Item 43: Bookplate, First Society in Farmington, no date
Item — Box: 20, Folder: 43
Dates
- Created: no date
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Extent
1 items
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Type of Material:
Bookplate
Condition Note:
Good, no issues.
Measurements:
6 13/16 in. x 4 2/8 in.
Title:
First Society in Farmington
Description:
A bookplate describing the penalty for mistreating a library book that belongs to the Farmington Library. The text reads “This Book belongs to the library in the first book of society in Farmington laws. Two Pence per day for retaining a book for more than one month. One penny folding down a leaf. Three shillings for lending a book to a non proprietary. No member to retain a book after 8’ o'clock on drawing evenings. The youth who lead by wisdom’s guiding seeks virtue’s temple under law reveres. He, he alone in honors done shall stay crowned with rewards raised above his.” The Farmington Historical Society was founded in Farmington, Connecticut in 1954. Its goal is to keep the town’s history intact and help people learn about their history. The society is thankful for the different people who built the town’s history such as the Tunxis Native Americans who started the first settlement near the Farmington River, “the English Settlers who traded with the Native Americans, the fugitive slaves who sought freedom on the Underground Railroad, the abolitionists who gave them shelter, the 38 Africans who lived here in 1841 after gaining freedom in the Amistad case, the entrepreneurs who constructed the Farmington Canal in the early 1880s, and the merchants and traders who built the staley homes lining main street in the historic village.”
Location:
Farmington, Connecticut
Repository Details
Part of the Wilkes University Archives Repository
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84 W South St.
Wilkes-Barre PA 18701 US
570-408-2000
570-408-7823 (Fax)
ask.archives@wilkes.edu