Minutes of conversations, 1840-1860.

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Minutes of conversations, 1840-1860.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/713045169

Records of interviews (1840-1860) with older residents of the area regarding the settlement and early history of Middlebury, Vt. Samuel Swift used many of these interviews in his History of Middlebury (1859).

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Sheldon Museum Research Center

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Sheldon Museum Research Center

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