Letter : Boston, Mass., to John Stoddard [Northampton, Mass.?], 1745 Sep. 26.

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Letter : Boston, Mass., to John Stoddard [Northampton, Mass.?], 1745 Sep. 26.

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September 26, 1745, letter from Massachusetts lieutenant governor Spencer Phips to John Stoddard (for many years a member of the Massachusetts provincial council, chief justice of the court of common pleas, and colonel of the militia), appointing him commissioner to a council with the Six Nations in Albany, N.Y., scheduled to begin Oct. 4, 1745.

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