Constitution and minutes, 1837-1842.

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Constitution and minutes, 1837-1842.

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Volume contains the Constitution and minutes along with resolutions passed by the members of the Provincetown Abolition Society. The Society met in the church room of the Methodist meetinghouse, kept a library, and corresponded with the Massachusetts Abolition Society in Boston. There are lists of members and officers. Nathaniel Holmes, the last secretary of the Society, kept the volume and used it for recording the value of ships he owned and as a general account ledger, 1851-1854.

1 v. ; 19 cm.

Boston Athenaeum

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Provincetown Abolition Society.

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Holmes, Nathaniel, 1815-1901

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Holmes was born in Peterborough, N.H. and graduated from Harvard Law School in 1838. He was admitted to the Suffolk Bar in 1839 and moved to St. Louis where he served as judge of the Supreme Court of Missouri from 1865 to 1868. He was professor of law at Harvard Law School from 1868 to 1872. He wrote extensively questioning the authorship of works attributed to Shakespeare. From the description of Speeches, 1864-1899. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 234342671 ...