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Correspondence between David Cobb and others, regarding business, politics, and personal matters : Correspondence

Title
Correspondence between David Cobb and others, regarding business, politics, and personal matters : Correspondence 1794/12/01-1794/12/15.
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Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2017.
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This collection consists of the papers of David Cobb primarily documenting his position as land agent for William Bingham in Maine, including papers related to the settlement of Maine, logging and the lumber trade, roads, and other subjects. Also included are papers related to his service during the American Revolution and his career as a politician and judge. David Cobb was a Revolutionary War soldier and aide-de-camp to General George Washington, speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives and president of the Senate, physician, judge, member of Congress, lieutenant governor of Massachusetts, and a founder of the Society of the Cincinnati and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The collection contains letters to Charles W. Hare, Bingham's Philadelphia agent, and Alexander Baring, the future Lord Ashburton and representative of London's House of Baring. Also included are legal actions, financial accounts, maps, and inventories related to land development, fishing, lumbering, census reports, lotteries, the laying out of streets, and the construction of wharves, warehouses, and sawmills in Gouldsboro, Maine, which Cobb tried to develop as a major commercial port. The collection also contains eight fragmentary diaries kept by Cobb, 1781-1818; a manuscript notebook with sketches; lists of British ships of the line; instructions for naval officers; letters to various members of the Cobb family; and letters from William Eustis, Henry Knox, Timothy Pickering, and Israel Thorndike concerning foreign relations, state politics, and miscellaneous financial matters related to the firm of Cobb and Richards, in which Cobb was partner.
AMDigital Reference: Ms. N-1000.
Reproduction of: Correspondence between David Cobb and others, regarding business, politics, and personal matters 1-15 Dec 1794.
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Summary
Description: Includes: Letter from William Eustis to David Cobb about personal matters, [Dec. 1794] Letter from William Eustis (Boston) to David Cobb about personal matters, 1 Dec. 1794 Letter from Foster Swift (Taunton) to David Cobb about political affairs in Massachusetts, 1 Dec. 1794 Letter from O[liver] Leonard (Taunton) to David Cobb about Cobb's land business, 3 Dec. 1794 Letter from George Clymer to John Dunlap about the death of his son, 3 Dec. 1794 Letter from William Eustis to David Cobb urging him to make a speech in Congress, 4 Dec. 1794 Letter from Henry Knox (Montpelier) to David Cobb about Knox's lumbering business, 4 Dec. 1794 Letter from William Eustis (Boston) to David Cobb about politics, 6 Dec. 1794 Letter from Foster Swift (Taunton) to David Cobb about politics, 8 Dec. 1794 Letter from William Eustis (Boston) to David Cobb about the activities of Edmund Randolph as secretary of state, 10 Dec. 1794 Letter from Oliver Leonard (Taunton) to David Cobb concerning the prospects of Cobb being re-elected and requesting letters if he goes to France, 13 Dec. 1794 Letter from Seth Padelford to David Cobb about Cobb's chances for re-election and the burning of Samuel Leonard's mill, 14 Dec. 1794 Letter from Foster Swift (Taunton) to David Cobb giving news of local politics, 15 Dec. 1794 Letter from James Sproat (Taunton) to David Cobb about the building of Bristol Academy, 15 Dec. 1794.
Variant and related titles
Frontier life : borderlands, settlement & colonial encounters.
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Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 18, 2018
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Adam Matthew Digital (Firm), publisher.
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