Records, 1765-1784.

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Records, 1765-1784.

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This volume, entitled "A Transcript from the Town Records of Lexington from 1765 to 1784.," consists of copies of warrants, grievances, and resolves concerning the political upheavals during the American Revolutionary period. The records were selectively copied by town clerk Charles Tidd ( - ) between 1832 and 1838. The volume contains warrants, declarations, and resolves voted upon by the townspeople with detailed reasons for their opposition to the Stamp Act, the Tea Act, and other legislation and government actions which "infringed upon" the Charter rights of the townspeople. Resolutions of note include those leading to the Boston Tea Party, those providing military supplies before and after the outbreak of hostilities, and those dealing with maritime inflation and the public debt. The records for 4 March through 22 May 1775, however, have been lost. Included also are detailed reasons for opposing the proposed state constitution of 1778 with recommendations for its improvement, and reasons for disobeying provisions of the Treaty of Paris (1783) allowing Loyalists to reclaim their properties. The printed pamphlets are: Elias Phinney's _History of the Battle of Lexington_ (Boston: Phelps and Farnham, 1825), consisting of forty pages of minutemen's depositions and casualty lists; a second-edition of Edward Everett's thirty-six page _Address Delivered at Lexington_ (Charlestown: William W. Wheildon, 1835), and Isaiah Thomas' _Narrative of the Excursion and Ravages of the King's Troops_ printed in Worcester, Mass., by Thomas in 1775. This appears to be a printer's copy with proofreader's corrections, possibly for an unidentified edition of this pamphlet. The 1879 newsclipping refers to the presentation of a portrait of Lord Percy to the town of Lexington.

1 v. (74 p., including 3 pamphlets and 1 newsclipping) ; folio.

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Everett, Edward, 1794-1865

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Edward Everett was an American statesman, clergyman, and orator, as well as professor of Greek at Harvard University and president of Harvard University, 1846-1849. Everett was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, and graduated from Harvard with highest honors in 1811, completing an M.A. in Divinity in 1814. After a brief stint as a minister, Harvard offered him the newly created position of Professor of Greek; brilliant but untrained, Everett went to Göttingen to prepare for...

Lexington (Mass.)

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Lexington, Middlesex County, Massachusetts is located ten miles north-west of Boston, Mass. It was settled c. 1640 and incorporated in 1713. From the description of Records, 1765-1784. (American Antiquarian Society). WorldCat record id: 191259495 ...

Tidd, Charles Clayton.

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Phinney, Elias, 1780-1849

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Thomas, Isaiah, 1749-1831

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