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    <title>Meshech Weare family papers, 1669-1808</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Weare, Meshech</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1713-1786</namePart>
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  <abstract>Correspondence, indentures, receipts, muster rolls, notebook, and other papers of Meshech Weare and members of the Weare (Ware) family, including his grandfather Nathaniel Weare (1631-1718), his father Nathaniel Weare (1669-1755), his uncle Peter Weare (b. 1660), and Richard Weare (d. 1777).  Topics in the papers include Meshech Weare's duties with the New Hampshire militia, superior court, and council; various New Hampshire land grant matters; the 1754 Albany Congress; and Richard Weare's service with the 3rd New Hampshire Regiment during the Revolution at Crown Point and Ticonderoga, N.Y., Exeter and Hampton Falls, N.H., and Portland, Me.  Correspondents include Henry Dearborn, Joseph Davenport, Silas Hodges, Nathaniel Peabody, and John Pickering.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Microfilm edition available, no. 19,168.</note>
  <note>Microfilm produced from originals and transcripts in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1985.</note>
  <note>In part, handwritten transcripts. [S.l.].</note>
  <note>Continental Army officer, jurist, legislator, and president of New Hampshire (1784-1785)</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
  <note>Forms part of: Miscellaneous Manuscripts collection.</note>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Davenport, Joseph</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Dearborn, Henry</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1751-1829</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Hodges, Silas</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Peabody, Nathaniel</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1741-1823</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Pickering, John</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1737-1805</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Ware family</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>New Hampshire.</namePart>
      <namePart>Governor and Council.</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>New Hampshire.</namePart>
      <namePart>Militia.</namePart>
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    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>New Hampshire.</namePart>
      <namePart>Superior Court of Judicature.</namePart>
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    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>United States.</namePart>
      <namePart>Continental Army.</namePart>
      <namePart>New Hampshire Regiment, 3rd</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="conference">
      <namePart>Albany Congress (1754 : Albany, N.Y.)</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Land grants</topic>
    <geographic>New Hampshire</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Crown Point (N.Y.)</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Exeter (N.H.)</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Hampton Falls (N.H. : Town)</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Maine</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Revolution, 1775-1783</temporal>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>New Hampshire</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775</temporal>
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    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Revolution, 1775-1783</temporal>
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    <geographic>New Hampshire</geographic>
    <topic>Politics and government</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>New York (State)</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Revolution, 1775-1783</temporal>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Portland (Me.)</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Revolution, 1775-1783</temporal>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Ticonderoga (N.Y.)</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Revolution, 1775-1783</temporal>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Revolution, 1775-1783</temporal>
    <topic>Campaigns</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Weare, Nathaniel</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1669-1755</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Weare, Peter</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1660-</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Weare, Richard</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">-1777</namePart>
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    <occupation>Army officers</occupation>
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  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Jurists</occupation>
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  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Legislators</occupation>
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  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Presidents</occupation>
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      <namePart type="date">1631-1718</namePart>
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