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Various. Legal Documents, Barrell vs. Skillings, 1821-1822.

Title: Legal Documents, Barrell vs. Skillings, 1821-1822.

Collection consists of two legal documents from Court of Common Pleas, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, between Henry F. Barrell of Boston, John C. Barrell and Joseph Gibbon, both late of the city of Paris, and Nehemiah W. Skillings of Dorchester, MA, pertaining to damages incurred for shipment of sundry items to Cape Haytien, on the the island of St. Domingo, also known as Cape Henry, Hayti (Haiti). Documents outline the case, identify the judgement against Skillings, and include an accounting of the items shipped.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/732320995 View

Dexter, Samuel, 1726-1810. Ward-Perry-Dexter papers, 1733-1927.

Title: Ward-Perry-Dexter papers, 1733-1927.

Papers of the interrelated Ward, Perry, and Dexter families, including: several items related to Gen. Artemas Ward's service in the French and Indian and Revolutionary Wars and as a justice of the peace in Worcester County, including a few orders, commissions, returns, and numbers of men around Boston during the siege (1775). Other Ward family members represented include the general's son Artemas and grandson Charles T. Ward. Perry family papers include a letter from Commodore Oliver H. Perry while commanding the ship Java during the War of 1812; and a series of letters from Oliver Hazzard Perry (son of the Commodore) and his second wife, Mary Anne Moseley Perry, to their son William C.G. Perry while the latter was a midshipman on the U.S. frigate Constitution (1863-65). There are also a few Civil War letters from Charles E. Munroe and Abner E. Drury of the 45th and 32nd Mass. Infantry Regiments respectively, written in 1863; a brief commonplace-book kept by Samuel Dexter; and two commissions to Nahum Ward (1733, 42).

ArchivalResource: 1 box and 1 oversize box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32335467 View

Black, James Wallace, 1825-1896,. Ward-Perry-Dexter photographs, ca. 1858-1955; bulk: 1858-1882.

Title: Ward-Perry-Dexter photographs, ca. 1858-1955; bulk: 1858-1882.

Photographs of the related Ward, Perry, and Dexter families, taken ca. 1858-1955. The majority of the photographs are portraits of various family members and friends, most of which are unidentified and were taken ca. 1858-1882. Among those identified are Amanda Atherton Ward; Catherine Dexter Ward Perry and her husband William Cabot Gorham Perry; their daughter-in-law Elinor Woodbury Seymour Perry; and various other members of the related Atherton family, among others. There are also a number of portraits of Civil War soldiers, as well as graphics of Artemus Ward (1762-1847), Samuel Dexter (1726-1810), and Catherine Maria Dexter Ward. The collection also contains three views of the interior and exteriors of unidentified Massachusetts houses. There are many Massachusetts photographers represented in this collection, including James Wallace Black, Samuel Masury, Mrs. H. F. Stuart, John Adams Whipple, and Silsbee, Case, & Co., all of Boston, Mass. Includes carte de visite, cabinet cards, and tintypes.

ArchivalResource: 174 photographs in 1 box and 1 narrow box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/61482481 View

Our First Men: A Calendar of Wealth, Fashion, and Gentility ... extra-illustrated book, 1795-1893.

Title: Our First Men: A Calendar of Wealth, Fashion, and Gentility ... extra-illustrated book, 1795-1893.

The volume is an extra-illustrated edition of "Our First Men:" A Calendar of Wealth, Fashion, and Gentility . . . (Boston: Published by all the Booksellers, 1846). The book consists of printed biographical notes on persons in Boston, Mass., who were believed to be worth in excess of $100,000, and includes reproductions of portraits of many of the people and manuscript letters of twenty-two of the people listed in the volume. The letters were tipped in to the volume by an unidentified person and are dated 1795 to 1893. It appears that some were addressed to people in the publishing business, others to the Rev. Andrew Bigelow (1795-1877), Minister-at-Large to the poor of Boston, concerning donations, and several were addressed to attorneys. The contents concern a wide variety of subjects. Included among the letter-writers are: Charles Francis Adams (1807-1886), Josiah Quincy (1772-1864), Lucius Manlius Sargent (1776-1867), Harrison Gray Otis (1765-1848), and Artemas Ward (1762-1847). The latter wrote of his inability to attend the celebrations in Lexington, Mass., on April 19, 1835, and Charles Francis Adams wrote about the design and title of a volume intended for publication.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (50 p.) ; octavo.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/207162196 View

Ward, Artemas, 1762-1847. Artemas Ward correspondence, 1833.

Title: Artemas Ward correspondence, 1833.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70981307 View

[Plan of residences on Park Street in Boston].

Title: [Plan of residences on Park Street in Boston]. [1843]

ArchivalResource: 1 ms. plan ; on sheet 22 x 20 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/317730297 View