Series II. Loammi Baldwin (1745-1807) Papers contains his personal and business correspondence, bills and receipts, land papers, legal papers, estate papers, and almanacs and memo books. Among Loammi’s letters received are family letters, letters pertaining to the mercantile business, and letters from business associates Peirce and Thompson. Also included are some scattered letters concerning Middlesex Canal. Of special interest are two letters, one dated August 27, 1768, from Benjamin Thompson concerning the sport of fencing (Box 2, Folder 3) and a letter signed by Paul Revere dated March 2, 1799, giving a silver appraisal (Box 2, Folder 4). Of the letters sent by Loammi are letters to his future wife, Margaret (Fowle) Baldwin from Ruth Baldwin (Cyrus Baldwin’s wife) and others. Transcripts and copies of correspondence between Josiah Pierce and Loammi Baldwin, 1784-1802, are also included. Loammi Baldwin’s bills and receipts include inventory notes, account ledgers, and merchandise receipts for Baldwin and Pierce; receipts for labor and materials; tax receipts; receipts for the Middlesex Canal; and notes and receipts for personal expenditures. The land papers contain deeds for parcels of land in and around Middlesex County acquired and released by Loammi between 1766 and 1807; deeds belonging to the Tay, Pierce, Wyman, Thompson, and Fowle families and other from 1727-1806, the majority dated 1763-1794; and assorted memos, maps, and drawings. The legal papers contain indentures, contracts, and estate papers, including papers pertaining to Sarah Thompson, the Countess of Rumford. The miscellaneous papers include town war tax papers and a catalogue of books in Loammi Baldwin’s library. The almanacs and diaries are comprised of nineteen pocket memo books dated 1781-1798 (Box 7, Folder 3); fifteen miscellaneous notebooks dated 1767-1806, which include a journal of a 1794 trip to Philadelphia; and twenty-nine almanacs from 1780-1807, with interleaved notations. The majority of Loammi Baldwin’s Revolutionary War papers are housed at Harvard’s Houghton Library, and the majority of the Middlesex Canal papers are housed at the Baker Library, Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration.