I have no interest in any of these items. I'm just listing them for whomever might be interested. --------------------------------------- http://listings.ebay.com/aw/listings/list/category356/page32.html Item #81730979 History Of Berkshire County Mass History of Berkshire County Massachusetts with Biographical Sketches of Its Prominent Men and it was published in 1885 ----------------------- http://listings.ebay.com/aw/listings/list/category356/page33.html Item #81703260 CIVIL WAR letter Ma [Sellman] - Autograph Letter Signed, Clifton [Maryland ?], Sept. 14, 1864, 4 full pages. To her son J. Henry Sellman, A.A. Paymaster U.S.S. Montauk, Port Toyal, South Carolina. No one has been sent to replace Sellman - ÒI do think that yours is one of the hardest cases I ever heard of, it certainly has been a great piece of neglect on the part of some one, if I were in your place and I had my orders to leave I certainly would leave whether I had any one to take my place or not. I do hope that you may be here by the 12 of October for I suspect then all our Negroes will be free and I will not know what to do with them.Ó......Says she may go to Washington and try to influence Gideon Welles. ÒIt will kill you to stay so long in one of those miserable Vessels.......How do you like the nomination for President, some of our Union men are down on McClellan and say that they will vote for Lincoln.Ó The ship Montauk, which Sellman is serving on, was the ship that the autopsy of John Wilkes Booth was performed on. Comes with original envelope but the stamp has been torn away. Item #81695468 1910 History of HARRISON COUNTY,Clarksburg WV events from many sources including court records,old letters and newspapers etc. Includes the histories of early families,valuable as a source for geneology. There are handwritten notations inside from someone who found roots here. Includes names of persons listed in an early census, Marriages during the years1784-1794 etc. Item #81688801 1830 Holy Bible Hand written in the front of the book, given to Clark Steelman from Christiana Sutton. On opposite page says Walter Scot Steelman born February the 26th, 1841 Item #81686937 1921 year diary owned by Maxine Alverron of Corry,Pa almost every day is noted with daily affairs of a young girl, movies, friends, relatives,school.etc Item #81682199 1820 Bible, Ferrent name earliest written entry is 1820 A LOT OF PERSONAL INFO Marriages go back as far as 1872. a Births page with 12 entries and data, the earliest dated 1820. There is a Deaths page with 3 entries, the earliest dated 1887 .THE FAMILY NAMES. THEY ARE: Ferrent primarily, 2 references to Gardiner and 1 to Osgood. Item #81681684 WALTER SHEPPARD'S 19TH C. AUTOGRAPH BOOK Many autographs from the 1860s & 70s Lots of family and friends But also many signatures cut and pasted into the book Locations noted by signers extend from California to Chicago to Buffalo, NY, Milwaukee, and Trenton, NJ. ------------------------- http://listings.ebay.com/aw/listings/list/category356/page34.html Item #81651278 1897 Letter from attorney to his sister this is an old letter with letter head of R.G.Robinson . Lawyer, Holton, Kansas.....dated May 12, 1897 hand written to his sister.... --------------------------- http://listings.ebay.com/aw/listings/list/category356/page35.html Item #81643457 BRIN(C)KERHOFF'S GENEALOGY 1641-1981 THE BRIN(C)KERHOFF'S of AMERICA 1641-1981 Compiled by Theodore Brinckerhoff (1901- 1981). 495 pages. This is the story of the ancestor Joris Dircksen Brinckerhoff, born in Vorden, Gelderland and his bride Susanna Dubbels whose marriage banns are recorded in the City of Amsterdam on Saturday May 20th, 1628. There is a huge amount of information in these records of families. There are several illustrations at the beginning of the text. Joris and Susanna had at least 8 children: Dirck, (died young) Hendrick, Abraham, Aeltje (died young), another Dirck, Isaac, Jacob and another Aeltje. ----------------------------- http://listings.ebay.com/aw/listings/list/category356/page36.html Item #81621510 1860 Ohio letter - 3 pp. Lydia Barrows 1860 Windham, in Portage County, Ohio - letter to a neice - discusses travel in Ohio and a recent trip to Massachusetts and the journey home... health, eye operation, ---------------------- http://listings.ebay.com/aw/listings/list/category356/page37.html Item #81611338 RARE Aboard SHIP Birth Cert 1909 Hamburg GER in German,.. it is a Baptismal Certificate, from on board the ship POSEIDON, dated 1909 this is a birth certificate of a young man born aboard ship his name was Thomas D. McGuire. ---------------------- http://listings.ebay.com/aw/listings/list/category356/page38.html Item #81593222 Mortgage - Land Deed - Indenture - 1866 Indenture made October 10, 1866, Between John Buchanan and Abigail his wife, of the City of Newburgh, New York, and John Taylor in the amount of "two hundred and fifty dollars", Item #81586687 1880 Huge Holy Bible & Genealogy Steel Engrvs This is the Family Holy Bible of David D. Dunbar & Helen H. Skinner of Weston, New Jersey, married in Edinburgh Scotland. Item #81576456 FIRST CENSUS OF THE UNITED STATES 1790, PA. ---------------------------- http://listings.ebay.com/aw/listings/list/category356/page39.html Item #81570720 PENNA. Danville-Past&Present-Book-1881 Danville,Montour County,Pa.,a collection of historical&biographical sketches Item #81570558 Old Trappe Church-Montgomery Co, PA 1893 The Old Trappe Church, A Memorial of the Sesqui-Centennial Services of Augustus Evangelical Lutheran Church, Montgomery County, Prennsylvania. Item #81561387 HISTORY OF BRIDGEWATER, MASS.(1840) HB Item #81555071 ~GENEALOGY~Dungan/McLoughlin/Davidson This is titled: "THE COMPREHENSIVE COMMENTARY ON THE HOLY BIBLE," published by the Brattleboro Typographic Company (Inc. Oct 26, 1836), book dated 1837. Text: Psalms LXIV through Malachi. This book contains handwritten family records, mostly of the Dungan family dating from 1798-1873. For example: Thomas and Jane Dungan were married Aug 12, 1819. It continues with various Dungan names and marriages. Item #81554159 1859 King James Holy Bible The family record pages contain entries recording events from 1857 to 1910, principally involving the surname Porter. -----------------------