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Brackett family. Deeds and legal documents, 1787-1862.

Title: Deeds and legal documents, 1787-1862.

Chiefly copies of deeds, petitions for land divisions, and documents of a court case involving John Brackett for land division, including arguments by F.O.J. Smith in the case.

ArchivalResource: 1 box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70974604 View

Bowden, Joyce M. 4 Union Park archive, 1917-2005.

Title: 4 Union Park archive, 1917-2005.

Research files, plus one original document, which provide a richly-detailed history of a South End row house. The archive contains information on the laying-out of the neighborhood, and on the developers and subsequent owners of the property, with exhaustive documentation of the property as contained in city, county, state, and federal records, along with personal accounts. Box I: Control file; Wadsworth (1845) and Chesborough (1851) plans; Boston Board of Aldermen records, 1845-1857; William Hovey and Calvin Ryder (developer-builders) file; Joseph H. Gray (1st owner, 1856-1877) file; John Q.A. Brackett (2nd owner, 1878-1887) file. Box II: Susan E. Josephs file; Henry C. and Kate M. Morse file; U.S. Census (1900, 1910, 1920); Suffolk Co. deeds, 1912-1952; Moghabghab-Hajjar family file (owners, 1920-1997, including Frederick Hajjar, Jerome Hajjar, and Denise Hajjar oral histories); lodging house guest register, 1917-1980; Lutynski-Bowden (2000-2006) file, with Butz + Klug (architects) renovation plans (1 CDs) and photographs (2 CDs), 2002 South End House Tour information sheet, 2005 Boston Globe Magazine article. Box III (oversize, flat): City plans, 1851-1863; Suffolk Co. deeds, 1850-1858; Suffolk Co. deeds, 1860-1863; Suffolk Co. deeds, 1876-1878; Suffolk Co. deeds, 1887-1889; Suffolk Co. deeds, 1890-1896; Morse-Hajjar mortgage documents. Background information on the owners of 4 Union Park is extensive, and with the remainder of the archive helps to depict the development, decline, and renaissance of the South End as well as the changing demographics of a dynamic urban neighborhood.

ArchivalResource: 3 boxes ; 27 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/166327770 View

Durell, Edward H. (Edward Henry), 1810-1887. Papers, 1794-1887.

Title: Papers, 1794-1887.

Correspondence, letter books, manuscripts, extracts, diaries, notes, and a catalog kept or collected by Durell (1794-1887). Correspondence and diaries pertain to Durell and other members of the family, including personal and romantic letters to and from Edward Durell, many in correspondence with Mary Seitz Gebhart, whom he married in 1875; and memorandum diaries of Daniel Meserve Durell, New Hampshire lawyer and chief justice of the Court of Common Pleas, primarily containing records of monetary transactions (1794-1841). Writings include his novel "The First Age"; extracts from military general orders, most originating from the headquarters of the Dept. of the Gulf in New Orleans (1 v., 1862-1865); extracts from the New Orleans newspaper "Daily True Delta" (2 v., 1860-1864); extracts from the Shreveport newspaper "South-Western" (2 v., 1861-1866); manuscript of stories (2 v.); an annotated version of "New Orleans as I Found It" by H. Didimus; and a translation of P.C. Roux's essay on the history of France, including Durell's notes.

ArchivalResource: 6.75 linear ft. (5 boxes, 21 v.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58663765 View

Brackett, John E. Deed to Peter D. Bailey : Napa, Calif. : DS, 1851 Sept. 20.

Title: Deed to Peter D. Bailey : Napa, Calif. : DS, 1851 Sept. 20.

Signed for Brackett by his attorney, R.L. Kilburn, and witnessed by E.W. McKinstry and J. Edmonston. For land in Napa Valley, including a portion of the Rancho formerly belonging to Nicolas Higuera.

ArchivalResource: [2] p. ; 32 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/215298192 View