The Piscataquis Land Company Records contain the administrative and financial papers that cover the six-year history of the company from its founding in 1934 to its merger with Garfield Land Company in 1940.

SERIES I. Administrative Records is separated into four subseries. Subseries A. Corporate Records is comprised of official certificates of organization; information about land owned; proxies for annual meetings; correspondence; documents regarding the merger; and documents from a three-ring binder and a soft bound volume, both describing the history of the company and containing copies of records of notices to shareholders, votes at annual meetings, etc. Subseries B. Stocks includes certificates of increase of capital stock, two volumes of cancelled stock certificates, a list of stock owners in October 1937, and letters from Richard Wheatland offering his shares for sale back to the company. Subseries C. Payroll consists of a payroll ledger and documents having to do with Title VIII of the Social Security Act. Subseries D. Miscellaneous contains four maps of the company’s land ownership, a plan of part of Township No. 7 showing Chamberlain Farm, the company seal press, and a “For Deposit Only” stamp.

SERIES II. Financial Records are organized into five subseries. Subseries A. Financial Statements includes a treasurer’s report, year-end financial statements as prepared by Stewart, Watts & Bollong, and depletion figures that account for the reduction of resources in reserve from the cutting of timber. Subseries B. Account Books consists of three bound volumes: a journal, ledger, and trial balance. Subseries C. Banking Records is comprised of bank statements, checkbooks, cancelled checks, and deposit records. Subseries D. Taxes include both state and federal taxes and correspondence with the Treasury Department and Maine’s Internal Revenue Department. Also included are Forest Industries Schedules, a supplemental form for taxpayers that are “operating, buying, leasing, or selling timber lands” are required to fill out. Subseries E. Accounts and Notes contains accounts, notes given by Richard Wheatland, stumpage payments, and surveyor’s scale returns.