Box 6

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Promissory notes from the 18th and 19th centuries; copies of minutes trust agreements; act to allow release of land and others; printed copies of the 3 charters; excerpt from the charter of 1711; pamphlet published by J.B. Lippincott and Co.; R.M. Jones's bound copy of manuscript notes and corrections.

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Indenture of Samuel Bould as apprentice teacher; Indenture of Phineas Jenkins, Indenture of Samuel Eldridge as apprentice teacher, printed by Benjamin Franklin; Indenture of James Dickinson as apprentice teacher.

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John E. Carter in account with John Jones's legacy; Register of the distribution of the proceeds of the charitable legacies.

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Photostat copies

Scope and Contents Includes: certificate of appointment of two overseers to succeed two deceased (Thomas Master and Nathan Stanbury in place of John Jones and James Fox, signed by nine overseers); certificate of appointment of William Hudson as overseer to replace Edward Shippen, deceased; certificate of appointment of David Lloyd as overseer to succeed Samuel Carpenter, deceased; certificate of appointment of William Carter as overseer to succeed Griffith Owen, deceased; certificate of appointment of Israel...

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Includes: Report to overssers by school committee 1784-1-16; Report to overseers by school committee on new building added to school 1889; Recommendation to overseers by school committee for a new financial plan for the school 1893-5-26; Report to overseers by school committee 1905-10-27; Report to overseers by school committee with statement by headmaster Richard M. Jones appended 1915-2-26; Misc.

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For additional reports from 1907 and undated, see papers of Richard M. Jones.