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Journal of Richard Hazen

1 pp 1750

Handwritten journal, without cover, kept by Hazen while surveying the Maine seacoast from Portsmouth, New Hampshire, to the St. Croix River, the border of Maine with New Brunswick, Canada. Richard Hazen Jr. was born in Haverhill, Mass. July 20, 1696, and died near Bradford, Mass., ca February 8, 1754. He graduated from Harvard College in 1717 and married in Newbury, Mass. on October 22, 1719 to Sarah Clement.

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Letter, 1785 November 16, Portsmouth, N.H., to [William Smallwood], Maryland

1 pp 1785

Original handwritten letter. Navigation act directed at Great Britain.

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Letter, 8 January 1813, Philadelphia, [Penn.], to Honorable William Eustis, New York.

1 pp 1813

Handwritten letter by Francis LeBaron, United States Army's Apothecary General, describing his visit to see Airy Taylor in the hospital and his general impression of his office.

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List of men belonging to Engine No. 2, Boston.

1 pp 1780

Handwritten list simply provides the men's names and their salary. List includes Joab Hunt, John Bouve, Gibbens Bouve, Daniel Lilley, Henry Swift, Richard Floyd, Thomas Badger, William Leate, James Freeland, William Dericot. All made 15:6.

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Loose pages from Commissioners Book

1 pp 1721

These loose pages were found in the Commissioners Book for Propagating the Gospel in New England. Digitization funded by a grant from the Society of the Descendants of the Colonial Clergy. Blank pages have not been scanned.

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Military commission certificate for Joseph Barrett

1 pp 1732

Commission appointing Joseph Barrett Captain Lieutenant of the Foot Company of Concord, Mass. in the regiment of militia commanded by Col. John Flynt. The document, a partially printed form completed by hand, is signed by J[osiah] Willard, Secry, and Governor Jonathan Belcher. Includes seal.

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Military commission certificate for Samuel Seavy

1 pp 1799

Commission as Adjutant of the battalion of artillery in the 1st brigade, 8th division of Massachusetts militia. Document is signed by Secreatery John Avery and Lieutenant-Governor Moses Gill. Verso has note by Lt. Col. David Payson dated February 24 1800 that Seavy took the required oath.

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Paper Mill

1 pp 1886

This albumen print photograph shows the view of the paper mill, and its surroundings, near Lower Bridge in Putney, Vermont. The photographs in this collection were produced in 1885 for Dr. Edmund Andrews of Chicago, Illinois, who was born in Putney, Vermont.

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Petition to pave Atkinson Street in Boston

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Handwritten petition ""to the freeholders & other inhabitants of the town of Boston in town meeting regularly assembled"" by sundry inhabitants of Boston requesting the paving of Atkinson Street. Transcription published in NEHG Register 17 [1863]: 148-9.

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Petition, ca. 1702, to his Excellency Joseph Dudley, Esqr, Captain General & Governour in Chiefe in & over her Majesty's Provinces of the Massachusetts Bay & New Hampshire in New England.

1 pp 1702

Petition from heads of families "living on the west side of Charles River" in Medfield, Mass., to be made a lieutenant's company. Thirty-four subscribers.

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Photograph of the David Crawford House

1 pp 1886

Albumen print photograph of the David Crawford house in Putney, Vermont. The photograph shows a a picket fence and trees in front of a white, two-story house. The photographs in this collection were produced in 1885 for Dr. Edmund Andrews of Chicago, Illinois, who was born in Putney, Vermont.

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Photograph of the village and the Upper Paper Mill

1 pp 1886

Albumen print photograph of the eastern view from the corner store in Putney, Vermont. The photograph includes buildings on both sides of a dirt road. The Upper Paper Mill is on the left; the other buildings are unidentified. The photographs in this collection were produced in 1885 for Dr. Edmund Andrews of Chicago, Illinois, who was born in Putney, Vermont.

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Journal of Richard Hazen

Letter, 1785 November 16, Portsmouth, N.H., to [William Smallwood], Maryland

Letter, 8 January 1813, Philadelphia, [Penn.], to Honorable William Eustis, New York.

List of men belonging to Engine No. 2, Boston.

Loose pages from Commissioners Book

Military commission certificate for Joseph Barrett

Military commission certificate for Samuel Seavy

Paper Mill

Petition to pave Atkinson Street in Boston

Petition, ca. 1702, to his Excellency Joseph Dudley, Esqr, Captain General & Governour in Chiefe in & over her Majesty's Provinces of the Massachusetts Bay & New Hampshire in New England.

Photograph of the David Crawford House

Photograph of the village and the Upper Paper Mill