Indenture of Release to Woodstock and Lake Erie Railway from Executors of Samuel Zimmerman

Indenture of release regarding a loan of 12, 500 pounds which Samuel Zimmerman (deceased) is said to have lent and advanced to the Woodstock and Lake Erie Railway and Harbour Company. This is put forward by the executors who include: Joseph A. Woodruff, Richard Woodruff, John L. Ranney and Richard Miller. This document releases and exonerates the Railway Company from any debts to the executors. [The outside of the document says 1857, but the actual date is Feb. 10, 1858].

Indenture of Release between Richard Miller and others

Indenture of release by executors between Richard Miller, John L. Ranney and Richard Woodruff, all of St. Catharines and Joseph A. Woodruff of Clifton, all executors of the will of Samuel Zimmerman of the first part and The Great Western Railway Company of the second part. Parties of the second part have exonerated parties of the first part to undertake and complete the Sarnia branch of the railway. Also, parties of the first part believe they are entitled to compensation as the death of Zimmerman was caused while travelling on one of the carriages belonging to said company. A sum of $150,000 was agreed upon to be paid to the executors by the Great Western Railway Company, September 7, 1858.

Deed of sale, 1769 April 8

Handwritten deed between a committee of the Proprietors of the Cambridge Common lands comprised of Samuel Danforth, Samuel Whittemore, Henry Prentice, Ebenezer Stedman, and Edward Marret to grantee Andrew Bordman for a strip of Cambridge common land.

Popery a complex falsehood: or an attempt to clear and evidence, that it is so, in a lecture had at Harvard College in Cambridge, New England, on May 10th, 1769

The hand-sewn notebook contains a 30-page manuscript draft of the Dudleian lecture delivered by Samuel Mather on May 10, 1769 at Harvard College. The sermon begins with the Biblical text 2 Thess. 11:11, 12. The copy includes a small number of edits and struck-out words. The item has unattached pages and is in fragile condition. The lecture was never published.

A great man's friendship; letters of the Duke of Wellington to Mary, marchioness of Salisbury, 1850-1852,

Mode of access: Internet.

The life of Samuel Johnson: newly ed. with notes /

Paged continuously.

Narrative of the Rev. Joseph Samuel C. F. Frey.

Mode of access: Internet.

Correspondance littéraire, philosophique et critique : adressée à un souverain d'Allemagne, depuis 1753 jusqu'en 1769 /

Mode of access: Internet.

Two noble lives. Samuel Gridley Howe, Julia Ward Howe,

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Die Bücher Richter und Samuel : ihre Quellen und ihr Aufbau /

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Two discourses on prophecy : with an appendix in which Mr. Miller's scheme, concerning Our Lord's second advent, is considered and refuted /

Mode of access: Internet.

Annual of scientific discovery; or, Year-book of facts in science and art, for [1850]-1871, exhibiting the most important discoveries and improvements in mechanics, useful arts, natural philosophy, chemistry, astronomy, geology, biology, botany, mineralogy, meteorology, geography, antiquities, etc., together with notes on the progress of science, a list of recent scientific publications; obituaries of eminent scientific men, etc

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The unequalled collection of engraved portraits of Napoleon Bonaparte and his family and marshals, belonging to Hon. James T. Mitchell ... embracing the most important collection of portraits in mezzotinto, aquatint, line, and stipple; including many printed in colors, as well as choice proofs, also the extraordinary collection of caricatures on Napoleon by Cruikshank, Gillray, Rowlandson, and others. To be sold ... December 18 ... and ... December 19, 1908 ... Catalogue compiled and sale conducted by Stan V. Henkels. At the book auction rooms of Samuel T. Freeman & co. ...

Red cancel drawn through the portraits.