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Brooks, Peter Chardon, 1767-1849. Farm journals and wastebooks, 1789-1886.

Title: Farm journals and wastebooks, 1789-1886.

Farm journals, wastebooks, and some misc. vols. of Peter C. Brooks, merchant and insurance underwriter of Boston and Medford, Mass. The farm journals (13 vols.) cover the years 1808-1848, and include weather records; work records of farmhands; accounts; reports of livestock, plantings, and harvests; and general journal entries. Vol. 13 contains a typed, 4-page index and final note by Francis Brooks, the grandson of Peter C. Brooks. The wastebooks, 1789-1849 (8 vols.), contain "private accounts," some journal entries, accounts of the Washington Monument Association, and yearly summaries of the family's activities. There is a separate index for vols. 1-3 and 2 card indexes for the whole collection. Vol. 8 of the wastebooks contains closing entries by Peter C. Brooks Jr. and Francis Brooks. (Cont) There is 1 vol. of accounts concerning his insurance underwriting business, 1797-98. A final vol. is a "book of possessions" containing deeds to the Medford estates and memoranda gathered by P.C. Brooks; it also includes narrative and maps by Shepherd Brooks and notes by Francis Brooks, compiled in 1886.

ArchivalResource: 23 v., 1 folder, and 2 card indexes.

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Brooks, Peter Chardon, 1831-1920. Papers, 1776-1942.

Title: Papers, 1776-1942.

Papers of P.C. Brooks 3d of Medford, Mass., contain genealogical materials on the Brooks family; papers concerning Brooks family properties in Medford and Boston, including estate inventories; notes and papers written by Gorham and P.C. Brooks I; correspondence and receipts pertaining to the purchase of paintings, including a series of letters by J. Foxcroft Cole; and inventories of books, silver, and objets d'art. Among the correspondents are Shepherd Brooks; Charles F. Adams; Saltonstall family members; artists B.C. Porter, Sarah Whitman, J.S. Sargent, Anders Zorn, W.M. Hunt, and Cyrus Dallin. Includes a series of papers (1912) concerning Brooks's purchase of Dallin's Indian sculpture for the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Collection contains photographs and exhibition catalogues as well.

ArchivalResource: 3 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/16181408 View