Hazelton, Bruce W.

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Primarily correspondence from Shepard Cary, Rufus Dwinel, Ira Fish, Alvin Haynes, William P. Preble, Albert Smith, Hastings Strickland, and others, about state politics and appointments, but also includes information about personal and business affairs and a letter of Charles Plummer about gold mining in California.

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Consisting of about 800 letters and manuscript documents, concerning legal and financial transactions in Kittery, Berwick and York, Maine. Personal names include: Hill, Hobbs, Langdon, Shapleigh, Chadbourne, Lord, Leighton, Gerrish, and Frost.

Scope and Content note Personal and business correspondence, including letters of Deacon William Barrows, John Black, Richard Bradley, David Bronson, Thomas Amory Deblois, Moses Emery, Stephen Emery, John Fairfield, Rev. Joseph P. Fessenden, Robert K. Goodenow, Isaac Hodsdon, and others; also some correspondence between William G. Barrows and George B. Barrows, a Fryeburg voting list (ca. 1844) containing names of Whig and Liberty Party voters, Hebron Academy ephemera, newspaper clippings, miscellaneous legal...

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Minutes of town meetings; voter lists; valuations; assessments for state, county, town highway and ministerial taxes; reports, accounts, bonds, bills, receipts, etc., relating to assessments, abatements, roads, highway, bridges, school, paupers, and other town affairs; and also a contract and specifications, 1845, for the construction of the town hall.

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Primarily correspondence from Bion Bradbury, Anson Gancello Chandler, John Hodgdon, Gorham Parks, Timothy Pilsbury, Edward G. Rawson, Collins Whitaker, and others, about political affairs, but also some regarding lumbering and other matters; also included are cancelled checks and twelve letters to Collins Whitaker, Cary’s business partner.