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	Account Book of Elijah Williams, Ledger B, Vol. 3 1751-1757 L00.084 Storekeeper (Elijah Williams) accounts with Abijah Prince. This is a page from the account book of Deerfield, Massachusetts, storekeeper Elijah Williams (1712-1771) that includes purchases and payments from the free black man, Abijah Prince.
	Account Book of Elijah Williams, Ledger C, Vol. 4 1755-1759 L00.085 Storekeeper (Elijah Williams) accounts with Abijah Prince. This is a page from the account book of Elijah Williams (1712-1771) describing the purchases and payments of Abijah Prince (b.c.1715), a free black in Deerfield, Massachusetts, in the years 1756 and 1757.
	Travel passport for Mercy Carter's sons Jul 5, 1751 L01.003 This handwritten note, dated July 5, 1751, was intended to assure safe passage of two sons of Mercy Carter (captured in 1704 in Deerfield and married to a "Caugnauwaga Indian") from Albany to Norwalk, Connecticut.
	Nathan Loomis' Copy Book Mar 5, 1815 1984.14 Copy books were used in schoolroom exercises in the 19th century, this one, used by Nathan Loomis, to display skill with the pen. One Nathan Loomis' descendents was Amherst's Mabel Loomis Todd.
	WWI letter to Emily Gladys Bartlett Apr 29, 1918 L01.010 This letter of April 29, 1918, from Edward Roswell Wirt (1891-1942) to his fiancee, Emily Gladys Bartlett, tells of his enlistment in the army during the last year of World War I.
	WWI letter to Emily Gladys Bartlett May 14, 1918 L01.011 Edward Wirt's first letter after being drafted into the U.S. Army during World War I describes the life at Camp Devens at Ayres, Massachusetts. Wirt was one of thousands of New England troops organized into the 76th "Liberty Bell" Division.
	WWI letter to Emily Gladys Bartlett May 25, 1918 L01.012 Edward Wirt's unit, the 76th "Liberty Bell" Division, was in the midst of its brief period of training at Camp Devens in Ayers, Massachusetts, when he wrote this letter. He is anxious to know when they will be shipped overseas.
	WWI letter to Emily Gladys Bartlett Jul 5, 1918 L01.013 Edward Wirt's unit has at last been shipped out, and he wrote this letter aboard the transport taking them to England and then to France. He writes that his ship is safe from German submarines.
	WWI letter to Emily Gladys Bartlett Jul 13, 1918 L01.014 Edward Wirt's unit arrived uneventfully in England. Wirt briefly describes the conditions in wartime England, where the civilians were clearly suffering from shortages.
	WWI letter to Emily Gladys Bartlett Jul 23, 1918 L01.015 Wirt's division was disbanded after several weeks and its troops dispersed. He wrote this letter in southern France while awaiting assignment to another unit. The Allies were reluctant to use U.S. units at all, but the war's events forced them to.

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