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The recipient is William King (1768-1852), who was a member of the Massachusetts Senate in 1807-11, and the first Governor of Maine in 1820-21.
The sender is Thomas Ruggles (1770-1820), known as Judge Thomas Ruggles. He was born in Rochester, MA, and came early to the Maine frontier, becoming a lumber and milling tycoon, militia officer, postmaster and justice of the Washington County court in Machias. He employed a Massachusetts craftsman to build an elegant Federal style house in Columbia Falls, between 1818 and 1820, then died in late December 1820. The house was long occupied by his descendants, and is now a museum and historic site.