Dane Digitization Project

Digitization and project management by Marc Mahan under the guidance of Beverly Historical Society director Paige Roberts, collections manager Samantha Grantham, and Beverly High School history teacher W. Dean Eastman

Nathan Dane Manuscript Collection, Beverly Historical Society 117 Cabot Street Beverly, Massachusetts

Collections include Commissions, Letters to Dane, Letters From Dane (1786-1830), Notifications (1785-1830), and other Dane papers

Commissions

BHS Accession Number	Description	Date	Transcription
7504 back 7504 front	Circular letter, Centennial tax	1782
7505 front 7505 back	Commonwealth of Massachusetts, signed by James Bowdoin	1786-1787
7506 front 7506 back	Commonwealth of Massachusetts, laws & ordinances	April 26, 1787
7507 front 7507 back 7507 page 2	aBy his Excellency John Hancock Esq., John Avery Secretary	May 4, 1790	Transcription
7508 front 7508 back	Dane Senator of Massachusetts summoned for convention of all Senators	1794
7509 front 7509 back	In the Senate…., Samuel Adams	July 18, 1798	Transcription
7510 front 7510 back	Dane appointed to the Senate by Samuel Adams
7511 front	Convention of all Senators, Samuel Adams
7512 front 7512 back	Meeting of Senators at State House in Boston, Samuel Adams	1797
7513 front 7513 back	Convention of Senators, General Court	1798
7514 front 7514 back	Dane nominated commissioner of U.S. Congress by President John Adams	1798
7515 front 7515 back	Commonwealth of Massachusetts laws & ordinances	1803
7516 front	In the Senate, Nathan Coffin	1811
7517 front 7517 back 7517 page 2	Appointed to commission… investigate memorials, Elbridge Gerry	1811	Transcription
7518 front 7518 back	House of Representatives	1813	Transcription
7519 front 7519 back	Appointed Justice of the Peace, J. Brooks	1816
7520 page 1 7520 page 2 7520 back			Transcription
7521 page 1 7521 page 2	Appointed Justice of the Peace	January 8, 1831
7521 back

Letters to Dane

BHS Accession Number	Origin	Author	Date	Transcription
7522 front 7522 page 2,3 7522 page 4	Boston		June 10, 1786	Transcription
7523 page 1 7523 page 2 7523 page 3	New York	Farwell Rayfarking	November 22, 1786
7524 page 1 7524 page 2,3 7524 page 4	Boston	Stephson Higginson	March 3, 1787	Transcription
7525 page 1 7525 page 2 7525 page 3	Boston	S. Higginson	June 3, 1787	Transcription
7526 page 1 7526 page 2,3 7526 page 4	Boston	S. Higginson	June 16, 1787
7527 page 1 7527 page 2 7527 page 3 7527 page 4	New York		November 21, 1787	Transcription
7528 page 1 7528 page 2	Philadelphia	Col. Pickering		Transcription
7529 page 1 7529 page 2 7529 page 3	Beverly	George Cabot	May 9, 1788
7530 page 1 7530 page 2 7530 page 3	Boston	S. Higginson	May 22, 1788
7531 page 1 7531 page 2 7531 page 3 7531 page 4	Boston		June 23, 1788
7532 page 1 7532 page 2 7532 page 3	Poughkeepsie, NY	Melanaton Smith	June 28, 1788
7533 page 1 7533 page 2,3 7533 page 4	Northbridge	Theodore Sedgwick	July 3, 1788	Transcription
7534 page 1 7534 page 2	Boston	J. Sullivan	April 10, 1791	Transcription
7535 page 1 7535 page 2	Boston	Thompson Skinner	June 11, 1801
7536 page 1 7536 page 2	Boston	Perez Morton	March 12, 1811
7537 page 1 7537 page 2	Marblehead, MA	S. Lewall	February 17, 1813
7538 page 1 7538 page 2,3	Washington City		June 14, 1815	Transcription
7539 page 1 7539 page 2,3 7539 page 4	Washington City	C. Gore	August 1, 1813
7540 page 1 7540 page 2	Boston		October 11, 1814	Transcription
7541 page 1 7541 page 2 7541 page 3	Boston		October 20, 1818
7542 page 1 7542 page 2 7542 page 3	Boston	A. Bradford	March 12, 1819	Transcription
54 front 54 back	Boston	W. Tudorg	April 28, 1819

Letters from Dane 1786-1830

BHS Accession Number	Origin	To	Date	Transcription
7453 page 1 , 7453 page 2	New York		January 10, 1786
7545 page 1 7545 page 2 7545 page 3	New York		June 10, 1786
7547 page 1 7547 page 2 7547 page 3 7547 page 4 7547 page 5 7547 page 6	New York	S. Higginson	June 9, 1787
7551 page 1 7551 page 2 7551 page 3 7551 page 4 7551 page 5 7551 page 6 7551 page 7 7551 page 8	Philadelphia	Brown & Thorndike	May 2, 1797	Transcription
7552 page 1 7552 page 2,3			1801
7555 page 1 7555 page 2 7555 page 3	Beverly	Joseph Hinkim	September 22, 1801
7556 page 1 7556 page 2	Beverly	Israel Thorndike	February 10, 1803
7557 page 1 7557 page 2 7557 page 3 7557 page 4	Beverly		June 22, 1813	Transcription
7558 page 1	Beverly	A. Bradford, Secretary of the Commonwealth	June, 1818
7559 page 1 7559 page 2 7559 page 3 7559 page 4 7559 page 5 7559 page 6 7559 page 7 7559 page 8 7559 page 9 7559 page 10 7559 page 11 7559 page 12	Beverly	Josiah Thorndike	November 27, 1820	Transcription
7560 page 1 7560 page 2	Beverly		February 11, 1830	Transcription
7561 page 1 7561 page 2		Caleb Strong
7562 page 1	Beverly	Hilliard Gray	February 4, 1831	Transcription

Notifications (1785-1830)

BHS Accession Number	Origin	Sender	Subject	Date	Transcription
7563 front 7563 back	Commonwealth of Massachusetts Council Chamber. Boston.	John Avery		June 16, 1785	Transcription
7564 front 7564 back	Council Chamber	John Avery, Secretary		June 28, 1786	Transcription
7565 front 7565 back	Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Secretary’s Office. Boston.	John Avery, Secretary		January 21, 1790	Transcription
7566 front 7566 back	Boston	John Avery, Secretary		May 29, 1793	Transcription
7567 front 7567 back	Massachusetts Historical Society for Promoting Agriculture	A. Sexton	Dane accepted as a member of the society
7568 front 7568 back	Boston			January 27, 1807	Transcription
7569 front 7569 back	Commonwealth of Massachusets. Senate.	E. Gore		March 5, 1810	Transcription
7570 front 7570 back	Secretary’s Office	Benjamin Homans		January 23, 1812	Transcription
7571 front 7571 back	American Antiquarian Society	Isaiah Thomas, President		October 23, 1815
7572 front 7572 back	American Antiquarian Society	Rejove Newton, Secretary
7573 front 7573 back	Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Secretary’s Department	A. Bradford		May 30, 1818	Transcription
7574 page 1 7574 page 2 7574 page 3	American Antiquarian Society	MacCarthy, Treasurer		May 26, 1820
7575 front 7575 back	Wall of Essex Historical Society	Benjamin R. Nichols		June 27, 1821
7576 front 7576 back	Bunker Hill Monument Association			June 17, 1775
7577 page 1 7577 page 2,3	Massachusetts Historical Society			February 18, 1829
7578 page 1 7578 page 2,3 7578 page 4 7578 page 5	Boston			February 18, 1830

Other Dane Papers

BHS Accession Number	Title	Date
12,752 front & back 12,752 page 2,3
12,328 front 12,328 back
25,324 25,531 State of Massachusetts
7546 page 1 7546 page 2
7548 page 1
7549 page 1
7553
7554
Dane federal note
Dane grave paper front Dane grave paper back
Dane inventory page 1 Dane inventory page 2,3 Dane inventory page 4,5 Dane inventory page 6,7 Dane inventory page 8,9 Dane inventory page 10 Dane inventory page 11,12 Dane inventory page 13 Dane New York page 1 Dane New York page 2,3 Dane New York page 4
Prospectus page 1 page 2,3 page 4,5 page 6,7 page 8,9 page 10,11 page 12,13 page 14,15 page 16
Dane paper

Nathan Dane Manuscript Collection, Beverly Historical Society 117 Cabot Street Beverly, Massachusetts

Collections include Commissions, Letters to Dane, Letters From Dane (1786-1830), Notifications (1785-1830), and other Dane papers

Commissions

BHS Accession Number	Description	Date	Transcription
7504 back 7504 front	Circular letter, Centennial tax	1782
7505 front 7505 back	Commonwealth of Massachusetts, signed by James Bowdoin	1786-1787
7506 front 7506 back	Commonwealth of Massachusetts, laws & ordinances	April 26, 1787
7507 front 7507 back 7507 page 2	aBy his Excellency John Hancock Esq., John Avery Secretary	May 4, 1790	Transcription
7508 front 7508 back	Dane Senator of Massachusetts summoned for convention of all Senators	1794
7509 front 7509 back	In the Senate…., Samuel Adams	July 18, 1798	Transcription
7510 front 7510 back	Dane appointed to the Senate by Samuel Adams
7511 front	Convention of all Senators, Samuel Adams
7512 front 7512 back	Meeting of Senators at State House in Boston, Samuel Adams	1797
7513 front 7513 back	Convention of Senators, General Court	1798
7514 front 7514 back	Dane nominated commissioner of U.S. Congress by President John Adams	1798
7515 front 7515 back	Commonwealth of Massachusetts laws & ordinances	1803
7516 front	In the Senate, Nathan Coffin	1811
7517 front 7517 back 7517 page 2	Appointed to commission… investigate memorials, Elbridge Gerry	1811	Transcription
7518 front 7518 back	House of Representatives	1813	Transcription
7519 front 7519 back	Appointed Justice of the Peace, J. Brooks	1816
7520 page 1 7520 page 2 7520 back			Transcription
7521 page 1 7521 page 2	Appointed Justice of the Peace	January 8, 1831
7521 back

Letters to Dane

BHS Accession Number	Origin	Author	Date	Transcription
7522 front 7522 page 2,3 7522 page 4	Boston		June 10, 1786	Transcription
7523 page 1 7523 page 2 7523 page 3	New York	Farwell Rayfarking	November 22, 1786
7524 page 1 7524 page 2,3 7524 page 4	Boston	Stephson Higginson	March 3, 1787	Transcription
7525 page 1 7525 page 2 7525 page 3	Boston	S. Higginson	June 3, 1787	Transcription
7526 page 1 7526 page 2,3 7526 page 4	Boston	S. Higginson	June 16, 1787
7527 page 1 7527 page 2 7527 page 3 7527 page 4	New York		November 21, 1787	Transcription
7528 page 1 7528 page 2	Philadelphia	Col. Pickering		Transcription
7529 page 1 7529 page 2 7529 page 3	Beverly	George Cabot	May 9, 1788
7530 page 1 7530 page 2 7530 page 3	Boston	S. Higginson	May 22, 1788
7531 page 1 7531 page 2 7531 page 3 7531 page 4	Boston		June 23, 1788
7532 page 1 7532 page 2 7532 page 3	Poughkeepsie, NY	Melanaton Smith	June 28, 1788
7533 page 1 7533 page 2,3 7533 page 4	Northbridge	Theodore Sedgwick	July 3, 1788	Transcription
7534 page 1 7534 page 2	Boston	J. Sullivan	April 10, 1791	Transcription
7535 page 1 7535 page 2	Boston	Thompson Skinner	June 11, 1801
7536 page 1 7536 page 2	Boston	Perez Morton	March 12, 1811
7537 page 1 7537 page 2	Marblehead, MA	S. Lewall	February 17, 1813
7538 page 1 7538 page 2,3	Washington City		June 14, 1815	Transcription
7539 page 1 7539 page 2,3 7539 page 4	Washington City	C. Gore	August 1, 1813
7540 page 1 7540 page 2	Boston		October 11, 1814	Transcription
7541 page 1 7541 page 2 7541 page 3	Boston		October 20, 1818
7542 page 1 7542 page 2 7542 page 3	Boston	A. Bradford	March 12, 1819	Transcription
54 front 54 back	Boston	W. Tudorg	April 28, 1819

Letters from Dane 1786-1830

BHS Accession Number	Origin	To	Date	Transcription
7453 page 1	7453 page 2	New York		January 10, 1786
7545 page 1 7545 page 2 7545 page 3	New York		June 10, 1786
7547 page 1 7547 page 2 7547 page 3 7547 page 4 7547 page 5 7547 page 6	New York	S. Higginson	June 9, 1787
7551 page 1 7551 page 2 7551 page 3 7551 page 4 7551 page 5 7551 page 6 7551 page 7 7551 page 8	Philadelphia	Brown & Thorndike	May 2, 1797	Transcription
7552 page 1 7552 page 2,3			1801
7555 page 1 7555 page 2 7555 page 3	Beverly	Joseph Hinkim	September 22, 1801
7556 page 1 7556 page 2	Beverly	Israel Thorndike	February 10, 1803
7557 page 1 7557 page 2 7557 page 3 7557 page 4	Beverly		June 22, 1813	Transcription
7558 page 1	Beverly	A. Bradford, Secretary of the Commonwealth	June, 1818
7559 page 1 7559 page 2 7559 page 3 7559 page 4 7559 page 5 7559 page 6 7559 page 7 7559 page 8 7559 page 9 7559 page 10 7559 page 11 7559 page 12	Beverly	Josiah Thorndike	November 27, 1820	Transcription
7560 page 1 7560 page 2	Beverly		February 11, 1830	Transcription
7561 page 1 7561 page 2		Caleb Strong
7562 page 1	Beverly	Hilliard Gray	February 4, 1831	Transcription

Notifications (1785-1830)

BHS Accession Number	Origin	Sender	Subject	Date	Transcription
7563 front 7563 back	Commonwealth of Massachusetts Council Chamber. Boston.	John Avery		June 16, 1785	Transcription
7564 front 7564 back	Council Chamber	John Avery, Secretary		June 28, 1786	Transcription
7565 front 7565 back	Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Secretary’s Office. Boston.	John Avery, Secretary		January 21, 1790	Transcription
7566 front 7566 back	Boston	John Avery, Secretary		May 29, 1793	Transcription
7567 front 7567 back	Massachusetts Historical Society for Promoting Agriculture	A. Sexton	Dane accepted as a member of the society
7568 front 7568 back	Boston			January 27, 1807	Transcription
7569 front 7569 back	Commonwealth of Massachusets. Senate.	E. Gore		March 5, 1810	Transcription
7570 front 7570 back	Secretary’s Office	Benjamin Homans		January 23, 1812	Transcription
7571 front 7571 back	American Antiquarian Society	Isaiah Thomas, President		October 23, 1815
7572 front 7572 back	American Antiquarian Society	Rejove Newton, Secretary
7573 front 7573 back	Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Secretary’s Department	A. Bradford		May 30, 1818	Transcription
7574 page 1 7574 page 2 7574 page 3	American Antiquarian Society	MacCarthy, Treasurer		May 26, 1820
7575 front 7575 back	Wall of Essex Historical Society	Benjamin R. Nichols		June 27, 1821
7576 front 7576 back	Bunker Hill Monument Association			June 17, 1775
7577 page 1 7577 page 2,3	Massachusetts Historical Society			February 18, 1829
7578 page 1 7578 page 2,3 7578 page 4 7578 page 5	Boston			February 18, 1830

Other Dane Papers

BHS Accession Number	Title	Date
12,752 front & back 12,752 page 2,3
12,328 front 12,328 back
25,324 25,531 State of Massachusetts
7546 page 1 7546 page 2
7548 page 1
7549 page 1
7553
7554
Dane federal note
Dane grave paper front Dane grave paper back
Dane inventory page 1 Dane inventory page 2,3 Dane inventory page 4,5 Dane inventory page 6,7 Dane inventory page 8,9 Dane inventory page 10 Dane inventory page 11,12 Dane inventory page 13 Dane New York page 1 Dane New York page 2,3 Dane New York page 4
Prospectus page 1 page 2,3 page 4,5 page 6,7 page 8,9 page 10,11 page 12,13 page 14,15 page 16
Dane paper

Dane Digitization Project

Commissions

Letters to Dane

Letters from Dane 1786-1830

Notifications (1785-1830)

BHS Accession Number

Title

Date

Commissions

Letters to Dane

Letters from Dane 1786-1830

Notifications (1785-1830)

BHS Accession Number

Title

Date

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