Edward Merritt McEachern Jr. Collection, 1794-1951

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Edward Merritt McEachern Jr. Collection, 1794-1951

1794-1951

Collection (1794-1951, 1971, undated) including correspondence, deeds, statements, promissory notes, will, inventories, legal papers; poems, clippings, photographs, etc. relating to the Banks and Stacey families.

0.65 Cubic Feet, 283 items

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