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Abbott, Jacob, 1803-1879. Autograph collection [manuscript] 1725-1933.

Title: Autograph collection [manuscript] 1725-1933.

Letters and other papers; related to the library's collection of Eaton's correspondence (1901-56). Includes autographs of Abby Langdon Alger, Valentine Bagley, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Washington Irving, Henry W. Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, Epes Sargent, Ignatius Sargent, Caroline L. Ward, James Wilson Ward, and Jonathan Ward.

ArchivalResource: 130 items.

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Sargent family. Papers, 1782-1868, 1829-1861 (bulk).

Title: Papers, 1782-1868, 1829-1861 (bulk).

Consists of two account books, kept primarily by John Jenks Sargent, and related family documents. The first account book opens with 38 leaves of accounts kept by Nathaniel Sargent, most of which record only amounts carried over from his waste book. The most detailed accounts deal with settling the estate of Benjamin Massay and being guardian for the Massay children. The remainder of the book contains accounts kept by John Jenks Sargent on some 96 leaves. It includes personal and business accounts including (leaf 28) the "cost of shoemakers shop," extensive lists of repairs on his house, and on renting parts of the house out to boarders. At the end of the volume, on un-numbered leaves, are a list of tenants from 1794 to 1861 and accounts of things given to his daughters previous to their marriages including an itemized list of ingredients for their wedding cakes. The second volume records shoes and boots made by Sargent from 1823 to 1838. Also included is a bill of wages adopted by journeymen shoemakers of Lynn, 1860. The collection also features probate court records of John Jenks Sargent's estate after he died intestate in 1868. The contract made by Charles H. Sargent with Pine Groves Cemetery for the burial is also included. Other legal documents deal with the transfer of ownership of the rental properties. Loose accounts record miscellaneous financial transactions. Several issues of a newspaper, the Lynn Report, were kept with the estate transactions. A water bill addressed to Mrs. Bessie G. Sargent in 1895 was found with the other papers.

ArchivalResource: 21 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/147438319 View

Savage, Samuel Phillips, 1718-1797. Samuel P. Savage papers, 1703-1848 ; bulk: 1703-1829.

Title: Samuel P. Savage papers, 1703-1848 ; bulk: 1703-1829.

Papers of merchant and judge Samuel P. Savage of Boston and Weston, Mass., 1738-1797, contain business materials including receipts, requests for goods, invoices, and correspondence to his partner, David Jeffries; correspondence with Simon Frost and Nathaniel Sargent related to his religious devotion to the preaching of George Whitefield during the Great Awakening; papers related to his business as an insurance underwriter for goods on various ships; papers related to his position as chairman of the Massachusetts Board of War during the Revolutionary War such as accounts, receipts, and correspondence from Sam Adams, mostly about supplying the army; and legal documents from his tenure as a judge in Weston and justice of the peace in Middlesex County. Papers from other Savage family members, 1703-1738, include correspondence received by Lemuel Shaw from various relatives, wills, estate inventories, and legal documents. Collection also includes letters (many with typescripts) written by Gideon Hawley, Congregational minister and missionary to the Indians at Mashpee, Mass. to the Mass. House of Representatives and to Rev. Oakes and Susannah Shaw (in-laws to Hope Savage Shaw, granddaughter of S.P.S.), ca. 1770-1820. Hawley details the living conditions of the tribe, his view on their religious welfare, and petitions for the state to maintain guardianship. Also includes a letter received by Hawley when he was a military chaplain stationed at Lake George, sent from Jonathan Edwards, 1756; and a dictionary of Mashpee words, kept most likely by Hawley, ca. 1800's.

ArchivalResource: 1 box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/44163641 View