Cobb Family Manuscript Archive (1767-1830),Twenty-one Separate Documents:

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Cobb Family Manuscript Archive (1767-1830),Twenty-one Separate Documents: manuscript receipts and notes related to the Cobb family of Falmouth, Maine. Many receipts relate to the building and repair of the school in district five in Falmouth, from the 1760s to 1830; Samuel, James, Jonathan and Ebenezer Cobb are mentioned; others refer to the payment of tax debts and other mercantile transactions; some receipts with Hope Cobb's name, are bills from the 1770s for making bonnets, gowns, cloaks, shoes, stays, knitting stockings, weaving, and "nursing"; others are for purchases of indigo, cotton, handkerchiefs and ribbons; one receipt calculates the cost to the town of hiring soldiers for the years 1775-1782.
Estimate $125-175

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