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Treasures from the New Hampshire Room #5

All Things Sanborn and and Sanbornton! In this New Hampshire room installment we’ll look at special items related to the Sanborns and Sanbornton. We have two excellent genealogies of the Samborne, or Sanborn, family – our town’s founders: Sanborn, Elmer Corliss. A Collection of Sanborn Family Genealogies 1600-1993. Baltimore: Gateway Press Inc., 1994. Sanborn, V. …

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Treasures from the New Hampshire Room #4

Gathered Sketches compiled by Francis Chase – 1856  From The Early History of New Hampshire And Vermont; containing Vivid and Interesting Accounts Of A Great Variety of the Adventures Of Our Forefathers, And of other Incidents of Olden Time.   Published in Claremont, New Hampshire, Gathered Sketches contains a selection of biographical portraits and adventures from the …

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Treasures from the New Hampshire Room #2

Welcome to our second installment of Treasures from the New Hampshire Room, a series we’ve created while cataloging the many wonderful items in our New Hampshire Room. Today’s feature is a book from 1869. The Merrimack River Its source and its tributaries. Embracing A History of Manufactures, and of the Towns along its Course; Their …

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