Collection	Marblehead Town History
Abstract	Mostly Articles from Marblehead Messenger 1 Headers Hope Weather of 1898 Will Not Come Again … Pictures: Causeway After Storm… Marblehead Harbor As It Looked Frozen Over in 1898 3 - 5 A Scrapbook from the Past… December 10, 1786… Sally Martin wife of Samuel Glover burned to death. 7 - 9 Winter of 1920… Verse: 'A Piece of Snow Visible on Pleasant Street' by Marcia M. Selman…'The Snow' a poem by Elizabeth Brackett, age 8 11 Old Weather Records… Messenger July 21, 1911… Poem 'Late Snow'…Messenger April 28, 1916… Winter of 1882 13 As A Boy Remembers…Messenger September 12, 1919… Photo Marblehead Harbor Boiling In Advance of Snow.1958 15 Twenty Six Years Ago 1867-1868… Some Dates from Mr. Clough…Messenger November 30, 1894… March 3, 1837… November 25, 1885 17 Cold Weather 0f 1857… Messenger January 27,1882 19 March 1823 - March 1835.. References too: James Goodwin, Thomas Elkin, Robert Orne References too: Jonathan Cass, Nathaniel Lindsey, John B. Lindsey, Capt. Samuel Tucker, Capt. Eleazer Graves… 21 From John Prince's Record Book… Leech Worm Weather Glass... Messenger July 20, 1928 23 Storm of 1851… by James J.H. Gregory… Messenger December 31,1909… Greatest Storm since 1898... 25 Anniversary of the Gale of 1869… Messenger September 13, 1918 27-32 Back in 1786 When New England Had Those Good, Old-Fashioned Winters 33 - 36 Abbot Library Celebrates it's 100th Anniversary 34 Photo: check out desk Abbot Library 35 Photo Library Anniversary 36 100 Years of growth and success 37 Who Was She...? Hannah Tutt... Messenger June 7th, 1878… Yankee Dictionary: Belly Bump… Alewife in His Air Chamber… Rock Him…Hell Room…March… Hannah Cook… Fish, Cut Bait or Go Ashore…Concord Fight 39 Article on Oliver Wendell Holmes poem 'Agnes'…Samuel Chamberlain photo Of Marblehead in Winter 41-42 Photos of Virginia C Gamage and Priscilla S. Lord Authors of 'Marblehead: The Spirit of '76 Lives Here' 43 Ex-Marblehead Woman writes about her Childhood in "the Rainbow"…Edna Barth 47 1968 Cold Recalls Old Icy Days 49 Marblehead Old Messenger Headings: Thursday March 6, 1969… Thursday August 21, 1969…Thursday October 23, 1969… 50 Heading Marblehead Messenger Thursday January 8,1970 51 Editor's Corner… Creater of sketch top of front page Messenger..Childe Hassam, Famous artist noted for most original of American Impressionists… 53 The Story of a Nameplate… Marblehead Messenger 54 Pictures of Messenger Nameplates…December 17, 1975 …Thursday September 6th 1973 55 Marblehead Messenger December 14th 1877…In Three Hundred Years, town has seen many newspapers…. People's Advocate…Essex County Mercury 57 Old Messengers, Thought Long Lost, Turn Up…December 20, 1871 57 Views of Marblehead as Seen by Artist Centuries Ago in People's Advocate 59 Census from an old Marblehead Ledger… Newspaper found in town pre-Dates the Revolution 61 1875-1939 Marblehead Cod…1776-1884 The Independence Bell 63 Picture and write-up of fire in Messenger Building 65 Picture of Press Room in Messenger Building… library Seeks Funds 67 Picture of Messenger Office… Picture of Press 71-75 Journalism in Marblehead Messenger January 7.1881...Front Street Contemporary changed its name to: The Essex County Statesman and Recorder 77 Picked up be chance taken from Salem Gazette December 23, 1823 … Arrival of Schr. Friend, Stone, Zurr, Messervy, from Grand Banks…Found wreck of schooner Minerva… Grammar School on Green Street Forcibly entered… 79-81 Ancient Newspaper found… Old Salem Gazette August 14, 1770 83-87 Echoes From the Past by J.R.K… Messenger October 29, 1904 89 Excerpts from the Boston News Letter of April 24, 1747 91 List of Vessels: Arrivals and lost… ref to: Captain Cowell, General Brown, General Debotta... an advertisement: Negro woman to be sold… 93-97 Articles from Boston Evening Gazette in ref: to ships arriving and departing Bond dated September 2, 1760 between Samuel Selman, John Nutt and Joel Smith… Eviction notice for Selman…References to: Elifa Hutchinfon, Knott Martin, Jr., John Prince, Mrs Deborah Tasker, Major Richard Reed, Mr. Samuell Swett… From Essex Antiquarium October 1909 95 Legal notice to john Reed, inn holder, re: unpaid taxes…Boston Evening Gazette December 17, 1759 97 References to the following Marbleheaders: Wm. Coles, Joseph Picket, Captain Henry Elkins, Capt. Lee, John Reed, Thomas Kymball, Nathaniel Bartlett and wife Jane, Peter Briggs, Isaac Turner, Samuel Lee and Thomas Frothingham 101 An Old Book…'Erughin or Miscellanies, Christian and Judiacall and others.' Written by John Lightfoot (1620-1675)… Old Papers Found in Sparhawk House…Nicolas Edgcomb died February 19, 1770 102 An Old Paper…"People's Advocate and Marblehead Mercury". September 23, 1910 103 An article on 'The Register. Marblehead's First Newspaper Founded in 1830; Messenger founded in 1871 105 Old newspaper…'Boston Post-boy & Advertiser-dated January 23, 1760 Messenger December 5, 1879... 107 Marblehead Bank elects first Board of Directors…April 1804…Messenger November 1890 108 …Twenty Seven Years Ago…Excerpts from Boston Journal dated December 2, 1852… Deaths noted…Samuel Lyon age 64…Lydia Knowland age 78…Benjamin Wooldridge age56 109 Contents of Marblehead Ledger…February 29, 1860…from William H. Knowland… Messenger February 24, 1922 111-113 Clippings From An Old Paper…Marblehead Ledger…date of February 29, 1860 115 Poem…'The Messenger'…by Uncle Ben…An article titled…Heada Foreve… 117 Oldest Paper in Town…January 26, 1860…Copy of 'Post and Advertiser'. Issued by Green and Russell and printed in Boston… found by William F. Vickery…Messenger Oct.10, 1919 119 A Comprehensive Obituary…printed in the Marblehead Patriot…Messenger March 15, 1878 121 Twenty Years Ago…Marblehead Advocate and Mercury of 1853…published by James Coffin…Lists some of those doing business here at that time… 123 Rodney Gilley Has Interesting Copy of Salem Essex Statesman…dated October 21, 1863 Mentions: John Gilley, Nathaniel Gilly, Capt. Knott V.Martin, Capt. William Gregory… William Filene had his first dry goods store in Salem before moving to Boston… 125 An Old Almanac 1815… References of: Captain John Porter of Ship Essex…Lieutenant John Glover Cowell… 127 Has Early Edition Copy of Old Marblehead Register…First Paper Published in Town. Printed by Henry Blaney…December 4, 1830…Lists week's ship arrivals from the Grand Banks…Messenger October 18, 1929… 129-131 From the Ledger of May 1, 1861…(Extracts from Marblehead Weekly Published Sixty Six Years Ago)…Marblehead and Salem Omnibus Schedule…Ledger Marine Journal Port of Marblehead…from Messenger January 20, 1928 133-143 The End Of The Line---The End Of An Era 147-155 Headlines The Boston Daily Globe…January 16, 1919…Molasses Tank Explosion… 159 MARBLEHEAD IN THE OLD DAYS…by Ernest Lindsey…Reprinted from 1929 Messenger… 161 ROCKY CURIOSITIES….J.O.J.Frost's Musical Rocks 163-164 A COLUMN BY EBEN WEED…July 15,1965 165 THE STACEY LAND AT THE ENTRANCE OF THE BOWDEN (FOUNTAIN) PARK… By James J.H.Gregory…Messenger February 15, 1907 169-171 THE GAME RESOURCES…By James J.H.Gregory…Messenger September 24, 1897 173-175 OLD TIME SPORTS…February 15, 1884 177 ABBOT HALL LIBRARY TURNS 100… 179-201 A WALK INTO THE PAST…A walk from Merritt Street to Stacey…Washington… Selman…Front…Franklin…Washington Streets…back to Merritt 203 RARE DOCUMENT FOUND AT ESSEX INSTITUTE…Declaration of Independence Printed in Salem Shop…One month after the nations founders signed the decree in Philadelphia on July 4, 1776 205 TRANSFORMATION----YANKEE STYLE…Layout and Design…The Editor's Corner…By Alec MacDonald in reference to above… 207 DEARLY BELOVED…Poem written referring to ceremony at the sailor's monument at the OLD BURIAL HILL to commemorate this SACRED PLACE with a lengthy list of Mariners lost at sea… 209 BOYS BELOVED…A poem by : C. Turner Schubarth…Messenger August 16, 1918 211 INTERESTING NOTES…from Messenger…"Why is a ship called a she?"..."Because the rigging cost more than the hull."
Home Location	Shelf in Far Room
Object ID	1961-003-05003
Object Name	Album
People	Martin, Sally Glover, Samuel Selman, Marcia M. Brackett, Elizabeth Clough Goodwin, James Elkin, Thomas Orne, Robert Cass, Johathan Lindsey, Nathaniel Lindsey, John B. Tucker, Samuel, Capt. Graves, Eleazer, Capt. Gregory, James J. H. Tutt, Hannah Cook, Hannah Holmes, Oliver Wendell Chamberlain, Samuel Gamage, Virginia C. Lord, Pricilla S. Barth, Edna Hassam, Childe Selman, Samuel Nutt, John Smith, Joel Hutchinson, Elisa Martin, Knott, Jr Prince, John Tasker, Deborah Reen, Richard, Major Swett, Samuel Reed, John Coles, Wm. Picket, Joseph Elkins, Henry, Capr. Lee, Capt. Kymball, thomas Bartlett, Nathaniel Bartlett, Jane Briggs, Peter Turner, Isaac Lee, Samuel Frothingham, Thomas Lightfoot, John Edgcomb, Nicolas Lyon, Samuel Knowland, Lydia Wooldridge, Benjamin Knowland, Willian H. Vickery, William F. Coffin, James Gilley, Rodney Gilley, John Gilly, Nathaniel Martin, Knott V., Capt Gregory, William Filene, William Porter, John, Capt. Cowell, John Glover, Lt. Blaney, Henry Lindsey, Ernest Frost, J.O.J. MacDonald, Alec Schubarth, C. Turner Oliver, Franklin
Search Terms	Marblehead Messenger Ships Molasses Flood Newspapers Declaration of Independance
Title	Black Notebook #3

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