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Account book for Connecticut River transportation business
Account book kept by unknown person recording transportation of goods such as salt, molasses, and rum, up and down the Connecticut River during the years 1753 through…
Amherst tax records, 1754
Tax record book showing property owned and its value.…
Tags: 1750s, 1759 and Before, Account books
Hunting the deer
Lithograph of a North American Indian hunting a deer.…
Tags: 1759 and Before, 1700s
Deed of Hadley Third Precinct December 12, 1730
Deed from Ichabod Smith of Hadley to Nathaniel Smith, his son, conveying parcel of land in the second division of the Third…
Tags: 1759 and Before, 1700s, Deeds
Page from Nathaniel Smith's account book
A few of the early settlers combined some other occupation with that of farming ; Nathaniel Smith, who was among the first of the East Inhabitants, was a doctor, the first to practice his profession in the new settlement. (Carpenter &…
Tags: 1759 and Before, 1700s, Account books, Health
Hadley Third Precinct tax warrant February 7, 1753
Warrant to Nathan Dickinson, constable, for collection of taxes in Third Precinct of Hadley.…
Tags: 1759 and Before, 1700s
Agreement to build a gristmill, January 28, 1756
Agreement between Peletiah Smith and seven others to build, and to share equally the cost of, a gristmill to be situated on the Fort River in the Second Precinct of…
Manner in which many kinds of game were carried
Lithograph of two North American Indians carrying game suspended on a pole between them.…
Tags: 1759 and Before, 1700s
Deed of Hadley Third Precinct, June 16, 1730
Deed from Joseph Eastman of Hadley to Jonathan Smith of Hadley conveying tract of land in the second division of the Third…
Tags: 1759 and Before, 1700s, Deeds
Deed of Hadley Third Precinct, December 12, 1730
Deed from Ichabod Smith of Hadley to Nathaniel Smith, his son, conveying parcel in the third division of the Third Precinct.…
Tags: 1759 and Before, 1700s, Deeds
Tax warrant for Hadley Third Precinct, February 14, 1753
Warrant to Nathan Dickinson, constable, for collection of taxes in Third Precinct of Hadley.
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Tags: 1759 and Before, 1700s
Record of Town Meeting, March 19, 1745
Record of town meeting held in Amherst in 1745, 10 years after the first meeting. Votes recorded are concerned with choosing officers, committees, highway work, wood for the minister, making payment for services, and balancing…
Tags: 1759 and Before, 1700s, Town Meeting
Gristmill subscription, January 23, 1756
Subscription list for Peletiah Smith and seven others to share labor to build a gristmill on the Fort River in the Second Precinct of…
Receipt for salary paid, David Parsons, April 18, 1757
Receipt written by David Parsons payment of his salary "in old tin money" by Jonathan Dickinson, treasurer.…
Tags: 1759 and Before, 1700s
Letter to Mary Boltwood
Lake George, July the 5th 1758
Loving wife after my love to you and the children I would inform you that I am well through the goodness of God as I pray thes lines may find you and all the family. I would inform you that our battos are loded and…