Papers, 1775-1872.

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Papers, 1775-1872.

Mainly letters (1797-1801) to Freeman during his service in Congress, concerning Dartmouth and the lotteries, political news from New Hampshire and comments on national affairs, the quarrel with France, the Army, and the election of 1800; together with commissions and correspondence of Freeman's son, Asa Freeman (1788-1867), lawyer of Dover, N.H., correspondence of his grandson Francis Atkinson Freeman (1822-1884) chiefly while a student at Dartmouth, wills of Theodore Atkinson (1697-1779) and of George and Susanna Atkinson, a few letters to William King Atkinson (1765-1820), Dover lawyer and judge, an act to change his name from William King to Atkinson (1788), deeds to land in Dover, and estate inventory (1820).

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