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Title: Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Lieutenant Governor Samuel Adams; No. 894 Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Lieutenant Governor Samuel Adams
Identifier(s): text:353747
Description: Proclamation that appoints a day of public fasting, humiliation and prayer, in part for the success of the establishment of a government in the Republic of France; countersigned by John Avery, Jr., secretary.
Creator: Adams, Samuel, 1722-1803et al
Subject: France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799; Avery, John, 1739-1806
Date: 1794-02-19; 2023

Title: Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Governor Samuel Adams to Winthrop Sargent, 1794 May 6; No. 907 Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Governor Samuel Adams to Winthrop Sargent
Identifier(s): text:353735
Description: Commission as an ensign in the Third Regiment, First Brigade, Second Division of militia; countersigned by John Avery, Jr., secretary.; Printed form
Creator: Adams, Samuel, 1722-1803et al
Subject: United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--American forces; Sargent, Winthrop, 1753-1820; Avery, John, 1739-1806
Date: 1794-05-06; 2023

Title: Adams, Samuel to James Lovell, 1778 March 31; No. 50 Samuel Adams to James Lovell
Identifier(s): text:346408
Description: Mentions his own wish that a military school might be instituted in Boston; expresses satisfaction that [Gen. John] Burgoyne "seems to entertain proper Ideas of Congress"; expresses apprehension that "the just Expectations of the People with Regard to Ty and Independence [Forts Ticonderoga and Independence, N.Y.] will be baulked," that the cause will be injured, and that the people's confidence in officials will be lessened; discusses a prisoner exchange for Col. [Ethan] Allen; informs him that the [Massachusetts] General Assembly's instructions to Lovell regarding the Confederation are enclosed in Adams's letter to [Elbridge] Gerry and mentions Lovell's mortification at the delay; discusses the case of a man who claimed he was "surprised into an Oath of Allegiance."
Creator: Adams, Samuel, 1722-1803et al
Subject: Lovell, James, 1737-1814; Burgoyne, John, 1722-1792; Allen, Ethan, 1738-1789
Date: 1778-03-31; 2022

Title: Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Governor Samuel Adams to Francis Jenks, 1794 July 24; No. 905 Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Governor Samuel Adams to Francis Jenks
Identifier(s): text:353752
Description: Commission as an ensign in the First Brigade, Seventh Division, Worcester County militia; countersigned by John Avery, Jr.; [on verso]: certification by Jonathan Warner, 24 Sept. 1794, that Jenks took the required oath.; Printed form; bound in Sparks, Life of Washington, vol. 1; erratum on microfilm: recto of document not filmed.
Creator: Adams, Samuel, 1722-1803et al
Subject: United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--American forces; Avery, John, 1739-1806
Date: 1794-07-24; 2023