing Island'
Portland Press Herald · 2019-06-05
pressherald.com/2019/06/05/coastal-history-discovering-cushing-island/
'Coastal history: The infamous pirate Dixie Bull'
Portland Press Herald · 2020-01-31
pressherald.com/2020/01/31/coastal-history-the-infamous-pirate-dixie-bull/
Cushing Island (encyclopedia entry)
Wikipedia contributors · ongoing
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cushing_Island
Trelawny Papers
Baxter, James Phinney (ed.) · 1884
Names three of Levett's ten-man garrison — Thomas Alger, Edmond Baker, Nicholas Rouse — and Trelawny's 1637 letter complaining of Cleeves's title through Levett.
An Account of Two Voyages to New-England
Josselyn, John · 1674
Records Michael Mitton's encounter with a 'Triton' in Casco Bay — the mermaid legend attached to the island's earliest English owner.