1To George Washington from Jonathan Allen, 20 April 1776 (Washington Papers)
Cambridge, 20 April 1776. Requests payment for service as a chaplain in the Continental army. “I left my congregation 200 miles without a single dollar for my support . . . I laboured near 4 months without provision or pay but charge but three being ill some part of the time. . . . I deliver’d in my Bill to General Sulivan, who promis’d to deliver it to Your Excellency but by his sudden march...
2Report of the Braintree Committee on the Proceeds of the Sale of the South Common, 19 May 1762 (Adams Papers)
The Committee appointed to Consider in what manner the Proceeds of the Sale of the South Commons may be Secured as a fund to the Town made their Report as follows, (viz.) We the Subscribers appointed a Committee to consider in what manner the Proceeds that may arise by the Sale of the South Commons be Secured to the Town as a fund that the Town may Reap the annual Benefit of the Same and if...