Dall Family Papers 1810-1843 1810-1817

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Dall Family Papers 1810-1843 1810-1817

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Chiefly correspondence from various Dall family members in Boston, Massachusetts, particularly father William Dall, Revolutionary War veteran, merchant, businessman and former Yale College writing master, to sons William and James Dall in Baltimore, Maryland. Letters of son James Dall, then a student at Harvard University, provide accounts of Boston political and cultural activities of the time.

2 boxes; (2.0 linear ft.)

eng,

Special Collections and University Archives, UMass Amherst Libraries

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Harvard University

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Harvard College was founded by a vote of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts on October 28, 1636 that allocated “400£ towards a schoale or colledge.” Subsequent legislative acts established the Board of Overseers, but it was the Charter of 1650 that created the Harvard Corporation as the College's primary governing board and defined its composition and authority. The College Charter became a contentious target for College officials, the Massachusetts Governor and General C...

Dall, James, 1781-1863

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Dall family

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William Dall, 3rd, (1753-1829) - Father, husband, or uncle to the correspondents. During the American Revolution, just around the time. of the Battle of Bunker Hill in 1775, he was sent through the lines with dispatches for Connecticut patriots and was wounded in the foot. During his convalescence, he became a writing master at Yale College. Later he became the executive head of a syndicate of about a dozen associates, which undertook for a grant of land on Boston Neck, to build a c...

Dall, William, 1794 or 1795-1875

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Dall, Maria, 1783-1836

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Dall, John Robert, 1798-1851

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Dall, Joseph, 1801-1840

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Dall, Rebecca Keen

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Dall, John, 1791-1852

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Dall, William, 1753-1829

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Dall, Sarah Keen, 1798-1878

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