Note book : miscellany, vol. VII / [compiled by] W.H. Samson] [1904?-1908?]

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Note book : miscellany, vol. VII / [compiled by] W.H. Samson] [1904?-1908?]

Includes copies of George washington's will and some letters to his private secretary, Tobias Lear, and descriptions of the Genesee River and Carthage, a former town along the lower Genesee.

ca. 240 leaves, bound : ill. ; 29 cm.

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Samson, William Holland, 1860-1919.

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