1759/11/19

Amherst, Jeffery Amherst, Baron, 1717-1797

Letter signed

Title: to John Bradstreet re: cost of British Army victories at Ticonderoga

GLC07501

1757/02

Letter

Title: Military summons

The summons orders Mr. Jonse Wood[?], a training soldier, to report to Capt. Robert Nolle on an appointed date and time.

GLC03107.04747

1762/08/29

Bradsky, James, fl. 1755-1762

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John Sanders

GLC07900b

1755/08/22

Bradsky, James, fl. 1755-1762

Autograph document signed

Title: William Shirley

GLC07900c

1747/04/01

Pepperrell, William, 1696-1759

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John Hill re: orders to insure that the Militia are well armed

"The town you dwell in ly's much exposed to the enemy"

GLC06790

1758/12/29

Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778

Letter signed

Title: to William Lyttelton re: raising troops for French and Indian War

GLC07889

1759/02/05

Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778

Letter signed

Title: to William Lyttelton re: command of British fleet in North America

GLC07890

1755/03/01

Dinwiddie, Robert, 1693-1770

Letter signed

Title: to Horatio Sharpe

GLC07850

February 18, 1747

Henderson, Thomas, fl. 1747

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Thomas Henderson's declaration regarding a settlement in the Eastern part of Massachusetts Bay]

Henderson attests that he became a settler on the Eastern part of Massachusetts Bay in 1728. Took up a lot of land on St. George's, a colony of which Colonel [Samuel] Waldo was the proprietor, in 1735. Moved to Lincoln (present-day Maine) in 1736 then Leverett (present-day Massachusetts). Regarding these settlements, states, "... and from the Encouragement given by the Proprietor aforesaid and the good ness of the Sail and Navigations they became by the year 1744 the most Flourishing Settlements (for their standing) of any in New England, and all the Settlers grew into good &…

GLC02437.10409