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Box 1

 Container

Contains 59 Results:

Notes on the moral aspects of the dispute of the Bowdoin estate, [ca. 1842-1844]

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 108
Identifier: M15.2.4
Subseries Description: From the Sub-Series:

Consists of documents relating to land and financial transactions, as well as the last will & testament of James Bowdoin III and the original catalogue compiled by John Abbott of materials from the Bowdoin estate bequested to Bowdoin College. Also included are materials relating to the Bowdoin estate dispute of the 1840s.

Dates: 1687 - 1996; Majority of material found within 1687 - 1848
Found in: George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine 04011 / Bowdoin family collection / Documents & Wills / M15.2.4: Documents & Wills: James Bowdoin III & Sarah Bowdoin

Notes on the citizenship of James Temple Bowdoin [ca. 1842-1844]

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 109
Identifier: M15.2.4
Subseries Description: From the Sub-Series:

Consists of documents relating to land and financial transactions, as well as the last will & testament of James Bowdoin III and the original catalogue compiled by John Abbott of materials from the Bowdoin estate bequested to Bowdoin College. Also included are materials relating to the Bowdoin estate dispute of the 1840s.

Dates: 1687 - 1996; Majority of material found within 1687 - 1848
Found in: George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine 04011 / Bowdoin family collection / Documents & Wills / M15.2.4: Documents & Wills: James Bowdoin III & Sarah Bowdoin

Report of testimony of Richard Sullivan re: dispute of the Bowdoin estate, [ca. 1842-1844]

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 110
Identifier: M15.2.4
Subseries Description: From the Sub-Series:

Consists of documents relating to land and financial transactions, as well as the last will & testament of James Bowdoin III and the original catalogue compiled by John Abbott of materials from the Bowdoin estate bequested to Bowdoin College. Also included are materials relating to the Bowdoin estate dispute of the 1840s.

Dates: 1687 - 1996; Majority of material found within 1687 - 1848
Found in: George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine 04011 / Bowdoin family collection / Documents & Wills / M15.2.4: Documents & Wills: James Bowdoin III & Sarah Bowdoin

First agreement on Naushon land and Beacon St. property, [ca. 1844]

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 111
Identifier: M15.2.4
Subseries Description: From the Sub-Series:

Consists of documents relating to land and financial transactions, as well as the last will & testament of James Bowdoin III and the original catalogue compiled by John Abbott of materials from the Bowdoin estate bequested to Bowdoin College. Also included are materials relating to the Bowdoin estate dispute of the 1840s.

Dates: 1687 - 1996; Majority of material found within 1687 - 1848
Found in: George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine 04011 / Bowdoin family collection / Documents & Wills / M15.2.4: Documents & Wills: James Bowdoin III & Sarah Bowdoin

Opinion [unsigned] of Bowdoinham land, November, 1845

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 112
Identifier: M15.2.4
Subseries Description: From the Sub-Series:

Consists of documents relating to land and financial transactions, as well as the last will & testament of James Bowdoin III and the original catalogue compiled by John Abbott of materials from the Bowdoin estate bequested to Bowdoin College. Also included are materials relating to the Bowdoin estate dispute of the 1840s.

Dates: 1687 - 1996; Majority of material found within 1687 - 1848
Found in: George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine 04011 / Bowdoin family collection / Documents & Wills / M15.2.4: Documents & Wills: James Bowdoin III & Sarah Bowdoin

Deed for land in Sidney (Me.) received by William Ellis, signed by Sarah Bowdoin, 1813 Aug 28

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 112a
Identifier: M15.2.4
Subseries Description: From the Sub-Series:

Consists of documents relating to land and financial transactions, as well as the last will & testament of James Bowdoin III and the original catalogue compiled by John Abbott of materials from the Bowdoin estate bequested to Bowdoin College. Also included are materials relating to the Bowdoin estate dispute of the 1840s.

Dates: 1687 - 1996; Majority of material found within 1687 - 1848
Found in: George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine 04011 / Bowdoin family collection / Documents & Wills / M15.2.4: Documents & Wills: James Bowdoin III & Sarah Bowdoin

Claim that James Temple Bowdoin never received plate left in the will of Mrs. Dearborn, December, 1809

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 113
Identifier: M15.2.5
Subseries Description: From the Sub-Series:

Consists of documents concerning James Temple Bowdoin and William Bowdoin, Jr., with the bulk of the items concerning the latter's political appointments in Massachusetts. Includes pamphlet by Henry A. S. Dearborn in defense of his father, General Henry Dearborn.

Dates: 1687 - 1996; Majority of material found within 1687 - 1848
Found in: George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine 04011 / Bowdoin family collection / Documents & Wills / M15.2.5: Documents & Wills: Other Family

Receipt signed by James Bowdoin to Thomas Seymore on the account of Edward Allen's note and Amos Porter's bond, 2 April, 1757

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 59
Identifier: M15.2.3
Subseries Description: From the Sub-Series: Consists of land deeds, receipts for financial transactions, as well as items documenting military and political appointments made by James Bowdoin II while governor of Massachusetts. Also included are Bowdoin's 1780 missive to "the different Tribes of Indians under Col. John Allan, Superintendent of Indian Affairs in the Eastern Department," as well as the arrest warrant for Daniel Shays, Bowdoin's last will & testament, and a holograph poem by Phillis Wheatley on the capture of General...
Dates: 1687 - 1996; Majority of material found within 1687 - 1848
Found in: George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine 04011 / Bowdoin family collection / Documents & Wills / M15.2.3: Documents & Wills: James Bowdoin II

Defence of Gen. Henry Dearborn against the Attack of Gen. William Hull [pamphlet], 1824

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 113a
Identifier: M15.2.5
Subseries Description: From the Sub-Series:

Consists of documents concerning James Temple Bowdoin and William Bowdoin, Jr., with the bulk of the items concerning the latter's political appointments in Massachusetts. Includes pamphlet by Henry A. S. Dearborn in defense of his father, General Henry Dearborn.

Dates: 1687 - 1996; Majority of material found within 1687 - 1848
Found in: George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine 04011 / Bowdoin family collection / Documents & Wills / M15.2.5: Documents & Wills: Other Family

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