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B. New Engelland, New York, New Yersey und Pensilvania
Hadley, Northampton, Hatfield, and Deerfield are portrayed.
English. Title in German. Some place names, terms, etc., also have German work supplied. From the author's Atlas geographicvs major. 1753-59 [i.e. 1784; v. 1, 1759] part of v. 1, part 2,…
Jeffery Amherst letter to Lt. Col. Bradstreet, Mar 5, 1759
New York March y(?) 5th 1759.
Sir
I have received your letter of
the 26th of February, since which date the
Carpenters will undoubtedly have very soon
arrived at Albany, as they were dispatched
from hence at the intended time.
I…
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…
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
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
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
Letter to Major General Shepard about Shays' Rebellion
Stockbridge March 5 1787
Dear Sir,
When you was here, I had the most sanguine prospects of making you a payment before this time, but we have had nothing but a scene of war and distress since the beginning of Feby. which has prevented my…
Hunting the deer
Lithograph of a North American Indian hunting a deer.…
Tags: 1759 and Before, 1700s
William Boltwood letter, August 5, 1775
Letter from William Boltwood to the Amherst Committee of Correspondence asking to be restored to public favor and endorsing measures taken by the Continental…
Appeal to Amherst women for funds
Amherst December 20th 1781
An address to the Ladys of this Town
On consideration of the great and necessary charges arise
Ing on the Inhabitants of this town. By reason of the expensive
Defence made against our unnatural Enemies, together with…
Deed of Hadley Third Precinct, June 25, 1747
Deed from Ebenezer Kellogg of Hadley to Nathaniel Smith of Hadley conveying tract of land in the second division of the Third…
Tags: 1759 and Before, 1700s, Deeds
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
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…
Old Indian House
Built by John Sheldon about 1690; taken down 1848. This photograph was copied from the only daguerreotype in existence, belonging to the late Prof. Aaron Warner, by John L. Lovell. More text on verso; sky in photo painted with white…
Tags: 1759 and Before, 1700s
Warrant for the first meeting in Hadley Third Precinct, September 22, 1735
Warrant to Ebenezer Kellogg to have him notify the inhabitants of Hadley 3rd Precinct to meet at the house of Zachariah Field on October 8th to decide matters relating to choosing officers who will have the power to call meetings, and making…
Tags: 1759 and Before, 1700s, Town Meeting