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13 March 1758

Pownall, Thomas, 1722-1805

Document signed

Title: [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

2 September 1740

Belcher, Jonathan, 1682-1757

Document signed

Title: [Appointment of John Furney as Captain of a company of foot soldiers]

Countersigned by John Willard, Belcher's secretary. Belcher, serving as Royal Governor of Massachusetts, places John Furney in charge of a company of foot soldiers. Raises men in response to Britain's request for Colonial forces to join Major General Charles Cathcart, in charge of leading British troops against Spain in the West Indies. States that the American forces were to have been under the command of former Governor of Virginia, Alexander Spotswood, since deceased. Accompanied by a paper seal.

GLC01450.804

1758-1793

Header Record

Title: 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 Lorimer family coat of arms, a miniature portrait of Lorimer, and a tin case.

GLC01450.807

February 6, 1761

George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820

Document signed

Title: [Appointment of John Lorimer as surgeon]

Signed by "Holdernesse", Robert Darcy, Earl of Holderness and British Secretary of State for the Northern Department 1754-1761. Holdernesse signs based on the orders of King George III. Countersigned by Thomas Tyrwhitt as Under-Secretary at War and John F. Hesse. Hesse certifies that Lorimer's appointment has been entered in the Office of Thomas Gore, Commissary General of Musters. Appoints Lorimer to a battalion of foot led by James Stuart, Lieutenant Colonel Commandant. Issued at St. James Court. Contains a partial length of rectangular blue seal. Includes a royal stamp on verso…

GLC01450.807.01

11 June 1762

George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820

Document signed

Title: [Appointment of John Lorimer as surgeon]

Signed by Charles Wyndman, Second Earl of Egremont and British Secretary of State for the Southern Department 1761-1763. Egremont signs based on the orders of King George III. Countersigned by Thomas Tyrwhitt as Under-Secretary at War and John F. [Hesse?]. Hesse certifies that Lorimer's appointment has been entered in the Office of Thomas Gore, Commissary General of Musters. Appoints Lorimer as surgeon to the garrison on the British Island of Belleisle. Issued at St. James Court. Contains a length of rectangular blue seal. Includes a royal stamp on verso depicting a crown and the…

GLC01450.807.02

1758-1784

Header Record

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

GLC01450.807.04

1 September 1755 - 15 April 1815

Adams, John, 1735-1826

Facsimile

Title: ["Facsimiles" of five John Adams signatures, being of an engraved plate removed from a book]

Four are associated with places and dates, the range of which appears as the date of this document.

GLC06313.04.046

circa 1750-1820

Manuscript document

Title: [Sale of land]

Discusses the sale of land by Thomas Flucker's heirs to a Thomas Warson.

GLC02437.09970

circa 1750-1820

Manuscript document

Title: [Mortgage deeds]

List of mortgage deeds and who has them for what amount.

GLC02437.09995

28 May 1761

Lewis, Francis, 1713-1803

Autograph letter signed

Title: To Chew

The seizure of a ship's cargo of wine, writing to Mr. Chew of New London to reclaim it: "As you know the general character of the people of that colony I fear that right or wrong they will divide the property between them."

GLC08039