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Barrows, John Stuart, 1791-1845. John Stuart Barrows papers, 1810-1940.

Title: John Stuart Barrows papers, 1810-1940.

Personal and business correspondence, including letters of Deacon (Baptist) William Barrows, John Black, Richard Bradley, David Bronson, Thomas Amory Deblois, Moses Emery, Stephen Emery, John Fairfield, Rev. Joseph P. Fessenden, Robert K. Goodenow, Isaac Hodsdon, and others; also some correspondence between William G. Barrows and George B. Barrows, a Fryeburg voting list (ca. 1844) containing names of Whig and Liberty Party voters, Hebron Academy ephemera, newspaper clippings, miscellaneous legal papers, and bills, receipts, etc.

ArchivalResource: .5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/617692012 View

Parker, William B. (William Bradstreet), b. 1801. William B. Parker, Jr. Papers, 1823-1854.

Title: William B. Parker, Jr. Papers, 1823-1854.

Salem, MA ship owner and master. Series 1: Business Records contains records generated in the course of Parker Jr.'s career as a ship captain and maritime merchant. The materials document voyages from Salem to United States ports such as Boston, Charleston, New York, New Orleans, and San Francisco as well as international destinations, including Brazil, Cuba, France, Haiti, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Germany, and India. The materials also reference other captains or owners of vessels such as Isaac Cushing, John F. Andrew, William H. Caulfield, Richard S. Noble, Nathaniel Andrew, Thomas Aspinwall, and John Fairfield. Series 2: Personal Papers contains materials that were generated in the process of maintaining Parker Jr.'s personal estate. It contains bills and receipts pertaining to repairs to the home, food deliveries, furniture purchases, and Parker Jr.'s personal financial accounts and taxes.

ArchivalResource: 8 boxes (5.5 linear feet).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/649718935 View

Lanman, Charles, 1819-1895. Papers, 1828-1869.

Title: Papers, 1828-1869.

Correspondence, printed questionnaires, photographs, etc. providing biographical information about politicians from Maine for inclusion in Lanman's Dictionary of the United States Congress. Lanman appears to have sent out a circular in 1858 asking for basic biographical information to which members of Congress or their friends or relatives replied. His Dictionary was published in various editions between 1859 and 1869. The collection also contains a letter dated Oct. 1, 1828, to Samuel L. Southard, Secretary of the Navy, from John Anderson, congressman from Maine; and a letter dated Dec. 5, 1828, to Southard from Joseph Ferdinand Wingate, congressman from Maine. Both letters concern appointments of midshipmen. Another letter, dated Sept. 9, 1846, is from John Fairfield, U.S. Senator from Maine, to P.C. Johnson and concerns the appointment of Johnson's son as a midshipman.

ArchivalResource: 3 folders (ca. 65 items)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173405753 View

James K. Polk Papers, 1775-1891, (bulk 1830-1849)

Title: James K. Polk Papers 1775-1891 (bulk 1830-1849)

United States president, Speaker of the House and representative from Tennessee, and governor of Tennessee. General correspondence, presidental letterbooks, diaries, account and memorandum books, drafts and copies of speeches and messages, family papers, financial and legal papers, and printed matter relating primarily to Polk's political career in Tennessee and on the national level.

ArchivalResource: 20,500 items; 183 containers; 39 linear feet; 67 microfilm reels

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009178 View

John Fairfield Correspondence, 1828-1876, (bulk 1835-1847)

Title: John Fairfield Correspondence 1828-1876 (bulk 1835-1847)

U.S. senator and representative and governor of Maine. Principally letters from Fairfield to members of his family in Saco, Maine, while he was serving in Congress and as governor relating to personal and family affairs, politics, and life and society in Washington, D.C., and Augusta, Maine.

ArchivalResource: 900 items; 6 containers; 1.8 linear feet; 3 microfilm reels

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009017 View

Kenrick, William, 1789-1872. William Kenrick correspondence, 1839-1841.

Title: William Kenrick correspondence, 1839-1841.

Letters of William Kenrick to John Fairfield, of Saco, Me., regarding garden plants.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/71059569 View

Martin Van Buren Papers, 1787-1910, (bulk 1820-1850)

Title: Martin Van Buren Papers 1787-1910 (bulk 1820-1850)

United States president, vice president, secretary of state, and senator from New York. Correspondence, drafts of writings, speeches, and messages to Congress, autobiographical material, notes, legal record book, estate record book, and other papers pertaining to slavery and the antislavery movement, banking and the Second Bank of the United States, party politics in New York State and at the national level relating to the Federalist, National Republican, Whig, and Democratic parties, particularly during the Jackson and Van Buren administrations.

ArchivalResource: 6,000 items; 72 containers plus 1 oversize; 18 linear feet; 37 microfilm reels

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms001044 View

Pierce, George Washington. Correspondence of George Washington Pierce and his brother Josiah Pierce. 1829-1836.

Title: Correspondence of George Washington Pierce and his brother Josiah Pierce

Includes correspondence and letters of John Anderson, Jonathan Cilley, Nathan Clifford, Robert P. Dunlap, John Fairfield, Simon Greenleaf, Hannibal Hamlin, John Ruggles, F.O.J. Smith, Seba Smith, Ezekial Whitman, Levi Woodbury, and others; correspondence concerns political affairs.

ArchivalResource: 64 items.

https://minerva.maine.edu/search~S24?/aPierce+family./apierce+family/-3%2C-1%2C0%2CB/frameset&FF=apierce+family&2%2C%2C4 View

Scammon, Edward, fl. 1834. Edward Scammon autograph letter signed, 1834.

Title: Edward Scammon autograph letter signed, 1834.

ALS, Ledyard, N.Y., to John Fairfield, Saco, Me., concerning payment on a bond relating to James Rowlins.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/214328975 View

Clifford, Nathan, 1803-1881. Papers, 1831-1881.

Title: Papers, 1831-1881.

Correspondence, legal opinions (1858-1880) as Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, and commissions.

ArchivalResource: 1 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/71014279 View

Fuller, B. A. G., 1879-1956. Autograph collection, 1620-1920

Title: B. A. G. Fuller autograph collection

Letters and autographs collected by Harvard University philosophy professor B.A.G. Fuller.

ArchivalResource: 1 linear feet (3 volumes and 1 box)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00985/catalog View

Fairfield, John, 1797-1847. Letters, [ca. 1827]-1847.

Title: Letters, [ca. 1827]-1847.

Collection of letters as U.S. Representative (1835-1838); as governor (1839-1843); and as U.S. Senator (1843-1847).

ArchivalResource: 6 linear ft. (12 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70973864 View

Fairfield, John, 1797-1847. John Fairfield autograph letter signed to Samuel Fessenden, 1846.

Title: John Fairfield autograph letter signed to Samuel Fessenden, 1846.

Autograph letter signed, Saco, Me., to Samuel Fessenden, Portland, Me., concerning a recommendation for a Mr. Clark.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/234237426 View

Fairfield, John, 1797-1847. John Fairfield letter and proclamation, 1842-1843.

Title: John Fairfield letter and proclamation, 1842-1843.

Autograph letter signed from Fairfield, Washington, Dec. 16, [18]43, addressed to R.E. Hill .

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/609887816 View

Fairfield, John, 1797-1847. Notebook containing letters published in the Saco Democrat, 1847.

Title: Notebook containing letters published in the Saco Democrat, 1847.

A series of six letters recounting the local history of Biddeford and Saco published in the Saco Democrat in August 1847. The letters were signed by "O. K." John Fairfield pasted the letters into a pocket notebook and presented them to his wife.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder (1 item ; 17 cm.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/55747839 View

Fairfield, John, 1797-1847. John Fairfield autograph letter signed to Rufus McIntire, 1840.

Title: John Fairfield autograph letter signed to Rufus McIntire, 1840.

ALS from Fairfield to McIntire, state land agent, describing events in Madawaska, Me., during the boundary dispute between Maine and Canada during the Aroostook War.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/166428468 View