Huntoon Collection
The most important role the Milton Historical Society plays in the town is management of four centuries of documents in our archives at the Milton Public Library. You can browse and search the inventory on our Archives page here on our website. There are even a few items digitized in one fashion or another, and links will show up in your search results which you can click on to see those documents. The volume of our archives means that only a tiny percentage will be available digitally.
The Huntoon Collection is a box containing just a few but very interesting 18th-century documents, some photocopies, donated by the Huntoon family. In them, the progress of the Suffolk County Convention, which produced the Suffolk Resolves, can be followed:
- Report of the Suffolk County Congress at Doty's Tavern in Stoughton, August 16, 1774
- Draft of the Suffolk Resolves from the September 6, 1774, meeting of the Suffolk County Convention at Woodward's house in Dedham
- Original broadside of the Suffolk Resolves as adopted September 9, 1774, at Daniel Vose's house in Milton
- Report of the February 28, 1775, meeting of Suffolk County Convention at Daniel Vose's house in Milton
The documents were photographed in low light, but these digital versions are as readable as the originals — more so, if you use the zoom feature on your PDF-reader (try the +/- keys).
