Papers, 1768-1827.

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Papers, 1768-1827.

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This collection of papers includes seven official documents: Allen's appointment as a Worcester County Justice of the Peace, 1788, 1796, and 1822; three documents signed by Allen as court clerk; and a document appointing him a presidential elector, 1796. All these manuscripts are filed in the folder in the manuscript box and all have been item-cataloged. The following manuscripts in the collection have not been cataloged: a 1785 writ and Allen's 1768 diary (both of which are filed in the folder in the manuscript box), and the folio volume of his book as a trial justice, 18 April 1786-12 March 1791. His diary, 23 pages, was originally bound in Bickerstaff's Boston almanac for 1768. Kept while he was living in Boston, it is a daily record of the weather with some shipping news and a few entries of a political nature. The trial record has 86 pages of entries plus an index at the end of the volume.

1 v. ; folio.1 folder (9 items)

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Allen, Joseph, 1749-1827

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Joseph Allen (1749-1827) was the son of James Allen, a Boston merchant, and Mary Adams Allen, a sister of Samuel Adams. In 1770 he opened a store in Leicester, Mass., and in 1776 he succeeded Levi Lincoln as clerk of the courts, an office he held until 1810. In 1810 he was chosen to the 11th Congress to fill an unexpired term but he declined re-election. He was one of the founders of Leicester Academy. He was the brother of Samuel Allen (1757-1830) and the father of Samuel Allen (1789-1863) and ...