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Newell, Timothy. A journal kept during the time Boston was shut up in 1775 [manuscript transcription], 1775-1776.

Title: A journal kept during the time Boston was shut up in 1775 [manuscript transcription], 1775-1776.

Handwritten copy of a journal kept by Boston selectman Timothy Newell, 19 April 1775-17 March 1776, describing events during the Siege of Boston. Newell details the number of men wounded and killed, size of British and Continental troops, and confiscated livestock. Also includes copies of letters sent and received by Newell addressed to Gen. Howe, 8-9 March 1776. The journal was copied most likely by Thomas Wallcut from papers held by Jeremy Belknap. Pages 13-16 are missing from transcription.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/46956916 View

Samuel Holten Papers, 1630-1843, (bulk 1744-1843)

Title: Samuel Holten Papers 1630-1843 (bulk 1744-1843)

Delegate to the United States Continental Congress from and United States representative of Massachusetts, jurist, and physician. Correspondence, account books, and bills and receipts relating primarily to Holten's public service career in Massachusetts, the federal government, and his medical practice.

ArchivalResource: 2,000 items; 4 containers; 1.6 linear feet; 4 microfilm reels

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms007048 View

Stratford, Charles J., b. 1795. Reminiscences, ca. 1866.

Title: Reminiscences, ca. 1866.

Recollections of stories about 18th century Boston as told to him by his mother and his uncle, Thomas Wallcut. The vol. contains brief anecdotes on a variety of topics, including slavery, Phillis Wheatley, the Boston Tea Party, and the evacuation of Boston Harbor by the British.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. in a case.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/29155184 View

Wallcut, Thomas, 1758-1840. Thomas Wallcut papers, 1671-1866.

Title: Thomas Wallcut papers, 1671-1866.

Papers of Thomas Wallcut, Boston antiquarian, copier of documents, and writer, contain his personal account book (1834-40); diary of a trip to Marietta, Ohio (1790); and Wallcut family genealogy and correspondence. Also included are notes, essays, and drafts of articles and miscellaneous historical documents on numerous subjects, among them New England state boundaries, statistics, legislative districts, and place names (in particular in Sandwich, Mass.); plants of Mass. (in particular Nantucket); Indians of New England; a chronological calendar of U.S. history; and Massachusetts colonial history (in particular Sandwich and Nantucket).

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes, 1 narrow box and 1 oversize box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/24074482 View

Wallcut, Thomas, 1758-1840. Papers, 1640-1833.

Title: Papers, 1640-1833.

This collection of papers contains: correspondence between 1777-1833 which reveals Wallcut's life as a historical researcher and collector in addition to his personal, familial and professional affairs; documents and petitions relating to the various societies Wallcut belonged to; manuscripts urging various public improvements; petitions, acts, resolutions and documents concerning the Massachusetts General Court; tables, lists, records, charts and other data relating to Massachusetts; lists and charts pertaining to Nantucket; charts concerning Martha's Vineyard; historical, statistical, political and descriptive material on Maine; records and deeds of the Proprietors of the Kennebeck Purchase (Plymouth Company, 1749-1816); material on the Penobscot Indians; blank forms for historical notes; data concerning the U.S. Congress, state constitutional provisions, division of U.S. into cantons, and counties within various states; and a great amount of other miscellaneous material (lists, notes, records, tables, histories, documents, accounts, essays, observations, reports, etc.), dated and undated, on a myriad of subjects.

ArchivalResource: 3 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/207176894 View