Selling your Heritage
In my time researching the history of the local area I have found references to manuscripts
and publications that appear to have been sold to private collections.
Some of these reference documents can be found in archive form. The two most useful that I have
found are Google Play and Internet Archive.
Many is the time when I have made a search and I have found relevant information on an
Internet Archive page.
Below is a cover page from such a scan:
The Suffolk/North Essex connection:
A possible reason that that the Wentworth history migrated to the US and then the
account penned by John Wentworth, Boston Mass.,
1815-1888.
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Bequest of Jonathan Brown Bright to be called the Bright Legacy, of which one half of the income to be annually expended for
books for the College Library. And in order that the object of this legacy may not be lost sight of and that no one of the name
of Bright entitled to its benefits, shall be deprived of them through ignorance of the existence of this fund, I desire and
direct that every book purchased from its income, shall have a card or printed label attached to the cover, or in some conspicuous
place in the volume, containing a statement of the foregoing provisions for scholarships from this legacy,
as a means of making them forever known to those interested.
Henry Bright, Junior of Bury St. Edmands, county of Suffolk, England, is supposed to have settled in Watertown,
in 1630; was admitted Freeman in 1635; and died there in 1686.
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An example - sold to Harvard in 1896
