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Box 1

 Container

Contains 19 Results:

Notices to selectmen of arrival and departure of servants and other persons, 1758-1764.

 Collection — Box: 1, Folder: 001
Identifier: BRV-01616-0395-001
Scope and Contents

This is a collection of memoranda sent to the town of Brookline by individual citizens informing the town of new additions to a household or if someone was from that citizen's household. These people are described to the "Select Men" as "Labouring man," "servant," "tenant," or with no specific role or employment noted.

Dates: 1758-1764

Petition to repeal the Personal Liberty Act, undated.

 Collection — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: BRV-01616-0395-002
Scope and Contents

The item is a single page petition with five signatures on the first page, the second twenty-seven. The petition requests the Massachusetts legislature to repeal the 19th, 20th, and 21st sections of 144th chapter in the general statutes, regarding "Habeas Corpus." Link to general statutes and sections in external documents in this guide.

Dates: circa 1855

Notification of district representation from Norfolk County, 1857.

 Collection — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: BRV-01616-0395-003
Scope and Contents

4 leaves, notifying public of district representation.

Dates: 1857

Notes on Brookline men in various wars, circa 1920.

 Collection — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Identifier: BRV-01616-0395-004
Scope and Contents

This is a 3 page, hand-written set of notes regarding Brookline during conflicts by Edward Wild Baker, which go in chronological order starting in King Philip's War through to the Civil War. Reference to books listed with page numbers.

Dates: circa 1920

“Important intelligence” about Shay's Rebellion, 1787.

 Collection — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Identifier: BRV-01616-0395-005
Scope and Contents

One page sheet written by Major-General Lincoln to Governor James Bowdoin relating events following .

Dates: 1787

Brookline History

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: BRV-01616-0395-006
Scope and Contents

This is one folder from the Brookline Manuscript Collection with four essays on Brookline's history.

Dates: 1931-1958

General Orders

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 8, Object: 3
Identifier: BRV-01616-0395-007
Scope and Contents

This contains five different General Orders of the Commander in Chief to Massachusetts militia, signed by Adj. General, William Donnison.

Dates: several

Early Brookline Recollections, undated

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2, Object: 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This is one folder from the Brookline Manuscript Collection with four essays on Brookline's history.

Dates: undated

Why Town Planning?, 1931

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2, Object: 2
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This is one folder from the Brookline Manuscript Collection with four essays on Brookline's history.

Dates: 1931

Pierce Hall, 1956

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2, Object: 3
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This is one folder from the Brookline Manuscript Collection with four essays on Brookline's history.

Dates: 1956