This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Mixed World Views From a Fragmented Chronicle
A digest of outwardly odd and distant items notes a Kentucky preacher decrying murder, a New York astrologer predicting Grant’s impeachment or death, a mobile tailor in Tennessee, and a diary‑keeping burglar named Pike. Other items cover rescues, cyclones, reform efforts, a butternut shell jewelry dispute, Catholic schooling in Thompsonville, a vision of a son’s death, colonial cession talks, and various swindles, archaeology finds, prize shows, and railway shipments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Junkin
Frankfort
New York
Grant
Tennessee
Pike
Massachusetts
St. Louis
Schaffner
Simon Wilkinson
Vermont
Western Terrtory
Cordelia Lessier
Lowell
Taunton
Mass
Bengal
Calcutta
Worcester
Springfield
Thompsonville Conn
Sisters of Charity
Hartford
Ireland
Lord Carnarvon
Sir Hercules Robinson
Feejee Islands
Sydney
Hercules Robinson
W. Talley
Disraeli
Buckinghamshire
Talley