Cushing-Orne papers, 1730-1922.

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Cushing-Orne papers, 1730-1922.

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Correspondence, accounts, and documents (1750-86) of Thomas Cushing (1725-1788), Boston merchant and politician, including the Resolves establishing a Committee of Correspondence sent by the Virginia House of Burgesses on March 12, 1773 to Cushing as Speaker of the Massachusetts General Court; correspondence (1781-86) between the exporting firm of John De Neufville and Sons, of Holland, and Cushing, as Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs; and the commission (Aug. 29, 1786) authorizing Cushing and others to represent Massachusetts at the Annapolis Convention on Trade. The correspondence between Cushing and the John de Neufville firm concerns goods shipped to Massachusetts by the order of Jonathan Loring Austin and describes the difficulties of shipment due to the war, the low status of American credit, and the sympathies of the Dutch people. (Cont'd) papers (1776-1807) of Thomas Cushing, Jr., including military commissions placing him in the Massachusetts Militia under Benjamin Lincoln in 1776 and 1786; and Orne family papers (1773-1818), including accounts (1772-75) for cordage by Timothy Orne, merchant of Salem, Mass. There is also a sizeable correspondence, 1789-1797, of the Orne sisters, Margaret, Elizabeth, and Catherine, and their cousin Bathshua Pynchon in Springfield, Mass., dealing mainly with family news and the social practices, customs, and dress of the period.

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Cushing, Thomas, 1725-1788

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Thomas Cushing III (March 24, 1725 – February 28, 1788) was an American Founding Father, lawyer, merchant, and statesman from Boston, Massachusetts. Active in Boston politics, he represented the city in the provincial assembly from 1761 to its dissolution in 1774, serving as the lower house's speaker for most of those years. Because of his role as speaker, his signature was affixed to many documents protesting British policies, leading officials in London to consider him a dangerous radical. He ...

Pynchon, Bathshua.

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John de Neufville and Sons.

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Orne, Catherine.

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Lincoln, Benjamin, 1733-1810

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Continental Army officer, collector of customs for the port of Boston; from Hingham (Plymouth Co.), Mass. From the description of Papers, 1778-1804. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19903396 Benjamin Lincoln was an American general during the Revolutionary War. He accepted the British surrender at Yorktown. From the description of Benjamin Lincoln collection, 1775-1782. (New-York Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 712651132 ...

Austin, Jonathan Loring, 1748-1826

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Annapolis Convention on Trade.

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Orne, Timothy, 1770-

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Cushing, Thomas W.

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Orne, Elizabeth.

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Orne, Margaret

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Massachusetts. Militia

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Ten companies comprised the 12th Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia: five from Boston, one from North Bridgewater, one from Abington, one from Weymouth, one from Stoughton, and one from Gloucester. After organization was completed, the regiment was ordered to Fort Warren in Boston Harbor. Three months later it was sent to Harper's Ferry, Va., where it guarded the upper Potomac as part of Bank's division. From the description of Massachusetts Volunteer Militia records, 1861 [ma...

Orne family.

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Virginia. General Assembly. House of Burgesses

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Cushing family.

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Massachusetts. General Court

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The Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay, chartered by the English Crown in 1629, sat as a General Court, which after the 1630 emigration to America became the government of the Massachusetts Bay colony. It consisted of colony freemen (company stockholders); and the governor, deputy governor, and assistants (magistrates) chosen by them. The latter group met separately as a Court of Assistants, but in 1634 its legislative powers were ceded to the General Court as a whole (Ma...