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HCHS Textual Records collection: Files 3000 to 3499 With digital objects
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Robert Shann account book

Parchment-covered paper book containing accounts of Robert Shann, flax dresser of Knaresborough, Yorkshire, England, from 1836 to 1838. The volume also contains the will of Robert Shann, in which he leaves his estate to be divided equally between his borther and sister, Christopher and Jane Shann. The executor was George Elwood, shoemaker and the will was dated 2 June 1827. The will was witnessed by William Jennings, John Turnbull and Rob Butterfield. There are also some botanical and biological notes, a poem, and sketches of buildings and boats.

Shann, Robert

George Skinner Tickell materials

Four items:

  1. Apprenticeship indentures signed by George Skinner Tickell, his mother, Eliza Talley Tickell and Edward Winter, cabinet maker, carpenter, joiner and builder of Tavistock, Devon, England
  2. Letter of appreciation from George S. Tickell's Front Street store employees, with two prints of scenes of Devon printed by Rock & Co of London: Vixen Toor, Dartmoor and Fish House on the Dart near Totnes

Tickell, George Skinner

Tyendinaga - Mill Point Incorporation - 1871

File contains original petition to incorporate Mill Point into an "Incorporated Village" 17 May1871, signed by Edward Wilkes Rathbun and 100 residents of the village. There are also petitions of protest from residents north of the York Road [Highway 2] who did not want to be part of the village. File also includes a plan of the proposed boundaries Mill Point (Map M440-1446).

Murray Canal

A photocopy of a poster created in 1886 proclaiming "Murray Canal Demonstration! The preliminary opening of the Murray Canal will be celebrated on Wednesday, Oct. 6th, '86 at Twelve O'Clock Point, near Trenton, by a grand Demonstration, at which Sir John A. MacDonald and Hon. Messrs. White, Foster & Bowell will be present."

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