Another person to try to find and contact is David Deacon at the University of Syracuse. David presented a wonderful paper at a gathering of the Society for the History of the Early American Republic a few years ago, looking at a Maine shape-note composer who lived in the early 1800s. The name of the composer escapes me, and David eventualy changed his dissertation topic to a study of New England mills along the Connecticut River. But I'm sure he has lots of information about the composer and the milieu he wrote in.

--Charlie Baum