The Bay State Monthly. Volume 2, No. 6, March, 1885

PUTNAM, ISRAEL: Major-general in the Continental Army. By I.N. TARBOX. With maps.

PEABODY, GEORGE: His Life and Princely Benevolence. By PHEBE A. HANAFORD.

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