James Bowdoin, 1785-1787

This collection was assembled by Patrick O’Connor. It consists of assorted documents, each with an autograph of a governor of Massachusetts. In total, there are 36 governors' autographs in the collection. They are arranged chronologically with each governor having his own folder. The collection begins with John Hancock who served from 1780-85 and ends with Ebenezer Draper who served, 1901-1911. There are two folders in the collection containing miscellaneous paper and vellum documents dating to 1578. These items also were collected by O’Connor. The final folder has information on the collection itself.