Account book for Connecticut River transportation business
Commerce
Transportation
Account book kept by unknown person recording transportation of goods such as salt, molasses, and rum, up and down the Connecticut River during the years 1753 through 1756.
Jones Library Special Collections
Circa 1753
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Manuscripts
Folder: Account book--1753-1756
Amherst tax records, 1754
Property tax -- Massachusetts -- Amherst
Amherst (Mass.)
Tax record book showing property owned and its value.
Amherst (Mass.)
Jones Library Special Collections
1754
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Documents
Old Indian House in Deerfield
Deerfield (Mass.)
According to text on the back of the photograph, this house was built by John Sheldon about 1690 and razed in 1848. This photograph was copied from the only daguerreotype of the house in existence, belonging to the late Professor Aaron Warner (of Amherst College), by John L. Lovell. The sky in photograph is painted with white paint.
Lovell, John L., 1825-1903
Jones Library Special Collections
Before 1903
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Is part of the John Lovell Photograph Collection. Jones Library Special Collections
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Photographs
LOV0468
Hunting the deer
Indians of North America -- Hunting
Lithograph of a North American Indian hunting a deer.
Indians of America / Edward W. Miller, publisher, 1847
Jones Library Special Collections
Circa 1847
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Is part of the Clifton Johnson Schoolbook Collection, Jones Library Special Collections
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Prints
Deed of Hadley Third Precinct December 12, 1730
Deeds -- Massachusetts -- Amherst
Amherst (Mass.)
Deed from Ichabod Smith of Hadley to Nathaniel Smith, his son, conveying parcel of land in the second division of the Third Precinct (now Amherst).
Smith, Ichabod
Jones Library Special Collections
1730-12-12
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Folder: Hadley -- Third Precinct -- Deeds
Page from Nathaniel Smith's account book
Physicians
Hadley (Mass.)
Many of the early settlers combined some other occupation with that of farming. Nathaniel Smith, who was among the first of the East Inhabitants of Hadley, was a doctor, the first to practice his profession in the new settlement.
Jones Library Special Collections
Circa 1757
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Folder: Smith, Nathaniel -- Account Book
Tax warrant for Hadley Third Precinct, February 07, 1753
Taxation
Amherst (Mass.)
Warrant to Nathan Dickinson, constable, for collection of taxes in Third Precinct of Hadley (now Amherst).
Jones Library Special Collections
1753-02-07
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Folder: Hadley -- Third Precinct -- Tax Warrant
Agreement to build a gristmill
Mills and mill-work
Hadley (Mass.)
Agreement between Peletiah Smith and seven others to build, and to share equally the cost of, a gristmill to be situated on the Fort River in the Second Precinct of Hadley.
Jones Library Special Collections
1756-01-28
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Folder: Smith, Peletiah -- Grist mill
Manner in which many kinds of game were carried
Indians of North America -- Hunting
Lithograph of two North American Indians carrying game suspended on a pole between them.
Image from page 72 of Old Indian Chronicle by S. G. Drake, 1836.
Jones Library Special Collections
1836
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Prints
Deed of Hadley Third Precinct, June 16, 1730
Deeds -- Massachusetts -- Amherst
Amherst (Mass.)
Deed from Joseph Eastman of Hadley to Jonathan Smith of Hadley conveying tract of land in the second division of the Third Precinct (now Amherst).
Eastman, Joseph
Jones Library Special Collections
1730-06-16
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Folder: Hadley -- Third Precinct -- Deeds
Deed of Hadley Third Precinct, December 12, 1730
Deeds -- Massachusetts -- Amherst
Amherst (Mass.)
Deed from Ichabod Smith of Hadley to Nathaniel Smith, his son, conveying parcel in the third division of the Third Precinct (now Amherst).
Smith, Ichabod
Jones Library Special Collections
1730-12-12
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Folder: Hadley -- Third Precinct -- Deeds
Tax warrant for Hadley Third Precinct, February 14, 1753
Taxation
Amherst (Mass.)
Warrant to Nathan Dickinson, constable, for collection of taxes in Third Precinct of Hadley (now Amherst).
Jones Library Special Collections
1753-02-14
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Folder: Hadley -- Third Precinct -- Tax Warrant
Record of a precinct meeting in Hadley, March 19, 1745
Local government
Amherst (Mass.)
Record of a precinct meeting held in a section of Hadley (now Amherst) in 1745, 10 years after the first meeting. Votes recorded are concerned with choosing officers, committees, highway work, wood for the minister, making payment for services, and balancing accounts.
Jones Library Special Collections
1745-03-19
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Gristmill subscription, January 23, 1756
Mills and mill-work
Hadley (Mass.)
Subscription list for Peletiah Smith and seven others to share labor to build a gristmill on the Fort River in the Second Precinct of Hadley.
Jones Library Special Collections
1756-01-28
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Folder: Smith, Peletiah et al -- Grist mill
Receipt for salary paid, David Parsons, April 18, 1757
Clergy -- Salaries
Amherst (Mass.)
Receipt written by David Parsons, Amherst's first minister, for payment of his salary in old tenor money by Jonathan Dickinson, one of the first Selectmen of Amherst and the treasurer at the time.
Jones Library Special Collections
1757-04-18
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Folder: Parsons, David -- Receipt