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Sturtevant, J. B. (Joseph Bevier), 1851-1910. Central School : students.

Title: Central School : students. 1887.

ArchivalResource: 8 photographs (1 view)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/427362316 View

Allen family. Papers, 1829-1918. Section 16.

Title: Papers, 1829-1918. Section 16.

Bond, 1857, of Samuel Allen to John J. Brown; and agreements, 1866-1868, of Samuel Allen (of Buckingham County, Va.) with freedmen (ie., Vincent Agee, Nathan Allen, Walker Cabell, Archer Chambers, Willis Chambers, Adam Holman, Henry Holman, Dick Jones, Jessie Lewis, William Lewis, Ben Miller, Edward Patteson, Shadrack Patteson, and George Sharp) to farm land in Buckingham County, Va.

ArchivalResource: 4 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/39012007 View

Penmanship Collection, undated; 1762-1856.

Title: Penmanship Collection, undated; 1762-1856.

The penmanship collection consists of twenty-three copy books, undated, 1762-1856, representing the work of students from various locations, e.g., Boston, Charlton, Leicester, and Salem, Mass., Brunswick, Me., Eastford, Conn., and New York and Fishers Island, N.Y. The books, many with illustrated covers, contain examples of penmanship learning methods, including progressions from letters to sentences, practice-copying of verses and essays, plain and ornamental script, "ladies' epistolary writing," and "gentlemen's business hand." Several books also contain examples of paraphs, and others are divided into cypher books with detailed arithmetic and accounting problems. Represented in the collection are Nathaniel Allen, of Fisher's Island, N.Y.; Andrew Bigelow; Almira F. Bray, of Gloucester, Mass.; Marcell Brown; Mary Clough; Reuben Comins (1819- ), of Charlton, Mass.; James Coombs; Sarah W. Gill, of New York, N.Y.; Benjamin Goddard, Jr.; Simon Ray Greene; Mary Elizabeth Hovey (1829-1892); Lucy Ann Keyes, of Eastford, Conn.; Betsey Ann Lincoln (1817-1904); Rev. Samuel May (1810-1899), of Leicester, Mass.; Josiah B. Peele, of Salem, Mass.; Dan. F. Plummer; S. G. Rea; Rebeckah Salisbury, of Boston, Mass.; Samuel Salisbury (1769-1849); Almyra Sprague; Mary B. Thomas; Almond Tracy (1800- ); and Lincoln Varney, of Brunswick, Me. The oversize folder contains two items: a petition, dated May 1764, of John Vinal (1736-1832), writing-master and usher of the South-Writing School, to the town of Boston, regarding debt incurred while ill with small pox; and a mathematics exercise.

ArchivalResource: 25 v. ; octavo.1 folder ; oversize.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/191259605 View

Allen, Nathaniel. Papers, 1851-1921.

Title: Papers, 1851-1921.

Letters, legal and financial papers, and prices current bulletins (1866-1867) for agricultural products from Petersburg, Va. Correspondents include Nathaniel Allen, Marie Allen (his first wife), Mattie Harper (his second wife), and Edward Tuck, whose correspondence from Paris dominates the collection after 1897. Includes information on courtship, marriage, family life, and agriculture, particularly cultivation of cotton.

ArchivalResource: 492 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31526815 View

Townsend, Isaiah, 1777-1838. Northern Army War of 1812 collection, 1813-1815.

Title: Northern Army War of 1812 collection, 1813-1815.

Collection of papers related to the provisioning of the U.S Army in northern New York State by New York merchants and army contractors from 1813-1815. The collection consists of about 30 letters dealing with acquisition or delivery of provisions; abstracts of commuted rations; about 60 receipts for provisions delived to Army units; abstracts of provisions; contracts; and about 150 notes ordering Isaiah Townsend of Albany to pay various persons for services, etc. The names which appear most often are Isaiah Townsend, James Tracy, Elbert Anderson, William D. Cheever, Timothy Burr, Nathaniel Allen, and James Thorn.

ArchivalResource: 0.4 linear feet (1 box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58781205 View

Frost family. Business records, 1727-1884 (inclusive), 1764-1884 (bulk).

Title: Business records, 1727-1884 (inclusive), 1764-1884 (bulk).

Daybooks (1748-1881), ledgers (1727-1884), bill books (1821-1829), letters, bills (to 1820, sample years 1830, 1840, 1850, 1859 thereafter), and other accounts. There is an account book for John Burleigh (father-in-law of George II), who owned a store in Newmarket; the volume covers the years 1764-1789. Included in the collection are wood and lumber accounts (1806-1833) and packet accounts (1818-1822) of George Frost II. There are also accounts for Mellen and Frost (1821-1827) and Mooney and Frost (1826-1836), and for Moses Hall, Durham (1817-1818).

ArchivalResource: 8 linear ft. (84 v., 1 case, 1 box)Copies: 1 microfilm reel.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/269587548 View

Allen, Nathaniel. Ledgers, 1710-1752.

Title: Ledgers, 1710-1752.

ArchivalResource: 173 p. ; 31 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122589942 View

War of 1812 collection, 1812-1819.

Title: War of 1812 collection, 1812-1819.

Military order book written from Plattsburgh, French Mills, and Chazy concerning duty assignments, court martials, and military encounters, including the Battle of Plattsburgh, 1814; military orders, 1813; letters and records concerning supplies, including letters by Nathaniel Allen on transporting beef, 1815, Timothy Burr on purchases and orders, Richard Winslow on the difficulties in obtaining supplies, 1814, and accounts of Dr. William D. Cheever, 1814; and letters of John Whitman concerning recruitments, orders, and charges against him, 1818-1819.

ArchivalResource: 25 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155494115 View