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Brinley Family Papers MS 161., 1643-2005, 1703-1889

Title: Brinley Family Papers 1643-2005 1703-1889

A prosperous family of merchants and landowners, the Brinleys were well ensconced among the social and political elite of colonial New England. Connected by marriage to other elite families in Rhode Island and Massachusetts -- the Auchmutys, Craddocks, and Tyngs among them -- the Brinleys were refined, highly educated, public spirited, and most often business-minded. Although many members of the family remained loyal to the British cause during the Revolution, the family retained their high social standing in the years following. The Brinley collection includes business letters, legal and business records, wills, a fragment of a diary, documents relating to slaves, newspaper clippings, and a small number of paintings and artifacts. A descendent, Nancy Brinley, contributed a quantity of genealogical research notes and photocopies of Brinley family documents from other repositories. Of particular note in the collection is a fine nineteenth century copy of a John Smibert portrait of Deborah Brinley (1719), an elegant silver salver passed through the generations, and is a 1713 list of the library of Francis Brinley, which offers a foreshadowing of the remarkable book collection put together in the later nineteenth century by his descendant George Brinley.

ArchivalResource: ; 4.75 linear feet

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Brinley family. Brinley family papers, 1698-1879.

Title: Brinley family papers, 1698-1879.

Includes business papers, personal letters, lists of lands and business transactions, wills, a fragment of a diary, indenture papers, documents relating to slaves, and newspaper clippings. The Auchmuty, Craddock, and Tyng families that intermarried with the Brinleys are also represented in the collection. Contains biographical sketches of Francis Brinley, Colonel Francis Brinley, Nathaniel Brinley, Thomas Brinley, George Brinley, Robert Auchmuty, Jr., Edward Tyng, Colonel Jonathan Tyng, Francis Brinley, Jr., and George Brinley, Jr.

ArchivalResource: 1 box, (0.5 linear ft.)

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Pepperrell, William, Sir, 1696-1759. William Pepperrell papers, 1664-1782.

Title: William Pepperrell papers, 1664-1782.

Papers of William Pepperrell, Maine merchant and commander of the American forces on the expedition to Louisbourg on Cape Breton, N.S. (1745) during King George's War. The bulk of the papers relate to Pepperrell's command at Louisbourg, including military orders and reports, regimental lists, returns, correspondence regarding strategies, supplies, and provisions, commission and discharge requests, accounts, receipts, and invoices. The collection also includes Pepperrell's business correspondence as a merchant, in particular with his son-in-law, Boston merchant Nathaniel Sparhawk and his partner Benjamin Colman, and regarding lands in Maine; family correspondence including with his father William; and a Pepperrell family genealogy. Additional correspondents include Robert Auchmuty, John Henry Bastide, Ammi R. Cutter, Andrew Oliver, Thomas Pownall, William Shirley, Samuel Shute, Edward Tyng, Samuel Waldo, Peter Warren, Jacob Wendell, and John Wheelwright.

ArchivalResource: 3 boxes and 1 oversize box.

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Tudor family papers II, 1765-1862

Title: Tudor family papers II, 1765-1862.

A small collection of misc. papers of the Tudor family of Boston, in particular William Tudor, a Boston lawyer. His papers include letters written from loyalists Mather Byles of Halifax, Robert Auchmuty and William Vassall of London regarding Tudor's assistance in recovering their confiscated property in Mass. following their evacuation from Boston during the Revolution. The collection also includes misc. bills and receipts to Tudor, a few items of his son Frederic, two letters from Jared Sparks to Tudor's wife Delia, and a letter from Charles Sumner to Euphemia F. Tudor (Mrs. Frederic, 1862).

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

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Charitable Irish Society (Boston, Mass.). Records, 1737-1939 (bulk: 1900-1939)

Title: Charitable Irish Society records, 1737-2008; bulk: 1737-1938.

The records of the Charitable Irish Society of Boston consist of the archives of the Society for the 200 years from its founding in 1737. Among the papers is the Society's earliest record book, 1737-1804, containing the constitution and by-laws, rules and orders, list of members, and miscellaneous financial transactions. Later volumes, 1804-1937, include minutes of monthly and annual meetings, committee reports, membership lists, memoirs of deceased members, and treasurer's accounts. (Cont.) There are 30 boxes of correspondence relating to Society functions, finances, meetings, and membership, together with printed notices, menus, transcripts of speeches, and copies of the Society's history. Other items of note include records of the Roman Catholic Youth's Society, 1831-1842; a collection of memorabilia; a manuscript Gaelic dictionary; reports and correspondence concerning the Society's interest in 19th and 20th century immigration to Massachusetts; the March 18, 1912 visit of President Taft to Boston; and information on prominent members such as Robert Auchmuty, Patrick A. Collins, James Michael Curley, Patrick Donohoe, John F. Fitzgerald, James McGee, Daniel Malcolm, Hugh O'Brien, John C. Park and Peter Pelham.

ArchivalResource: 30 boxes and 30 v.

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