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Canavan, M. J. (Michael Joseph). M. J. Canavan collection, 20th century.

Title: M. J. Canavan collection, 20th century.

Sketches of the lives of Lieut. John Munroe, constable, selectman, pound-keeper, and landowner, of Lexington, Mass., and Capt. Edmund Munroe, Lexington minuteman who fought with General Washington and died at the Battle of Monmouth; and materials relating to Lexington men fighting in King Phillip's War, King George's War, and French and Indian War; early boyhood in Lexington in the 19th century; people living around the Lexington Common (1760-1770); the Muzzy family farm before the Revolution; some old Lexington estates, including account of the Raymond family; and some houses on the main road of Lexington and the north side of the Concord road. Also includes notes from Proprietors records of the Town of Cambridge; something of the original Great Farms and Cambridge Farms (Lexington); references to the Old Road from Concord through Lexington, Woburn, and Reading to Salem; account sent by General Gage to Gov. Trumbull of Connecticut, Apr. 29, 1775; correspondence (1926-1927); miscellaneous articles and notes (4 folders); and typescript biography of John Nelson.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes.

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