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Addington, Isaac, 1645-1715. Frost and Hill family papers, 1675-1760.

Title: Frost and Hill family papers, 1675-1760.

Most of the documents in this collection consist of military orders, correspondence, commissions, etc. concerning Captain Charles Frost (1632-1697) and Major John Hill (1666-1713). Major Hill and Captain Frost were militia officers responsible for defending Kittery and Saco, Maine under the direction of Massachusetts authorities during King William's War, 1689-1697.There are also 13 items dealing with Hill and Frost family affairs, notably a letter from Humphrey Chadburn to John Hill (1703-1772) describing the capture of Isle aux Noix in 1760. Finally, there are two letters to William Pepperell (1696-1759) discussing shipping ventures to Cadiz in 1733 and 1735.

ArchivalResource: 47 items.

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Denison, Daniel, 1613-1682. Orders : instructions for Capt. William Hathorne, Comander in cheife of the forces now Employed to the Eastward, 1676 Aug. 29.

Title: Orders : instructions for Capt. William Hathorne, Comander in cheife of the forces now Employed to the Eastward, 1676 Aug. 29.

Official commission and instructions, signed and dated Aug. 29, 1676 by Denison, to Capt. William Hathorne of Salem to lead his militia company and suppress the hostile eastern Indians.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 folded sheet (4 p.)) ; 32 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/36897810 View

Massachusetts Bay Company. Autograph letter signed from Daniel Denison, William Hathorne, and Richard Walden, Commissioners of Massachusetts Bay, 1662 May 27.

Title: Autograph letter signed from Daniel Denison, William Hathorne, and Richard Walden, Commissioners of Massachusetts Bay, 1662 May 27.

Letter from Denison, Hathorne, and Walden, Commissioners of Massachusetts Bay, to Henry Jocelyn, Francis Champernowne, Nicholas Shapleigh, Robert Jordan, and Thomas Purchase, relating to the Province of Maine and protesting against and advising the dissolution of an assembly thought to challenge the authority of the General Court of Massachusetts.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/277460022 View