Letter to Mary Boltwood
United States -- History -- French and Indian War, 1755-1763
Letter to Mary Boltwood from her husband on the day before he says he is to set sail with a large contingent of soldiers, from Lake George to Ticonderoga.
Fort Ticonderoga controlled the route between the Hudson River Valley and Canada in the wars of the eighteenth century. In 1755, Ticonderoga (Fort Carillon to the French) was built by the French on a military road on an Indian portage between the two lakes. The area then became an active place of fighting between the Indians, French, British, and Americans. General Jeffery Amherst captured the fort in late July, 1759, several weeks after this letter was written.
Letter is incomplete. In this letter the word "battos" means "bateaux" -- a long, tapering, flat-bottomed river boat.
Jones Library Special Collections
1758-07-05
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Folder: Boltwood, Mary -- Letter
Deed of Hadley Third Precinct, June 25, 1747
Deeds -- Massachusetts -- Amherst
Amherst (Mass.)
Deed from Ebenezer Kellogg of Hadley to Nathaniel Smith of Hadley conveying tract of land in the second division of the Third Precinct (now Amherst).
Kellogg, Ebenezer
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1747-06-25
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Folder: Hadley -- Third Precinct -- Deeds
Warrant for the first meeting in Hadley Third Precinct, September 22, 1735
Local government
Amherst (Mass.)
Warrant to Ebenezer Kellogg to have him notify the inhabitants of Hadley Third Precinct (now Amherst) to meet at the house of Zachariah Field on October 8th to decide matters relating to choosing officers who will have the power to call meetings, and making decisions about hiring a minister, locating and building a meetinghouse, and taxes. It is signed by Justice of the Peace, Elezer Porter.
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1735
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Will of Nathanael Smith, October 30, 1765
Wills
Amherst (Mass.)
Will of Nathaniel Smith, one of the early settlers of Amherst. He was the first physician to practice in Amherst. He was also a farmer. In this, his last will and testament, he leaves money to his wife and daughter, both named Rebekah, and some to his grandchildren, Dorothy Mattoon, Elisabeth Mattoon, and Ebenezer Mattoon.
Smith, Nathaniel, 1702-1774
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1765-10-30
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Record of Town Meeting, March 24, 1755
Local government
Amherst (Mass.)
Record of town meeting held in Amherst in 1755, 20 years after the first meeting. Votes recorded are concerned with choosing officers, committees, raising money for wood for the minister, that the committee chosen to "seat the meetinghouse" make some changes to accommodate newcomers, and setting the date for the annual meeting.
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1755-03-24
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B. New Engelland, New York, New Yersey und Pensilvania
New England -- Maps
Hadley, Northampton, Hatfield, and Deerfield are portrayed.
English. Title in German. Some place names, terms, etc., also have German work supplied. From the author's Atlas geographicvs major. 1753-59 [i.e. 1784; v. 1, 1759] part of v. 1, part 2, no. 85. Scale ca. 1:3,700,000. Hand colored.
Shows boundary of East and West Jersey as of or before 1702.
Bulk of description courtesy of Library of Congress Geography and Map Division.
Homann Erben (Firm)
Library of Congress Geography and Map Division
1759
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Part of: Atlas geographics major by Homann Erben. 1753-59 [i.e. 1784; v. 1, 1759] part of v. 1, part 2, no. 85.
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Maps
G3710 1702 .H6; http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3710.np000006
Petition for the name of Amherst
Petitions
Amherst (Mass.)
This is a letter of petition to Thomas Pownall, Governor of the Province of Massachusetts. John Nash, Isaac Ward, and Nehimieh Dickinson propose that the new town that is separating from Hadley should be named after Baron Jeffery Amherst.
Nash, John; Ward, Isaac; Dickinson, Nehimieh
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1757-06-05
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Map of New England and New York, 1676
New England -- Maps
This beautifully engraved and colored map represents an English version of the Jansson-Visscher series of maps of northeastern North America. Since it was published shortly after the expulsion of the Dutch from New York, the map displays geographical features similar to those found on its Dutch counterparts. However, the place names New Netherlands and New Amsterdam have been rechristened New York reflecting British control of the former Dutch colony. This map appeared in Thomas Basset and Richard Chiswell's 1676 edition of John Speed's world atlas, first published in 1627. (Description courtesy of Boston Public Library.)
Speed, John
Basset, Thomas
Courtesy of the Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, Boston Public Library
1676
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Maps
Jeffery Amherst letter to Lt. Col. Bradstreet, March 5, 1759
Amherst, Jeffery Amherst, Baron, 1717-1797
United States -- History -- French and Indian War, 1755-1763
Bradstreet, John, 1711-1774
Letter from Jeffery Amherst to Lt. Col. John Bradstreet regarding construction of boats, hire and pay of laborers, and finance for military campaign, March 5, 1759. Several months later Amherst successfully captured Fort Ticonderoga on the Hudson River from the French.
In this letter the word "battoes" means bateaux -- a long, tapering, flat-bottomed, river boat.
Amherst, Jeffery Amherst, Baron, 1717-1797
Jones Library Special Collections
1759-03-05
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Correspondence
Folder: Amherst, Jeffery--Correspondence
Account book of David Warner
Section from the account book of David Warner, a local blacksmith, showing work he completed for Simeon Clark. Some of the jobs listed: fixing the rim on a dishkettle, fixing grips for a harrow, mending chain, and mill work in a saw mill. The account beginning February 1757 has a cross through it, indicating the account was balanced, or paid. A new account for Simeon Clark was started July 5, 1757.
Warner, David
Jones Library Special Collections
1757
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Folder: Warner, David--Account books