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Smith-Townsend Family papers and papers II, 1670-1892

Title: Smith-Townsend Family papers and papers II, 1670-1892.

Encompassing the Smith-Townsend Family Papers and the Smith-Townsend Family Papers II, the interrelated family papers contain those of Rev. Isaac Smith (1749-1829), including his book of memoranda on sermons preached by Rev. Samuel Cooper and others in Boston (1764), notes (of mileage, etc.) on a voyage to Portsmouth, N.H. (1765), and correspondence with him as a loyalist in exile in England during the Revolution. The collection also contains papers documenting the commercial activities of Boston merchant William Smith (1755-1816) and his son Thomas Carter Smith, a merchant seaman; letters of Abigail (Smith) Adams, wife of John Adams, written to her uncle Isaac Smith (1719-1787) and her cousin William (1755-1816), including letters to 1800 from Philadelphia on current politics; papers of Dr. David Townsend, including his cut-slip autograph collection, and his son Solomon D. Townsend. (Cont'd) The papers also include recipe books (begun in 1738); an undated commonplace-book of poetry kept by Frances B. (Mrs. Thomas C.) Smith; an unidentified meteorological journal (1818); and a scrapbook kept by Elizabeth H. Smith begun in 1863 containing genealogical notes and charts, photographs, and other family memorabilia. Other correspondents include Hannah (Carter) Smith, Hannah (Smith) Pickman, Benjamin T. Pickman, John Adams, John Quincy Adams, and William S. Shaw.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes and 1 oversize container.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28347629 View

Smith-Carter family papers, 1669-1880

Title: Smith-Carter family papers, 1669-1880.

Correspondence, business and legal papers, account books, letterbooks, school copybooks, and genealogical information pertaining to the Smith family of Boston, Medford, and Weymouth, Mass. and allied families including the Carter and Adams families, 1669-1880. Principal correspondents include Isaac Smith (1719-1787), a Boston shipping merchant, his son Isaac Smith, Jr. (1749-1829), a loyalist, grandson William Smith (1755-1816), Capt. William Smith (1667-1730), his son the Rev. William Smith (1706-1783), and granddaughter Abigail (Smith) Adams, her husband John Adams, and their son John Quincy Adams. Correspondence discusses the politics of the American Revolution and includes description of battles during the Civil War by descendent William V. Smith an officer in the 7th United States Colored Infantry Regiment, and the family shipping and mercantile enterprises in Boston. The collection also includes material pertaining to the related Adams, Carter, Bernard, Boylston, Otis, and Pickman families, and includes letters from Thomas Boylston, Timothy Pickering, Mercy Otis Warren, John Hancock, William Eustis, Thomas Carter Smith, and Joshua Carter.

ArchivalResource: 8 boxes and 1 oversize box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/61206446 View