Vertical file, 1750-1988.

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Vertical file, 1750-1988.

Materials pertaining to the history of the Town of North Salem, including clippings, articles, typescript articles, research correspondence, and maps, and photocopies and typescripts of original documents such as accounts, military records, Revolutionary War salt distribution records, account books. letters, deeds, wills, inventories, Justice of the Peace records, marriage records, and slave documents. Subjects include architecture, the Titicus Road Race, crime, government, police, Indians, agriculture, banking, cemeteries, circus, civic organizations, doctors, education, railroads, stone walls, the Salem Rangers (a militia unit), loyalists during the American Revolution, and wars.

ca. 8 cubic ft.

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North Salem (N.Y. : Town). Town Historian.

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New York (State). Militia

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Levies were special regiments recruited under provisions of the legislature which entitled recruits to plots of unappropriated land. From the description of Levy certificates issued record book. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122617529 ...