by Nathan Allen
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James Otis, Jr. to James Otis, Sr., September S, 1740, Otis Papers, Massachusetts Historical Society.
The Allyne name appears variously as Allen, Allin, Allyn, and Allyne; “Records of Wethersfield,” New England Historical and Genealogical Register, XV (1861), pages 241-246 and many other places in the Genealogical Register.
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James Otis, Jr. to James Otis, Sr., February 7, 1743. James Otis, Jr. to James Otis, Sr., April 4, 1743.
James Otis, Jr. to James Otis, Sr., May 9, 1743. James Otis, Jr. to James Otis, Sr., June 3, 1743. James Otis, Sr. to James Otis, Jr., Boston, June 10, 1748. Joseph Otis to James Otis, Sr., Barnstable, January 8,
1750. James Otis, Jr. to James Otis, Sr., Plymouth, January 3, 1750, Otis Papers, Special Collections, Butler Library, Columbia University, New York.
James Otis, Sr. to James Otis, Jr., May 2, 1743, Otis Papers, Massachusetts Historical Society.
James Otis, Jr. to James Otis, Sr., June 17, 1743, Harvard University Archives.
“A Satyrica1 Description of Commencement. Calculated to the Meridian of Cambridge in New England,”
Chapin Library, Williams College.
James Otis, Jr., to James Otis, Sr., June 17,1743, Waterston Collection, Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston.
Barnstable Town Records, II, 115, 119, 142.
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James Otis, Jr., to James Otis, Sr., October 2, 1745, Otis Papers, Massachusetts Historical Society.
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James Otis, Sr., first appears as “Colonel” in Journals of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts, August 30, 1747. The location of the original appointment documents is unknown.
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Peter Oliver to James Otis, Sr., Boston, August 3, 1750, Otis Papers, Massachusetts Historical Society.
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Chapter Three
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