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THB1821 Massachusetts Society of Husbandmen and Manufacturer Membership Certificate
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1821-Dated Rare "Massachusetts Middlesex Society of Husbandmen and Manufacturers" Membership Certificate
May 3, 1821-Dated, Partially-Printed Document Signed, Original Commonwealth of Massachusetts, "Middlesex Society of Husbandmen and Manufacturers" Membership Certificate, Copper-Plate Engraved by "Annin & Smith Sc." (Boston), Extremely Fine.
This specialized "Society" was first organized in 1794 under the name "Western Society of Middlesex Husbandmen" by Middlesex County members of the "Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture". Issued c. 1820, is an attractive highly ornate Copper-Plate Engraved Membership Certificate, issued to Daniel Simpson, of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, measuring 9.75" x 6.75" printed in deep black upon period heavy wove period paper, Signed by Samuel Dana as President and Joel Adams as Secretary.
This rare official Membership Certificate was Copper-Plate Engraved about 1820. Its wonderful central vignette is signed in the plate, "Annin & Smith Sc." (Boston) produced by J. R. Penniman Del." Annin & Smith (c. 1818-1837) was an engraving firm in Boston, Massachusetts in the 19th-Century, established by William B. Annin and George Girdler Smith with offices on Court Street and Cornhill. This "Society of Husbandmen and Manufacturer" certificate is exceedingly rare having very limited membership to that organization in that time. Attractive for display, slight creasing, being overall in nice condition.
Samuel Dana (1767 - 1835), was a United States Representative from Massachusetts. He was born in Groton on June 26, 1767, the son of the clergyman Samuel Dana. He attended the district school. He later studied law and was then admitted to the bar in 1789 and commenced practice in town. He was also appointed postmaster January 1, 1801.
He served as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, attorney for Middlesex County from 1807 to 1811, and was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Thirteenth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of William M. Richardson. He served from September 22, 1814 to March 3, 1815. Dana was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1814 to the Fourteenth Congress.
He was a member of the State senate and served as its president. He also served as chief justice of the Massachusetts Court of Common Pleas, and was a delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1820. He was elected again as a member of the State Representative 1825-1827. Dana resumed the practice of his profession, and died in Charlestown on November 20, 1835. He was buried in Groton Cemetery.
This Society was organized in 1794 under the name Western Society of Middlesex Husbandmen by Middlesex County members of the Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture. Formed to encourage the exchange of agricultural information and ideas and to foster experimentation with techniques. Incorporated February 28, 1803.
The first Board of Trustees was chosen October 22, 1804. The name was changed to the Society of Middlesex Husbandmen and Manufacturers by an act of the Massachusetts legislature, January 24, 1820, and to the Middlesex Agricultural Society in 1852. The Society's first meetings were held in various locations in Middlesex County; its activities were centered in Concord from 1820.
Its annual Cattle Show (sometimes referred to as the Agricultural Festival) was first held at Concord on October 11, 1820, initially on property adjacent to the New Hill Burying Ground. Premiums were awarded at the Cattle Show for the best in various categories of produce, livestock, farm products, handiwork, etc. In 1853, the Society's Committee to Purchase Land, &c. bought property in Concord near the Concord Depot, on which sheds, pens, a platform, fences, and other permanent structures were built to accommodate the Cattle Show.
Membership lists within the records show a high proportion of Concord residents among the Society's members, including (among the many): George M. Brooks; Nathan Brooks; Simon Brown; Ephraim Bull; John M. Cheney; Waldo Flint; Abiel Heywood; George Heywood; Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar; Edward Jarvis; Francis Jarvis; John S. Keyes; John Brooks Moore; William Munroe (Sr. and Jr.); Frederick G. Pratt; Minot Pratt; Timothy Prescott; Grindall Reynolds; Joseph Reynolds; Daniel Shattuck; Sam Staples; Harvey Wheeler; Albert E. Wood.
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