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Autograph of Jonathan Harrington, the last living survivor of the Battle of Lexington, Massachusetts. Note accompanying autograph states that autograph was written on August 12, 1852.

Alarm letter, containing an account of the Battle of Lexington, April 19, 1775, originally written by Joseph Palmer, at Watertown, Massachusetts, just hours after the event. This attested copy written by Daniel Tyler, Jr., at Brooklyn, Connecticut on…

Broadside dated at Concord, Massachusetts, April 15, 1775. Contains resolution recommending "to the good People of this Colony of all Denominations" that May 11, 1775 be "set apart as a Day of Public Humiliation, Fasting and Prayer; that a total…

A letter from Sergeant Eliakim Libby of the Continental Army (Colonel Edmund Phinney's 31st Regiment of Foot) to his wife Mehitable Cummings Libby. Dated November 26, 1775, Libby, a resident of what would become Scarborough, Maine, writes about his…

A letter from Sergeant Eliakim Libby of the Continental Army (Colonel Edmund Phinney's 31st Regiment of Foot) to his wife, Mehitable Cummings Libby, and child. Dated December 1, 1775 at Cambridge, Massachusetts. Libby expresses his longing for his…

Document, dated July 1, 1781, appointing Micah Chapman as "Captain of the Sixth Company in the first Regiment of Militia in the County of Barnstable whereof Enoch Hallet, Esqr is Colonel."

Signed by John Hancock in his capacity as Governor and…

Document issued by the Council of the Massachusetts-Bay appointing Micah Chapman as captain in the Second Company of Militia, First Regiment, for the town of Yarmouth, Massachusetts.

Dated August 13, 1775, and signed by Perez Morton in his…

Document issued by the Council of the Massachusetts-Bay appointing Micah Chapman a captain in the Second Company of Militia, First Regiment, for the town of Yarmouth, Massachusetts.

Dated April 20, 1776, and signed by Perez Morton in his capacity…

This report from Fort No. 2 (Dorchester, Massachusetts) by Revolutionary War Lieutenant Daniel Wheelwright provides an account of events to the officer of the day.

A muster roll for American Revolutionary War Captain Samuel Leighton's Company in the 30th Regiment of Foot. Dated September 12, 1775.