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Wheeler family. Wheeler family papers, 1811-1934.

Title: Wheeler family papers, 1811-1934.

ArchivalResource: 1.2 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64072436 View

Various. Newburyport, Massachusetts Town Records, 1670-1913.

Title: Newburyport, Massachusetts Town Records, 1670-1913.

Contains papers relating to town business and daily life in Newburyport, Massachusetts. Town Records series includes court documents, militia records, Overseers of the Poor, and tax records. Fire Department series includes records of tax abatements for firemen and engineers, record and account books for various fire societies and a history of the Newburyport Fire Department from 1761 to 1900. School Records subseries includes attendance registers, school record books and reports, and a bound volume of The Putnam Experiment, the weekly school newspaper, from the 1850s and including volumes V to IX. The Student Work subseries includes a large number of penmanship books, mainly belonging to members of the Short family, sketch books and an oversized companion exercise. Church Records series includes original and transcribed records from St. Pauls Church, records from the First Religious Society in Newburyport, records from the Christian Church, and an organ tax list. This series also includes transcriptions from gravestones located in Newburyport. Other Records series consists of Corporations, Societies and Miscellaneous Papers of Newburyport. Corporations subseries contains four volumes of Transfer Books for the Essex-Merrimack Bridge Corporation, records pertaining to the bankruptcy of the Essex Hat Manufacturing Company, a record book tracking employee time sheets and various local bank records. The Societies subseries includes records of the Adelphi Society, Declaiming and Debate Club, Knights of Honor, Old Town Farmers Club and correspondence of the Merrimack Humane Society. The Miscellaneous subseries includes local shipping records, the log book for the magnetic telegraph for 1848, the religious notebook of Elizabeth Gerrish, a petition to oppose the reelection of General Butler, and letters to Reverend Fiske from his daughter while performing mission work in Hawaii.

ArchivalResource: 28 boxes plus 2 oversize folders (18.5 linear feet)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/753576316 View