Order for powder magazine guard, 1779 July 21.

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Order for powder magazine guard, 1779 July 21.

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Order directing Capt. Jonathan Brown to enlist one sergeant, one corporal, and nine privates to serve as a guard at the powder magazine in Watertown, Massachusetts. Signed by Samuel Adams, secretary.

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Buffalo History Museum, Research Library

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Buffalo History Museum, Research Library

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Adams, Samuel, 1722-1803

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Samuel Adams (September 27 [O.S. September 16] 1722 – October 2, 1803) was an American statesman, political philosopher, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He was a politician in colonial Massachusetts, a leader of the movement that became the American Revolution, and one of the architects of the principles of American republicanism that shaped the political culture of the United States. He was a second cousin to his fellow Founding Father, President John Adams. Adams was b...

Brown, Jonathan W.

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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...