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1. Blotter No. 1 for Building Boarding House for Monson Academy for 1816

   Account Book kept by Joel Norcross titled - Blotter No. 1 for Building Boarding House for Monson Academy for 1816. Contains accounts of material and labor to build the boarding house, men who built the house. Accounts with Flynt Clark & Co. Monson Woollen Mfg. Co. Capt. Rufus Flynt Dumus Sabin Hampden Cotton Mfg. Co.

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2. Charles B. Jones Daybook

   Charles B. Jones Daybook. Charles B. Jones was a fancy painter of wagons, sleighs, etc. He was an exterior house painter and interior painter and wallpaperer. He varnished and gilded furniture and coffins. There is also mention of gilding monuments. He had accounts with many Monson people and businesses. Within the pages are notes, two are about the voting at meetings of the Whig Party in Monson. According to the 1857 Valuation List Mr. Jones o...

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3. Layout of Hillside Cemetery

   Layout of the Hillside Cemetery with lot numbers and burials. The first page is of Sections 1 and 2 that were layed out in 1842. Page 2 is of Sections 3, 4, 5 and 6 that were layed out in 1842. Page 3 is of Sections 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 these sections were layed out in 1874.

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4. Ledger Book from 1815 - 1818

   Ledger Book with entries from 1815 - 1818. It is unknown who kept this ledger book, but the accounts are that of Monson residents and businesses.

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5. Minutes Book of the Conference House or Vestry

   Minutes Book titled - Records of the Proprietors of the Conference House in Monson. Also known as the Vestry. First meeting was held by the Inhabitants of the First Parish in Monson at the house of Amos Norcross to consider the expedency of erecting a Conference House for the use of said Parish. Meeting was called to order by Rev. Alfred Ely, Joseph L. Reynolds was voted Moderator, A. W. Porter, Clerk. A committee of seven was appointed to draft ...

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6. "Our County and Its People" A History of Hampden County Massachusetts - A History of Hampden County Massachusetts - Volume Three. Chapter VII Town of Monson, pages 266 through 312. Monson section is written by Dr. George E. Fuller.

   1902

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7. Re-Dedication of Monson Academy - 07/21/1864

   An Address delivered at the Re-Dedication of Monson Academy, July 21, 1864, By Charles Hammond. Published by Vote of the Trustees. List of benefactors in back of booklet

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