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S0110 - Rockingham Guards Constitution, 1823
Includes a list of members of the guards and the First Light Infantry, printed and signed by John T. Gibbs dated 1823.
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MS115 - Portsmouth College Women's Club records, 1916-2023
Scope and Content Records of the Portsmouth College Women’s Club (Portsmouth, N.H.). Materials include organizational records, such as membership records, financial records, meeting minutes, annual reports, annual yearbooks, committee reports, program announcements, pamphlets, correspondence, and scrapbooks. Dated from 1916 to 2023. Meeting announcement cards were designed (2017-2023) by Mary Biscaldi Engle, who served as vice president and...
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MS116 - Pontine Movement Theatre records, 1977-2016
Pontine Movement Theatre MS 116 includes the theatrical production scripts, playbills, posters and videos as well as correspondence, ephemera and other related material from both its productions and guest performances (1977-present). Separated Materials: Photographs, see P51 collection Much of the financial records are archived at the New Hampshire Artists' Archive at the New Hampshire State Library, Concord, NH. Oversize Materials are ...
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MS118 - Hartford Family Collection
Scope and Content The Hartford Collection consists of papers of Fernando W. Hartford and his son, Justin D. Hartford. Papers include personal items such as a guest book for the Hartford summer home on Wallis Sands Beach in Rye as well as scrapbooks containing letters documenting F.W.'s political involvement. The papers of Justin D. Hartford consist of military records as well as a scrapbook kept around the death of F. W. Biographical Note ...
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MS122 - Agnes May Hanscom World War II correspondence, 1944-1946
The collection includes letters written to Agnes May Hanscom of Portsmouth during World War II from various soldiers, many of which were also from Portsmouth. Letters begin around 1944 and go through 1946. The letter authors include: Charles I. Butler (USS Proteus AS-19), William C. Gill (USS Proteus AS-19), Joseph Cloutier (US Naval Construction Training Camp, Davisville, RI), Robert Corder (Okinawa, Japan), Russell Hersey (France), Lester Hilto...
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MS124 B1 F02 - Eliot Academy Building Use Records
1840-1848 Building Use Record includes list of organizations (Universalist Society, Temperance Society, Two Knights Lyceum, and Town of Eliot) using the building or purpose of use (religious, political, benevolent, temperance, singing school, dancing school and balls), representative of the organization, date and fee paid.
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MS124 B1 F12 - Eliot Academy Share Certificates
Share certificates, 1854-1866. Includes share certificates with name and town of owner, notes of transfer of shares and notes giving permission for other owners to cast votes of absentee shareholders. Also includes blank share certificates.
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MS124 B1 F14 - Eliot Academy Insurance Documents
Insurance Documents 1844-1855 Includes documents related to insurance policies on the Academy building.
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S0006 - Anonymous letter, 1786
Draft of letter, May 3, 1786, written from Portsmouth, writer unknown, requesting payment for Mrs. Hill's boards (lumber?), mentions "my land at Sanford is taxed..."
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MS124 B1 F15 - Eliot Academy Meeting Notices and Minutes
Meeting Notices and Minutes 1852-1871 Sporadic (not a complete annual run) of meeting notices and minutes of decisions made at meetings. Includes discussion of building use and officers.
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MS124 B1 F17 - Eliot Academy Correspondence re: Proxies
Correspondence, 1855. All proxy letters from Eliot Academy proprietors allowing other members to vote for them.
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S0044 - Samuel Penhallow Deed, 1779
Deed dated 1779 for land belonging to Samuel Penhallow and John Penhallow, for land on Islington Street, Portsmouth, NH
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S0075 - Louise E. Chase Essay, 1892
Handwritten five-page manuscript, titled "Some Legends about Portsmouth," by Louise E. Chase. Dated April 15, 1892. Transcription by Diana Frye: Page 1 Some Legends about Portsmouth. As early as the twelvth [twelfth] or thirteenth century, the term legend was applied to a collection of biographies of saints and martyrs, or some remarkable story concerning them and were read at Matins. As these histories were often nothing more th...
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MS144 - Portsmouth Women's City Club records, 1913-2000
Records of the Portsmouth Women’s City Club, dated 1913 to 2000. The collection includes deeds from the Morley Button Manufacturing Company and the Woman's Realty Company; articles of agreement, mortgage agreement, and meeting minutes for the Woman's Realty Company; and meeting minutes, morgage agreements, bequests, receipts, correspondence, and bylaws amendments for the Portsmouth Women’s City Club (PWCC). FOLDER LISTING Box 1 Folder ...
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MS153 - Portsmouth Trust and Guarantee Company records, 1889-1958
Records of the Portsmouth Trust and Guarantee Company. Dated from 1889 to 1958. Six ledgers include depositor's records, minutes of the board of directors, and treasurer's statements. FOLDER LISTING BOX 1 Folder 1 Depositor's book for coupon payments, 1932-1954 Lists businesses across the United States as well as the United States Treasury from which the bank received coupon payments (interest). Folder 2 Depositor's book (vol. 6)...
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MS158 - Woodbury, de Rochemont, and Kimball family papers, 1810-1953
Papers of the Kimball family of southeastern New Hampshire and northeastern Massachusetts; the Woodbury family, primarily Charles Levi Woodbury; and the Nutter family (whose descendents were the de Rochemont family) of Newington, New Hampshire. The papers were collected by the de Rochemont family, although it is not clear how the papers were acquired or what the connections are between the various papers. The entire collection dates from 1810 to ...
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MS158 B01 F02 - Charles Levi Woodbury business correspondence, 1842-1868
The business correspondence of Charles Levi Woodbury, dated from 1842 to 1868, pertains mainly to legal affairs while he was working as a lawyer in Hayneville, Alabama, and in Boston, Massachusetts. He later served as a judge. Includes a February 3, 1846, letter from his cousin A. L. E. Clapp. A January 9, 1852, letter from his brother-in-law Isaac O. Barnes includes commentary on Franklin Pierce, who was in the process of running for President o...
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MS158 B01 F04 - Charles Levi Woodbury political correspondence, c1846-1861
Correspondence addressed to Charles Levi Woodbury regarding political matters, dated from circa 1846 to 1861. FOLDER CONTENTS 1. Undated letter from John Quincy Adams asking Woodbury to speak at an event. 2. Undated letter from John Quincy Adams regarding setting up a meeting with Woodbury. 3. Letter from Edmund Burke regarding his efforts to talk with the President of the United States [James K. Polk] and Secretary of War [Jefferso...
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MS158 B01 F08 - Lease for parsonage land from the selectman of Newington, N.H., to James Coleman, 1825
One-year lease between Hanson Hoit [Hoyt], John Adams Jr., and Richard D. Hart, selectmen of the town of Newington, New Hampshire, and James Coleman, also of Newington, for one part of land called the parsonage. Dated April 1, 1825. The leased parcel was located on the east side of the road in Newington leading from the Piscataqua Bridge to Greenland. It totaled seventy acres and included the buildings thereon; it excluded "all timber trees or...
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