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Parchment certificate of appointment for William Gorham Rice to be a member of the State Civil Service Commission of New York witnessed and signed by Franklin D. Roosevelt when he was governor of New York State in 1931. Containing a gold seal. This…

Parchment certificate of appointment for William G. Rice to be State Civil Service Commissioner of New York, signed by President Grover Cleveland and containing seal of the President of the United States, on May 13, 1895. This and 2006a-248 are…

Vellum Certificate of Honorable Discharge (Resignation) from the Fourth Regiment of Infantry in the Second Brigade and Fourth Division of the Militia of this Commonwealth (Massachusetts) at his own request. Signed by the Adjutant General (identify…

Vellum document as follows:"Commonwealth of Massachusetts to the Sheriff of our county of Hampshire, or his Deputy - Greeting Whereas William Rice of Worthington in said county by the consideration of our Court of Common Pleas holden at Northampton,…

Vellum document as follows: "Governor and Commander in Chief of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to William Rice, Esquire, -Greeting - You being elected on the third day of July A.D. 1818 to be Major in the fourth Regiment of Infantry, in the Second…

Vellum document as follows: "His Excellency Caleb Strong, Governor and Commander in Chief of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to William Rice, Gentleman, - Greeting - You being elected on the fourteenth day of May 1813 to be Ensign of a Company in…

Vellum document as follows: "His Excellency Caleb Strong, Governor and Commander in Chief of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to William Rice, Gentleman, - Greeting - You being elected on the seventh day of May 1816 to be Captain of a Company in…

Vellum certificate of appointment for William Gorham Rice to be State Civil Service Commissioner of New York, witnessed and signed by Charles Seymour Whitman and containing a red seal dated February 3, 1915. This and 2006a-248 and 2006a-249 are…

Booklet of Play, The Coming of the Mayflower" by Rosamond Kimball, published by the Interchurch World Movement of North America, 43 West 18th Street, New York, NY. 2 copies

Brown leather book "In Memorial - Dr. Alden March" To Mrs. James C. Rice with kind regards of Dr. and Mrs. Henry March, August 1870.

Hand-written genealogy for descendents of Thomas Clapp, father of Worthington resident, Samuel Clapp, born 25 July 1725 died 1809. 7 pages.

Typewritten copy of letter from William Gorham Rice, Jr. to Mrs. Forbes, dated 14 December 1917, S S U 66. Letter from the front in France during World War I. "Dear Mrs. Forbes, Many thanks for the Christmas present which has just come to lighten my…

This is a block of granite which serves as a sample of the NH granite used for the Gettysburg PA monument to 41 Commanders of the Civil War "not hitherto memorialized." This memorial (whose picture is in the Photographic Data Base # 2006-128, please…

Colored print of Rice and Seeley coats of arms by Roland-Smythe. "Secret et Hardi." On cream colored drawing paper. Was in frame which is in the basement. This DR is in PTG Box B because of its size.

This one page brief account of Ernestine Perry was given to Bee Smith by Pat Pease who then gave it to the WHS. It reads: "Ernestine Perry - lives in Maryland with her son. In 1952 on a Washington School trip from the Huntington High School, because…

This is a newsclipping from the Hilltown News (precursor to the Country Journal?), 1964, stating: "Worthington has first women serving on Town Finance Board - Mrs. Raymond H. Sears and Mrs. Richard B. Smith, newly appointed members of the Finance…

Black framed announcement of the "Arrangement for the Grand and Solemn Funeral Procession which is to take place on the 26th of May inst. 1808, at interment of the remains of eleven thousand five hundred American Seamen, Soldiers and Citizens, who…

There are two books of the same dimensions: one is red (1938) and the other is green (1956). Both contain slips of certificates pertaining to the certifying of the Weights and Measures. These books came from the Department of Weights and Measures.…

Notice from Division of Standards concerning measures. Front page reads: Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Division of Standards "Massachusetts Points the Way" - "Most reforms touch the average person but once in a lifetime, but the question of honest…

Three reports of the Director of Standards from the Department of Labor and Industries pertaining to the Weights and Measures.