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Holcomb was born on June 18, 1787. Holcomb grew up in a town with three names in two states as a young child, but he never changed his residence due to border disputes and resolutions. The town kept this name until 1804 when the boundary between the states of
Connecticut and Massachusetts was
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Transit telescope, refractor, twenty-one inches (530 mm) in length and mounted on a fourteen-inch (360 mm) cross tube with a graduated marked circle, but missing the base.
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nine feet (2.7 m) long with an eight-inch (203 mm) aperture that had been displayed in 1835 at The
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Bagdasarian, Nicholas. "Amasa
Holcomb: A Yankee Telescope Manufacturer."
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587:Historical Facts About Southwick.
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105:Lucy Holcomb, b. 1767 d. 1800
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258:The first
160:Early life
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425:King 1962
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219:Asteroid
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