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Marriage Notices from Washington County, New York, Newspapers, 1799-1880
Nearly 7,000 marriage notices including neighboring counties of New York and Vermont, and of people formerly of Washington County who moved to other parts of New York or to other states. Chronological.
The Salem Book
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Their Own Voices
Beginning in the 1840s and continuing until his death, Dr. Asa Fitch (1809-1878) of Salem, NY, interviewed elderly neighbors, questioning them about the time of first European settlement, the Revolutionary War, and the first decades of the 19th century. Fitch was more than just a medical doctor. By the 1850s, he ranked as a world-famed entomologist, with important discoveries about insect life to his credit. He turned his precise, scientific mindset to good account in his oral history work. He seems to have functioned almost like a human tape recorder, transcribing and preserving vivid, colloquial statements from a wide range of individuals---most not fully literate people (that is, people w...
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