5 December 1737

Manuscript document

Title: [Petition]

Petition to Governor Jonathan Belcher regarding conflicts with the Indians in Massachusetts. Includes a list of names of people supporting the petition.

GLC02437.08881

January 19, 1738

Dumaresq, Phillip, fl. 1729-1738

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Bond]

Bond between Philip Dumaresq and James Bowdoin, with J. Marion and William Story signing as witnesses. Includes a note signed by Bowdoin.

GLC02437.08883

17 February 1742

Manuscript document

Title: [Extract]

Extract of a deed to Jonas Clarke from Samuel Waldo, discussing the borders for a plot of land.

GLC02437.08902

30 November 1743

Hutchinson, Edward, fl. 1743

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Bond]

Bond discussing land proprietorship and mortgages. Signed by Edward Hutchinson, among others, with Thomas Flucker and [Hezekiah ?] Brown as witnesses. Also includes two notes. The first note is from Daniel Henckman, verifying the above and dated 13 August 1744. The second is a note of receipt dated 16 August 1745 by Ezekiel Goldthwait.

GLC02437.08909

7 February 1744

Manuscript document

Title: [Extract]

Extract of a deed to Robert Barber from Samuel Waldo describing a tract of land.

GLC02437.08912

5 January 1746

Caswell, Samuel, fl. 1746

Manuscript note signed

Title: [Certificate]

Certifies that a Timothy [last name illegible] is not fit for service. Noted as written in Wrantham, state unknown.

GLC02437.08914

21 June - 19 August 1746

Adams, Jonathan, fl. 1746

Document signed

Title: [Certificate]

Partially printed document with subsequent information written in by hand. Certifies that Jonathan Adams is enlisted in the infantry under John Terry's command, which will be sent to Canada.

GLC02437.08916

circa 26 June 1746

Waldo, Samuel, 1695-1759

Manuscript document

Title: [Estimate]

Estimate of expenses for an expedition to Cape Breton and for any payments owed from Samuel Waldo's service at Louisbourg.

GLC02437.08918

30 July-14 August 1746

Bron, Benjamin fl. 1746

Document signed

Title: [Certificate]

Partially printed document with subsequent information written in by hand. Certifies that Benjamin Bron is enlisted in the infantry under George Gerrish's command, which will be sent to Canada. Also verified, signed and dated by Joseph Wadsworth, 14 August 1746.

GLC02437.08924

19 August 1746

Abram, Andrew, fl. 1746

Document signed

Title: [Certificate]

Partially printed document with subsequent information written in by hand. Certifies that Andrew Abram is enlisted in the infantry under John Terry's command, which will be sent to Canada. Also verified, signed and dated by John Harwood, 14 August 1746. Includes a signature from Richard Lane.

GLC02437.08926

20 October 1746

Waldo, Samuel, 1695-1759

Manuscript document

Title: [Court case]

Appears to be a petition. Consists of expenses and reserve pay for his efforts in the expedition against Cape Breton and the siege of Louisburg. Documents includes copied signatures of a number of people, including a Mr. Hutchinson, Sir William Pepperrell, a Peter Warren and William Shirley.

GLC02437.08932

31 October 1746

Shirley, William, 1694-1771

Manuscript letter signed

Title: to Samuel Waldo

Discusses an expedition into Canada and various officers who could lead such an expedition. Lower right hand corner of the 3rd page is missing.

GLC02437.08934

4 March 1747

Pepperrell, William, 1696-1759

Autograph document signed

Title: [Certificate]

Certifies that Samuel Waldo has been appointed to the position of Brigadier General over the troops from Massachusetts.

GLC02437.08936

25 August 1747

Folger, Timothy, fl. 1747

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James Bowdoin

Discusses how his whaling business is not doing so well and therefore is going to the Bahamas on a trading voyage in order to make money for a bond. Place writ obscured due to a patch. Possibly Nantucket, Massachusetts.

GLC02437.08938

31 March 1749

Manuscript document

Title: [Extract]

Extract of a deed to Daniel [Brgele ?] from Samuel Waldo describing a tract of land.

GLC02437.08947

30 May 1750

Bowdoin, James, 1726-1790

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Deed]

Grants Thomas Flucker the rights to an estate and property. Signed by James and William Bowdoin, with several other people. Includes notes from Joshua Winslow as Justice of the Peace signed Boston 15 June and a note of receipt from Ezekiel Goldthwait signed 16 June 1750.

GLC02437.08950

1 June 1750

Bayard, Belthazar, fl. 1750

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Deed]

Deed of land from Belthazar Bayard to Thomas Flucker. Includes a note from Thomas Hubbard dated Boston 15 June and a note of receipt from Ezekiel Goldthwait dated 16 June.

GLC02437.08951

1750

Manuscript document

Title: [List]

List of papers relating to French and English boundaries. Date previously inferred, written in pencil.

GLC02437.08953

3 August 1751

Bowler and Abbot, fl. 1751

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Thomas Flucker

Discusses a bill to Flucker's account and a negotiation regarding prices of merchandise. Noted as written in Colchester, state and/or country unknown.

GLC02437.08954

17 October 1752

Manuscript document

Title: [List]

Debts due to Isaac Winslow, listed by the name of the debtor.

GLC02437.08959

25 May 1795

Bingham, William, 1752-1804

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Account]

Lists transactions regarding money paid by William Bingham for buying land by date, starting from 21 December 1792 to 1 October 1793. Also signed by Henry Knox.

GLC02437.10392

20 March 1802

Austin, Jonathan Loring, 1748-1826

Manuscript document

Title: [Account]

List of transactions between Henry Knox and Jonathan Loring Austin by date, from 26 June to 11 September 1801.

GLC02437.10401

14 August 1806

Blagge, Samuel, fl. 1805-1806

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Account]

List of transactions between Henry Knox and Samuel Blagge by date, for 29 November.

GLC02437.10402

26 February 1747

Burns, William, fl. 1747

Manuscript document signed

Title: [William Burns's declaration regarding the Muscongus settlement]

Burns discusses his settlement on Samuel Waldo's Muscongus Patent (also known as the Waldo or Linconshire Patent, land in present-day Maine). Discusses improvements Burns made to a stone house, and mentions his black cattle. Burns was given command of a company of soldiers by Governor [William] Shirley, after which he and his family moved to a settlement of 40 or 50 "Protestant Familys from Germany" on the Madomock [Medomak] River. Notes that several German settlers, at Colonel Samuel Waldo's urging, joined the expedition against Cape Breton in [1745]. Asserts "That about the Middle of…

GLC02437.10410

26 February 1747

Campbell, John, fl. 1747

Manuscript document signed

Title: [John Campbell's declaration regarding the Damariscotta River settlement]

Attests that he took up land in an area under the charge of Colonel [David] Dunbar. Dunbar was replaced by Colonel Samuel Waldo, and some families left the area while others remained. The greatest concentration of settlers dwelled in the township of Walpole, Massachusetts, where Campbell asserts "...they built houses and made some considerable Improvements in Farming and Lumbering, which all those who remained there and others that were added to the settlement of the remove aforementioned continued to do till the beginning of the Spanish War..." When war between Britain and France broke…

GLC02437.10411