Identifier: archaeologiaame09amer (find matches)
Title: Archaeologia americana : transactions and collections of the American Antiquarian Society
Year: 1820 (1820s)
Authors: American Antiquarian Society
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Publisher: Worcester : The Society
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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p;Lancaster, and my granddaughter Mary Rebecca. 22. Mrs. T. & Frazier returned with my Brothers and her artificers; the extent of her workshops, and more especially of the inge-nuity of her labors in the fabric of cloths and of paper, and in the greater impor-tance of her manufactories in Iron. A sum beyond the calculation of yourpetitioners is constantly employed as a capital in a multiplicity of mechanicalengagements. Loans are urgently applied for and readily granted to these im-portant interests, and your petitioners are authorized in the assurance that theexistence of the Bank and the continuance of the accommodations are indispen-sable to their preservation. This petition was successful, and in June the charter was granted for a periodof twenty years, and the capital was fixed at two hundred thousand dollars. The first directors elected under the new charter were: Daniel Waldo, BenjaminHeywood, Samuel Flagg, Nathaniel Paine, Oliver Fiske, Levi Lincoln, Jr., andIsaiah Thomas.
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CENTRAL PART OF WORCESTER. From a manuscript map of 1825. Diary of Isaiah Thomas. 155 wife & Granddaughter Mary R. My Niece Mrs. Ballmarried this Month to Mr. Willard,1 Atty at Law. 23. Fast day.2 Went to Chh. twice. 24. Packed up Books to send to Rutland, Vermont. 26. Went to Chh. twice. 27. My son came up from Boston with his two sons. 28. Attended at the Bank. 29. Went to Lancaster with my brothers wife. 30. Returned from Lancaster. 31. My son went to Brookfield. This month began to repair my houses on the hill, andto repaint them. Built new Gates each Side of my dwel-ling house. 1 Calvin Willard studied law with Richard H. Dana, in Boston, and was ad-mitted to practice in the Court of Common Pleas, in 1809, and in the Supreme Judi-cial Court, in 1812. He practised for a short time in Barnstable and in Petersham,and then removed to Fitchburg, where he remained until he was appointed sheriffof Worcester County by Governor Lincoln in 1825. He held this office by successiveappoint

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