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Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register | 49 | 13 | Browse | Search |
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) | 18 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Olde Cambridge | 6 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Historic leaves, volume 7, April, 1908 - January, 1909 | 6 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct. | 6 | 0 | Browse | Search |
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Cambridge sketches (ed. Estelle M. H. Merrill) | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Dana , Francis , 1743 -1811 (search)
Dana, Francis, 1743-1811
Jurist; born in Charlestown, Mass., June 13, 1743; son of Richard Dana; graduated at Harvard in 1762.
He was admitted to the bar in 1767; was an active patriot; a delegate to the Provincial Congress in 1774; went to England in 1775 with confidential letters to Franklin; was a member of the executive council from 1776 to 1780; member of the Continental Congress from 1776 to 1778, and again in 1784; member of the board of war, Nov. 17, 1777; and was at the head of a committee charged with the entire reorganization of the army.
When Mr. Adams went on an embassy to negotiate a treaty of peace and commerce with Great Britain, Mr. Dana was secretary of the legation.
At Paris, early in 1781, he received the appointment from Congress of minister to Russia, clothed with power to make the accession of the United States to the armed neutrality.
He resided two years at St. Petersburg, and returned to Berlin in 1783.
He was again in Congress in the spring of 178
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