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  1. British Shipping Records, Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Index 5, 1761-Mar. 30, 1765.
  2. British Shipping Records, Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Index 6, Apr. 6, 1765-Jan. 4, 1768.
  3. British Shipping Records, Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Index 7, Jul. 31, 1770-Sept. 7, 1775.
  4. Historiography; or "What Were the Raids on Fort William and Mary and Why Don't I Know All About Them?"
  5. MS043 - Wentworth-Gardner Historic House Association collection, 1753-2017

    The Wentworth-Gardner Historic House Association collection includes both manuscript collections and organizational records. The manuscript collections include the papers of Samuel Hale of Portsmouth. The majority of the records are the association's organizational records, including correspondence related to collections pieces (donations and loans). There are also records related to the operations of the association, such as tours and events, as...

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  6. MS050 B02 F34.03 - New Hampshire Committee of Safety to John Langdon

    One page letter from the New Hampshire Committee of Safety in Exeter, N.H. to John Langdon in Portsmouth. The Committee of Safety was appointed on May 20, 1775 after the Provincial Congress was prorogued and was "directed in the recess of the Provincial Congress to take into consideration all matters in which the welfare of the Province in the security of its rights was concerned except the appointment of field officers, and to take the utmost...

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    New Hampshire Committee of Safety to John Langdon
  7. S0021 - Jonathan Chesley Chadboure Account Sheet, 1780-1785

    Account sheet listing accounts with Supply Clapp for bars of lead, knives and forks, boards and planks, etc. Persons represented include William Yeaton and Benjamin Chadbourne. Account may be exepenses for the militia, as Supply Clapp was a colonel.

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    Jonathan Chesley Chadboure Account Sheet, 1780-1785
  8. S0640 - Success, N.H., collection, 1773-1780. (Accs. #S-640).

    Documents relating to the settlement of Success, N.H., in present day Coos County, and its development by several Portsmouth, N.H., men including Samuel Langdon, Supply Clapp, Benjamin Mackey, and Jacob Tilton, who provided incentives of acreage and money to encourage settlers through advertisements in the Boston, Mass., and New Hampshire newspapers. Includes correspondence of Joseph Pettengill, of Fryeburg, Me., who was hired and later dismissed...

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    Success, N.H., collection, 1773-1780. (Accs. #S-640).
  9. S0641 - Portsmouth legal papers, 1789-1828. (Acces. S-641).

    Chiefly legal materials of residents of Portsmouth, N.H. Includes inventory (1828) of the estate of Abigail Ham; deposition (1819) of Ebenezer P. Akerman, taken in Norfolk, Va., concerning Ebenezer Thompson, plaintiff, of Portsmouth and John Haven, defendant, of Philadelphia, Pa.; and several deeds. Persons represented include Eliphalet Ladd, Nathaniel Haven, Mary Peirce, Rebecca Hardy, John Goddard, Susanna Green, Lucy Maria Sewall, and Supply C...

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    Portsmouth legal papers, 1789-1828. (Acces. S-641).
  10. S0740 - Letter from Supply Clapp to John Langdon, 1796

    Letter from Supply Clapp in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, to John Langdon for the selectmen of Portsmouth. The selectmen request Langdon to purchase "one of the best constructed Fire Engines that are made in Philadelphia." Dated December 9, 1796.

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    Letter from Supply Clapp to John Langdon, 1796
  11. S1115 - Selectmen of New Castle

    Statement from the Selectmen of the Town of New Castle dated March 16, 1793. "...We the subscribers...as Selectment for the Town of New Castle promise to pay George Gains, Jno. Pierce, Supply Clap, James Sheafe and Jeremiah Libbey as selectment of the Town of Portsmouth or their order for the use of said Town of Portsmouth..."

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    Selectmen of New Castle
  12. S1176 - John Evans papers, 1784-1789

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    John Evans papers, 1784-1789
  13. S1781 - William Simpson papers, 1736-1798

    Papers of William Simpson of Portsmouth, N.H., dated 1736-1798. Includes deeds, court testimonies, wills, and correspondence related to the Simpson family. These ten documents were formerly part of the collection of William Marden Simpson of Piermont, N.H., who was a descendent of Col. William Simpson of Portsmouth, N.H. This portion of the collection pertains to Portsmouth. Other portions of the collection were distributed to other repositori...

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    William Simpson papers, 1736-1798
  14. The Raids on Fort William and Mary.

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