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Cabot family. Cabot Family Papers, 1712-1862.

Title: Cabot Family Papers, 1712-1862.

Salem and Beverly, MA shipping merchant famly. Includes shipping papers of Francis (1717-1786), Joseph (1720-1767), George (1752-1823), John (1744-1821), Joseph (1745-1774), and Andrew Cabot (1750-1791). Also includes Neopolitan claims notes of Joseph S. Cabot (1796-1874) and papers of other family members.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes, 1 vol. (1.25 linear feet).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/639550142 View

Houghton Library printed book provenance file, A-D

Title: Houghton Library printed book provenance file, A-D

Index to ownership/provenance information, primarily from printed books, held by Houghton Library.

ArchivalResource: 1 collection

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01529/catalog View

Prescott, William Hickling, 1796-1859. Papers, 1655-1959; bulk: 1775-1859

Title: William Hickling Prescott papers, 1655-1959; bulk: 1775-1859.

Papers of author and historian William Hickling Prescott, 1655-1959, pertain to his writings about the rise and fall of the Spanish Empire. Papers includes correspondence; diaries entitled "Literary Memorandum"; drafts and proofs of his books Phillip II, Charles V, Ferdinand and Isabella, Conquest of Peru, Conquest of Mexico, and Memoir of Abbott Lawrence; research notes; Spanish manuscripts; diplomas; commissions; and newspaper clippings. Correspondence pertains to Prescott's research and publications, and his lifelong problems with his eyes. Correspondents include Sir Charles and Lady Mary Horner Lyell, Don Angel and Frances (Fanny) Erskine Inglis Calderon de la Barca, Thomas Aspinwall, George Bancroft, George Cabot, Nathan Dane, Edward Everett, Pasual de Gayangos, William Moody, Theophilus Parsons, Oliver Peabody, Catherine Green Hickling Prescott, William Prescott (1726-1795), William Prescott (1762-1844), David Sears, Jared Sparks, Obadiah Rich, Israel Thorndike, and George Ticknor, among many others. Also includes correspondence between Prescott and his parents William and Catherine Prescott, and a diary kept by Prescott during a voyage to visit his maternal grandfather in the Azores, and to treat the "rheumatism" of his eye in Europe, 1815-1817. Also includes Prescott family correspondence; business and legal papers of William Prescott (1762-1844); a diary kept by William Prescott (1762-1844), 1824-1845, deeds for family property in Groton and Pepperell, Mass., and Maine; a commonplace-book of Susan Amory Prescott, ca. 1842; diaries kept by Catherine Greene Hickling Prescott, 1786-89, while on a trip to the Azores and England; a travel diary kept by William Greene, 1778; a paybook kept by Col. William Prescott (1726-1795), 1775-1804; and an orderly book of the 7th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment commanded by his grandfather, Col. William Prescott (1726-1795), during the Siege of Boston and the New York campaign in 1776.

ArchivalResource: 25 boxes, 1 oversize box, and 10 vols.

http://www.masshist.org/collection-guides/view/fa0222 View

George Cabot letter and miscellany, 1804

Title: George Cabot letter and miscellany 1804

Letter to the Bank of Salem, Massachusetts; a letter cover; and a newspaper endorsement of Cabot for political office.

ArchivalResource: 0.1; 1 folder

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/8117 View

Cabot, George, 1752-1823. Letter, 1795 August 25, Brookline [Mass.], to Rev. Dr. Belknap, Boston.

Title: Letter, 1795 August 25, Brookline [Mass.], to Rev. Dr. Belknap, Boston.

There is no evidence that the book is a New England version. Has no doubt he will enjoy Mr. Noyes' poetry. Is sending a pamphlet.

ArchivalResource: 1 p. 26 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/3260191 View

Thomas Addis Emmet collection, 1483-1876 (bulk:1700-1800)

Title: Thomas Addis Emmet collection, 1483-1876 (inclusive), 1700-1800 (bulk)

The portion of the Emmet Collection housed in the Manuscripts and Archives Division consists of approximately 10,800 historical manuscripts relating chiefly to the period prior to, during, and following the American Revolution. The collection contains letters and documents by the signers of the Declaration of Independence as well as nearly every prominent historical figure of the period.

ArchivalResource: 30.83 linear feet; 108 boxes, 21 volumes

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/927 View

Cabot, George, 1752-1823. Letter, March 21 [n.p.], to Professor Ticknor [n.p.].

Title: Letter, March 21 [n.p.], to Professor Ticknor [n.p.].

Returns the works with thanks. He has a painful disease.

ArchivalResource: 1 p. 20 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/3256398 View

Massachusetts. Office of the Secretary of State. Proceedings of the Hartford Convention, 1814-1818 (bulk 1814-1815).

Title: Proceedings of the Hartford Convention, 1814-1818 (bulk 1814-1815).

A convention of delegates from all New England states was called at Hartford by the Massachusetts General Court to discuss grievances stemming from dissatisfaction over the War of 1812 (Resolves 1814, c 85 and c 86), and met from Dec. 15, 1814 to Jan. 15, 1815. The General Court approved the resolutions of the convention and called for the appointment of a commission to bring them to the attention of the federal government (Resolves 1814, c 107). Before further action could be taken, news was received of the signing of the Treaty of Ghent, subsequent ratification of which by the United States ended the war in Feb. 1815. Proceedings of the convention consist of a journal (so-called on the flyleaf) of brief daily summaries variously signed, with a postscript attesting to the document's authenticity signed by George Cabot, convention president, dated 1819 (for 1818?), and letters of transmittal from Cabot to the governor and the state secretary, dated 1818.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122564470 View

Vaughan, Benjamin, 1751-1835. Papers, 1746-1900

Title: Benjamin Vaughan Papers 1746-1900

Letters (including some transcripts and photostats) from and to Vaughan from many American and British correspondents, including: Also personal correspondence and business papers of Benjamin, Charles, Petty, Samuel Sr., Samuel Jr., William, William Oliver, and Sarah Vaughan (2 boxes); lectures, mostly in shorthand (3 vols.); a large number of notes and memoranda on a wide variety of topics, such as agriculture, architecture, astronomy, diplomacy, diseases, dueling, electricity, hieroglyphs, internal improvements, medicine, meteorology, land, manufactures, politics, punctuation, religion, silk-manufacturing, stock-breeding, taxation, Unitarianism, Benjamin Franklin, John Locke, Napoleon I, Joseph Priestley, Bowdoin College, town of Hallowell, Maine; notes on the peace negotiations, 1782-1783; miscellaneous legal papers; genealogy of the Abbott-Vaughan families. For a personal account of the collection, see Mrs. Mary Vaughan Marvin, "The Benjamin Vaughan Papers," APS 95 (1951): 246-249. Proceedings

ArchivalResource: 13.25 Linear feet

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.V46p-ead.xml View

Lodge, Henry Cabot, 1850-1924. Papers, 1745-1966 bulk 1866-1924.

Title: Papers, 1745-1966 bulk 1866-1924.

Historian and United States Senator. Personal, official and family papers spanning the years 1745-1966. Other family members represented in the collection include George Cabot, Anna Sophia Cabot, Anna Cabot Mills Davis Lodge, George Cabot Lodge, Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. and Ellerton James. Among the important Lodge correspondents are: Brooks Adams, Henry Adams, James G. Blaine, Calvin Coolidge, Worthington C. Ford, Warren G. Harding, John Hay, George Frisbie Hoar, Charles Evans Hughes, William McKinley, John Lothrop Motley, Theodore Roosevelt, Cecil Spring-Rice, Charles Sumner, William Howard Taft and Henry White. Other correspondents or persons described or discussed in correspondence include Augustus P. Gardner, John Ellerton Lodge, Corinne Roosevelt Robinson and Woodrow Wilson. (CONT.) Subjects covered include Republican Party politics in Massachusetts and the nation, 1870-1924, American foreign policy, 1890-1924, especially concerning the Spanish-American War of 1898, occupation of the Philippine Islands, the Panama Canal, World War I, the Treaty of Versailles, the League of Nations and the Washington Conference on the Limitation of Armament, 1922.

ArchivalResource: 154 boxes, 216 v. and an oversize container.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/9889898 View

Boston Bank. Letter, 1815 Feb. 11, to John T. Apthorp.

Title: Letter, 1815 Feb. 11, to John T. Apthorp.

George Cabot, chairman of a committee appointed to respond to Apthorp, treasurer of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts writes in connection with a business transaction between the Commonwealth and the bank. Letter transmits five documents to Apthorp which the committee deems necessary for him to examine.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/21000721 View

Cabot, George, 1752-1823. George Cabot correspondence, 1796-1811.

Title: George Cabot correspondence, 1796-1811.

ALS (Philadelphia, Pa.; 1796 March 26) to John Lowell regarding the treaty of commerce between the U.S. and Great Britain (1794); ALS (1797 April 6), to an unknown recipient but from the papers of John Lowell, regarding the XYZ Affair and relations between the U.S. and France; and ALS (Boston, Mass.; 1811 November 14) to David Lenox, president of the trustees of the late Bank of the U.S., Philadelphia, Pa., regarding a national bank.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70980291 View

Boston Marine Insurance Company. Records, 1797-1839.

Title: Records, 1797-1839.

Loose mss. (1797-1839) and volumes including 2 receipt books (1799-1839), promissory notes (1801), stock share records (1830-39) and transfers (1800-39), 14 vols. of insurance proposals (1797-1838), 2 cash books (1813-39), a ledger (1805-39), 33 vols. of policy records (1801-38), and others. A letterbook contains copies of letters primarily by presidents of the company Thomas Davis (to 1804), Samuel Cabot (1805-08), George Cabot (1808-22), and Daniel Sargent (1823-38). (Cont) Primarily records of the company's business insuring ships' cargoes for both foreign and domestic trading voyages. Contains correspondence and accounts with Boston and London merchants and shipowners, including P.C. Brooks, Samuel Williams, Belcher & Phelps, and Gibbs & Channing (of Newport). There is much information on shipping from Boston during the early 19th century.

ArchivalResource: 10 boxes, 1 narrow box, 66 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/23813101 View

Cabot, George, 1752-1823. Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1792.

Title: Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1792.

Receipt for fifty dollars to Timothy Pickering of Philadelphia.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 leaf)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/191733312 View

Lodge, Henry Cabot, 1850-1924. Collection of Henry Cabot Lodge, 1871-1925.

Title: Collection of Henry Cabot Lodge, 1871-1925.

The collection consists entirely of correspondence and a small amount of printed ephemera. The correspondence includes a small number of letters by other authors, including Anna J. Bird, William Cooper Hunneman, Carl A. Loeffler, Elihu Root and William Howard Taft. The majority of the letters in the collection are by Henry Cabot Lodge; these include a very small number of personal letters but are mainly letters by Lodge to other political letters of the time or to his Massachusetts constituents.

ArchivalResource: 300 pieces.6 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/663110728 View

Cabot, George, 1752-1823. Autograph letter signed : Boston, to Theodore Dwight, in Hartford, 1804 Apr. 21.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Boston, to Theodore Dwight, in Hartford, 1804 Apr. 21.

Sending him $1000 by Mr. Dodge.

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

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270133320 View

Cabot, George, 1752-1823. ALS, 1789 June 7 : to Oliver Parsons, President of ye Board of Health, Salem.

Title: ALS, 1789 June 7 : to Oliver Parsons, President of ye Board of Health, Salem.

Disallows a land claim filed by a citizen named Woodbridge.

ArchivalResource: 1 p. ; 16 x 20 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/16017917 View

King, Rufus, 1755-1827. Papers, 1783-1826.

Title: Papers, 1783-1826.

Papers, 1783-1826, of Federalist statesman Rufus King, including official and private correspondence, letterbooks, account books, notebooks, financial documents, diaries, memoranda, essays, and miscellaneous printed and manuscript materials documenting the many facets of King's lengthy political career and private interests.

ArchivalResource: 21 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/476439148 View

Wolcott, Oliver, 1760-1833. Papers of Oliver Wolcott, 1759-1837.

Title: Papers of Oliver Wolcott, 1759-1837.

Business, official, and personal correspondence, documents of Wolcott's public service, record booklets containing Comptroller of Connecticut and U.S. Treasury records (1784-1806), and other papers. A number of letters (1805-1814) relate to Wolcott's China trade. Correspondents include John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Fisher Ames, Joel Barlow, George Cabot, Theodore Dwight, Chauncey Goodrich, Alexander Hamilton, Stephen Higginson, James Hillhouse, Rufus King, Jedidiah Morse, Timothy Pickering, Josiah Quincy, Benjamin Tallmadge, Noah Webster, Eli Whitney, and Oliver Wolcott (1726-1797).

ArchivalResource: 10,000 items.25 microfilm reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/71070519 View