12 May 1713

Delano, Jonathan, fl. 1701-1717

Document signed

Title: [Report of 5 January 1713 and 12 May 1713 meetings concerning Cedar Swamp at the town house in Dartmouth Township].

Delano has signed clerically for Richard Borden, John Akin, William Wood, Isaac Smith and Jacob Barker. The 12 May meeting required residents to draw lots for portions of the swamp lands. Certified as a true copy and signed as Clerk of the Township of Dartmouth.

GLC02924.016a

30 October 1749

Peabodie, John, fl. 1749

Document signed

Title: [Receipt for funds].

Also signed by Deborah Willbor (her mark). Receipt for Enos Gifford, executor, of twenty-five shillings left to Willbor by her father Christopher Gifford. Attested as Clerk of the Township of Dartmouth.

GLC02924.016b

8 November 1704

Macomber, Philip, fl. 1704

Document signed

Title: [Power of Attorney for Philip Macomber].

Witnessed by Justice of the Peace in the County of Dutchess George Ireligh and Ebenezer Mott. Grants power of attorney to Elijah Gifford of Darmouth in the State of Massachusetts.

GLC02924.017

19 May 1712

Delano, Jonathan, fl. 1701-1717

Document signed

Title: An account of land set off & left to Christopher Gifford and Robert Gifford on the 19th of May 1712.

Includes the clerical signatures of Benjamin Hammond and Surveyor Benjamin Crane. Docket dated 1718. Certified as a true copy and signed as Clerk of the Township of Dartmouth.

GLC02924.018

29 April 1712

Document

Title: [Property description].

Description of "thirteen acres of land laid out for Joseph Allen and John Allen."

GLC02924.019

1714/08/10

Delano, Jonathan, fl. 1701-1717

Document signed

Title: [Copy of a report of a meeting held for laying out 400 acres].

Delano signed clerically for Richard Borden, John Akin, William Wood, Jacob Barker, and Isaac Smith. Docket reads, "For Christopher Gifford to [illegible]." Attested as a true copy and signed as Clerk of the Township of Dartmouth.

GLC02924.020

5 August 1717

Kerbe, Richard, fl. 1717

Document signed

Title: [Sale of a parcel of 35 acres in Dartmouth Township, Massachusetts Bay Colony].

Also signed by Joseph Allen (his mark). Witnessed by Nathaniel Howland and Temperance Kerby. Kerbe and Allen agree to sell land to Robert Barker. Signed with his mark.

GLC02924.021

28 March 1717

Delano, Jonathan, fl. 1701-1717

Document signed

Title: [Copy of a report of a meeting held in Dartmouth Township on 28 March 1717 discussing land taken for highways].

Delano signed clerically for Richard Borden, John Akin, William Wood, Jacob Barker, and Isaac Smith. Attested as a true copy from the "Dartmouth Purchesors Book of Records" and signed as Clerk of the Township of Dartmouth.

GLC02924.022

January 28, 1717

Delano, Jonathan, fl. 1701-1717

Document signed

Title: [Copy of a report of a meeting held in Dartmouth Township on 28 January 1717].

Christopher and Robert Gifford had neglected to take up lands. The committee ordered the lands to be surveyed. Date from docket. Attested as a true copy and signed as Clerk of the Township of Dartmouth.

GLC02924.023

13 April 1713

Korbin, Richard, fl. 1713

Document signed

Title: [Indenture for the sale of land in Dartmouth Township, Massachusetts Bay Colony]

Also signed by Joseph Allon (his mark). Witnessed by Robard Korbin and Benjamin C[illegible]. Richard Korbin agrees to sell the land to Joseph Allon. Signed with his mark.

GLC02924.024

28 March 1717

Hathaway, Thomas, fl. 1717-1726

Document signed

Title: [Copy of a report of a meeting discussing land taken for highways].

Attested as a true copy and signed as Clerk of the Township of Dartmouth.

GLC02924.025

January 28, 1717

Delano, Jonathan, fl. 1701-1717

Document signed

Title: [Copy of a report of a meeting held in Dartmouth Township on 28 January 1717].

Christopher and Robert Gifford had neglected to take up lands. The committee ordered the lands to be surveyed. Attested as "a true coppie of a coppie" and signed as Clerk of the Township of Dartmouth.

GLC02924.026

7 January 1720

Kerby, Richard, fl. 1720

Document signed

Title: [Power of attorney to Nathaniel Howland].

Also signed by Joseph Allen (his mark). Witnessed by George Lawton (his mark) and Matthew Wing (his mark). The witnesses are attested by Justice of the Peace John Alm[illegible]. Kerby and Allen grant power of attorney to Howland. Signed with his mark.

GLC02924.027

15 November 1718

Gifford, Robert, fl. 1718

Document signed

Title: [Indenture to purchase land in Dartmouth Township, Massachusetts Bay Colony, from his brother, Christopher Gifford].

Also signed by Thomas Tabor, Junior, and George L. Lawton (his mark). Gifford agrees to pay 500 pounds to his brother for the land. Signature reads: "Robart Gifford."

GLC02924.028

10 October 1721

Kerby, Temperance, fl. 1721

Document signed

Title: [Agreement to release Robert Curby from his obligation to her as executor of her father, the late Richard Curby].

Witnessed by Timothy Gifford (his mark) and Jerimiah Gifford (his mark). Also signed by the Township of Dartmouth Clerk Nathaniel [illegible]. The inheritance has been paid and Curby is released from his obligation.

GLC02924.030

circa 1723

Hathaway, Thomas, fl. 1717-1726

Document signed

Title: [Copy of a report of a meeting to choose a surveyor].

Hathaway clerically signs for Richard Borden, John Akin, William Wood, Jacob Barker, and Isaac Smith. Benjamin Hammond is to lay out the general divisions of the uplands. John Akin is to assist him. Attested as a true copy and signed as Clerk of the Township of Dartmouth.

GLC02924.031

26 March 1777

Davis, Stephen, fl. 1777

Document signed

Title: [Land Deed]

GLC02924.048

11 July 1710

Cary, John, fl. 1710

Document signed

Title: [Report of a meeting and transcription of a property description].

The meeting was held in answer to a petition of Nathan Howland. The names of those in attendance at the meeting are listed. Attested as Clerk of the Township of Dartmouth as a true copy.

GLC02924.052

17 July 1689

Fish, John, fl. 1689

Document signed

Title: [Bill of sale].

Witnessed by Seth Pope and Ezra Parr. Sale of land in Scoaton Neck in Sandwich to Christopher Gifford, a resident of Sandwich. Fish purchased the land from Samuel Wing.

GLC02924.074

17 May 1935

Todd, Beatrice, fl. 1935

Typed letter signed

Title: to Harry K. Weymer

Authenticating "Against Hoarding," a draft of a speech or commentary by Secretary of the Treasury Ogden Mills. Includes Mills's signature in pencil. Todd was Mills's secretary.

GLC02977.01

circa 27 October 1858

Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Lucretia Mott

Encloses a sum of money. "I need none other than the wish to help the cause to make me do so the moment it shall be in my power."

GLC03998.01

circa 1847-1878

Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Dr. Howe

Phillips indicates that he has consigned Howe's excellent letter to George Thompson, M.P., who will put it "into the night train to reach as many English eyes as possible." Thompson was elected a member of Parliament in 1847 for the Tower Hamlets. Dr. Howe is possibly Samuel Gridley Howe.

GLC03998.02

18 April 1860

Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Oliver Johnson

Requests Johnson to mail him a copy of the "Independent" containing Beecher's speech at Cooper Institute on women's rights.

GLC03998.03

6 June 1883

Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mr. Kip

Declines an invitation from H. G. Chapman to attend the Hemenway Gymnasium on class day.

GLC03998.04

1 October 1850

Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Francis Jackson

Requests Jackson to sign a statement in support of women's rights and to ask Theodore Parker to do the same. Sends his admiration of Jackson's niece's sketch of Parker and promises to sit for her when he returns to Boston. Encloses a letter from McClintock recommending a lawyer; McClintock's letter is not with this piece.

GLC03998.05