Copybook and diary collection, 1749-1950.

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Copybook and diary collection, 1749-1950.

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Arithmetic copybook of Joseph Roarke, 1749; copybook on "plane sailing" kept by John Hawkins, 1795, with diagrams and colored sketches of ships; copybook of quotations and other matters kept by Fanny White, 1849; an unsigned copybook containing part of Blackstone's COMMENTARIES and accounts concerning hired hands for 1848; school copybook kept by Sarah H. Irish, 1872-1881; notebook of Sarah Weeks, 1866-1868, containing riddles, off-color jokes, and a few notes of her social life; cookbooks and household notes kept by Lydia S. Lent, Mary A. Fowler, Mary Rose Bailey, and Gladys Strang Conklin; diaries of Ruth Townsend with short entries on weather, deaths, and marriages, 1940-1950; unidentified diary concerning a trip abroad, 1923; and miscellaneous autograph books, 1880-1894.

23 v.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6882299

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Town of Yorktown Museum (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.)

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Collecting area: History of the Town of Yorktown, N.Y. From the description of Repository description. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155541608 ...

Townsend, Ruth O.

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Bailey, Mary Rose.

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Weeks, Sarah

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Fowler, Mary Anne

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Hawkins, John, active 1635

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Epithet: of Add MS 34729 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000303.0x000120 John Hawkins was a Sergeant Major in the 2nd Canadian Regiment of the Continental Army under the command of Colonel Moses Hazen from January 1 1776 to June of 1783. It acquired the name of "Congress' Own Regiment" since Congress itself was responsible for its supplies and maintainence. From the description of Orderly books, 178...

Lent, Lydia S.

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Irish, Sarah H.

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Conklin, Gladys Strang.

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Roarke, Joseph.

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White, Fanny.

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