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A history of parts of Capt. and Mrs. Lane's and their daughter's work among a neglected people on Malaga Island, Maine and reference to other localities when the new motor boat will make it easier for them to carry messages of love and helpfulness

1 pp 1906

Correspondence, clippings, and photographs mounted into a scrapbook detailing the efforts of George and Lucy Lane of Malden, Mass. to establish a school for the children on Malaga Island, Me. Alternative title from cover of volume in folder 1.

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A list of ye names of ye inhabitants at Blackpoint garison Octo: 12th 1676

1 pp 1676

Handwritten list of inhabitants at the Blackpoint garrison in Scarborough, Maine commanded by Henry Jocelyn during King Philip's War. Transcribed version published in Dorothy Shaw Libbey's "Scarborough Becomes A Town" (Freeport, Me.: The Bond Wheelright Co., 1955), 262.

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Account book, 1741-1772

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This volume contains treasurers' accounts (1741-1772) for the Boston Commissioners of the Company. Digitization funded by a grant from the Society of the Descendants of the Colonial Clergy.

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Actts and orders made by the courtt off commitioners hold[en] att Portsmouth [R.I.], May the 22, 1656.

1 pp 1656

A contemporary handwritten copy of court records for 22 and 23 May. Caption title.

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Authorship of the letters of Massachusettensis : being the correspondence of L. M. Sargent, Esq., with various persons upon this subject. To which are appended two articles by Mr. Sargent, which appeared in the Boston Evening Transcript, proving that these letters were written by Daniel Leonard.

1 pp 1851

Correspondence and mounted clippings of newspaper articles bound together. Correspondents include Samuel Sewall, William Reed Deane, James Savage, Samuel Putnam, Charles F. Adams, Jonathan Peel Dabney, Samuel G. Drake, Charles Jackson, Ellis Ames, George A. Ward, William Baylies, Lorenzo Sabine, Joseph E. Sprague, Ward Chipman and Francis Baylies. John Adams published a series of articles, signed "Novanglus", in the Boston Gazette in 1775, in answer to articles in the Tory interest which appeared in other newspapers, signed "Massachusettensis". Although originally attributed to Jonathan Sewall, then King's Attorney General of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, it is now well established that the Massachusettensis papers were the work of Daniel Leonard.; Blank pages have not been scanned.

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Commissioners Book for Propagating the Gospel in New England

1 pp 1729

This volume has two parts: Accounts, 1729-1741, and copies of correspondence, 4 December 1751 to 12 April 1787. Digitization funded by a grant from the Society of the Descendants of the Colonial Clergy. Most blank pages have not been scanned.

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Contract, 1797 October 5, between David Gardner Jr. and David Gardner III, Machias, Me., and Joseph Habersham, Postmaster General of the United States.

1 pp 1797

Printed contract with information entered by hand. Sets out terms by which the Gardners will carry mail between Machias, Washington Co., District of Maine, and the Passamaquoddy area.

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Deposition of Thomas Broughton

1 pp 1678

True copy of deposition concerning a bond and the sale by John Winrol of the Salmon Falls Mills (New Hampshire). Blank pages have not been scanned.

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Journal of Richard Hazen

1 pp 1750

Handwritten journal, without cover, kept by Hazen while surveying the Maine seacoast from Portsmouth, New Hampshire, to the St. Croix River, the border of Maine with New Brunswick, Canada. Richard Hazen Jr. was born in Haverhill, Mass. July 20, 1696, and died near Bradford, Mass., ca February 8, 1754. He graduated from Harvard College in 1717 and married in Newbury, Mass. on October 22, 1719 to Sarah Clement.

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Letter, 1785 November 16, Portsmouth, N.H., to [William Smallwood], Maryland

1 pp 1785

Original handwritten letter. Navigation act directed at Great Britain.

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Letter, 8 January 1813, Philadelphia, [Penn.], to Honorable William Eustis, New York.

1 pp 1813

Handwritten letter by Francis LeBaron, United States Army's Apothecary General, describing his visit to see Airy Taylor in the hospital and his general impression of his office.

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List of men belonging to Engine No. 2, Boston.

1 pp 1780

Handwritten list simply provides the men's names and their salary. List includes Joab Hunt, John Bouve, Gibbens Bouve, Daniel Lilley, Henry Swift, Richard Floyd, Thomas Badger, William Leate, James Freeland, William Dericot. All made 15:6.

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A history of parts of Capt. and Mrs. Lane's and their daughter's work among a neglected people on Malaga Island, Maine and reference to other localities when the new motor boat will make it easier for them to carry messages of love and helpfulness

A list of ye names of ye inhabitants at Blackpoint garison Octo: 12th 1676

Account book, 1741-1772

Actts and orders made by the courtt off commitioners hold[en] att Portsmouth [R.I.], May the 22, 1656.

Authorship of the letters of Massachusettensis : being the correspondence of L. M. Sargent, Esq., with various persons upon this subject. To which are appended two articles by Mr. Sargent, which appeared in the Boston Evening Transcript, proving that these letters were written by Daniel Leonard.

Commissioners Book for Propagating the Gospel in New England

Contract, 1797 October 5, between David Gardner Jr. and David Gardner III, Machias, Me., and Joseph Habersham, Postmaster General of the United States.

Deposition of Thomas Broughton

Journal of Richard Hazen

Letter, 1785 November 16, Portsmouth, N.H., to [William Smallwood], Maryland

Letter, 8 January 1813, Philadelphia, [Penn.], to Honorable William Eustis, New York.

List of men belonging to Engine No. 2, Boston.