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Foster, Dwight, 1757-1823. ALS : Brookfield [MA], to Alfred Dwight Foster, 1816 Dec. 18.

Title: ALS : Brookfield [MA], to Alfred Dwight Foster, 1816 Dec. 18.

A personal letter to his son studying at the university in Cambridge, Mass.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (6 p. in folder) ; 25 x 30 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/43638172 View

Wolcott, Oliver, 1760-1833. Autograph letter in third person : [n.p.], 1798 Jan. 1.

Title: Autograph letter in third person : [n.p.], 1798 Jan. 1.

Inviting Mr. Foster to dinner.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; (8vo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270583748 View

Gilbert, Benjamin J. (Benjamin Joseph), 1764-1849. Papers, 1783-1846.

Title: Papers, 1783-1846.

Personal correspondence, accounts, and compositions.

ArchivalResource: 8 boxes (3.5 ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/237360259 View

Mathews, John, 1765-1828. John Mathews letter to Dwight Foster, 1801 January 12.

Title: John Mathews letter to Dwight Foster, 1801 January 12.

Consists of one autograph letter signed by John Mathews to Senator Dwight Foster of Massachussets urging him to support an act calling for the Surveyor General to accept certain surveys of Ebenezer Buckingham. The letter is dated 12 January 1801 from Marietta, Ohio.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (0.1 linear feet)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/766017436 View

Minervaean Society (Brookfield, Mass.). Records, 1789-1794.

Title: Records, 1789-1794.

The collection consists of one octavo volume of 181 pages, containing the records of the Society from 1789 to 1794, and a membership list. Entries for each meeting include the topics of forensic exercises, orations, and extempore disputes, with the vote of the members on each issue; the presentation of dialogue from contemporary plays; and the production of compositions, essays, and declamations for publication in the Worcester Spy and the Massachusetts Magazine under such pseudonyms as the "Worcester Speculator" and the "General Observer." Most were written by Rev. Fiske, and were later compiled into his Moral Monitor (1801). The debates and writings focused on social, philosophical, religious, and political questions of the day (e.g. the poll tax, lotteries, imprisonment of debtors, assumption of state debts) and reflect the various views taken on these issues.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (181 p.) ; octavo.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/207157271 View

Foster, Dwight, 1757-1823. Letters : Brookfield [MA] and Boston [MA] to Alfred Dwight Foster, 1816-1819.

Title: Letters : Brookfield [MA] and Boston [MA] to Alfred Dwight Foster, 1816-1819.

Fourteen autographed letters signed, from Dwight Foster to his son studying at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

ArchivalResource: 14 items (in folder) ; 26 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/56988733 View

Foster, Dwight, 1757-1823. Letters : Brookfield, [Mass.] to Alfred Dwight Foster, Leicester Academy, [Leicester, Mass.], 1815.

Title: Letters : Brookfield, [Mass.] to Alfred Dwight Foster, Leicester Academy, [Leicester, Mass.], 1815.

Writes letters to his son at school.

ArchivalResource: 5 items (8 p.) in folder ; 26 x 38 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/48072622 View

Boston Water Power Company. Records, 1811-1891 (inclusive).

Title: Records, 1811-1891 (inclusive).

Incomplete records concerning the development and sale of lands in the Back Bay area of Boston, Mass. Included are stock records, journals, ledgers, cash books, unbound letters, bills, checks, and receipts. Nathan Matthews, Dwight Foster, N.C. Munson, and J.P. Farley were active in the business. Evidences of connection with the Boston and Roxbury Mill Corporation, the City Mills, Mill Dam Foundry, and numerous railroads are recorded.

ArchivalResource: 20 linear ft. (80 v., 12 cases)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/269593842 View

Jabez Upham papers, 1792-1876 (inclusive), 1802-1810 (bulk).

Title: Jabez Upham papers, 1792-1876 (inclusive), 1802-1810 (bulk).

Papers of U.S. representative Jabez Upham.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00928/catalog View

War of 1812 mss., 1776-1879

Title: War of 1812 mss., 1776-1879

Consists of individual items acquired separately either as a gift or purchase from a variety of sources, relating to the War of 1812.

ArchivalResource: 3181 items

http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/findingaids/view?doc.view=entire_text&docId=InU-Li-VAC1213 View

Foster family. Foster family autograph collection, 1621-1930.

Title: Foster family autograph collection, 1621-1930.

The autograph collection consists of letters, notes, diaries, printed documents, broadsides and other ephemera collected by the families of Joseph Dwight (1703 1765), Jedediah Foster (1726 1779), and his son Dwight Foster (1757 1823), with additions from several generations of descendants. The collection includes documents and letters of United States presidents and members of their cabinet from the administrations of George Washington through Ulysses S. Grant, including John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; autographs of the signers of the Declaration of Independence; autographs of members of the Continental Congress; material related to the French and Indian War, American Revolution, French Revolution and the Napoleonic era; and autographs of many notable political, military and literary figures. The collection also includes personal, legal and military papers kept by generations of the Foster and related Dwight families of Massachusetts including Joseph Dwight (1703 1765), Dwight Foster (1757-1823), Jedediah Foster (1726 1779), and Dwight Foster (1757 1823) among other family members, 1648-1930; legal correspondence kept by Dwight Foster (1828-1884) while serving as a lawyer with the firm Foster and Estabrook in Worcester, Mass., 1856-57; and legal documents related to family estates managed by Abbott Lawrence of Boston, Mass., 1836-91.

ArchivalResource: 30 boxes, 4 oversize boxes and 2 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58553766 View

Greenough, Charles P. (Charles Pelham), 1844-1924. Papers, 1669-1963, bulk: 1800-1870.

Title: Papers, 1669-1963, bulk: 1800-1870.

Autograph collection of letters and documents, chiefly of a legal or political nature, mostly assembled between 1877-1905. Includes papers of Barnabas Bidwell, Timothy Bigelow, George S. Boutwell, George Davis, Henry A.S. Dearborn, Daniel Dewey, Dwight Foster, John Hancock, Thomas Hancock, Nahum Mitchell, James Sullivan, Increase Sumner, George Thatcher, Henry Vose, and Ezekial Whitman.

ArchivalResource: 3 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/16321366 View

Foster, Dwight, 1757-1823. Letters : Brookfield, [Mass.], to Alfred Dwight Foster, 1814-1815.

Title: Letters : Brookfield, [Mass.], to Alfred Dwight Foster, 1814-1815.

Letters written to his son while a student at Leicester Academy offer fatherly advice and parental concern over health issues, news of home and family, requests for letter in return.

ArchivalResource: 40 items (in 2 folders) ; 26 x 38 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/43940263 View

Foster, Dwight, 1757-1823. Papers, 1757-1884, bulk: 1791-1810.

Title: Papers, 1757-1884, bulk: 1791-1810.

Papers of Dwight Foster, Massachusetts congressman, senator, and jurist, include family letters of his father Jedediah, chief justice of the Superior Court of Massachusetts, his brothers Theodore, senator from Rhode Island, and Peregrine, a stockholder in the Ohio Company and land speculator in Virginia and Ohio. Correspondence includes letters from Theodore and Dwight Foster describing their lives at Brown University, politics, and their allegiance to the Federal Party; and letters from Dwight Foster to his daughters Pamela and Sophia. Also, papers concerning the town of Brookfield, Mass., of which Dwight Foster was a selectman, and papers relating to cases that Jedediah and Dwight Foster adjudicated in the Massachusetts courts. Other correspondents include Joseph Allen, Moses Brown Jr., Theodore Dwight, Abigail Foster, and Foster's grand-nephew, Dwight Foster.

ArchivalResource: 8 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/17857798 View

Goodhue family. Papers, [ca. 1622-1895], 1770-1850 (bulk)

Title: Papers, [ca. 1622-1895], 1770-1850 (bulk)

Consists primarily of papers of Goodhue family, particularly Benjamin Goodhue (1748-1814), Salem, Mass. businessman and U.S. Representative and Senator, his son Jonathan (1783-1848), New York merchant, and Jonathan's brother-in-law General Matthew Clarkson. Includes correspondence, deeds, legal documents, and other material concerning family property in Salem and elsewhere, business matters in Massachusetts and New York, politics and current events, and family affairs; account books concerning Genesee County land, 1822-1841; genealogy by Jonathan; diary, 1848-1850, and journal of voyage to Europe, 1850, of Charles C. Goodhue; accounts and letter book, 1832-1833, and account of voyage to England and Europe, 1832-1833, of Frederick G. Foster; account of voyages to Europe, 1834-1837, by William C. Goodhue; and records concerning adjustments for damaged cotton on the ship FANNY FOSDICK, ca.1858.

ArchivalResource: 5 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155473007 View