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  • Collection: Selected Small Broadsides

[Circular] 1820 October 20, Montpelier [to] Dear sir, The managers of the Vermont Colonization Society ... proposed to ... inhabitants of ... State, a general contribution in aid ... of this benevolent institution

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Society officers listed.

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

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Songs of home and country : lecture recital ... by Mr. Frederick W. Bancroft at the request of the citizens of Montpelier

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List of songs introduced in lecture.

The song of the Vermonters. 1779

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Printed on pale green paper in 2 columns w/ notes extending across sheet. The original broadside printed between 1843-1845. See Carroll A. Wilson Ms 801 W692w and Whittier Misc. file #1660.

Sousa and his band. : Armory -- Rutland Thursday eve., July 20, [1922]

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Program, photographs, and band principals list

To the legislature of the state of Vermont. : the petition of Sylvester Phelps ... survivor of Jedediah P. Ladd & James Wilson ...

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Petitioner says 13 kegs of tobacco valued at {dollar}1040. were seized illegally in 1813 and he is entitled to value from the state whose legislature passed act depriving him of property

Hemp - Cannibis - Sativa

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Article on cultivation of hemp and it's importance in manufacture of rope for U.S. Navy. Roswell Marsh, attorney in Rutland Co., wrote extensively for Montpelier Green Mt. Freeman and Rutland Herald.

Special notice : On or after March l, 1883 the following instructions for the transportation of corpses must be strictly complied with / W.A. Stowell, Supt.

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[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.

Letters from Bennington, Vt., Oct. 31, 1800, to Cavendish, Vt. Newspapers. Micah J. Lyman, P.M.

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Printed form with columns for number of pieces and rate in dollars and cents. "Newspapers" printed across columns at bottom.

Reward of merit. This may certify that the bearer, for good conduct ... merits ... esteem of ... instructer (sic)

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Woodcut of girl on horseback signed "Bowen". Engraver may be Abel Bowen, Boston. Elaborate border.

The right of manufacturing Cooper's patent rotative fire engines, force-pumps, etc. ... recently ... purchased from Messrs. Cooper, Phelps & Campbell ... / Luther Foote, Secretary

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Text printed across page at top and bottom separated by two columns of print. Full description and prices of engines. Rotative piston patent to John M. Cooper, Guildhall, July 16, 1827.