Sedgwick family. Sedgwick family papers, 1717-1946
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Sedgwick family papers, 1717-1946
Collection contains the papers of the Sedgwick family of western Massachusetts and New York City, specifically those of Theodore Sedgwick (1746-1813), a Federalist legislator and judge; his wife Pamela Dwight Sedgwick (1753-1807); five of their children - Theodore Sedgwick II (1780-1839), Henry Dwight Sedgwick (1789-1831), Robert Sedgwick (1787-1841), Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1789-1867) and Charles Sedgwick (1791-1856); and their children's spouses and descendants, including Theodore Sedgwick III (1811-1859), Jane Minot Sedgwick (1795-1859), Jane Minot Sedgwick II (1821-1889), Henry Dwight Sedgwick II (1824-1903), Elizabeth Ellery Sedgwick (1799-1862), Henrietta Ellery Sedgwick (1829-1902), Katherine Sedgwick Minot (1820-1880) and Alexander Sedgwick (1867-1929). The collection consists of family correspondence, personal and professional papers, literary and political writings, journals, commonplace-books, scrapbooks, and account books. Judge Theodore Sedgwick's papers document his career as an agent for the Continental Army, representative to the Continental Congress, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, and Federalist leader. Other topics include family events, the social and political scenes in Stockbridge and Boston, the mental illness and treatment of Pamela Dwight Sedgwick (1753-1807) and her son Henry Dwight Sedgwick (1789-1831), the literary career of author Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1789-1867), travel of various family members to France and Italy, papers relating to the conversion of Jane Minot Sedgwick (1821-1889) to Catholicism, and New York lawyer Henry Dwight Sedgwick's (1824-1903) work with the New York Underground Railway Company from 1871 to 1892. Also within the collection are the papers of families related to the Sedgwicks by marriage, including the papers of Boston lawyer William Minot (1783-1873), his wife, Louisa Davis Minot (1788-1858), William's father, historian George Richards Minot (1758-1802) and Louisa's uncle, Rev. James Freeman (1759-1835.) Collection also contains papers of the Davis, Dwight, Freeman, Pomeroy, Sergeant, Watts and Williams families, as well as letters of Fanny Kemble Butler (1809-1893). Historical documents acquired by Theodore Sedgwick (1811-1859) include papers of Danish sea captain and inventor John Morke (d.1755), New York Collector of Customs Archibald Kennedy (1685-1763), and British Royal Navy officer Archibald Kennedy (ca. 1723-1794) who commanded the blockade of New York harbor during the Stamp Act crisis of 1765. Also here are papers of New York Attorney General John Tabor Kempe (1735-1792), and Continental Congress President Elias Baudinot (1740-1841), as well as a 1759 orderly book from the Siege of Quebec and papers relating to Shays' Rebellion.
ArchivalResource:
117 boxes, 52 volumes, and 3 oversize boxes.
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