Scope and Contents From the Series: Series I. Business Papers, 1737-1779, contains correspondence, tax assessments, court and legal documents, and accounts. These documents reflect Joseph's roles as sheriff, court clerk, and Justice of the Peace. Within the small amount of correspondence are a number of items of special note: 1744-1745 directives to Sheriff Bowditch to impress seamen for British naval expeditions against the French at Cape Breton; and letters concerning the attempted desertion of...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Series I. Business Papers, 1737-1779, contains correspondence, tax assessments, court and legal documents, and accounts. These documents reflect Joseph's roles as sheriff, court clerk, and Justice of the Peace. Within the small amount of correspondence are a number of items of special note: 1744-1745 directives to Sheriff Bowditch to impress seamen for British naval expeditions against the French at Cape Breton; and letters concerning the attempted desertion of...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Series I. Business Papers, 1737-1779, contains correspondence, tax assessments, court and legal documents, and accounts. These documents reflect Joseph's roles as sheriff, court clerk, and Justice of the Peace. Within the small amount of correspondence are a number of items of special note: 1744-1745 directives to Sheriff Bowditch to impress seamen for British naval expeditions against the French at Cape Breton; and letters concerning the attempted desertion of...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Series I. Business Papers, 1737-1779, contains correspondence, tax assessments, court and legal documents, and accounts. These documents reflect Joseph's roles as sheriff, court clerk, and Justice of the Peace. Within the small amount of correspondence are a number of items of special note: 1744-1745 directives to Sheriff Bowditch to impress seamen for British naval expeditions against the French at Cape Breton; and letters concerning the attempted desertion of...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Series I. Business Papers, 1737-1779, contains correspondence, tax assessments, court and legal documents, and accounts. These documents reflect Joseph's roles as sheriff, court clerk, and Justice of the Peace. Within the small amount of correspondence are a number of items of special note: 1744-1745 directives to Sheriff Bowditch to impress seamen for British naval expeditions against the French at Cape Breton; and letters concerning the attempted desertion of...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Series IV. Miscellaneous Papers, 1699-1920, includes the papers of Reverend Samuel Fiske's controversy with Salem's First Church, of which Joseph Bowditch (1700-1780) was a member. The dispute, which began over Fiske's refusal to give a certain lecture and his tampering with the church meeting records, led to a split in the congregation with a number of members leaving. Fiske finally received ecclesiastical censure from the Council of Churches and was dismissed...