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Power of Atty. from Joseph M. Burr for the sale of property of Brewster & Parish to Church. In bad shape (photocopy made and put in file)

Lease Agreement from Ansel Thayer to Amasa C. Parsons and Seth A . Healey, dated 4/21/1860 Seal, blue paper. Includes water privilege (photocopy made and put in file)

Promissory note from the following to pay for building dated 1833. With indication of 'one day.' Regarding Horace Cole, Samuel Cole, Consider Cole, John Pomeroy, Elijah Cole, William Jackson, Higgins, Erastus Peas, Peter Niles, John Taylor, Noah…

Axe head of Zephaniah Hatch, East View Farm; Display of items donated to Library shown with Arthur Capen; Poem by Eleanor Clark called 'Worthington'; Wedding announcement of Sally Knapp and Kent Lemme article on Maple Ridge Farm on Thayer Hill…

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

Contains 9 brown envelopes and some loose articles of interest and relevance to the life of Worthington resident, Arthur Capen. Some materials relevant to Worthington, others to Northampton and other communities.

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. …

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

Inventory of Rice Room material at the town library. IDENTIFY. The WHS has been given permission by Edwina Sebest to take the material from the Rice Room, catalog it, and keep it at the Archive building. The transfer will be made in the summer of…

Newspaper clipping about Humphrey: 'former resident of the house is George W. Humphrey, indicted in September on a charge of counterfeiting in the cellar of the house.' House was built in 1780 by Ezra Starkweather but his wife found it too far out…

Newspaper clipping on the history of the Woodbridge House. Once owned by Judge Howe (Wm. Cullen Bryant's law teacher), subsequently by Alfred Chapin; today owned by Scott Heyl and Marie Burkhart. Includes sepia tone photo (1943) of front door. 'The…

Newspaper clipping on the Buffington Place 'one of the finest doorways in New England, the gift of Mrs. Maude Brewer Lang to the Connecticut Valley Historical society. It (the front door) came orriginally from an old house in Worthington and is now…

Formerly Dr. and 'Nanny' Heacock House. Mr. and Mrs. Restored by DeWitt C. Markham? Chamberlain

Mr. and Mrs. Roy McCann (see 34-13a). Debbie Shaw restored it as Worthington Inn. Old North Road. This is also Four Corners Farm.

Jonathan Huntington Parsonage. Restored by Mrs. Kenneth (Jerrilee) Bunce (now Jerrilee Cain)

Mr. and Mrs. Chester Jones restored the Shipman house on East Winsor Road.

The old Burr Farm. 128 years in the same family. Harriet Burr died on Wednesday, April 4, 2007.

A newspaper account by Janet Dimock with photos of the restoration of the Chauncy Pease house on Huntington Road by Marie Burkhart and Scott Heyl.

Judge John Wiig and his wife - restored by Mr. and Mrs. Bertram Warren. Several articles on the restoration of this house (identify)

Mr. and Mrs. Laurence B. Shepherd, Old Post Road. On Old Post road. Howard Hall was the architect