Papers, 1648-1959.

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Papers, 1648-1959.

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Correspondence, bills, receipts, and other business papers, of John Pitts, his son, James Pitts Sr., Boston merchant, and James' sons, John, James Jr., Thomas, Samuel, and Lendall Pitts, also Boston merchants, and of James Bowdoin Sr., James Bowdoin Jr., Governor of Massachusetts and brother-in-law and business partner of James Pitts Sr., Thomas Flucker, son-in-law of John Pitts, and John Tyng; together with papers relating to the estate of James Pitts Sr., letter (1796) from William Davis to Samuel Pitts describing the gubernatorial contest between Increase Sumner and Samuel Adams; correspondence concerning exhibition of family portraits and other paintings by Lendall Pitts and his wife, Elizabeth (McCord) Pitts; miscellaneous business papers of Andrew Belcher, Peter Faneuil, Andrew and Peter Oliver, Samuel Sewall, and Jacob and John Wendell; papers relating to the Mountfort and Wardwell families; and other family papers.

2 boxes and 2 oversize folders.

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Adams, Samuel, 1722-1803

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Samuel Adams (September 27 [O.S. September 16] 1722 – October 2, 1803) was an American statesman, political philosopher, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He was a politician in colonial Massachusetts, a leader of the movement that became the American Revolution, and one of the architects of the principles of American republicanism that shaped the political culture of the United States. He was a second cousin to his fellow Founding Father, President John Adams. Adams was b...

Bowdoin, James, 1726-1790

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Governor and public official from Massachusetts. From the description of James Bowdoin papers, 1785-1786. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70980726 American politician, governor of Massachusetts, 1785-87; father of James Bowdoin, 1752-1811 From the guide to the James Bowdoin, Sr. letter to John Sullivan, 1786, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) ...

Wendell, Jacob, 1691-1761

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Bowdoin, James, 1676-1747

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Tyng, John, 1705-1797.

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Wardwell family.

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Oliver, Peter, 1713-1791

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Peter Oliver was Chief Justice of the Superior Court of the Coloney of Massachusetts from 1772-1775. He was an American loyalist during the American Revolution. In 1776 he left Massachusetts and settled in England. From the description of Origin and progress of the American rebellion in the year 1776, in a letter to a friend, 1825. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 758521297 ...

Pitts, John, 1737-1815.

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Pitts, James, 1741-1772.

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Sewall, Samuel, 1689-1757.

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Pitts, Lendall, 1747-1784.

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Pitts, Thomas, 1743-1769.

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Flucker, Thomas.

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Pitts, Elizabeth McCord.

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Davis, William, 1758-1826.

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Pitts family.

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Sumner, Increase, 1746-1799

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Governor of Massachusetts, 1797-l799. From the description of Letters received, 1797-1799. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 14707254 Legislator, judge, and governor of Massachusetts, 1797-1799. From the description of Letter received by Increase Sumner, 1799. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 231762677 ...

Pitts, Samuel, 1745-1805.

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Pitts, John, 1668-1731.

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Belcher, Andrew.

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Mountfort family.

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Pitts, Lendall (American painter, 1875-1938)

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Pitts, James, 1712-1776

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Oliver, Andrew, 1706-1774

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Massachusetts colonial official: lieutenant governor 1771-1774; commissioner to negotiate with Six Nations 1748. From the description of ALS, 1764 Nov. 28, Boston, to Rev. Stephen West, Stockbridge, Mass. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122610623 ...

Wendell, John, 1703-1762.

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Faneuil, Peter, 1700-1743

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