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Thomas, John, 1724-1776. John Thomas papers, 1693-1925, bulk: 1747-1776.

Title: John Thomas papers, 1693-1925, bulk: 1747-1776.

Papers of John Thomas of Marshfield and Kingston, Mass. primarily dating from 1747-60 and 1775-76, containing materials related to his military service as a surgeon and officer in the French and Indian War and Revolution. Papers dating from 1759-60 contain letters, commissions, returns, etc. pertaining to his command of a regiment of Mass. Provincial Forces at Lunenburg and Halifax, N.S. (1759) and Crown Point (1760), including three orderly books kept at these locations. Papers from 1775-76, including drafts of letters from Thomas to his wife Hannah, relate to his command of a brigade at Roxbury and Dorchester Heights during the Siege of Boston and his move to Quebec in March of 1776 where he died of smallpox. Correspondents include Thomas Pownall, Jeffrey Amherst, Jotham Gay, Abel Keen, Artemas Ward, Mercy O. Warren, and George Washington, among the other prominent military figures of the two wars. (Cont'd) Thomas's diary dates from 1748-49, 1751-55, and 1760, with fragments for 1752 and 1760, and notes weather, visits, dining, lodging, and town and church meetings in Marshfield, with the entries for 1760 noting movement and service in the Crown Point area. The papers contain little regarding Thomas's medical career. Additional family papers include letters among John Thomas, Jr., the general's grandson, Joseph Sampson, and Anthony and Augustus Thomas. Letters bewtween Sampson and John Thomas, Jr. relate to their time as students at Brown University. Also included are a few clippings and programs on the erection of a gravestone to Thomas in 1925.

ArchivalResource: 4 narrow boxes, 2 cased v., 1 extra tall cased v., 1 folder, and 1 oversize container.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/25294028 View

Papers, 1820-1897.

Title: Papers, 1820-1897.

Papers of members of the Sampson family including Isaac, Fanny and Joseph, Sarah Sampson Adam and John F. Adam, relating to property in Oyster Bay, with deeds, bonds, quit-claims and other documents involving James Graham, William Inman, Avery T. Brown, Townsend A. Seaman, Timothy Seaman and others. Also, the last will of Fanny Sampson, 1885; and court papers relating to the estate of Stephen H. Debevoise, 1881.

ArchivalResource: 12 items

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155558890 View

Chase, Harry (Henry Albert), 1876-1902. Gem portrait album : pages 1-6 tintypes [1891-1899].

Title: Gem portrait album : pages 1-6 tintypes [1891-1899]. 1891-1899.

The complete album contains 48 tintype portraits of men, women and children. Most are identified. They were residents of Boulder, Colo. The portraits probably were made in the 1890s. The name of Harry A. Chase has been stamped twice inside the front cover, and his portrait is the first in the album.

ArchivalResource: 21 photographs.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/427285939 View

Sage, Gardner A. [Map of the area later bounded by 3rd Street, the Bowery, Houston Street and Carmine Street, Manhattan, New York (N.Y.)].

Title: [Map of the area later bounded by 3rd Street, the Bowery, Houston Street and Carmine Street, Manhattan, New York (N.Y.)]. [ca. 1847]

ArchivalResource: 1 map on 3 assembled sheets : ms., col. ; 43 x 161 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79682774 View