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1710 May 3 . Jer[emiah] Dummer, Jr. ALS; London, [England]
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Heartily sorry for affairs in Massachusetts Bay: "Learning & good manners have been travelling westward severall thousand years, & ‘tis a pitty methinks they should Journey on & goe to the westward of New England by our driving away the hopefull young men to the Colony of Connetticut. I don't know any candidates for the ministry that will equall Mr. Adams & Mr Cuttler, when we have lost." Siege of Douai has caught the French by surprise. "We shall in all probability kindle such a fire in France as will burn to the foundations of it." Quarrelling at home over Dr. Henry Sacheverell (1674?-1724): "The Clergy, Women & the Mobb are almost universally on his side... Many People christen their children Sacheverell, beleiving it will engage a blessing upon their posterity, whilst with equall extravagance many people call their Dogs by that name. ‘T is well this Parliament has a year longer to set, for were there to be a new election now, it might make a Civil War." Includes a note on Dummer on the verso, dated April 3, 1841.
1738 June 8 . Isaac Tracy ADS to Isaac Huntington; [New London, Connecticut]
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Charges against Sabbath breakers from Norwich, Connecticut, sent to Isaac Huntington, "one of his Majesties Justices of the peace for the County of New London."
1750 August 13 . Conrad Weiser ALS to Thomas Lee; Heidelberg, [Pennsylvania].
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Cannot bring Six Nations to Fredericksburg as they are not concerned with treaties; Tensions with French and efforts to keep them out of Ohio; "It is to the Intrigues of the French … as they have been this many years, and I hope they will be disappointed, with the Indian of Ohio..." Discusses the role of Native Americans.
1751 3rd mo. 27-31 (1751 May 27-31) . [London Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends] Cy to [Great Britain & Ireland Quarterly and Monthly Meetings of the Religious Society of Friends]; [London, England].
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Regarding religious education of Quaker youth to protect them from the language, customs, and habits of the world. Also, advice to aid young men of "low circumstances." Copied by I[srael?] Pemberton, Jr.
1771 November 18 . John Winthrop ALS to John Temple; Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Sends thanks for aiding in receipt of honorary degree from University of Edinburgh. Expressions of friendship.
1771 September . Joseph Chandler DS; Orange County, [Viginia].
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Report of patrollers capturing"Negroes"; "we caught two Negroes One got whipt [and] the other Clear…we caught three Negroes two whi Carred before Capt Thomas One he Ordered to be whipt [and] the Other he cleard One whi whipt by Orders of his Mistress." Signed by James Madison, "Commanding Officer of the County of Orange" on verso