The Joseph Dow trunk archive · Document gallery 55

Hampton’s anniversary, a boundary map and early newspapers

15 photographs · 6 document groups

Photographed by Whit from the recovered Joseph Dow collection. Descriptions draw on visible names, dates and subjects; uncertain readings remain provisional. Reading copies are turned upright, and each image links to the unchanged full-resolution original.

JDT-D414 · Hampton’s 250th anniversary program — 15 August 1888

The printed order of exercises schedules a procession led by Charles Philbrick, an address by Charles M. Lamprey, an oration by John J. Bell and music by the Newburyport Cadet Band. Dinner, speeches, fireworks and an evening band concert follow.

1 photograph

JDT-D415 · Richard Hazzen’s northern boundary plan — 1741

A long folding plan shows the northern boundary of Massachusetts Bay from a point three miles north of Pentucket Falls toward Hudson’s River. Mountain and river labels include Monadnock, Miller’s River and Fort Dummer. The text is dated Haverhill, 8 May 1741, with an oath before Richard Waldron on 25 June.

4 photographs

JDT-D416 · J. W. Ward’s brick moulding and mortar machines

The illustrated prospectus labels the working parts of a brick press and horse-powered mortar machine. It advertises two thousand bricks per hour with seven men and offers a single machine with the right to use it for five hundred dollars, from Jonathan W. Ward of Cambridgeport.

1 photograph

JDT-D417 · Newspaper fragments and Hampton clippings

The overview and details show the Newburyport Herald, New-Hampshire Gazette, Boston-Gazette and Portsmouth Oracle. A Boston-Gazette masthead is dated 22 August 1768. An Exeter News-Letter clipping of 15 July 1892 discusses the death of Josiah P. Wason, while another clipping concerns Hampton Falls.

5 photographs

JDT-D418 · Jonathan Moulton: receipts and account calculations

The receipts preserve payments, arithmetic and settlement language. One is dated 11 August 1761 and mentions old-tenor money; another acknowledges a sum received from Jonathan Moulton in discharge of demands. The blank reverse remains included.

3 photographs

JDT-D419 · Hampton men enlisted in royal service — 1759

The certificate states that named Hampton men are enlisted into His Majesty’s service for fifty days. The list includes Joseph Garland and Samuel Perkins alongside Chandler and Page names.

1 photograph

Collection photographs supplied by Whit. Descriptions are finding aids, not full transcriptions. Names, dates and associations remain provisional where the handwriting is uncertain.