Colonial North America: Houghton Library

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Colonial North America at Harvard Library provides access to remarkable and wide-ranging materials digitized as part of an ongoing, multi-year project. When complete, the project will make available to the world approximately 650,000 digitized pages of all known archival and manuscript materials in the Harvard Library that relate to 17th- and 18th-century North America. Each item is connected to countless stories—of lives lived quietly and extravagantly, of encounters peaceful and volatile, and of places near and far – providing an opportunity to travel back in time, to rethink familiar stories, and to discover new ones.

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La Chasse, Joseph Pierre de, 1670-1749. Lettre du pere de La Chasse superieur general des missionaires de la nouvelle France au p[ere] de la meme compagnie de Jesus : manuscript, [17--]. MS Can 68. Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

Summary: Transcription of letter, dated at Kebec [Quebec], 29 Oct. 1724, describing the death of Father Sébastien Rasles (Râle), a missionary to the Abenakis, at Narantsouak (present-day Old Point, South Madison, Me.) on 23 Aug. 1724.

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Lee, Arthur, 1740-1792. Arthur Lee papers, 1741-1882, 1766-1787 (bulk). France. Conseil d'état. [Enforcement of the order of 23 Sep 1778 concerning prize ships] MS. (unidentified hand); [Versailles] 29 Jun 1779. MS Am 811.5 (76). Houghton Library, Harvard

Collection Summary: Collection reflects American diplomatic, political, and military affairs primarily during the American Revolution. The bulk is correspondence, mostly letters to Lee, but the collection also contains depositions and petitions concerning colonial disputes and the fighting...

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Lee, Arthur, 1740-1792. Arthur Lee papers, 1741-1882, 1766-1787 (bulk). France. Treaties, etc., 1774-1792 (Louis XVI) [Ratification of the treaty of amity and commerce] MS. (copy, unidentified hand); [n.p., 16 Jul 1778]. MS Am 811.4 (14). Houghton

Collection reflects American diplomatic, political, and military affairs primarily during the American Revolution. The bulk is correspondence, mostly letters to Lee, but the collection also contains depositions and petitions concerning colonial disputes and the fighting in Lexington and Concord;...

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Lee, Arthur, 1740-1792. Arthur Lee papers, 1741-1882, 1766-1787 (bulk). Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roche Gilbert du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834. [Extract from an essay on the commerce of France with the United States] MS. (unidentified hand);

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Lee, Arthur, 1740-1792. Arthur Lee papers, 1741-1882, 1766-1787 (bulk). Louis, XVI, king of France, 1754-1793. MS.L. (copy) to the Continental congress; [Versailles, 19 Dec 1778]. MS Am 811.4 (95). Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

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Lopez, Aaron, 1731-1782. Letter book : manuscript : [not before 1782]. MS Judaica 24. Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

Colonial North American Project at Harvard University History note: Duarte (Aaron) Lopez was born in Portugal to well-to-do parents who were part of the Converso community. By the early 1740s Lopez was established as a merchant chiefly in Newport, R.I., trading in wholesale commodities and...

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Lunt, Paul, 1747-1824. Adjournal of travels from Newburyport to Cambridg & in the camp : manuscript, 1775. MS Am 1099. Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

Camp diary concerning the movements and actions of the 17th Massachusetts Regiment during the Siege of Boston, with some personal financial accounts and family records at end. Paul Lunt was the 1st Lieutenant of Ezra Lunt's company of the 17th Massachusetts Regiment.

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104 pages: 11% complete (94% transcribed, 82% needs review)