Boynton family papers 1827-1863 Boynton family papers

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Boynton family papers 1827-1863 Boynton family papers

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The bulk of the Boynton family papers consist of John Boynton's letters to his family in New England. While teaching in Mississippi from 1837 to 1839, he wrote about his impressions of southern culture and his disapproval of slavery.

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Born in 1810 in Pepperell, Mass., Boynton attended Amherst and Andover academies in preparation for Middlebury College, from which he graduated in 1835. The boy suffered bouts of ill health which prolonged his academic career, and at some point suffered the loss of a hand, for one of his letters refers to learning of a man skilled in making artificial limbs who might be able to craft a hand for him. (folder 8) After teaching in Jericho, Vt., for a year and becoming discouraged by th...