John Thomas papers, 1693-1925, bulk: 1747-1776.

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John Thomas papers, 1693-1925, bulk: 1747-1776.

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Papers of John Thomas of Marshfield and Kingston, Mass. primarily dating from 1747-60 and 1775-76, containing materials related to his military service as a surgeon and officer in the French and Indian War and Revolution. Papers dating from 1759-60 contain letters, commissions, returns, etc. pertaining to his command of a regiment of Mass. Provincial Forces at Lunenburg and Halifax, N.S. (1759) and Crown Point (1760), including three orderly books kept at these locations. Papers from 1775-76, including drafts of letters from Thomas to his wife Hannah, relate to his command of a brigade at Roxbury and Dorchester Heights during the Siege of Boston and his move to Quebec in March of 1776 where he died of smallpox. Correspondents include Thomas Pownall, Jeffrey Amherst, Jotham Gay, Abel Keen, Artemas Ward, Mercy O. Warren, and George Washington, among the other prominent military figures of the two wars. (Cont'd) Thomas's diary dates from 1748-49, 1751-55, and 1760, with fragments for 1752 and 1760, and notes weather, visits, dining, lodging, and town and church meetings in Marshfield, with the entries for 1760 noting movement and service in the Crown Point area. The papers contain little regarding Thomas's medical career. Additional family papers include letters among John Thomas, Jr., the general's grandson, Joseph Sampson, and Anthony and Augustus Thomas. Letters bewtween Sampson and John Thomas, Jr. relate to their time as students at Brown University. Also included are a few clippings and programs on the erection of a gravestone to Thomas in 1925.

4 narrow boxes, 2 cased v., 1 extra tall cased v., 1 folder, and 1 oversize container.

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Massachusetts Historical Society

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