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Original handwritten statement of account of Lyman J.Tower against William Hartwell of Cummington, 1856-1857. Blue ledger paper, both sides

Legal documents pertaining to Rolland estate items at WHS.

Records dated December 13, 1843. Lists students for both winter and spring terms, 1843-1844. Brown paper cover; handwritten title; records on inside handwritten on lined paper. Beautiful penmanship but not published as are some others.

Accounts dated December 13, 1843, beginning with winter term, 1843-1844 and spring term, 1844-1845. Accounts pertinent to each student as well as to expenses for running the school. James C. Rice listed as student. Contains slip of paper writing…

1) Indenture contract of Benjamin E. Green, indentor of his son Jobe, to Elisha Brewsters 2/27/1790'; See also Box 29d. 2) Woodbridge House - Heyl Associates; See also Box 35. 3) Copy of Hampshire Gazette article re: $1.7 million to town, civic…

Inventory of Rice Room material at the town library. IDENTIFY. The WHS has been given permission by Edwina Sebest to take the material from the Rice Room, catalog it, and keep it at the Archive building. The transfer will be made in the summer of…

Cummington Church and Town records from 1834-55, p.44. (belongs in Ephemera - Box 66 series) Regarding the tearing down of Cummington Church building. Typewritten. Copy mailed to Cummington Historical Society

Call to annual meetings 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988. File includes meeting agenda. Items included include discussion on baseball played in 1868. Letters between Elisha Brewster and Walter L. Stevens re Historical Society…

Record book dates from 1848 to 1881. From School District #11. Handwritten in ink in ledger book. Contains lined paper pages handwritten changes according to clerks. Clerk 1: Cyrus Parsons 2: Aaron Stevens 3: Lafayette Stevens 4: H. E. Tower 5:…

The porch on this house collapsed in a snowstorm on January 17, 1949. Photograph shows foundation after repairs.

Typed letter to Lois Ashe Brown from Verna Borst, Sept 4, 1994, with recollections of the Wets Worthngton Church.

2001 Program of Worthington's WWII Veterans Day Commemoration which was held at the Town Hall and video taped by Jerome Noonan and Ed and Helen Pelletier. The tape was donated to the Historical Society and is in Box 46.

This miscellaneous material on the history of Worthington dates from 1984 IDENTIFY

My recollection of the little Methodist church in West Worthington' She was born in 1900, memories of church date from 1910 to 1912.

Donald Ives wrote this extensive weather report for the town complete with 6 charts to summer 2007 for inclusion in the republication of Papers on the History of Worthington

Walter Stevens' transcription (done at Forbes Library) from various sources recording info about Samuel Howe. Howe as lawyer represented various Worthington clients: Eliphabet Metcalf, Nathaniel Eager, Jonathan Prentice, Harvey Partridge, Trowbridge…

Walter Stevens' transcription (done at Forbes Library) from various sources recording info about Samuel Howe. Includes list of Howe's children. (this is date of transcription not of documents) p. 6, note by Arthur Capen

Walter Stevens' transcription (done at Forbes Library) from various sources recording info about Samuel Howe. Biography of Samuel Howe. Date of transcription, not of document.

Typewritten transcription excerpted from a journal dated 1792 of Rev. Francis Asbury from New York describing drive through Massachusetts, including passing through Worthington (Methodist Church - identify Dot Nelson)

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.