[Manuscript Journal]: Records of School District No. 7 in the Town of Charlton. April 10th 1816

Hardcover. Good. Manuscript journal of the proceedings of a school district in Saratoga County, New York. Square octavo. Quarter calf and papercovered boards. Approximately 150 pages, of which about 125 have been used. Tears at the joints, some stains in the text, evidence of two leaves partially torn away, a good and readable journal. An account of the school district covering the years from 1816 to 1854, composed in various hands, including that of Edward Taylor, brother of John W. Taylor, who was a longtime legislator and twice Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, and other notable pioneers of the area. Charlton was created out of the town of Ballston in 1792. It was originally called New Freehold because so many of its settlers were from Freehold, New Jersey.