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Somerby, H. G. (Horatio Gates), 1805-1872. Horatio Gates Somerby collection, 1674-1867

Title: Horatio Gates Somerby collection, 1674-1867

Papers collected by London, England genealogist Horatio Gates Somerby, 1674-1867, includes early documents and deeds from Newbury, Mass. and letters, most written from George Peabody in London to Somerby about philanthropic matters. Somerby became the secretary of the board of trustees of the Peabody fund. Also includes an account book kept by an unidentified merchant, 1757-63, recording purchases and sales of linens, milk, and leather; and an account book kept by shoemaker Jabez Bradbury, 1786-93. Both account books were kept in Newbury.

ArchivalResource: 1 box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/61206367 View

Cotton family. Genealogy, 1859.

Title: Genealogy, 1859.

A bound ms. genealogy of the Cotton family of England, ancestors and relatives of the New England puritan John Cotton, prepared by Horatio Gates Somerby. The second volume is a copy of the first by William Gray Brooks. Includes 2 letters to Brooks from Charles Francis Adams. Includes genealogical charts, biographical information, and sketches and engravings of Trinity College (University of Cambridge). Also, engravings of buildings and scenes in Lincoln and Boston, England. 300 pages.

ArchivalResource: 2 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/16818132 View

Deane, Charles, 1813-1889. Correspondence, 1602-1889, bulk: 1844-1889.

Title: Correspondence, 1602-1889, bulk: 1844-1889.

Correspondence of Charles Deane, historian, editor, and member of the Massachusetts Historical Society and the American Antiquarian Society. Collection consists mostly of letters to Deane about historical publications, MHS and AAS activities, rare books and book collecting, the early history of Massachusetts and Virginia, and William Bradford's manuscript history Of Plimoth Plantation. Correspondents include Thomas C. Amory, Francis Bowen, John Carter Brown, Francis J. Child, George E. Ellis, Edward Everett, Edward Everett Hale, Frederic Kidder, James Lenox, George Livermore, George Henry Moore, John Gorham Palfrey, James Savage, Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, John Langdon Sibley, H.G. Somerby, Henry Stevens, George Ticknor, J. Hammond Trumbull, Robert C. Winthrop, and Leonard Woods Jr.

ArchivalResource: 33 v. and 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/17347363 View