Scrapbook

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Scrapbook

1837-1848

Contains newspaper clippings from a variety of newspapers from New England and other parts of the United States, focusing on prominent court cases of the day. Also includes several pamphlets, broadsides, etc. At end are pages from several newspapers, dated 1847, evidently added after the library acquired the volume: The National Era, Daily Whig, The Monmouth Atlas, Hampshire & Franklin Express, Halifax Morning Post.

[155] leaves ; 35 cm.

eng, Latn

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Greenleaf, Simon, 1783-1853

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Simon Greenleaf was born on December 5, 1783 in Newburyport, Massachusetts, where he attended the Latin School from 1790-1799. In 1801, he entered apprenticeship in Ezekiel Whitman's Gloucester, Maine law office. In June 1806, Cumberland County, Maine admitted Greenleaf to the Bar. On September 18, 1806, Greenleaf married Hannah Kingman, daughter to Capt. Ezra Kingman of East Bridgewater, Massachusetts. From 1807-1817, Greenleaf practiced law in Gray, Maine before moving his law practi...

Sweetman, John, fl. 1845,

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Story, Joseph, 1779-1845

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