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Samuel, Williams family, papers, 1723-1995.

Title: Samuel papers, Williams family 1723-1995.

Family papers of American Samuel Williams (1743-1817), clergyman, naturalist, and for a time, the Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at Harvard College. Includes manuscripts of Williams's friend, Count Benjamin Thompson Rumford.

ArchivalResource: 3 boxes (3.5 linear ft.)

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Smith, Helen Evertson, b. 1839. Collection ca. 1762-ca. 1904.

Title: Collection ca. 1762-ca. 1904.

Collection consists of correspondence and papers, ca. 1762 to ca. 1904, of various members of the Smith family of Sharon, Connecticut, particularly: John Cotton Smith (1765-1845), lawyer and governor of Connecticut; his son William Mather Smith; Rev. John Cotton Smith (1826-1882), Protestant Episcopal clergyman; and Helen Evertson Smith's own correspondence and papers, including typescripts of many of her articles on American colonial history, the Revolutionary War, loyalists, social customs, and chapters from her unpublished study "Rebels and Royalists," based, at least in part, on privately owned papers, and relating to such families as Smith (from Rev. Henry Smith of Wethersfield, Connecticut), Gallup, Worthington, Livingston, Evertson, L'Estrange, Kent, Kane, Russell, Morris, Bloom, and many others. Also represented in the collection are David Daggett, Cotton Mather Smith, Samuel Hurlbut, Robert W. Smith, John Cotton Smith, Jr., Gilbert Livingston Smith, William Mather Smith, Simeon Smith, Chauncey Langdon, Robert Gilbert Livingston, Cristopher Minot, Jacob Evertson, and Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Geer.

ArchivalResource: ca. 8 linear ft.

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Williams, Samuel, 1743-1817. Samuel Williams family papers, ca. 1723-1993.

Title: Samuel Williams family papers, ca. 1723-1993.

Collection includes correspondence of: Loammi Baldwin (1745-1807); Jonas Fay (1737-1818); Harvard College; Chauncy Landgon (1763-1830); Count Benjamin Rumford (1753-1814); Isaac Tichenor (1754-1838); Timothy Todd (1758-1806); Charles Kilborn Williams (1856-1920); Charles Langdon Williams (1821-1861); Lucy Langdon Williams Wilson (1864-1937); Samuel Williams (1743-1817), and many others. There is also substantial correspondence with the Williams family from repositories and individuals interested in acquiring the Williams family collection for their institution or in doing research using these papers. Autograph manuscript compositions and documents include sermons by Warham Williams (1699-1751) and Samuel Williams (1743-1817); an essay by Count Benjamin Rumford (1753-1814); two natural history journals by Samuel Williams (1743-1817), titled: Vermont - No. 1. Notes on the state of Vermont (1792), and Natural History (ca. 1783-1786); journals of voyages taken by various Williams family members; and other items. Manuscript documents relating to the Williams family include: financial records; wills; deeds; genealogical charts and lists; estate inventories; transcripts of historical documents on the Williams family from various repositories; and certificates and diplomas. There is a large series of images of Williams family members, the majority of which are modern prints made of historic photographs. The collection also includes original photographs, such as tintypes, silhouettes, cartes-de-visite (card photographs), daguerreotypes, and a photograph album. Also in this collection are some objects formerly belonging to the Williams family: Comb (hair ornament) mount with detachable frontlet, ca. 1800-1840; man's knee buckles (strap accessories), 17??; sliding-temple spectacles, said to have been worn by Samuel Williams; 19th-century? silk woman's lace-up boots and pumps (shoes)); as well as numerous folders of printed materials collected about various Williams luminaries.

ArchivalResource: 3 boxes (3.5 linear ft.)

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Hubbard, Jonathan Hatch, 1768-1849. Papers, 1802-1832. [microform].

Title: Papers, 1802-1832. [microform].

The Hubbard papers span the years 1802-1832 and include both business and personal correspondence. Contained in the papers are a large number of letters from various members of Vermont's congressional delegation, which often reveal the political intrigue of the times. Correspondents include Benjamin Swift, Carlos Coolidge, Martin Chittenden, Daniel Chipman, Luther Jewett, John Noyes, Isaac Tichenor, Chauncy Langdon, Samuel Prentiss, James Whitelaw and Heman Allen (both have papers in the Stevens Collection). Other notable correspondents are Joseph Gallup, author and inventor, Dartmouth College president John Wheelock, U.S. Representative Frank Gardner, Roger Vose, a New Hampshire Congressman, and U.S. Supreme Court Justice William Strong.

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