The Joseph Dow trunk archive · Document gallery 91

Henry Dow volume: covers, land notes, court copy and sermons

27 photographs · 6 document groups

Photographed by Whit from the recovered Joseph Dow collection. Descriptions follow visible text and physical evidence; uncertain names, dates and associations remain provisional. Upright reading copies link to the unchanged supplied photographs. IMG_4597–IMG_4636 survive here as recovered chat attachment copies, rather than full-resolution camera originals.

JDT-D651-cover · Lot 3O: leather volume and physical structure

Three views record the leather-covered volume, spine and page edges with Whit’s lot 3O marker. Abrasion, darkened leather, exposed edges and the shape of the text block provide evidence of the object’s construction and condition.

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JDT-D651-ownership · Henry Dow: ownership, land measurements and writing practice

Opening or reverse-end leaves include Henry Dow’s name, early-eighteenth-century dates, a book-purchase inscription, land measurements associated with Daniel Tilton and Abraham Green, and pen flourishes. Additional views of these end leaves appear in gallery 99. The inscriptions associate the volume with Henry Dow; they do not by themselves identify every hand in the book.

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JDT-D651-court · Sarah Swain: copy of a Portsmouth court order, March 1706

A handwritten copy describes Sarah Swain of Hampton suffering for want of clothing and necessities. It refers to Nathaniel Weare and Henry Dow as justices, and records an order that she be provided for or placed where she would not suffer want. The heading names the Province of New Hampshire and a Quarter Sessions court at Portsmouth; the copy is attested in Henry Dow’s name.

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JDT-D651-accounts · Accounts, obligations and dated memoranda

Account-like entries preserve names, sums and obligations among the volume’s practical memoranda. The dates belong to the early 1700s. These leaves show that the book served purposes beyond devotional writing; uncertain amounts and parties should be checked against the photographs before citation.

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JDT-D651-sermon-a · Religious exposition: biblical examples and self-examination

Successive manuscript pages develop religious reflections with chapter-and-verse references, including a passage from Luke 15. The writing uses biblical examples to examine conduct and spiritual condition. Descriptions identify themes rather than supplying an unverified full transcription.

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JDT-D651-sermon-b · Devotional continuation: duty, prayer and readiness

The supplied pages continue the volume’s religious exposition, exhortation and practical application. Faded ink and curved inner margins remain visible. The next supplied photograph is IMG_4657, restored from the steered messages in Joseph Dow #8 and now shown in gallery 92. Follow galleries 92–99 for the continuous supplied sequence IMG_4657–IMG_4813.

8 photograph(s)

Collection photographs supplied by Whit. Descriptions are finding aids, not full transcriptions. Historical medical and religious texts are presented as archival sources. Original filenames and alternate views are preserved. The recovered IMG_4717–IMG_4776 sequence is included in galleries 95–97.