Richard Frothingham papers, 1683-1865 | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Summary:Papers of Richard Frothingham of Charlestown, Mass. consist of research notes and original documents collected for his History of Charlestown, Massachusetts (Boston: 1845), including lists of individuals infected or inoculated for smallpox (1730); papers and lists of damages sustained after the Battle of Bunker Hill; and town government documents. Other Revolutionary-era materials include records of the Cambridge Committee of Correspondence (1776-79); records of the ship Intrepid in Boston (1802); and diaries kept during the Siege of Boston by Samuel Bixby (manuscript copy), a private in Learned's Regiment, in Roxbury, 4 May 1775 - 3 Jan. 1776, and by John Kettell, a private in Little's Regiment, in Cambridge and Roxbury, 17 May - 1 Oct. 1775. Additional correspondents include James Kettell and Richard Devens