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  • Collection: Broadsides, Posters and Printed Ephemera

To [Saml. Bliss Jr.] first constable of the town of [Strafford] in the county of [Orange] ... : you are hereby commanded to levy and collect [of the proprietors and land owners] one cent on each acre of land in ... Strafford ... there being [twenty four thousand three hundred] acres ... amounting ... to sum of [two hundred & forty three dollars & 25 cents] ... [Benj. Swan] treasurer

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Copy 1 has name of John Allen, first constable, crossed through and Saml. Bliss Jr. added. Ms. noted on verso.

To the sheriff of the county of $$ greeting. : ... a warrant has been directed ... to collect ... a tax granted by ... legislature ...

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Questionnaire for Republican Gubernatorial Candidates, May 22, 1920

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Questionnaire addressed to the candidates for the 1920 Republican nomination for Governor: James Hartness, Frederick H. Babbitt, Curtis S. Emery, and Frank W. Agan. The questionnaire was circulated by H.S. Wardner, a resident of Windsor, VT, seeking…

Horses wanted!

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Text continues: Dura Warren will be at the hotel, in royalton on Wednesday, Nov. 27th, 1861, and wishes to buy several good, and kind, horses for cavalry use.

This certifies that Henry A. Greene has been regularly admitted a member of the Washington Benevolent Society ... at Rockingham ... February 1812 / David Campbell, pres. Alex S. Campbell, secretary

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Printed form with manuscript additions.

Miss Louisa M. Alden has...been examined and is...qualified to instruct...hereby licensed to teach school in county of Washington...

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Printed form with manuscript notes, signed by E.J. Scott, Superintendent of Common Schools.

Premiums for 1822 ... Joshua Y. Vail

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Rules and classes for entries.

The United States of America, To all whom these presents shall come, greeting

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Certificate for purchase of public land

Glorious naval victory! : "We have met the enemy and they are ours." Office of the Watchman, Sept. 12, 1 o'clock. ... By several persons who witnessed the naval engagement on Lake Champlain ...

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Reports the capture of four British vessels by MacDonough's fleet.

[Toll ticket] : to the company for rendering Connecticut River navigable by Water Quechee Falls ... received payment for the company, {dollar}5.00. Toll-gatherer. May 12, 1813

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Copy 1 is a printed form, completed in manuscript. Copy 2 is a different printing, left blank. See "The company for rendering Connecticut River navigable by Water- Quechee Falls.", VHS Proc., v.9, p. 75.

Descendents [sic] of Towner Keeney Webster and Emma Josephine Kitchell

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Family tree drawn by Maurice H. Webster, giving the year of marriage for many of the descendants of Towner Keeney Webster and Emma Josephine Kitchell of Evanston, Illinois.

Catalogue of the instructers & students of the West Townshend Select School, Vt., November 21st, 1828. Order of exercises at the exhibition

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Select schools were precursors of secondary or high schools.