Papers, 1712-1985.

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Papers, 1712-1985.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173613968

Collection includes a wide variety of personal, professional, financial, and legal documents. Correspondence, deeds, wills, inventories, invoices and receipts, photographs, newsclippings, calling cards, poetry, plats, newspapers, books and pamphlets are all part of the collection.

4 boxes (5 linear ft.)

State Library of Massachusetts

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SNAC Resource ID: 6922235

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Thompson, Jabez P. II.

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Thompson, Josiah.

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Thompson, Ephraim B.

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Thompson, Jabez P.

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Thompson family.

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Members of the Thompson family were prominent in the local affairs of Halifax, Massachusetts. Josiah Thompson served in the Revolutionary Army and then as Justice of the Peace and town clerk. Josiah's nephew Jabez P. Thompson I served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives, as did his son, Ephraim B. Thompson, and his son, Jabez P. Thompson II. These four men in particular were locally eminent figures, serving on town boards and committees and as justices of the peace. From th...