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Typed original legal size letter to 'Jo' about the ice storm dated Nov. 30, 1921. Also she copied article from New York Times, Fri., Dec. 2, 1921. Also photocopy of same.

Elizabeth Payne typed History of Western Massachusetts. (Do we have a copy?) Hampshire County, the Hatfield Grant, the Plantatons, the Proprietory Period, the Edgerton Papers, Act of Incorporation.

Elizabeth Payne typed 8-page draft for an article based on the first two books of Town Records of Town Meetings written for WHS meeting in 1982.

Letter from Daniel Porter to Eva Fairman, dated June 15, 1965. Porter, director of the Ohio State Museum, writes about New Englanders moving to the Ohio area. Typed on grey 'Ohio Historical Society' stationery. Specifically mentions Nicholas…

2 copies of Harold Parmalee 17 page paper ' Life in the Country at the Beginning of the 20th Century'. Dated 2/10/1964. Typed on onion skin (second copy - photocopy).

Administrator's Sale' estate of Charles T. Smith 8/12/1876. 'Will be sold at Public Auctiion, at the late residence of Charles T. Smith, in South Worthington, deceased. On Saturday, August 12th, 1876, At One o'clock, P.M., 1 Yoke of Oxen, 1 Cow, 1…

Poster advertising Farm for Sale in North part of Worthington (Sampsonville, a.k.a. 'The Dingle') . Dated Dec. 1847.

Poster advertising T.M. Sheridan Tailor, February 1841. Glued on board. 'T. M. Sheridan would respectfully inform the inhabitants of Worthington, that he has taken rooms over the store now occupied by Bagg and Alvord...' Brief history: Also…

Elizabeth Payne typed draft of the Dedication to the Papers on the History of Worthington, describing its purpose, sources, and History of the WHS. According to Elodi McBride Elizabeth and Lois Ashe Brown disagreed about many of the stories that came…

C. Kenneth Osgood's statement on the First Meeting House Marker on West Street. Signed: C. Kenneth Osgood. One page typed. Dated September 6, 1968.

Article by Arthur Capen on the History of the Worthington Library, dated when the Library was 46 years old. Arthur Capen was librarian.

Newspaper clipping containing article by Dorothy Potter, dated 9/23/60, about Library's 46 year birthday. Includes picture.

Susan T. Lesley's writing 'Recollections of My Mother', Chapter VI, p.97. See also Box 29d 340/H/#112 Lesley's sister was wife to Judge Samuel Howe of Worthington. Contains writing about Woodbridge House where he lived until 1820 when he moved to…

Newspaper clipping glued to paper about Library after 53 years of service.

Mrs. Mary E. (Hills) Loveland's article on Samuel Follett. Mrs. Loveland's grandmother came to llive with her grandparents, the Samuel Folletts. Handwritten on two pages. Also three pages of 'Copies of Letters to Samuel Follett. Who was the…

Original typewritten article, five pages, on the Edgerton Papers by Carl Joslyn. Signed by the author. Also 1' xeroxed copy. Original handwritten copy on 8-1/2' x 14' with references; notes on founding of the town with input from Elsie V. Bartlett.…

Transcription, dated 1950s, from Hampden County Registry of Deeds, Book No. 6, by Carl Joslyn. Record of Indenture of Original Proprietors dated 1765. Proprietors: Aaron Willard, Josiah Dwight, Timothy Dwight, Salah Barnard, John Worthington.

Controversy over the location of the new Meeting House -- 'Should it be located on the site of the old Meeting House (corner of Harvey Road and Rte 112) or on land farther to the north.' Seventeen pages of Town Meeting notes referring to new Meeting…

These four entries are hand written transcriptions of Hampshire Gazette articles: A 1931 article on the burning of the Lafayette Lodge Trow's Hotel burns down 1898 Reminiscences of Worthington 1871 - signed 'A Traveler' Story of Centennial…

Notes from Town Meeting records by Carl Joslyn, various dates, from October 16, 1765 to July 8, 1920. Includes a list of 132 names of those eligible for military service - Civil War with war casualities list, military draft.