Papers, 1770-1786.

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Papers, 1770-1786.

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Papers of Joseph Palmer related to his positions as a member of the Mass. Provicial Congress, the Mass. Board of War, and the Mass. Council during the Revolutionary War. Also, letters, orders, and papers related to military operations of the Suffolk County Regiment of the Mass. Militia of which Palmer was Brigadier General. The papers, in particular Palmer's drafts of resolves, petitions, etc., relate to the role of the Mass. governing agencies in the war, especially in Boston and Braintree. Correspondents include Benjamin Lincoln and Thomas Legate.

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Massachusetts. Council

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Samuel Adams was an American patriot and a signer of the Declaration of Independence. From the description of Order for powder magazine guard, 1779 July 21. (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat record id: 56357672 During the colonial period (1629-1686) certain members of the Court of Assistants (which functioned not only judicially but also legislatively as part of the General Court, constituting from 1644 its upper house, though without the formal title--see: Mas...

Legate, Thomas, 1735?-1807.

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Thomas Legate (1735-1807) was a merchant and justice of the peace in Leominster, Mass. From the description of Account book, 1758-1802. (American Antiquarian Society). WorldCat record id: 191259490 ...

Massachusetts. Board of War

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During the Revolution, the Massachusetts General Court designated the Board of War to administer the war effort on behalf of the colony, including the provisioning of troops. From the description of Accounts of officers' clothing, 1777-1783. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79151733 Faced with the necessity of organizing the state's response to military hostilities with Britain, the General Assembly of Massachusetts mandated the creation of the Board of War. The board was char...

Massachusetts. Militia. Suffolk County Regiment (1775-1783)

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Palmer, Joseph, 1716-1788

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Palmer was a member of the Massachusetts Provincial Congress, later a Brigadier General. From the description of ADS, [1775 April 19] Wednesday Morning at 8 o'Clock : Watertown. (Copley Press, J S Copley Library). WorldCat record id: 13833025 ...

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 ...

Massachusetts. Provincial Congress

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As of Aug. 1, l774, Gov. Thomas Gage had replaced the Council chosen from among the members of the General Court with one appointed by royal writ of mandamus. On Sept. 1 he called for the election of representatives to a General Court to meet in Salem on Oct. 5, but on Sept. 28 discharged them. Nevertheless ninety elected representatives met as scheduled, protested Gage's action, and on Oct. 7 resolved themselves into a Provincial Congress. They then adjourned until Oct. 11 in Conco...