Town Father: A Biography of Gamaliel Painter; with Chapter Decorations by Edward SanbornHastings House, 1952 - 242 pages |
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... Hampshire , containing by admeasurement 25,040 acres , which tract is to contain something more than six miles square , and no more ; .. butted and bounded as follows , viz : beginning at the southerly corner of a township granted this ...
... Hampshire , containing by admeasurement 25,040 acres , which tract is to contain something more than six miles square , and no more ; .. butted and bounded as follows , viz : beginning at the southerly corner of a township granted this ...
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... Hampshire and through Pownal , Bennington , Man- chester , Rutland and Pittsford . There were days when they could travel as much as thirty miles , and others when ten was a laborious journey because of the mountains and the mud ...
... Hampshire and through Pownal , Bennington , Man- chester , Rutland and Pittsford . There were days when they could travel as much as thirty miles , and others when ten was a laborious journey because of the mountains and the mud ...
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... Hampshire were recognized even by the Continental Congress to be under the jurisdiction of New York . The British Crown had been peti- tioned for redress and there was reason to believe that the petition eventually would have received ...
... Hampshire were recognized even by the Continental Congress to be under the jurisdiction of New York . The British Crown had been peti- tioned for redress and there was reason to believe that the petition eventually would have received ...
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