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RESOURCES

BOOKS – CHILDREN

Billy Whiskers, Jr. and his Chums by Frances Trego Montgomery; The Saalfield Publishing

Company, Chicago, New York; 1907. [7”x9”]

Four Footed Folks Story Book: Stories of Animal Friends; [unknown publisher and date;

handwritten date of 1927][6 ¼”x8”]

Mother Goose Jingles; Charles E. Graham & Co.; Newark, NJ and New York; [no date][paperback,

6 ¾”x8 ¾”]

BOOKS – LITERATURE

The Adventurer; Vols. I, IV; Printed for J. Parsons; London; 1793 (vol. I) & 1794 (vol. IV). [leather,

3¾”x5¾”]

The Beauties of Sterne; including all his Pathetick Tales, and most distinguished Observations on

Life selected for the heart of Sensibility; 11th

Edition; Printed by John W. Folsom; Boston; 1793.

[leather, 3 3/8”x5½”]

The Blue Bag; (a Farce-Company in Three Acts by J.C. McMullen) Baker’s Edition of Plays; Walter

H. Baker Company, Boston; 1932. [5”x7 ½”]

Chefs-d‟Oeuvre de P. Corneille, Vol. 3; (a book of plays in French: Héraclius, Empereur d’Orient, a

tragedy in 5 acts; Don Sanche d’Aragon, a heroic comedy in 5 acts; Nicomede, a tragedy in 5 acts;

Sertorius, a tragedy in five acts); Pierre Didot l’ainé et de Firmin Didot; Paris; 1813. [leather,

3½”x5½”]

Chefs-d‟Oeuvre de Th. Corneille; (a book of plays in French: Ariane, a tragedy in 5 acts; Le Comte

d’Essex, a tragedy in 5 acts; Le Festin de Pierre, a comedy in 5 acts); Pierre Didot l’ainé et de Firmin

Didot; Paris; 1813. [leather, 3½”x5½”]

The Citizen of the World or Letters from a Chinese Philosopher; Oliver Goldsmith; Vol. II; Printed

for J. Parsons; London; 1794. [leather, 3¾”x 5¾”]

The Commissary; a comedy in 3 acts; Samuel Foote, Esquire; Published by D. Longworth; New

York; 1813. [leather, 3¾”x6”]

The Connoisseur; Mr. Town; Vols. I, II, IV; Printed for J. Parsons; London; 1793. [leather,

3¾”x5¾”]



Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds; Bernard de Fontenelle with notes by Jerome de la Lande,

translated by Miss Elizabeth Gunning; Printed by J. Cundee, Ivy-Lane; 1803. [leather, 4”x6¾”]

The Dairyman‟s Daughter, an authentic narrative – abridged by Rev. Legh Richmond; published

by the American Tract Society. [no date][paper booklet, 4 ½”x7 ¼”][Donated by Elizabeth Warden]

The Guardian; Vol. I; Printed for J. Parsons; London; 1794. [leather, 3¾”x5 5/8”]

The Letters of Junius; Vol. I; Printed by C. Whittingham; London; 1800. [leather, 3 5/8”x5¾”]

The Mirror; Vols. I, II; Printed for J. Parsons; London; 1794. [leather, 3¾”x5¾”]

Original Poems for Infant Minds by Several Young Persons; Vol. I; Printed by Norris & Sawyer for

William Sawyer & Co., Booksellers, Newburyport; Exeter; 1808. [leather, 3 5/8”x6”]

The Poems & Plays of Robert Browning 1844-1864; Published by J. M. Dent & Sons, London and

in New York by E.P. Dutton & Co.; 1911. [4 3/8”x7”]

The Poems of John Keats; Published by J. M. Dent & Sons, London and in New York by E.P.

Dutton & Co.; 1911. [4 3/8”x7”]

The Seasons: with the Castle of Indolence; James Thomson; W.B. Gilley, New York; 1818.

[missing cover; leather, 3 3/8”x5¼”]

The Shipmates, a supplement to the tract entitled Conversation in a Boat by the same Author, formerly a lieutenant in the Royal Navy; printed for the American Tract Society by Flagg & Gould;

Andover, MA. [no date][paper booklet, 4”x6 ½”][Donated by Elizabeth Warden]

The Spectator; Vols. I, II; Printed for J. Parsons; London; 1793. [leather, 3¾”x5¾”]

The Spectator; Vols. IV through VIII; Printed for H.D. Symonds; London; 1797 [leather, 3¾”x5¾”]

The Tatler; Isaac Bickerstaff, Esquire; Vols. I, III; Printed for J. Parsons; London; 1794. [leather,

3¾”x5¾”]

Tully‟s Offices in Three Books; translated by Sir R. L’Estrange; 6th

edition; Printed for D. Browne,

R. Knaplock, B. Tooke, G. Strahan, J. Tonson, S. Ballard, W. Mears, F. Clay; 1720. [leather,

4”x6¼”]

The Works of Samuel Foote, Esquire; Vols. II, III; Published by David Longworth; New York;

1814. [leather, 3¾”x6”]

The World; Adam Fitz-Adam; Vols. II, III, IV; Printed for J. Parsons; London; 1794. [leather,

3¾”x5 5/8”]



BOOKS – REFERENCE

The American Conveyancer; containing a large variety of Legal Forms and Instruments, adapted

to Popular Wants and Professional Use throughout the United States, together with forms and

directions for applicants under the Patent Laws of the United States and the Insolvent Act of

Massachusetts, revised according to the Acts of 1844 and 1846; George T. Curtis; Boston: Charles

C. Little and James Brown; 1847. [5”x7 ¾”]

The American Whitaker: An Almanac and Encyclopedia for 1915; Compiled and edited by the

editor of ―Whitaker’s Almanac‖. [paperback, 5”x7¼”]

Analysis of Visual Effects on Cultural Resources in the Vicinity of Three Alternative GWEN Sites

in Southern Massachusetts/Rhode Island; Prepared by Science Applications International

Corporation, Santa Barbara, CA, February 27, 1990. [GBC bound, 8½”x11”]

Asher & Adams‟ New Statistical and Topographical Atlas of the United States; New York, 1872.

[leather, 12½” x18”]

Botany for Beginners: an Introduction to Mrs. Lincoln‟s Lectures on Botany by Mrs. Phelps; 12th

Edition; New York: Huntington & Savage; 1844. [4”x6 ½”]

Captain Gray in the Pacific Northwest 1783-1793; Francis E. Cross and Charles M. Parkin, Jr.;

Maverick Publications; Bend, Oregon; 1987. [7”x10¼”]

Captain Gray the Great American Sea Captain 1787-1793; Parkin, Jr., Bartelt, & Twombly;

Published by CHIU-YU Printing Co., LTD, Taiwan, 1988. [thin paperback; two copies; 8¼”x11½”]

Fairhaven Massachusetts; Compiled and written by members of the Federal Writers’ Project of the

Works Progress Administration in Massachusetts, 1939. [5”x7¾”]

The Hereditary Register of the United States of America; Jerome Francis Beattie, Editor; The

Hereditary Register Publications, Inc., 1986. [7”x10¼”]

History of Newport County Rhode Island From the Year 1638 to the Year 1887, Including the

Settlement of its Towns, and their subsequent Progress; Edited by Richard M. Bayles; L.E. Preston

& Co., New York, 1888. [8”x10½”]

The Journal of A Gentleman Farmer 1829-1832: William Kneeland Townsend, East Haven, CT;

Transcribed by Doris Townshend, 1985. [paperback, 7”x10”]

The Modern Builders‟ Guide; Minard Lafever, Architect; William D. Smith, New York, 1841.

[9”x12”]

The New Practical Reference Library; Vol. V, SCH-ZWI; Charles H. Sylvester, Editor in Chief;

Snodgrass, Hartzell and Company; New York; 1908. [6¾”x9½”]



Notes on Little Compton published by the Little Compton Historical Society from records collected

by Benjamin Franklin Wilbour; Edited, annotated, and arranged by Carlton C. Brownell; Little

Compton, RI; 1970. [6¼”x9¼”]

The Preservation of Our Right to Information and the Documentation of Our Heritage: The

Rhode Island Records Assessment Report, 1984-1985; David C. Maslyn, Project Director;

Providence, RI, 1985. [GBC bound, 8½”x11”]

Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842 and to Oregon and

North California in the Years 1843-1844; Brevet Captain J.C. Fremont; Gales and Seaton, Printers;

Washington, 1845. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. [leather, 6”x9¼”]

Representative Men and Old Families of Rhode Island, Volumes I-III: Genealogical Records and

Historical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens of Many of the Old Families; J.H.

Beers & Company, Chicago, 1908. [leather, 9”x11¼”]

Rhode Island Shores, Concerning the Charm of Old South County, Newport, Block Island and

Narragansett Bay; Walter Prichard Eaton; Imprinted for the New York, New Haven and Hartford

Railroad Company; The New England Steamship Company. [thin paperback,5¼”x8¼”]

Rhode Island Tercentenary 1636-1936: Historical Edition of Tiverton, RI; Second Printing by

Tiverton Historical Society, 1995. [paperback, 6”x9”]

Sea Shells: How to Identify and Collect Them; translated from the Italian of Sergio Angeletti;

Golden Press; New York; 1972. [9”x12”]

Tiverton and the Exeter Valley: A Pictorial History; Mary de la Mahotière; Printed by Biddles,

LTD, Guildford, Surrey, 1990. [7½”x10”]

Tiverton in Old Photographs; Collected by Alan P. Voce; Tiverton Museum Society, Great Britain,

1988. [paperback, 6”x8¾”]

Two Sea Captains West: A Look Into the Lives of Gray and Kendrick 1787 to 1794 for the students

of Captain Robert Gray Junior High School; Virginia Makela; Tacoma, WA, 1997. [GBC bound,

8½”x11”]

BOOKS – RELIGIOUS

A Collection of the Promises of Scripture, or the Christian‟s Inheritance by Samuel Clarke, D.D.;

published by American Tract Society; New York; 1750. [3 ¼”x4 ¾”]

Holy Bible of J.W. & Kate Ramey; Parallel New Testament and Authorized Version AD1611

Revised AD1881; A.J. Holman & Co., Philadelphia, 1884. [leather, 10”x12¾”]



Holy Bible and References; Published by Enoch Johnson, Jr., New York, 1821. [leather, 9”x11¼”]

The English Version of the Polyglott Bible; Carter, Hendee, & Co., Boston, 1833. [no covers,

6¾”x10”]

The Boston Academy‟s Collection of Church Music; published by J.H. Wilkins & R.B. Carter;

Boston. [missing title page; no date][10”x6”]

Children‟s Life of Jesus; Hurst & Company, New York. [no date: late 1800’s-early 1900’s?]

[8”x10 ½”]

The Christian‟s Secret of a Happy Life by Hannah Whitall Smith; Fleming H. Revell Company,

New York; New and Enlarged Edition; 1883 and 1888. [5”x7 ½”]

Clarke‟s Dollar Instructor for the Reed Organ; William H. Clarke; Oliver Ditson & Co., Boston,

1871. [10”x7 ¾”]

Gospel Hymns Combined, Embracing Volumes No. 1, 2 and 3 as used in Gospel Meetings and

Other Religious Services; Published by Biglow & Main, New York and John Church & Co., New

York, 1879. [5 ¼”x8”]

Gospel Hymns No. 5; Ira D. Sankey, James McGranahan and George C. Stebbins; published by the

John Church Co., New York; 1887. [5 ½”x8 ¼”]

Grange Melodies: Published by National Grange of Patrons of Husbandry, for use in the Granges

of the United States; Edited and compiled by James L. Orr, A.M.; Printed by J.A. Wagenseller,

Philadelphia, 1891. [8”x6”]

Hymnal of the Methodist Episcopal Church with Tunes; New York: Nelson & Phillips; 1878.

[5 ¼”x7 ¼”]

Melodia Sacra; Complete Collection of Church Music: to which is added a full and complete

elementary singing school course; B.F. Baker, A.N. Johnson, and Josiah Osgood; Published by A.N.

Johnson, Boston, 1852. [9 ¾”x6 ¼”]

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Epistle to the Romans, designed for Bible-classes and

Sunday-Schools by Albert Barnes; New York: Harper & Brothers; 1842. [5”x7 ¾”]

The Rock of Ages; or Scripture Testimony to the One Eternal Godhead of the Father, and of the

Son, and of the Holy Ghost; Edward Henry Bickersteth, M.A.; American Tract Society, Boston,

1860. [5”x8”]

The Sacred Lute: A Collection of Sacred Music by T.E. Perkins; New York: F.J. Huntington; 1864.

[10”x6 ½”]



Sermons on Different Subjects, delivered in England and America by Rev. Edward Norris Kirk,

A.M., late pastor of the 4th

Presbyterian Church, Albany, NY; published by Dayton and Saxton, New

York; 1842; 5th

Edition Revised. [4 ¾”x7 ½”]

The Shining River: A Collection of New Music for Sunday Schools; H.S. & W.O. Perkins; Oliver

Ditson & Co., Boston, 1875. [7”x5½”; two copies]

The Triumph!; George F. Root; Root & Cady, Chicago. [missing title pages; includes introductory

course for congregational singing, theory of music and teacher’s manual, hymns for social

worship][9 ½”x6 ¼”]

Winnowed Hymns; Biglow & Main, New York and Chicago. [title page missing; 4½”x7”]

BOOKS – SCHOOL

Unknown title, date, publisher (missing title page)— a history book. [old, 4½”x7½”]

A Concise Treatise on Commercial Book-Keeping elucidating the Principles and Practice of

Double Entry, and the Modern Methods of Arranging Merchants‟ Accounts by B.F. Foster; 8th

Edition; Boston: T.R. Marvin; 1853. [5 ½”x9”]

A Gazetteer of the United States of America; John Hayward; Leavitt and Allen; New York; 1853.

[leather, 6 3/8”x9¾”]

A Graded Spelling-Book being a complete course in spelling for primary and grammar schools in

two parts by H.F. Harrington; New York: Harper & Brothers; 1883. [4 ¾”x7”][Donated by

Elizabeth Warden]

A Grammar of the English Language; for the Use of Schools by W.H. Wells, M.A.; published by

Allen, Morrill, and Wardwell; Andover, MA; 1847. [4 ¾”x7 ¼”]

A Grammar School History of the United States: to which are added the Constitution of the United

States with questions and explanations, the Declaration of Independence, and Washington‟s

Farewell Address by John J. Anderson, A.M.; New York: Clark & Maynard, Publishers; 1870.

[5”x7”]

A Key to the Introduction to the National Arithmetic, exhibiting the operation of the more difficult

examples in that work; for the use of teachers only by Benjamin Greenleaf, A.M.; Boston: Robert S.

Davis & Co.; 1854. [5”x7 ½”]

A Key to the Revised Edition of the American Arithmetic to which are added more than Five

Hundred Questions, designed as Exercises for pupils in examinations and reviews by the Author of

the American Arithmetic; published by John P. Jewett & Co.; 1851. [5”x8”]



The American First Class Book; (missing title page – school lessons in prose and poetry); Boston;

1823. [leather, 4¾”x7¾”]

The American Universal Geography, or a View of the Present State of all the Empires, Kingdoms,

States, and Republics in the Known World, and of the United States of America in particular;

Jedidiah Morse, D.D.; Third Edition, Part I; Printed by Isaiah Thomas and Ebenezer T. Andrews;

Boston; 1796. [leather, 5 3/8”x8½”]

An Introduction to the Study of English Grammar by Samuel S. Greene, A.M.; Philadelphia:

Cowperthwait & Co.; 1868. [4 ¾”x7”]

Appletons‟ School Readers: The Fifth Reader; William T. Harris, A.M., LL.D., Andrew J. Rickoff,

A.M., Mark Bailey, A.M.; D. Appleton and Company, New York, Boston, and Chicago, 1879.

[5¼”x7 ½”]

Around the World with the Children: An Introduction to Geography by Frank G. Carpenter, Litt.D.;

American Book Company, New York; 1917. [6 ¾”x8 ¼”]

Bixler‟s Physical Training in Penmanship or the Real Secret to Good Writing by G. Bixler; Printed

at Bixler’s Business College Printing Department; Wooster, Ohio; 1892. [5 ½”x8”]

The Children‟s Third Reader; Ellen M. Cyr; Ginn & Company, Publishers, The Athenaeum Press,

Boston, 1904. [5 ¾”x7 ½”]

Common School Geography; Charles Scribner & Company, New York, 1867. [10”x12”]

The Common-School Arithmetic: A Practical Treatise on the Science of Numbers by Dana P.

Colburn; H. Cowperthwait & Co.; Philadelphia; 1859. [5”x7 ½”]

The Complete Arithmetic, combining Oral and Written Exercises in a Natural and Logical System

of Instruction; Albert N. Raub, A.M.; Porter & Coates, Philadelphia, 1877. [5 ¼”x7 ½”]

Cyr‟s First Reader; Ellen M. Cyr; Ginn & Company Publishers, Boston; 1892. [5 ¾”x7 ½”]

Eaton‟s High School Arithmetic: A Treatise on Arithmetic combining Analysis and Synthesis by

James S. Eaton, M.A.; Boston: Taggard and Thompson; 1868. [5”x7 ½”]

The English Reader; (torn title page – no date or publisher); pieces in prose and poetry. [leather,

4½”x7½”]

Essential Words Book One; Edward L. Bailey; Johnson Publishing Company, Richmond, VA, 1920.

[5½”x7½”]

Essential Words Book Two; Edward L. Bailey; Johnson Publishing Company, Richmond, VA, 1920.

[5½”x7½”]

The First French Book; Edited by Henri Bué; New Edition; Librarie Hachette & Cie., London;

1890. [4”x6”]



First Lessons in Language: or, Elements of English Grammar by David B. Tower and Benjamin F.

Tweed, A.M.; New Edition, Revised; Baltimore: Kelly, Piet & Co.; 1870. [4 ½”x7 ¼”]

The First Part of Jacobs and Döring‟s Latin Reader: adapted to Andrews and Stoddard‟s Latin

Grammar, and to Andrews‟ First Latin Book; E.A. Andrews, LL.D.; 56th

Edition; Cocker and

Brewster, Boston; 1862. [5”x7½”]

The Fourth Reader; Lewis B. Monroe; Cowperthwait & Co., Philadelphia, 1872. [5¼”x7½”]

The Franklin Fourth Reader for the use of Public and Private Schools; G.S. Hillard; Taintor

Brothers, Merrill, & Company, New York, 1873. [5”x7¼”]

Greene‟s First Lessons in Grammar, based upon the construction and analysis of sentences by

Samuel S. Greene, A.M.; Philadelphia: Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co.; 1848. [4 ½”x7 ¼”]

Greenleaf Common Sense Arithmetic: Introduction to the National Arithmetic on the Inductive

System, combining the Analytic and Synthetic Methods; in which the principles of the Science are

fully Explained and illustrated by Benjamin Greenleaf, A.M.; Leach, Shewell, and Sanborn; Boston

and New York; 1870. [5”x7 ½”]

Greenleaf‟s Mathematical Series: The Complete Arithmetic, Oral and Written, on the basis of

works by Benjamin Greenleaf, A.M.; Leach, Shewell, and Sanborn; Boston and New York; 1881.

[5 ¼”x7 ½”]

Introduction to the National Arithmetic on the Inducive System, combining the Analytic and

Synthetic Methods; in which the principles of the science are fully explained and illustrated by

Benjamin Greenleaf, A.M.; Boston: Robert S. Davis & Co.; 1864. [5”x7 ½”]

Mental Arithmetic; 1841. [missing title page; 4”x6¼”]

The New American Fifth Reader by Epes Sargent and Amasa May; Philadelphia: J.H. Butler &

Company; 1871. [5”x7 ¼”][Donated by Elizabeth Warden]

New Elementary Algebra containing the Rudiments of the Science for School and Academies;

Horatio N. Robinson, LL.D.; Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor & Co., New York and Chicago; 1875.

[leather, 5”x7½”]

The New Latin Reader: containing the Latin Text for the purpose of recitation; accompanied with

a key, containing the Text, a literal, and a free translation, arranged in such a manner as to point

out the difference between the Latin and English idioms by S.C. Walker; Second Edition; Boston:

Richardson, Lord and Holbrook; 1830. [4 ½”x7 ½”]

The North American Arithmetic, Part Third, for Advanced Scholars by Frederick Emerson; Boston:

Jenks and Palmer; 1844. [4 ¾”x7 ½”][Donated by Elizabeth Warden]



North American First Class Reader; Tower’s Series of School Books; David B. Tower and

Cornelius [Walker? Missing front and back covers]; New York; 1848. [5”x7 ½”]

North American First Class Reader; the Sixth Book of Tower‟s Series for Common Schools; in

which the higher principles of elocution are explained and illustrated by appropriate exercises by

David B. Tower, A.M. and Cornelius Walker, A.M.; 10th

Edition; New York: Daniel Burgess & Co.;

1854. [4 ¾”x7 ½”][Donated by Elizabeth Warden]

North American First Class Reader; the Sixth Book of Tower‟s Series for Common Schools; in

which the higher principles of elocution are explained and illustrated by appropriate exercises by

David B. Tower, A.M. and Cornelius Walker, A.M.; 13th

Edition; New York: Daniel Burgess & Co.;

1856. [4 ¾”x7 ½”][Donated by Elizabeth Warden]

The Practical Speller; Lewis B. Monroe; Cowperthwaite & Co., Philadelphia; 1875. [needs binding,

5”x7¼”]

Practical Treatise on Algebra, Designed for the Use of Students in High Schools and Academics

by Benjamin Greenleaf, A.M.; published by Robert S. Davis & Co.; 1861. [5”x8”]

Robinson‟s Complete Arithmetic; 1875. [missing title pages; 5”x7”]

The Sixth Reader of the Popular Series by Marcius Willson; J.B. Lippincott & Co.; Philadelphia;

1883. [5”x7 ½”]

The Standard Fifth Reader for Public and Private Schools, containing a summary of rules for

pronunciation and elocution; numerous exercises for reading and recitation; a new system of

references to rules and definitions, and a copious explanatory index by Epes Sargent; Forty-Second

Thousand; Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company; 1857. [5”x7 ¾”][Donated by Elizabeth

Warden]

The Standard Fifth Reader, Part Two, with a New Treatise on Elocution and an Explanatory

Index containing Biographical Notices of Authors, etc.; Epes Sargent; John L. Shorey, Boston;

1871. [leather, 5”x7½”]

The Standard Speller; containing Exercises for Oral Spelling; Also, Sentences for Silent Spelling

by Writing from Dictation by Epes Sargent; Boston: John L. Shorey; 1869. [5”x7 ¾”]

The Standard Third Reader for Public and Private Schools, containing exercises in the elementary

sounds; rules for elocution, numerous choice reading lessons; a new system of references; and an

explanatory index by Epes Sargent; Ninety-Second Thousand; Boston: Phillips, Sampson and

Company; 1858. [5”x7 3.4”][Donated by Elizabeth Warden]

Weld‟s English Grammar, Illustrated by Exercises in Composition, Analyzing and Parsing by

Allen H. Weld, A.M.; Fiftieth Edition; Portland: Sanborn & Carter; 1848. [4 ¾”x7 ½”]

Worcester‟s Primary Spelling Book of the English Language; William Ware & Co.; Boston; 1877.

[5”x7½”]



Worcester‟s Pronouncing Spelling Book of the English Language; J.E. Worcester, LL.D.; Brewer

and Tileston, Boston, 1857. [4 ¾”x7”]

Word Pictures of 52 All American Personalities; Jack Wilbur; Clement-Smith-Rogers, Inc., New

York, 1925. [5½”x7¾”]

BOOKS – OTHER

General Store Ledger; unknown date; entries with names; entries under names of items. [leather

(binding needs work), 8½”x13½”]

Ledger; blank pages. [leather, 7”x16”]

Ledger used as a scrapbook of newspaper clippings by Sarah Corey, 1874. [leather, 8½”x13” ]

Ledger of Cornelius Seabury Store, 1822-1824. [leather, 8¼”x13½”]

Ledger: 1861. [paperback, 8”x13¼”]

A Muck Manual for Farmers by Samuel L. Dana; Daniel Bixby, Lowell: 1842. [4 ¾”x7 ½”]

Biggle Horse Book Number One Biggle Farm Library: A Concise and Practical Treatise on the

Horse; Jacob Biggle; Wilmer Atkinson Co., Philadelphia, 1898. [4”x5½”]

Third Report of Industrial Statistics – Rhode Island 1889; [all pages covered by another printed

story pasted on each page: Cap‟n Eri by Joseph C. Lincoln, 1904.][6”x9¼”]

Frank Leslie‟s Lady‟s Magazine, Vol. XVIII, No. 1; January 1866. [leather, 8½”x12”]

Dunham‟s Tiverton, Portsmouth Middletown and Little Compton Directory; Volume 7 1933.

Volume 8 1935. Compiled and published by Charles H. Dunham, Salem, MA. [paperback, 6”x9”]

Tax Book of the Town of Tiverton, RI. Assessed years 1934-7, 1939-41, 1944, 1946-9. [paperback,

6”x9”]

Tiverton and Little Compton Mutual Fire Insurance Company; Book 1; records of policies; 1866-

1870. [leather, 8¾”x14”]

What Now? For Young Ladies by Charles F. Deems, D.D.; published by the American Tract

Society, New York; 1869. [4 ¾”x7”]



CALENDARS Tillamook County Pioneer Museum 1988 Calendar

Tiverton, Rhode Island In Retrospective: Calendar for the Year 2000

CERTIFICATES AND CITATIONS Baptism Certificate of Mildred Ruth Read; North Tiverton Primitive Methodist Church; 1898.

Citation Appointment from Governor George H. Utter to Alexander O‟D. Taylor, Office of

Commissioner of Birds for the County of Newport for 1905-1908.

Citation Appointment from Governor James H. Higgins to Alexander O‟D. Taylor, Office of

Commissioner of Birds for the County of Newport for 1908-1911.

MAGAZINES

Life, Vol. 41, No. 15, October 8, 1956; main article is on Freemasonry

Rhode Island History, Vol. 44, No. 1, February 1985: Freedom of Religion in RI: Aquidneck

Island’s Reluctant Revolutionaries, 1638-1660; From Watt to Allen to Corliss: One Hundred Years

of Letting Off Steam; Published by Rhode Island Historical Society.

Rhode Island History, Vol. 45, No. 4, November 1986: The Early Years of the RI Birth Control

League; The Bonds of Friendship: Sarah Osborn of Newport and the Revolution; Joseph Fish of

North Stonington, 1743-1779; Published by Rhode Island Historical Society.

Rhode Island History, Vol. 47, No. 3, August 1989: Roger Williams and John Winthrop: The Rise

and Fall of an Extraordinary Friendship; Why Is There a Kent County?; Published by Rhode Island

Historical Society.

Rhode Island History, Vol. 48, No. 1, February 1990: Another Pattern of Urban Living: Multifamily

Housing in Providence 1890-1930; Commercial Progress versus Local Rights: Turnpike Building in

Northwestern RI in the 1790s; Published by Rhode Island Historical Society.

Rhode Island History, Vol. 48, No. 2, May 1990: Harboring History: The Providence Waterfront

Part One; Prosperity at the Wharves: Providence Shipping, 1780-1850; The Great Gale of 1815:

Artifactual Evidence of RI’s First Hurricane; Published by Rhode Island Historical Society.

Rhode Island History, Vol. 48, No. 4, November 1990: Harboring History: The Providence

Waterfront Part Three: Metamorphosis of the Providence Waterfront: A Geographic Perspective;



Life on the Bay: Logs of the Jamestown and Newport Ferries; Published by Rhode Island Historical

Society.

Rhode Island History, Vol. 49, No. 2, May 1991; Ship’s Captain, Shop’s Cotton: Wilber Kelly and

Early American Industrialization; Natural Run and Artificial Falls: Waterpower and the Blackstone

Canal; Observations: RI’s Blackstone River State Park / Preserving History in the Blackstone River

Valley / A Look at the Sources: Why Collect?; Published by Rhode Island Historical Society.

Rhode Island History, Vol. 52, No. 4, November 1994; “Was She Clothed with the Rents Paid for

These Wretched Rooms?”: Elizabeth Buffum Chace, Lillie Chace Wyman, and Upper-Class

Advocacy for Women Factory Operatives in Gilded Age RI; Published by Rhode Island Historical

Society.

Visitor‟s Guide to Gray‟s Harbor, Washington; Printed by The Daily World, Aberdeen, WA, 1987.

NEWSPAPERS

FALL RIVER Sunday, October 12, 1941: “Fire Strikes Again”; Fall River Herald News. [Firestone Plant fire in

Fall River]

April 29, 1966: “ „Fall River Line‟ Returning”; Providence Journal. [article and photo]

HISTORIC PRESERVATION Unknown date: “Tiverton Historical Unit Will Conduct Art Show”; Herald News, Fall River.

[article and photo]

October 11, 1973: “Saturday House Tour Begins at 10 a.m.”; Herald News, Fall River. [article on

Portsmouth Historical Society house tour]

May 3, 1974: “Stunning Example of Intrinsic Preservation”; Herald News, Fall River. [article and

photos]

December 2, 1976: “Portsmouth‟s Oldest Homes”; Sakonnet Times. [article and photos]

December 24, 1976: “‟Twas the Night Before Christmas”; Herald News, Fall River. [photos of

yuletide-decorated Soule-Seabury House at Tiverton Four Corners]

Unknown date: “Marine Museum Given $5,000 Grant by Donaldson Trust”; unknown paper

source.



HITLER AND THE CZECHS Saturday, September 24, 1938: “Europe Arms For War”; Fall River Herald News.

Sunday, September 25, 1938: “Hitler Gives Czechs 7 Days to Bow”; The Providence Sunday

Journal.

Tuesday, September 27, 1938: “Czechs Turn Down Hitler‟s Demands with French and British

Approval”; Fall River Herald News.

Wednesday, September 28, 1938: “Hitler Invites Powers to Peace Conference”; Fall River Herald

News.

Thursday, September 29, 1938: “Hitler To Invade Sudetenland Saturday; Will Accept „Token

Withdrawal‟ of Czechs”; Fall River Herald News.

Friday, September 30, 1938: “Czechs Accede to Four-Power Agreement”; Fall River Herald News.

Saturday, October 1, 1938: “German Army Occupies Sudeten Region; Czechs Cede Teschen Area

to Poland”; Fall River Herald News.

1938 HURRICANE Thursday, September 22, 1938: “Hurricane Sweeps Fall River List of Dead May Reach 10; More

Than 115 Die on Coast”; Fall River Herald News. [two copies]

Friday, September 23, 1938: Bailey‟s Beach in Newport after the Hurricane; The Boston Herald.

[photo]

Friday, September 23, 1938: “Storm Deaths Mount to 513”; The Boston Herald.

Friday, September 23, 1938: “71 Dead, 57 Missing in Westerly As State‟s Toll mounts to 237;

Villages Vanish; Coast Changed”; The Evening Bulletin.

Friday, September 23, 1938: “Stone Bridge Span Closed to Traffic, Road Damaged”; Fall River

Herald News.

Friday, September 23, 1938: “Storm Death Toll 41”; Fall River Herald News.

Friday, September 23, 1938: “Storm Toll Increases”; Fall River Herald News.

Friday, September 23, 1938: “Death Toll Rises In State‟s Worst Storm Disaster”; Providence

Journal.



Saturday, September 24, 1938: “New Horrors in Storm‟s Wake”; Fall River Herald News.

Saturday, September 24, 1938: “As Hurricane Lashed Stone Bridge Section of Tiverton”; Fall

River Herald News. [photos]

Saturday, September 24, 1938: “Tidal Wave and Hurricane Ruin Nearby Summer Resorts”; Fall

River Herald News. [photos]

Sunday, September 25, 1938: “251 Dead; State Pushes Recovery”; The Providence Sunday Journal.

Monday, September 26, 1938: “No Need to Continue Boiling Water, Milk”; Fall River Herald

News.

Monday, September 26, 1938: “Tiverton Loss Is Very High”; Fall River Herald News. [article and

photos]

Thursday, September 29, 1938: “Fifty Fled From Flood”; Fall River Herald News.

Thursday, September 29, 1938: “Tivertonians Start Repairs”; Fall River Herald News.

Friday, September 30, 1938: “News From Our Neighbors”; Fall River Herald News. [various

articles]

Friday, September 30, 1938: various articles on RI hurricane aftermath; The Globe, Boston.

Friday, September 30, 1938: “Hurricane Souvenir: The Story in Pictures of the Worst Storm in the

History of Rhode Island; Hundreds Killed – Thousands Made Homeless – Millions Estimated Loss

in Property”; The Pawtucket Times.

Friday, September 30, 1938: “Westport Loss Is Very High”; Fall River Herald News.

Three weeks after 1938 Hurricane: “List of Those Who Died In 1938 Hurricane”; Fall River

Herald News.

Thursday, October 6, 1938: “Westport Opens Horseneck Beach Roads”; Fall River Herald News.

[article and photo]

October 13, 1938: “Dredging Near Tanker”; Fall River Herald News. [photo]

October 18, 1938: “Flood Waters Left Sandy Beach at Island Park”; Fall River Herald News.

[photo]

October 20, 1938: “Portsmouth Park Recuperating from Disaster”; Fall River Herald News.

[photos]

November 1, 1938: “Richard K. Hawes Writes Graphic Account of Hurricane”; Fall River Herald

News. [article and photos; two copies]



November 19, 1938: “Tanker Phoenix in Channel”; Fall River Herald News. [article and photo]

November 1938: “Pumping Gas from Grounded Tanker”; Fall River Herald News. [photo]

November 28, 1938: “Tanker Prepares to Leave Port”; Fall River Herald News. [article and photo]

1938: “Horseneck Roads Are Plowed Like After Heavy Snowstorm”; unknown paper source.

1938: “Red Cross Expended Sum of $5,777 For Tiverton Relief, Rehabilitation”; unknown paper

source.

1938: photos of property salvaged from hurricane-stricken homes; unknown paper source.

September 29, 1977: “Lighthouse Keeper Recollects September Hurricane of 1938”; Sakonnet

Times. [article and photos]

September 1982: “Island Park Man Recalls That Forecast For „Rain‟ 44 Years Ago This Week”;

Sakonnet Times.

Tuesday, September 20, 1988: “The Great Hurricane: A day suspended in time!”; Fall River

Herald News.

Tuesday, September 20, 1988: “50th

Anniversary of the 1938 Hurricane”; Fall River Herald News.

[article and photos]

Wednesday, September 21, 1988: “‟38 Hurricane: the 50th

anniversary of New England‟s worst

storm”; Providence Journal-Bulletin.

SUBMARINE SQUALUS May 24, 1939: “Navy Divers Working On Squalus”; Boston Globe. [article and photos]

May 24, 1939: “Artist‟s Conception of Submarine Accident and Rescue Operations”; The Boston

Herald. [article and photos]

May 24, 1939: “Billerica Brother of Man on Sub Arrives”; unknown paper source.

May 24, 1939: “Coast Guard Offers Two Fastest Craft”; unknown paper source.

May 24, 1939: “Momsen Lung To Be Used Only as the Last Resort”; unknown paper source.

Unknown date: “Submarine Loss Spurs Safety Hunt”; unknown paper source.

June 1, 1939: “How Navy Plans to Raise Sunken Sub”; unknown paper source. [article and photos]



June 3, 1939: “Squalus Salvage Work Progresses”; unknown paper source.

June 11, 1939: “The Handy Man of the Sea Bottom”; The New York Times. [article and photos]

June 16, 1939: “Squalus Raising is Again Delayed”; unknown paper source.

June 19, 1939: “Squaus Dive Re-Enacted on Surface”; The Boston Herald.

June 20, 1939: “Chief of Squalus Feels No Blame Can Rest On Him”; unknown paper source.

June 20, 1939: “Squalus Commander Tells of one Favored 18 Years Ago Would Prevent Tanks

Flooding”; The Boston Herald.

June 21, 1939: “Sub Cook Saw Water Pouring from Air Duct”; The Boston Herald.

June 22, 1939: “Members of Crew Relate Tales of Heroism on Sunken Submarine”; The Boston

Herald.

June 27, 1939: “Fuel Is Pumped From Squalus”; The Boston Herald.

June 30, 1939: “Lines Tied to Squalus; Oil to be Drawn Today”; The Boston Herald.

Unknown date: “Rescue Bell in Practice”; unknown paper source. [article and photo]

Unknown date: “Diver Could Work 240 Feet Below Surface For One Hour”; unknown paper

source.

July 4, 1939: “First Pontoons Sunk in Squalus Rescue Job”; The Boston Herald.

July 5, 1939: “Squalus Salvage Job Hits Snag”; unknown paper source.

Unknown date: “Navy Men Keep Their Fingers Crossed Till Squalus Rises”; unknown paper

source. [article and photos]

July 10, 1939: “First Squalus Lift of Squalus Tomorrow”; The Boston Herald.

July 10, 1939: “Last Two Pontoons To Be Fastened To Sub Today”; unknown paper source.

July 11, 1939: “Work of Raising Sub Squalus Out of Mud Starts Tomorrow”; The Boston Herald.

Unknown date: “Squalus Lifting Again Delayed, Attempt Likely This Afternoon”; Herald News.

Unknown date: “Plan to Tow „Tomb‟ of 26 to Shoals Off Coast”; unknown paper source.

Unknown date: “Mishap Delays Squalus Salvage”; unknown paper source.



July 12, 1939: “Vital Effort to Lift Squalus 85 Feet Is Due At Dawn Today”; unknown paper

source.

July 13, 1939: “Pontoons Lift Squalus Dead”; Boston American. [article and photo]

July 13, 1939: “Air View of Squalus Salvage”; Boston Evening American. [article and photos]

July 13, 1939: “Squalus Lifted After Fight”; The Boston Globe. [article and photo]

July 13, 1939: “Sub Squalus Off Sea Floor”; Boston Traveler. [article and graphics]

July 14, 1939: “Disastrous Plunge of Squalus Perils 20 – Wrecks Pontoons, Delays Salvage for

Months”; The Boston Herald. [article and photos]

July 14, 1939: “Squalus Divers Stopped by Seas”; The Boston Globe. [article and photos]

July 15, 1939: “Heavy Seas Balk Work on Squalus; Divers Find Gear Badly Tangled”; The Boston

Herald.

July 16, 1939: “Diver to Descend to Squalus Today”; The Boston Herald.

July 19, 1939: “Divers Find Squalus Lies on Even Keel”; The Boston Herald.

Unknown date: “Sub Hoisted Off Floor of Ocean Second Time in Six Days”; unknown paper

source.

Unknown date: “Squalus Divers‟ Colds Better”; unknown paper source.

August 11, 1939: “Squalus Pontoons and Air Hose In Position for Raising Today”; The Boston

Herald.

August 13, 1939: “Squalus Lifted and Towed 2 Miles, Then Pinnach in Sea Blocks Path”; The

New York Times. [article and photo]

August 16, 1939: “Navy Delays Next Moves Until Today”; The Boston Herald. [article and photo]

August 24, 1939: “Squalus Efforts Progress Rapidly”; unknown paper source.

Unknown date: “Sight That Won Cheers”; unknown paper source. [article and photo]

Unknown date: “Open Hatch Sub Mystery”; unknown paper source.

Unknown date: “The Raising of the „Squalus‟”; unknown magazine source. [article and photos]



SUBMARINE THETIS (BRITISH) June 3, 1939: “98 in Sunken Thetis Dead; British Bitterly Criticize Failure to Save Any on Ship”;

unknown paper source.

June 3, 1939: “U.S. Experts Say Gas Killed Men”; unknown paper source.

SUBMARINE PHENIX (FRENCH) June 16, 19?: “Warship Down Off Indo-China”; unknown paper source.

July 13, 19?: “Cables Trying to Raise French Sub”; unknown paper source.

U.S. BICENTENNIAL June 10, 1975: Fall River Herald News Bicentennial Edition, Vol. CIII, No. 134

MISCELLANEOUS December 24, 1950: “Rhode Island‟s Sportsmen Close Book on „Good‟ 1950; Browns, Rams Clash

for Pro Football Crown Today”; The Providence Sunday Journal.

Saturday, November 8, 1958: “Dying Wife Plea for Burke‟s Arrest Told”; Daily Record, Boston.

Saturday, November 8, 1958: “Third Moon Rocket Launching by Air Force Fizzles”; Fall River

Herald News.

PAPERS The Descendants of William Almy of Portsmouth, RI; Elva Lawton; 1972. [in binder notebook with

Historical Families of America: William Almy…]

Historical Families of America: William Almy of Portsmouth, RI 1630 and Joris Janssen de

Rapaljé of Fort Orange (Albany), New Amsterdam and Brooklyn 1623; Published by Charles

Kingsbury Miller, Chicago, 1897. [in binder notebook with The Descendants of William Almy…]

The Family Newsletter of Almy: 1988.

Indians of Little Compton; Little Compton Historical Society; 1988.

New York, Providence & Boston Railroad Schedule: November 3, 1889.



Directions for Setting Up and Using the Yankee Horserake (one side)

Price List of Extra Parts of the Yankee Horserake (other side)

Thank You Letters to John Berg from Pocasset School Students; 1995 & 1996. [each year in

manila envelopes]

PHOTO ALBUMS

Hooked Rugs; includes newspaper articles about hooked rugs

Chace-Cory House

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