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Clues to the Suffolk Resolves House

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1760: Vose lot #1
1762: Daniel Vose marries
1762: Vose lot #2
1764: Vose lot #3
1773: mason's account book
1774: Continental Congress
1774: Suffolk County Congress
1774: Suffolk County Convention
1775: Suffolk County meets again
1781: Vose lot #4
1782: John White's map
1783: Patience marries
1785: first documentation of the house
1785: mason's account book, part 2
1807: Daniel Vose's will
1810: first drawing of the house
1826: Edmund J. Baker's map
1859: Rachel Vose as a source
1861: Vose "mansion" burns
1862: Milton bicentennial address
1874: first commemoration of the Resolves
1874: novelty of the commemoration
1874: signed in the parlor
1874: subsequent meetings at the house
1887: History of Milton, Mass., 1640-1887
1895: Suffolk Resolves House confirmed
1899: 125th anniversary
1912: first known questioning
1923: letters to the editor
1923: the sacred parlor
1924: Committee on the Suffolk Resolves House
1924: expert decides
1924: Historical Society weighs in
1924: memories from parents
1924: plan of colonial frame
1932: Ellen Vose publishes
1949: condemned
1950: Suffolk Resolves House moves
1951: refugees from the siege
1953: controversy reviewed
1957: second history of Milton
1973: Hamilton confirmed
1973: National Historic Register
2012: framing mistakes
2012: Phase 1: colonial frame
2012: Phase 2: beams in colonial attic
2012: Phase 3: Georgian frame
 

Suffolk County Convention

Aug 18: on behalf of the August 16th congress, a letter is sent to the towns of Suffolk County. "We earnestly recommend to our brethren of the several towns and districts in this county to appoint members to attend a county convention for Suffolk, at the house of Mr. Woodward, innholder, in Dedham, on Tuesday, the sixth day of September next, at ten o'clock, before noon...."
 
Source: Mary Phillips Webster and Charles R. Morris, 1973. The Story of the Suffolk Resolves, p6.
Year: 1774