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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
mason's account book, part 2
Among William Babcock's 1785 billing to Dr. Amos Holbrook, who was married at the time to Patience, Daniel and Rachel Vose's eldest daughter:
June 25: to my Self & oxen one Day to Stone Seller: 9/
...
September 12: to a load of Stone for Chimney: 6/
Source:
William Babcock, transcribed by Eleanor Martin
Year:
1785
/DigitalArchives/1773-85 William Babcock.pdf
