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Provincial Congress extracts and copy of town deed

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

Year (or year range)
1765-1775
Approximate era
don't know

newspaper - 1918

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"

Year (or year range)
1918
Approximate era
1901-1925

An Act assessing taxes - 1779

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

Year (or year range)
1779
Approximate era
don't know

Poem - The Big House

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.

Approximate era
don't know