Oliver family papers, 1419-1957.

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Oliver family papers, 1419-1957.

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Papers of the interrelated Oliver, Lynde, and Mason families, 1419-1957. Lynde family papers include Benjamin Lynde (1666-1745) family correspondence, deeds, poetry notebooks, claims on lands in Narragansett County, manuscript copies of diaries, 1718-20, and an account book concerning the division of his estate. Also included are correspondence, deeds, mansucript copies of diaries kept at Salem, 1715, 1732-79, letterbooks, 1729-34, 1778-80, poetry notebooks, and notes of his son Benjamin Lynde, Jr. Both men served as chief justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court of Judicature. Also included are the diaries of Mary Lynde Oliver kept at Salem, 1751 and William Lynde, kept at Salem, 1747-48. Oliver family papers include correspondence, letterbooks, notebooks, diaries, deeds, manuscript maps, and genealogical information. Includes papers of Andrew Oliver (1706-1774), lt. governor of Massachusetts, 1771-73, stamp tax collector, and loyalist consisting of almanacs, diaries, correspondence, and notebooks; correspondence of Chief Justice of the Superior Court and member of the Mass. House, Peter Oliver (1713-1791); Rev. Thomas Fitch's sermons, 1761-91; Dr. Benjamin Lynde Oliver's medical notes, medical dictionary, remarks on telescopes and pianos, notes on experiments with electricity, and family correspondence; judge and scientist Andrew Oliver, Jr's (1731-1799) historical notes, commonplace books, books of aphorisms, and medical and scientific notes; Professor of Medicine at Dartmouth College Dr. Daniel Oliver's medical notebooks, lectures, historical notes, and family correspondence; Dr. Fitch Edward Oliver's correspondence, medical notes and lecture notes, European trip diary, 1843-44, medical lecture admission cards, and correspondence; Rev. Andrew Oliver's diaries, 1859-1896, and letters to his mother Mary Robinson Oliver and sister Isabella Louisa Oliver; diaries of Mary Mason Oliver, 1888; account book for the estate of Amos Lawrence; manuscript copy of a diary of William Pynchon, 1776-77; and diaries of Andrew Oliver (1906-1981), 1935-36, 1953, 1956-57. Other family members represented include Charles E. Oliver and Andrew Oliver (b. 1870). Correspondents include William Pynchon, Sarah Pynchon, P.O. Hutchinson, Amos Lawrence, and Thomas Hutchinson. Mason family papers include correspondence of Jeremiah Mason, a U.S. senator, lawyer, and president of the Bank of the United States, Portsmouth, New Hampshire branch, from 1828-29; and correspondence of Charles Mason and Susannah Lawrence Mason. Also includes correspondence and journals of Susan Lawrence Mason Oliver, 1878-79, 1888 including her European diaries, 1859 and 1863.

45 boxes, 18 vols, 1 oversize container, and 1 tube.

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Oliver, Andrew, 1906-1981

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Massachusetts. Superior Court of Judicature

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The Superior Court of Judicature, Court of Assize, and General Gaol Delivery, was created by the General Court of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay (as Massachusetts was designated by the Charter of 1691), initially by St 1692-3, c 33 (disallowed by the English Privy Council) and then by St 1699-1700, c 3. The court had cognizance of all pleas involving real or personal property, pleas to which the English Crown was a party, and all matters relating to conservation of the peace ...

Oliver, Isabella Louisa, b. 1833.

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Mason family.

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Hutchinson, Thomas, 1711-1780

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Governor of Massachusetts. From the description of Certification, 1752. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70960172 At this time, Hutchinson was judge of probate in Suffolk County (1749-1766); later he was royal governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (1771-1774) From the description of A Brief State of that Part of Massachusetts Bay which is situated East of the Province of Main (sic) with reasons for erecting it into a separate & distinct Province : manuscript...

Oliver, Thomas F. (Thomas Fitch), 1757-1797

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Oliver, Peter, 1741-1822.

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Oliver, B.L. (Benjamin Lynde), 1760-1835.

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Lynde, William, 1714-1752.

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Oliver, Benjamin L. (Benjamin Lynde), 1788-1843

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Oliver, Andrew, 1706-1774

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Massachusetts colonial official: lieutenant governor 1771-1774; commissioner to negotiate with Six Nations 1748. From the description of ALS, 1764 Nov. 28, Boston, to Rev. Stephen West, Stockbridge, Mass. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122610623 ...

Oliver, Mary Robinson, 1796-1882.

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Mason, Charles, 1812-1862.

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Pynchon, William, -1789

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Lynde, Benjamin, 1700-1781

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United States. Congress. Senate

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Lynde family.

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Lawrence, Susannah, 1817-1844.

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Oliver, Andrew, 1824-1897.

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Oliver, Daniel, 1787-1842

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Lawrence, Amos, 1786-1852

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Massachusetts. Congress. House.

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Dartmouth Medical College

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Oliver family.

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Bank of the United States (1816-1836)

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In 1816, the Bank of the United States was rechartered, the first charter having expired in 1811, in an attempt to stabilize the national currency. Within the first three years, the bank was nearly ruined due to mismanagement. Langdon Cheves was elected president of its board of directors in 1819 and restored the bank's credit. In 1822, he resigned the post and was succeeded by Nicholas Biddle. The national charter for the bank expired in 1836, but Biddle kept the bank in operation until 1841, u...

Mason, Susan Lawrence, 1839-1926.

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Oliver, Peter, 1713-1791

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Peter Oliver was Chief Justice of the Superior Court of the Coloney of Massachusetts from 1772-1775. He was an American loyalist during the American Revolution. In 1776 he left Massachusetts and settled in England. From the description of Origin and progress of the American rebellion in the year 1776, in a letter to a friend, 1825. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 758521297 ...

Oliver, A. (Andrew), 1731-1799

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Oliver, Mary Mason, b. 1871.

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Oliver, Mary Lynde, 1733-1807.

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Oliver, Andrew, b. 1870.

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Lynde, Benjamin, 1666-1745

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Oliver, F. E. (Fitch Edward), 1819-1892

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Mason, Jeremiah, 1768-1848

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Admitted to Vermont bar, 1791; practiced law in New Hampshire, 1791-1802; appointed attorney general of New Hampshire, 1802; elected to U.S. Senate, 1813; returned to private practice, 1817; associated with Daniel Webster in Dartmouth College Case, 1818-1819; New Hampshire state legislator, 1820-1824; president and counsel for Portsmouth branch of Bank of the U.S., 1828-1832; practiced law in Boston, 1832-1838. From the description of Jeremiah Mason papers, 1798-1844 (inclusive). (Un...

Pynchon, Sarah, 1757-1832.

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