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, Notification by County Treasurer, Kittanning, to estate of Annie Skelton., Undated, ca. 1933-1934

Box 4, Folder 25
Her property in South Buffalo has been returned for non-payment of taxes for 1932 amounting to $12.81 and, unless they are paid, the property will be sold at the Court House in Armstrong County on 6 August 1934.
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, Draft claim of Hannah P. Boyd and Mary McFarland, sisters of George McFarland, for "arrears of pay and bounty.", Undated, ca. 1887

Box 4, Folder 23
On a form that has 188 plus a blank for the year in the decade (probably 1887). George, a private in Company G, 5th Regiment of the "Calafornia Volunteers," died "on or about the" 31st October 1862 in the service of the U.S.; the sisters appoint Calvin Rayburn of Kittanning to prosecute the claim (see letter of Rayburn to Hannah Boyd above in section I.C)
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Undated, ca. 1834-1836

36 leaves (the 1st one torn away), unnumbered.

Box 3, Folder 24
Extracts in prose and (especially) verse, some of which are attributed. Internal dates: "Princeton 1835" at the end of a poem; " October 4th 1836" at the end of a poem; "The Hon. Nicholas Biddles address before the Alumni of Nassau Hale Sept 30th 1835" at the end of a proverb; "1834" and "Webb" after a prose sentence; " July 1834" at the end of a poem "By a Lady." The first item is a poem by Campbell, "The Last Man"; on verso of last leaf are scribbles, including names (James Hogg, Washington Irving, Walter Scott, and Anderson), titles of poems, some quotations, the date 1836 and (at the top) the place name Freeport.
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7. : Notebook of longitudes., Undated [?1782-87]

52 leaves, unnumbered, with leaves 1-2, 30-52 blank; leaves 3-29 are written on rectos and/or versos; stubs can be seen between leaves 5 and 6, 15 and 16, 18 and 19, 19 and 20, 21 and 22, 51 and 52.

Box 2, Folder 30
For various years from 1600 to 1830, filled only for 1756 and 1770-87; then one for a full but unknown year; other charts based on Greenwich; references to Slop for many calculations in the early 1780s.