Local history collection, 1845-1984.

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Local history collection, 1845-1984.

Subject file containing articles, pamphlets, genealogies, clippings, reports, souvenir programs, tourist brochures, and transcriptions of cemetery, birth, and marriage records for Essex County and other Adirondack locations, 1862-1984, including typescript copy of the Civil War diary of Oscar Morhouse, 1862, and yearbooks of the Willsboro Central School, 1939-1984. Clippings, articles, correspondence, and legal papers, in part transcripts, concerning the history of the log cabin built by Samuel Adsit on Willsboro Point in 1778. Typescript copy of the journal of William Gilliland, 1765-1793, and biography of Gilliland by Alice Highby Downes, ca.1920.

4 cubic ft., 15 v.

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Paine Memorial Library (Willsboro, N.Y.).

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Adsit, Samuel.

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Essex (Sloop)

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Willsboro Central School (Willsboro, N.Y.)

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Oberon, Clyde.

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Gilliland family.

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Wardenburg, Martha

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West, Alberta.

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Glen, Morris F.

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Morhouse, Oscar.

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Downes, Alice Higby.

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Gilliland, William, 1734?-1796

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Landowner and pioneer settler of Willsboro, Essex County. From the description of Journal, 1765-1793. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155464263 Pioneer settler of Willsboro, N.Y. From the description of Papers, 1765-1818. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155469315 William Gilliland fought with Ethan Allen at Fort Ticonderoga (1775) and was a founder of WIllisborough, (contemporary Willisboro) N. Y. From the description of [Letter] 1775 Jun. 6, W...