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Box 1

 Container

Contains 1 Result:

Petition of Campbell Bachelder and others, [citizens of Corinna] to incorporate a Literary Institution under the name of the Maine Seminary, and suitably endow the same, January 12, 1855

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1, item: 11
Identifier: CA0282/02
Scope and Content Note From the Collection: The Maine State Seminary Records includes handwritten materials relating to the founding of the Maine State Seminary, later called Bates College. The collection includes petitions signed by citizens of 14 towns requesting the State incorporate and endow the Maine State Seminary (Jan-Feb 1855); the 1856 bond giving title for the land where Bates College was built, signed by Ammi R. Nash and Alonzo Garcelon; bills and correspondence concerning the construction of Hathorn and Parker halls...
Dates: January 12, 1855