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Clues to the Suffolk Resolves House

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1760: Vose lot #1
1762: Daniel Vose marries
1762: Vose lot #2
1764: Vose lot #3
1773: mason's account book
1774: Continental Congress
1774: Suffolk County Congress
1774: Suffolk County Convention
1775: Suffolk County meets again
1781: Vose lot #4
1782: John White's map
1783: Patience marries
1785: first documentation of the house
1785: mason's account book, part 2
1807: Daniel Vose's will
1810: first drawing of the house
1826: Edmund J. Baker's map
1859: Rachel Vose as a source
1861: Vose "mansion" burns
1862: Milton bicentennial address
1874: first commemoration of the Resolves
1874: novelty of the commemoration
1874: signed in the parlor
1874: subsequent meetings at the house
1887: History of Milton, Mass., 1640-1887
1895: Suffolk Resolves House confirmed
1899: 125th anniversary
1912: first known questioning
1923: letters to the editor
1923: the sacred parlor
1924: Committee on the Suffolk Resolves House
1924: expert decides
1924: Historical Society weighs in
1924: memories from parents
1924: plan of colonial frame
1932: Ellen Vose publishes
1949: condemned
1950: Suffolk Resolves House moves
1951: refugees from the siege
1953: controversy reviewed
1957: second history of Milton
1973: Hamilton confirmed
1973: National Historic Register
2012: framing mistakes
2012: Phase 1: colonial frame
2012: Phase 2: beams in colonial attic
2012: Phase 3: Georgian frame
 

Ellen Vose publishes

Though apparently she did not engage in the 1923-24 controversy, Ellen F. Vose published hers and Eleanor Martin's 1912 conclusions in her genealogy of the Vose family, still considered the standard geneaology:

"In 1773, Daniel built a house on this lot [the 1764 lot] attaching it to the house he was then occupying, and in this enlarged house, on Sept 9, 1774, was held the adjourned meeting of the Suffolk County Convention, at which the famous Suffolk Resolves were passed. The house descended to Daniel's son, and from him, to his nephew Edmund James Baker; while in possession of the latter, in 1861, it was destroyed by fire."

 
Source: Ellen F. Vose, Robert Vose and his Descendants. Boston, 1932.
Year: 1932