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Watson, Alexander. Notebook, 1772-1774.

Title: Notebook, 1772-1774.

Notebook, 1772-1774, of Alexander Watson. Contains receipts, lists of deeds and properties, and a note of a lease assigned to him in New York to build a church; notes on taxes; excerpts from A new system of agriculture, by a Country Gentleman, with references to other writers on agriculture; prayers; versified psalms; music for the Old Hundredth and God Save the King; secular poems and songs; moral, religious and economic reflections; notes on the birth of his sons John and Edward John in 1770 and 1771; notes on the death of his uncle John Watson (1685-1768) and of his wife Abigail Watson (1746 or 1747-1774).

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (ca. 180 pp.)

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Watson, John, 1685-1768. Notebook, 1701, 1726, 1775-1778.

Title: Notebook, 1701, 1726, 1775-1778.

Notebook of John Watson, the painter, containing miscellaneous notes and personal account information written by Watson in 1726 and by Watson's nephew, Alexander Watson in 1775-1778. There are accounts of things bought, real estate transactions, poetry, music, etc. Includes account "for painting in York, 1726." The volume also includes some pages covered with John Watson's boyhood arithmetic from 1701. Some pages missing. In portfolio with a few photostat images of certain volume pages.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. ; 8 x 6 in.

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