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Waldo family. Papers, 1727-1940s.

Title: Papers, 1727-1940s.

This collection of papers contains correspondence, legal documents, poetry, extracts from newspapers, account books, and genealogical material concerning members of the Waldo Family. The papers of Albigence Waldo include correspondence, estate papers, and accounts and account books. The papers of Lucy Cargill Waldo include correspondence, poetry, and extracts from newspapers. The papers of Elisha Hurlbut Waldo contain letters to his father while he was apprenticed to Isaiah Thomas. There is also one letter from Thomas to Albigence Waldo concerning Elisha's apprenticeship. The papers of Daniel Waldo include business correspondence, while the papers of Daniel Waldo, Jr. include business, family, and political correspondence. The collection also includes papers of Waldo Lincoln (1849-1933), a genealogist. His papers contain correspondence, genealogical notes, and a typescript of the Waldo Family genealogy. The papers of Charles Samuel Waldo (1871- ), also a genealogist, contain notebooks with genealogical notes concerning the Waldo Family. There are also papers of other Waldo Family members, including a deed of Cornelius Waldo (1684-1753), 1740; a letter from Sarah Waldo, 1850; and an undated account book by an unknown author, titled "Book Debts Collected by Major McClellan."

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes.13 v. ; octavo.6 v. ; folio.1 folder (1 item) ; oversize.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/225184856 View

Lear, Mary. Lincoln County, Me., land claims, 1625-1812.

Title: Lincoln County, Me., land claims, 1625-1812.

Volume containing depositions and deeds used before commissioners of Massachusetts at New Castle, N.H., in 1812, in order to support claims to lands of the Eastern Indian tribes in Lincoln County, Me., made by heirs of John Brown, James Stilson, William Hilton, and John Hathorne.

ArchivalResource: 1 envelope.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/154690295 View

Southgate, William Scott, 1831-1899,. William Scott Southgate collection, 1633-1852.

Title: William Scott Southgate collection, 1633-1852.

Miscellaneous deeds, depositions, petitions, and letters relating to the early history of Scarborough, Me., and to lands once belonging to Thomas Cammock and Henry Jocelyn at Black Point; includes many papers of Richard King and Dr. Robert Southgate, including a deposition, 1676, of Peter Bass relating to an Indian attack on Wells, Me.; an account of Scarborough people who settled at Machias; and items pertaining to Arthur and Andrew Alger, Stephen Longfellow, Timothy Prout, Joshua Scottow, William Shirley, James Sullivan, Samuel Waldo, Peleg Wadsworth, Benning Wentworth, and others.

ArchivalResource: .5 linear ft. (.5 box, 103 items)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/71208672 View

Wied-Neuwied (Germany). Records relating to citizens of Wied-Neuwied, Germany, 1757-1834.

Title: Records relating to citizens of Wied-Neuwied, Germany, 1757-1834.

Selections include correspondence (1779-1782) between the Count of Neuwied and Count Schwerin who served with the French army in the American Revolution; a land concession in Maine by Samuel Waldo to the Count of Neuwied; and a diary of travels in America (1832-1834), and other letters and papers of Maximilian, Prince of Wied.

ArchivalResource: 4 containers.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79456384 View

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806. Papers, 1715-1841.

Title: Papers, 1715-1841.

Correspondence, bills, receipts, accounts, deeds, etc., pertaining for the most part to Knox's activities in Maine.

ArchivalResource: ca. 12 linear ft. (25 boxes, 4 v.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70974305 View

Atkinson, Theodore, 1697-1779. Letters, 1738-1740.

Title: Letters, 1738-1740.

Two letters (May 22, 1738; Dec. 24, 1740) from Theodore Atkinson, the first addressed to New Hampshire's agent in London, John Thomlinson, and the second to an unidentified New Hampshire resident then in London on the colony's business.

ArchivalResource: 2 items (1 folder) ; 31 cm. or smaller.1738 May 22 letter: 1 folded sheet (4 p.) ; 20 cm.1740 Dec. 24 letter: 1 folded sheet (4 p.) ; 31 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/36150095 View

George Erving collection 1796-1816 Erving, George collection

Title: George Erving collection 1796-1816 Erving, George collection

The George Erving collection consists of letters and a document about Erving's financial affairs, such as his attempt to receive compensation after fleeing his Boston home during the Revolution. Other items include letters that Erving wrote to his nephew, Samuel Waldo.

ArchivalResource: 13 items

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Powell, Jeremiah, 1714-1789. Papers, 1723-1806.

Title: Papers, 1723-1806.

Personal and military correspondence, deeds, and a map (1767-1771) relating to Powell's purchases and settlement of land in North Yarmouth, Dutch settlers in North Yarmouth, French and Indian wars, and the Siege of Louisburg.

ArchivalResource: .25 linear ft. (78 items)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70972677 View

Lincoln family. Papers, 1667-1937.

Title: Papers, 1667-1937.

The papers of Levi Lincoln, Sr., for the period 1776 to 1821, consist of miscellaneous documents, mostly agreements, powers of attorney, acknowledgments of debt, receipts, and deeds; miscellaneous correspondence, mostly with Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826); law notebooks containing mostly case briefs; a miscellaneous and political notebook; addresses, mostly political; record books relating to farms and the estate of Thomas Legate (1735-1807); a docket for the Worcester County Court of Common Pleas; books concerning legal services and a farm in Oakham, Mass.; a miscellaneous account book; daybooks concerning a saw mill; a farm diary; farm inventories concerning Levi Lincoln's estate; and a letterbook, for the period 1798 to 1809, concerning Massachusetts and national politics and government. There are also farm account books, for the period 1802 to 1882, kept by Levi's wife, Martha Waldo Lincoln, as well as a farm account book and a general store daybook kept by both Levi and Martha. The papers of Abraham Lincoln, for the period 1790 to 1825, consist of miscellaneous documents, mostly concerning his public service; acknowledgements of debt; schedules concerning the third U.S. census; accounts and receipts; business ledgers; and account books and daybooks concerning his store and the services which he performed as a justice of the peace. The papers of Levi Lincoln, Jr., for the period 1807 to 1868, consist of miscellaneous correspondence, mostly political; miscellaneous documents; deeds; and addresses, mostly political, and notes on speeches. The papers of John Waldo Lincoln, for the period 1808 to 1853, consist of miscellaneous correspondence, much of which concerns Massachusetts militia affairs; business correspondence, particularly with Francis Lincoln, Henry Bromfield, William and Thomas Cotterill, and Scholefield, Redfern and Company; and ledgers, account books, daybooks, invoice books, a cash book, a transportation book, and a letterbook concerning his mercantile interests. The papers of Enoch Lincoln, for the period 1809 to 1835, consist of miscellaneous correspondence, much of which is political, including correspondence concerning the northeastern boundary of Maine; correspondence concerning Maine real estate; miscellaneous addresses, legal papers, and historical works; receipts; and a daybook concerning a sawmill. The papers of William Lincoln, for the period 1731 to 1843, consist of miscellaneous correspondence, including letters to various family members, Joseph G. Cole (1799-1851) and Rejoice Newton (1782-1868); professional correspondence to William Lincoln and to his law partner, Rejoice Newton; correspondence and notes relating to biographies used in William Lincoln's History of Worcester; lists and correspondence of Joseph Willard (1798-1865) concerning the Worcester County bar; notebooks with memoranda and sketches of Worcester history and education in Worcester; a draft of his History of Worcester; miscellaneous documents, addresses, articles, notes and memoranda; journals; poetry; receipts and accounts; invitations; a notebook of miscellaneous manuscripts; notebooks on lectures given at Harvard College by Edward Everett (1794-1865) and George Ticknor (1791-1871); a law notebook concerning ecclesiastical controversies; law notebooks containing mostly miscellaneous case briefs as well as those relating to the law firm of Newton and Lincoln; memoranda from the records of the Worcester County Court of General Sessions; papers relating to the estates of Samuel Waldo (1695-1759) and his heirs; miscellaneous legal papers; and miscellaneous papers of Enoch Lincoln, Daniel Waldo Lincoln (1784-1815), Levi Lincoln, Jr., Francis Blake (1774-1817), William Charles White (1777-1818), and Isaac Goodwin (1786-1832). The papers of William Sever Lincoln and his wife, Elizabeth Trumbull Lincoln, for the period 1818 to 1889, consist of correspondence from William and Elizabeth to their son, William Lincoln (1839-1869); Trumbull family correspondence; and miscellaneous documents of William Sever Lincoln and his son, William. The papers of Daniel Waldo Lincoln, for the period 1832 to 1879, consist of miscellaneous correspondence; correspondence concerning a Union regiment to be commanded by him; addresses, mostly relating to the Boston & Albany Railroad Company; deeds; miscellaneous papers; memoranda volumes concerning Worcester municipal government and the Wisconsin Central Railroad Company; a diary with memoranda concerning the Boston & Albany Railroad Company; and a field, garden, and weather notebook. The papers of Waldo Lincoln, for the period 1879 to 1930, consist of miscellaneous correspondence, addresses, and papers; genealogical correspondence, notes, and charts concerning the Lincoln family and related families; notebooks containing a draft of Waldo Lincoln's History of the Lincoln Family with related correspondence and newsclippings; and correspondence of Waldo's wife, Fanny Chandler Lincoln. The collection also includes papers, for the period 1786 to 1843, on the purchase, management and sale of Maine real estate. These papers consist of correspondence of Levi Lincoln, Sr., and William Lincoln (1801-1843), as well as documents, memoranda, land plans, and papers concerning a suit held in the Supreme Judicial Court at Worcester in 1838 between Erasmus Holbrook et al. vs. Simeon Burt et al. over land in Penobscot County, Me. There are also accounts and receipts. There are replies to Edward Winslow Lincoln (1820-1896) to invitations to an inaugural ball. The collection also contains correspondence to Hester Newton Wetherell (1823-1899?), Mrs. John Walcott, relating to a portrait of her grandfather, Levi Lincoln, Sr. The miscellaneous papers and volumes, which cover the period 1667 to 1937, consist of correspondence and documents of various members of the Lincoln family, an index to Worcester views, an index to histories of New England Indians, Lincoln family deeds, mostly belonging to Abraham Lincoln (1740-1823) of Cohasset, Mass.; and a Lincoln & Fearing invoice book concerning general merchandise. The unidentified materials, which cover the period 1814 to 1845, consist of farm account books, law briefs, an oration, addresses, and a newsclipping from the Barre Gazette, 1841, regarding the "Memoirs of Petersham."

ArchivalResource: 13 boxes.68 v. ; octavo.50 v. ; folio.1 v. ; oversize.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/191282064 View

Waldo, Samuel, 1762-1798. Samuel Waldo estate papers, 1794-1848.

Title: Samuel Waldo estate papers, 1794-1848.

Miscellaneous papers, consisting of correspondence, accounts, bills, receipts, and promissory notes, relating to the settlement of the estate of Samuel Waldo.

ArchivalResource: 52 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/244175318 View

Great Britain. Privy Council. Colonial boundary disputes collection, 1735-1744.

Title: Colonial boundary disputes collection, 1735-1744.

A group of documents relating to boundary disputes, chiefly those stemming from the New Hampshire grants. Included are: a copy of the Privy Council's verdict in the dispute between Samuel Waldo and David Dunbar (ca. 1735), the 85th Instruction of George II to Benning Wentworth (1740); letter to the editor of The New Hampshire Gazette responding to "the political piece in your Gazette of 5th Current upon the subject of the aggrieved and injured settlers of the towns granted by your Governor to the west of the Connecticut river;" and six documents accumulated by John Adams after the Massachusetts General Court appointed him to investigate the disputes in March 1774.

ArchivalResource: 9 pieces, in a case.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/681133041 View

Waldo, Samuel, 1695-1759. Letters : Boston, [Mass.], to John Thomlinson, London, [Eng.], 1738-1742.

Title: Letters : Boston, [Mass.], to John Thomlinson, London, [Eng.], 1738-1742.

Four letters, 1738-1742, to John Thomlinson, a London merchant who was also New Hampshire's agent, mainly regarding Waldo's defense of his Maine patent.

ArchivalResource: 4 items (3 folders) ; 31 cm. or smaller.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/40700573 View

Waldo, Samuel, 1695-1759. Papers, 1744.

Title: Papers, 1744.

Letters written to Samuel Waldo, land speculator and proprietor of the Waldo Patent lands in Maine, from the residents there requesting him to acquire from the governor of Mass. enlisted men, provisions, and military stores in order to build garrisons to defend themselves against the French and Indians during King George's War. The letters also concern dealings with the local Indians in light of the alliance with the French. His correspondents include Enoch Freeman, Arthur Noble, William Pepperrell, William Burns, and John Oulton.

ArchivalResource: 1 narrow box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28524389 View

Bernard, Francis, Sir, 1712-1779. Fort Pownall/Frankfort, Me., land papers, 1766-1783.

Title: Fort Pownall/Frankfort, Me., land papers, 1766-1783.

Indenture, dated 1766, by which Francis Waldo of Falmouth (now Portland), Me., Isaac and Lucy Winslow of Roxbury, Me., and Thomas and Hannah Flucker of Boston, Mass., heirs of Samuel Waldo, deceased, grant 2/5 parts of a 24,000 acre tract near Fort Pownal to Francis Bernard, Gov. of Mass., and Thomas Goldthwait, of Fort Pownal, conditional upon the settlement of sixty families, laying out of roads, construction of a meeting house, etc. Letter, dated 1774, from Francis Bernard to Thomas Flucker, concerning default of the Frankfort grant made to Francis Bernard and Thomas Goldthwait in 1766 by heirs of Samuel Waldo. Certificate, dated 1783, by the inhabitants of Frankfort, Me., that Francis Bernard and Thomas Goldthwait had failed to meet conditions of the indenture of 1766.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70976368 View

Pollard, Benjamin, 1696-1756. Letters : Boston, [Mass.], to John Thomlinson, London, [Eng.], 1738 Aug. 25-Dec. 20.

Title: Letters : Boston, [Mass.], to John Thomlinson, London, [Eng.], 1738 Aug. 25-Dec. 20.

Four letters, Aug. 25-Dec. 30, 1738, from Benjamin Pollard in Boston to John Thomlinson, a London merchant and New Hampshire's agent, mainly concerning Massachusetts and New Hampshire political controversies.

ArchivalResource: 4 items (1 folder) ; 32 cm. or smaller.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/39636641 View

Louisbourg Expedition. Records, 1744-1758.

Title: Records, 1744-1758.

Records of the Louisbourg Expedition (1745) during King George's War (1744-1748) include instructions from Massachusetts governor William Shirley to the American commander William Pepperrell; correspondence with Peter Warren, commodore of the British forces; records of the proceedings of the expedition's Council of War; and copies of the Articles of Capitulation (1745) which ended the seige, with reference to adherence to the treaty. Also, an unidentified ship's log and journal and unidentified pages describing the voyage and the campaign, Pepperrell's letterbook, and papers regarding a dispute over military fees to be paid to Brig. Gen. Samuel Waldo. Among the correspondents are Benning Wentworth, Duke of Newcastle John Holles, Samuel Waldo, and Jacob Wendell.

ArchivalResource: 4 v. in a box and 1 case.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/18675859 View

Waldo Patent (Me.). Manuscripts related to the Waldo Patent recorded from the Anthony Stoddard and Middlecutt Cook papers by William Hunt, 1772-1784.

Title: Manuscripts related to the Waldo Patent recorded from the Anthony Stoddard and Middlecutt Cook papers by William Hunt, 1772-1784. 1717-1785.

ArchivalResource: 39 pieces ; 19- cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/25923733 View

East, John. Bowdoin, Flucker, Knox, and Waldo papers, 1688-1808.

Title: Bowdoin, Flucker, Knox, and Waldo papers, 1688-1808.

Miscellaneous unsorted papers (1688-1808), including a copy of John East's survey report of Pepperell lands in Falmouth, Me. (1728); bond of Clement Nichols, Charles Cunningham, and John Alford of Mass., in favour of Godfrey Malbone of Newport, R.I. (1738); promissory notes in favor of Isaac Winslow; plan of lands in Warren, Me. (1788); and an account listing land grants in Hampshire County, Mass.

ArchivalResource: 30 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70974304 View

Waldo, Samuel, 1695-1759. Papers, 1631-1824.

Title: Papers, 1631-1824.

Correspondence, deeds, indentures, depositions, plans, shipping papers, bills, accounts, receipts, and other papers. Most of the deeds are for land in Falmouth, Westbrook, Scarborough, Muscongus, and other places in Maine.

ArchivalResource: 200 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70972152 View

Westbrook, Thomas, d. 1744. [Letter] 1737/8 March 6, Boston [to] Richard Waldron, Portsmouth [N.H.]

Title: [Letter] 1737/8 March 6, Boston [to] Richard Waldron, Portsmouth [N.H.]

A letter written by Thomas Westbrook to his son-in-law Richard Waldron discussing an unidentified court case. The name Waldo is mentioned several times in the letter, presumably referring to Westbrook's business associate, Samuel Waldo.

ArchivalResource: 1 sheet ; 31 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/302368264 View

Dow, Sally, 1892-1980. Sally Dow collection, late 19th and 20th century.

Title: Sally Dow collection, late 19th and 20th century.

Correspondence between Rada Nalon and Sally Dow concerning Annie Louise Cary and Clara Nickels, American singers, originally of Searsport, who performed throughout the U.S. and Europe with typed copy of material collected by Nalon with reviews of Clara's concert; photographs and ephemera; genealogical materials on the Dow, Doane, Duncan, Phillips, and Colcord families; notes on the Dow house; photographs of Sally Dow; obituaries of Sally Dow and John L. Dow; printed copy of Profiles of Some Searsport Master Builders, by Sally Dow, with draft and notes for the essay; clippings from Belfast Republican Journal, chiefly obituaries of shipbuilders; papers relating to Lawrence C. Allin and his research; several published books including Some Famous Privateers of New England by Ralph M. Eastman; account book for a loan (1892-1904); account sheet of schooner George Gurney with Capt. Leroy Dow; article by John R. Richardson "Capt. Leroy Dow and the Clarissa B. Carver" reprinted from the American Neptune (1980); clippings about Searsport, Waldo Pierce, and Searsport houses; copy of essay on Samuel Waldo by Milly Ford; autograph album; notes with material on the Dow family; and other materials.

ArchivalResource: 1 box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/706696928 View

Waldo, Francis, 1728-1784. Francis Waldo papers, 1783-1784.

Title: Francis Waldo papers, 1783-1784.

Miscellaneous papers consisting of accounts, bills, receipts, promissory notes, and legal papers, relating to the settlement of claims against the confiscated estate of Francis Waldo, former collector of customs, who fled to England at the onset of the American Revolution.

ArchivalResource: 17 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/244106398 View

Massachusetts. Governor (1741-1757 : Shirley). Province of the Massachusetts-Bay William Shirley ... to Joseph Frie ... greeting : by virtue of the power and authority ... to me granted ... : commission, 1746 June 14.

Title: Province of the Massachusetts-Bay William Shirley ... to Joseph Frie ... greeting : by virtue of the power and authority ... to me granted ... : commission, 1746 June 14.

Commission, June 14, 1746, appointing Joseph Frie lieutenant to a company of foot under the command of Maj. Moses Sitcomb, "in the Regiment whereof Samuel Waldo ... is Colonel, being part of the forces raised within this Province" for an expedition to Quebec under the command of Lieut. Gen. St. Clair.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 leaf) ; 33 x 40 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38874385 View

Wentworth, Samuel. Samuel Wentworth papers, 1738-1742.

Title: Samuel Wentworth papers, 1738-1742.

Fifteen letters and two documents, 1738-1742, concerning the ships and cargos of Samuel Wentworth, a Boston merchant and the brother of New Hampshire governor Benning Wentworth.

ArchivalResource: 0.1 linear feet (17 items)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/40836541 View

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.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/29608157 View