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Massachusetts. Committee of Safety. Account of the Battle of Bunker Hill, 25 July 1775.

Title: Account of the Battle of Bunker Hill, 25 July 1775.

Account of the Battle of Bunker Hill drawn up in accordance with a resolve set forth by the Massachusetts Provincial Congress on July 7, 1775 requiring that a committee be established to report to Great Britain "a fair and impartial account of the late Battle at Charlestown." Written in Watertown and signed by J[oseph Palmer] and forwarded to Arthur Lee in London. Manuscript copy.

ArchivalResource: 1 item in a case; 6 p.

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Autograph File, P, 1554-2005.

Title: Autograph File, P, 1554-2005.

The Autograph File is an alphabetically arranged collection of single letters, manuscripts, and drawings received from various sources at various times. Additions continue to be made.

ArchivalResource: 10 boxes (5 linear ft.)

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Paine, Robert Treat, 1731-1814. Robert Treat Paine papers, 1659-1862.

Title: Robert Treat Paine papers, 1659-1862.

Papers of Robert T. Paine, Mass. lawyer, politician, member of the First Continental Congress (1774), signer of the Declaration of Independence, and justice of the Mass. Supreme Judicial Court. The collection contains correspondence; account books (1751-1814); business and legal papers kept as a lawyer, attorney-general of Mass., and judge; minutes of trials, including the Boston Massacre and Shays' Rebellion trials; and documents related to his work as a local and state politician. (Cont'd) Earlier papers include his sea journals/logbooks kept from 1750-54 on the sloops Success to Cape Hatteras and Hannah to North Carolina, the Azores, and Cadiz, Spain on trading voyages and on the sloop Seaflower on a whaling voyage off Greenland; diaries (1745-1814); and sermons given in Mass. and as a chaplain on the Crown Point Expedition during the French and Indian War (1755). Also included is a significant amount of Paine family correspondence, legal, and financial papers (including the estates of Paine and his father Thomas). (Cont'd) Other papers of Thomas Paine include his annotated almanacs (1716-22, 1733-34, 1750) and sermons (1724-33). Robert T. Paine (1803-85) papers contain his astronomical observations (1833-37), and Robert Paine papers include his diary (1785-91). In addition to the above, the collection contains catalogs of private libraries and genealogical information. Among the numerous correspondents are Richard Cranch, Joseph Greenleaf, John Hancock, David Cobb, Shearjashub Bourne, Elbridge Gerry, and Robert Treat Paine (1773-1811).

ArchivalResource: 13 boxes, 45 slip-cases, 2 v., 1 folder, and 3 oversize containers.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/24201239 View

Perkins, Thomas, 1756-1786. Thomas Perkins : miscellaneous papers, 1785-1787.

Title: Thomas Perkins : miscellaneous papers, 1785-1787.

Includes a long descriptive letter to General Joseph Palmer, describing Ky. in detail, including travel, prices, population, topography, trees, produce, resources, salt manufacture, and labor. Also included are two documents dated 10 and 20 Mar. 1787, concerning Joseph Palmer's plan to establish a salt works in Boston, Mass.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49308931 View

Palmer, Joseph, 1716-1788. ADS, [1775 April 19] Wednesday Morning at 8 o'Clock : Watertown.

Title: ADS, [1775 April 19] Wednesday Morning at 8 o'Clock : Watertown.

Text reads: "To all whom it may concern, be it known, that the Regular Troops have this morning kill'd Six Men near Lexington Meeting House; this News is bro[ugh]t to Watertown by Mr. Sanzer, who told me that he saw the Men lie dead. J. Palmer of the Congress Com[mit]te."

ArchivalResource: 1 p. ; 14 x 17 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/13833025 View

Keith, Israel, 1750-1819. Letter to Joseph Palmer, 1780 April 11.

Title: Letter to Joseph Palmer, 1780 April 11.

Letter to Joseph Palmer in Germantown, Mass. concerning the plan for the Annustant [?] Society. He tells of consulting with two lawyers about the society's charter and received their verbal but not their financial support. He also tried to meet with a Doctor Cooper, but had the same result. He expresses hope that once the revolution is over, people will be more interested in supporting the arts and sciences. Written at Boston, Mass.

ArchivalResource: 3 pages.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145407834 View

Spencer, Joseph, 1714-1789. Papers of Joseph Spencer, 1775-1778.

Title: Papers of Joseph Spencer, 1775-1778.

Orderly book containing correspondence and general orders of Gen. Spencer and brigade orders of Gen. Joseph Palmer (1716-1788) issued from camp at Tiverton, R.I. (1777 October 2-27). Includes references to Burgoyne's surrender at Saratoga, letters of John Nixon and Jeremiah Powell, and a return (1775 August 17) of Col. Theophilus Cotton's regiment.

ArchivalResource: 1 volume (54 pages).1 microfilm reel.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/71069599 View

Palmer, Joseph, 1716-1788. Papers, 1770-1786.

Title: Papers, 1770-1786.

Papers of Joseph Palmer related to his positions as a member of the Mass. Provicial Congress, the Mass. Board of War, and the Mass. Council during the Revolutionary War. Also, letters, orders, and papers related to military operations of the Suffolk County Regiment of the Mass. Militia of which Palmer was Brigadier General. The papers, in particular Palmer's drafts of resolves, petitions, etc., relate to the role of the Mass. governing agencies in the war, especially in Boston and Braintree. Correspondents include Benjamin Lincoln and Thomas Legate.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/21172785 View