Source:Dogget Family Papers, 1648-1839

Usage Notes

Maine (Minerva) catalog description of papers from the Doggett, Minot, Sewall and Taylor families of Boston, Mass. and Wiscasset, Me. Includes:

• Bills and receipts, deeds, mortgages, leases and estate papers;
• Records, 1728-1803 (3v.), correspondence, deeds, plats, and other papers, ca. 1666-1798, relating to the affairs of the Wiscasset Company and to the conflicting claims of the Kennebec Proprietors;
• letters, 1735-1749, of Gov. Jonathan Belcher and Dr. Benjamin Avery to Dr. Benjamin Colman of Boston's Brattle Street Church;
• Rev. Cotton Mather's holograph extracts, 1715-1718, from his diaries;
• letters and papers, 1768-1777, of Col. Thomas Goldthwait of Fort Pownall concerning John Odam's mill at Beaver Creek and William Taylor's notes, ca. 1795, relating to the settlements of Goldthwait's estate;
• report (copy), 1708 Aug. 14, of the committee for the management of Indian affairs in Albany, N.Y., about movements of the French Army in Canada;
• letter, 1720 May 20, John Minot to Gov. Samuel Shute recommending construction of a garrison at Thwaits Point (Richmond, Me.) and enclosing a letter from the Indians;
• letter, 1722 Jan. 21, of Johnson Harmon and Joseph Heath to Col. Edmond Goffe about a raid against Fr. Sebastian Rale's Indian settlement at Norridgewock, Me.;
• letter, 1732 June 20, Mere Point (Brunswick, Me.), notifying of a drunken Indian assault against Richard Jaquish, the slayer of Fr. Rale;
• William Taylor's survey notes, 1893-1894, for the Wiscasset and Quebec railroad.

Other names include: John Adams, Rev. Joseph Baxter, Simon Bradstreet, Thomas Brattle, Nicholas Buttolph, John Dennie, Samuel Dix, Joseph Dudley, William Dummer, John Endecott, William Eustis, Christopher Gore, Jonathan Gould, Robert Hallowell, Thomas Hubbard, John Hull, John Leverett, Philip Livingston, Christopher Minot, George Minot, John Minot, Peter Minot, Stephen Minot, Samuel Moody, Sir William Pepperrell, Timothy Pickering, John Phillips, Peter Schuyler, Joshua Scottow, Samuel Sewall, William Shirley, Caleb Strong, William Stoughton, James Sullivan, Jonathan Williamson, and Edward Winslow.