Town papers, 1792-1876.

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Town papers, 1792-1876.

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List of persons warned to leave town (1792); paper relating to the funeral of Eli Forbes (1804); request for special town meeting concerning ceding Ten Pound Island lighthouse to federal government (1820); papers relating to George Tucker and to Charles Norwood's children (1823), House of Correction site required (1827); corn and rye ground at Squam mills (1846), Millets Island annexed to town parish (1849), and death of John Foley (1872); letters, lists, and votes that passed through clerk's office, some undated and unidentified; and 14 certificates of character or letters enquiring into someone's character.

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Gloucester Archives

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Gloucester (Mass.)

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Norwood, Charles D. 1910-1980

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Norwood family.

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Gloucester (Mass.). City Clerk

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Tucker, George, of Gloucester, Mass.

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House of Correction (Gloucester, Mass.)

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Foley, John, -1872

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Forbes, Eli, 1726-1804

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Eli Forbes (1726-1804) was born Eli Forbush in Westborough, Mass., and changed his name during the French and Indian War when a Scottish officer convinced him he was spelling it wrong. He was a pupil of Ebenezer Parkman (1703-1782) and later married Parkman's daughter, Mary (1725-1776). He graduated from Harvard in 1751. During 1758 to 1759, he served as a chaplain in the Lake George campaigns of the French and Indian War, and later participated in the capture of Ticonderoga. ...

Tenpound Island Light (Mass.)

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