Account book for Connecticut River transportation business
Commerce
Transportation
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 1756.
Jones Library Special Collections
Circa 1753
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Folder: Account book--1753-1756
Amherst tax records, 1754
Property tax -- Massachusetts -- Amherst
Amherst (Mass.)
Tax record book showing property owned and its value.
Amherst (Mass.)
Jones Library Special Collections
1754
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Documents
Page from Nathaniel Smith's account book
Physicians
Hadley (Mass.)
Many of the early settlers combined some other occupation with that of farming. Nathaniel Smith, who was among the first of the East Inhabitants of Hadley, was a doctor, the first to practice his profession in the new settlement.
Jones Library Special Collections
Circa 1757
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Folder: Smith, Nathaniel -- Account Book
Tax warrant for Hadley Third Precinct, February 07, 1753
Taxation
Amherst (Mass.)
Warrant to Nathan Dickinson, constable, for collection of taxes in Third Precinct of Hadley (now Amherst).
Jones Library Special Collections
1753-02-07
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Folder: Hadley -- Third Precinct -- Tax Warrant
Agreement to build a gristmill
Mills and mill-work
Hadley (Mass.)
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 Hadley.
Jones Library Special Collections
1756-01-28
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Folder: Smith, Peletiah -- Grist mill
Tax warrant for Hadley Third Precinct, February 14, 1753
Taxation
Amherst (Mass.)
Warrant to Nathan Dickinson, constable, for collection of taxes in Third Precinct of Hadley (now Amherst).
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1753-02-14
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Folder: Hadley -- Third Precinct -- Tax Warrant
Gristmill subscription, January 23, 1756
Mills and mill-work
Hadley (Mass.)
Subscription list for Peletiah Smith and seven others to share labor to build a gristmill on the Fort River in the Second Precinct of Hadley.
Jones Library Special Collections
1756-01-28
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Receipt for salary paid, David Parsons, April 18, 1757
Clergy -- Salaries
Amherst (Mass.)
Receipt written by David Parsons, Amherst's first minister, for payment of his salary in old tenor money by Jonathan Dickinson, one of the first Selectmen of Amherst and the treasurer at the time.
Jones Library Special Collections
1757-04-18
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Letter to Mary Boltwood
United States -- History -- French and Indian War, 1755-1763
Letter to Mary Boltwood from her husband on the day before he says he is to set sail with a large contingent of soldiers, from Lake George to Ticonderoga.
Fort Ticonderoga controlled the route between the Hudson River Valley and Canada in the wars of the eighteenth century. In 1755, Ticonderoga (Fort Carillon to the French) was built by the French on a military road on an Indian portage between the two lakes. The area then became an active place of fighting between the Indians, French, British, and Americans. General Jeffery Amherst captured the fort in late July, 1759, several weeks after this letter was written.
Letter is incomplete. In this letter the word "battos" means "bateaux" -- a long, tapering, flat-bottomed river boat.
Jones Library Special Collections
1758-07-05
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Correspondence
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Record of Town Meeting, March 24, 1755
Local government
Amherst (Mass.)
Record of town meeting held in Amherst in 1755, 20 years after the first meeting. Votes recorded are concerned with choosing officers, committees, raising money for wood for the minister, that the committee chosen to "seat the meetinghouse" make some changes to accommodate newcomers, and setting the date for the annual meeting.
Jones Library Special Collections
1755-03-24
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B. New Engelland, New York, New Yersey und Pensilvania
New England -- Maps
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, no. 85. Scale ca. 1:3,700,000. Hand colored.
Shows boundary of East and West Jersey as of or before 1702.
Bulk of description courtesy of Library of Congress Geography and Map Division.
Homann Erben (Firm)
Library of Congress Geography and Map Division
1759
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Part of: Atlas geographics major by Homann Erben. 1753-59 [i.e. 1784; v. 1, 1759] part of v. 1, part 2, no. 85.
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Maps
G3710 1702 .H6; http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3710.np000006
Petition for the name of Amherst
Petitions
Amherst (Mass.)
This is a letter of petition to Thomas Pownall, Governor of the Province of Massachusetts. John Nash, Isaac Ward, and Nehimieh Dickinson propose that the new town that is separating from Hadley should be named after Baron Jeffery Amherst.
Nash, John; Ward, Isaac; Dickinson, Nehimieh
Jones Library Special Collections
1757-06-05
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Jeffery Amherst letter to Lt. Col. Bradstreet, March 5, 1759
Amherst, Jeffery Amherst, Baron, 1717-1797
United States -- History -- French and Indian War, 1755-1763
Bradstreet, John, 1711-1774
Letter from Jeffery Amherst to Lt. Col. John Bradstreet regarding construction of boats, hire and pay of laborers, and finance for military campaign, March 5, 1759. Several months later Amherst successfully captured Fort Ticonderoga on the Hudson River from the French.
In this letter the word "battoes" means bateaux -- a long, tapering, flat-bottomed, river boat.
Amherst, Jeffery Amherst, Baron, 1717-1797
Jones Library Special Collections
1759-03-05
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Correspondence
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Account book of David Warner
Section from the account book of David Warner, a local blacksmith, showing work he completed for Simeon Clark. Some of the jobs listed: fixing the rim on a dishkettle, fixing grips for a harrow, mending chain, and mill work in a saw mill. The account beginning February 1757 has a cross through it, indicating the account was balanced, or paid. A new account for Simeon Clark was started July 5, 1757.
Warner, David
Jones Library Special Collections
1757
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