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4 documents are contained in a frame: Charles Morse has copied deed for the new township of Warwick, "Several methods of making salt - petre" , from 1775,extracts from the records of the late provincial congress held at Cambridge and extracts from the minutes of the proceedings of the congress, Feb. 1775

The three original documents listed have been individually preserved and are located in the display case on the west wall of room 1a

Fifteen original deeds dating from 1765 to 1832
Aspinwall, Heath, Ball, Warren, Dana, Cheney, Mayo, Gail, Pomeroy, Kidder, Prentice,Wheelock

Greenfield Recorder Leisure magazine with article by Anne Loring concerning gravestone rubbings, with directions on procedure to use when making rubbings. Includes some local examples (though none from Warwick).
June 5, 1980

The Berkshire Eagle - April l7, 1918 with headline, "Pittsfield Boys of Co. F to arrive home at 5:35 o'clock this afternoon All business to suspend: big parade"

marriage certificate of Charles Williams of Warwick and Addie Putnam of Winchester, January 14, 1875

An act apportioning and assessing a tax of two million seven hundred and seventy thousand six hundred and ninety-five pounds, two shillings and two pence, upon the several towns and other places in this state herein after named, for defraying the public charges...... 1779

Marriage Certificate of Clifford Bacon of Orange, Ma and Bernice Williams of Warwick, MA. Married on June 23, 1915 by Rev. Geo. Tudor Jones of Warwick, MA. Witnesses: Mrs. Addie Williams and Mrs. Rose Bacon

Front page of The New York Herald, Saturday, April 15, 1865
Death of the President

Dated the 17th day of Feb. 1776, 15 signatures of men enlisting into the service of the U.S. colonies, until the first day of January next, if the service should require it
two copies

Poem "The Big House" by Martha B. Manning - Feb. 10, 1886
On back of poem description by Charles A. Morse: The Big House was the tavern (the Bee Hive) built by David Mayo in 1794 and he owned it until 1800...it is known that the interior was altered into apartments and rented to transient occupants....it was destroyed by fire in 1890.