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These writings pertain to Arunah Bartlett, William Ward, Blanche Green, William Coit, Charles Kilbourn, Spellman daughters, Walter Tower, Elsie Bartlett IDENTIFY

Stevens' Mill, Sale of Plantation #3 in Boston, Edward Clark paper on Worthington Houses, Stevens' houses (refer to Box 30 Series or Box 35) IDENTIFY

Worthington Inn; Notes on Worthington history (identify add description)

Includes notes and map on property acquisitions in original town settlement. History from the county Registry of Deeds. 1763, 1765, 1771, 1774 - shows original lots. All notated by hand. See 'Selling Worthington' by Daniel R. Porter in Box 30. …

Rough draft of a paper prepared on the schools in Worthington complete with notes taken from 1900. Most likely this was also reported to the Historical Society as a paper by Beverly F. Smith. Given to Sara Upton by Dick Smith after the death of 'Bee'…

This folder of research at the Registry of Deeds on various houses should be separated at some time. However, it contains the following records: 140 Buffington Hill Road (Buffington Place), Old Post Road (Bevo Bartlett place and possibly Worthington…

Recollection of locating first meeting house site. Kenneth Osgood, Bob Lucey main participants.

Two copies, typed, Edward Clark paper on Houses.

Walter Stevens 'History of Worthington' Early Settlers, 44 pages, plus 3 page appendix. Two copies, typed. Bee Smith transcribed and updated January 2006.

Remarks of Daniel R. Porter to the Worthington Historical Society August 26, 2000. This must have been a speech delivered to the Society by Daniel R. Porter

Typewritten address read at the WHS meeting on July 8, 1939, by Sydney Smart re the Flood of 1878. Refers also to discussion between Mr. Stevens and Mr. Smart.

Original typewritten paper called 'The Impact of the Civil War on Worthington as shown by Town Meeting Records 1861-1866'. Ten page paper; verso page 9 has handwritten list of names in the Worthington Regiment (Ward, Brewster, Kenney, Watts,…

2 copies of Harold Parmalee 17 page paper ' Life in the Country at the Beginning of the 20th Century'. Dated 2/10/1964. Typed on onion skin (second copy - photocopy).

Edward Clark article on 'Lost Industries in Worthington' read at the Worthington Grange, Nov. 22, 1932. Typed three pages. See Box 40.

Paper delivered at WHS, no date, re floods. Also includes discussion. Typed.

Elizabeth Payne typed History of Western Massachusetts. (Do we have a copy?) Hampshire County, the Hatfield Grant, the Plantatons, the Proprietory Period, the Edgerton Papers, Act of Incorporation.

Description of the Thrasher family. In the 1940's Burton Hill Road was changed to Thrasher Hill Road. See Genealogy.

Includes article from New York Tribune, map of proposed trolley location, 'An Act of Incorporation to incorporate the Huntington and Westfield River Railway Company 18 1903, 8 pages of pasted newspaper clipping on same subject

Copy of article on War in Viet Nam, dated Dec. 1967, written by Lois Ashe Brown. Probably from Berkshire Eagle. Article cites Steve Donovan.

Original typewritten paper by Beverly F. Smith. A two page assessment of Worthington's participation in the Civil War. Includes a list of soldiers who died in the Civil War.