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[Translation of the history of the Lorimer family coat of arms]

Translates GLC01450.807.07.01. Discusses the Lorimer family coat of arms and family genealogy. Relates that the arms "were given in the year 1274, to George Lorimor of Burnt Island in the time of Alexander the third of that name King of Scots, for...

GLC01450.807.07.02

[Receipt for payment for doors]

Records partial payment received from Benjamin Storer for "two panel doers and one oueter doer." Halifax spelled "Halyfacks."

GLC01450.244.02

[Receipt book with forged signatures]

Includes forged signatures of John Adams and John Hancock pasted onto the inside of the front board. Some receipts included are written to Treat & Pico, others to Joshua Pico. Items/services bought and sold include oil, rent of property, schooling...

GLC01450.725

Records of accounts, mentions Pensacola, Fla.

Repaired. With description laid-in.

page numbered 81 includes a print of Gibraltar.

GLC01450.454

[Claim for payment of seventy pounds from the Colony of Rhode Island for a ten day journey to Albany, New York]

Order to fulfill Captain Cornell's request signed by First Deputy Francis Brayton on 28 December 1757. A note on the verso singed by Cornell reads: "Tho. Richardson Please to pay the Contents of the within order." Richardson was the General...

GLC01450.244.03

[Statement for 1087 Pounds 10s.1p owed Jacob Rodriguez Rivera]

Statement, mostly for candles, but also for paper products. Candles are for a lodge, most likely Touro Synagogue, the oldest synagogue in the United States, though it is not named. Rivera belonged to Touro Synagogue. Thomas Vernon, another Rhode...

GLC01450.505

[Account book of the General Treasurer of Rhode Island]

Records sums paid out by Clarke, mostly for soldiers pay during the French & Indian War. Signed by various recipients. Many blank sheets.

GLC01450.244.01

[Notice of a fifteen pound payment to Thomas Arnold, Immanuel Northrup, and Stephen Potter, ordered by the General Assembly of Rhode Island]

States that the payment was ordered at a meeting on 21 August 1758 and to be made from the Rhode Island General Treasury. A note on the verso singed by Northrup indicates he received five pounds on 6 December 1859. Witnessed by Ward as secretary.

GLC01450.244.05

[Notice of assessment]

Notice instructing Timothy Hopkins to present "to Samuel Brown, Principal Assessor for this district, a list truly stating the value of your household furniture, (excepting therefrom, beds, bedding, kitchen furniture, family pictures, and articles...

GLC01450.446.15

[Land survey of a 69 acre plot beside the road between Rochester, Massachusetts and Waveham, Massachusetts, and a narrative explanation]

Includes the names of the surveyors: Isaiah Hatch, Joseph Haskell, and [illegible]. Narrative explanation details the owners of various parts of the plot. Hand drawn map includes distances and environmental boundary markers. Docketed on reverse as...

GLC01450.434