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[Colman v. Smith]

Witnessed by John Choat. The sheriff of Essex is ordered to seize the goods or estate of Nathaniel Smith and, if Smith can be found, to arrest and bind him over for trial on the last Tuesday in December. Smith is charged with nonpayment of two debts...

GLC01450.178

[Orders for Captain Kennedy on HMS Flamborough]

Written on the HMS Essex. Captain Howe tells Captain Kennedy, commander of the HMS Flamborough, to escort supply ships from the Downs to Spithead in England. Written at Spithead.

GLC01450.301

[Confirms that John Lorimer is qualified to serve as a surgeon in the British military]

Hay, a surgeon, states "The subscribers having some time ago formally examined M. John Lorimer hereby testifie (as we have done formerly) that we have found him qualified to serve as Surgeons [Mate?] in any of his Majesties Regiments... "

GLC01450.807.04.02

[Collection of 3 documents related to the commission of Alexander Anderson Lieutenant Colonel] [Decimalized .01- .04]

Dated April 28, 1758- 20 October 1779.

GLC01450.007

[Record of John Hill's militia oath made in Massachusetts]

Indicates that Hill appeared before Pepperrell and "vowed to observe the militia laws made in this Province..."

GLC01450.283

[Commission for Gamaliel Bradford to serve as Captain of a Company raised to aid in the British invasion of Canada]

Pownall, Royal Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, commissions Bradford to lead a Company of soldiers in a regiment commanded by Colonel Thomas Doty during the 1758 British invasion of French Canada.

GLC01450.650

Collection of items pertaining to Doctor John Lorimer [Decimalized .01-.07]

Contains appointments related to Lorimer's service as a surgeon, letters written to and from Lorimer, certificates regarding Lorimer's participation in the Icelandic Literary Society and the Aberdonian Medical Society, documents related to the...

GLC01450.807

Remarks on ... the opinion of one

In original paper covers
Written at the offices of Edes and Gill- now a museum

GLC01450.247

[Clipped signature of Royal Governor Pownall]

Possibly created in Boston. States "In Council Jan. 4 1758 Read & Conceiv'd Thos. Clarke... Consenteet to Pownall." On verso, contains a partial petition from the town of Boxford, Massachusetts, to the Governor of Massachusetts.

GLC01450.327

Documents pertaining to British physician John Lorimer [Decimalized .01-.05]

GLC01450.807.04