Records, 1686-1800.

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Records, 1686-1800.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/191259509

This collection consists of nine papers of Marblehead, Mass., for 1686 to 1800, and includes Custom House entry and clearance lists, orders to administer estates, medical receipts, and a release from quarantine due to smallpox in 1800. The collection also contains a fifteen page historical sketch of Marblehead from 1649 to 1792 written in 1800 by Isaac Mansfield, Jr. (1750-1826) for publication in the _Salem Impartial Register_ printed by William Carlton (1771-1805). The sketch includes information on topography, church history, war records, and education. Mansfield was a Revolutionary army chaplain, Marblehead delegate for ratification of the federal constitution, selectman, and writer of the first brief history of Marblehead published in the Massachusetts Historical Society collection of 1802.

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Gadsden Public Library

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Gadsden Public Library

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Marblehead (Mass.)

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Marblehead, Essex County, Massachusetts is located fifteen miles northeast of Boston, Mass. It was settled in 1629 and set off from Salem, Mass., in 1633. From the description of Records, 1686-1800. (American Antiquarian Society). WorldCat record id: 191259509 ...

Mansfield, Isaac, 1750-1826

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