Admiralty Library-Higginson-Newell collection, 1721-1907 (inclusive), [microform].

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Admiralty Library-Higginson-Newell collection, 1721-1907 (inclusive), [microform].

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The collection consists of four separate manuscripts compiled on one reel. Included are: "A General Report Concerning the State of His Majesty's Plantations on the Continent of America Ye 8th. Sept. 1721"; "Details of American and Canadian ships Built and Building on the Great Lakes," 1862, by James S. McCraig; the Thomas Wentworth Higginson papers, 1855-1907; and the diary (1868), family records, and clippings of Robert Newell, one of the early political leaders of Oregon.

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Yale University Library

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Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911

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Higginson was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on December 22, 1823. He was a descendant of Francis Higginson, a Puritan minister and immigrant to the colony of Massachusetts Bay. His father, Stephen Higginson (born in Salem, Massachusetts, November 20, 1770; died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, February 20, 1834), was a merchant and philanthropist in Boston and steward of Harvard University from 1818 until 1834. His grandfather, also named Stephen Higginson, was a member of the Continental Congre...

McCraig, James S.

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Newell, Robert, 1807-1869

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Robert Newell was a fur trapper, pioneer, State legislator, and Indian agent of Oregon. From the description of Memorandum of Robert Newell's travels in the territory of Missouri, 1829-1842. (University of Oregon Libraries). WorldCat record id: 55674689 Robert Newell was a fur trapper, pioneer, Oregon State legislator, Indian agent, and a member of a commission sent by Oregon's Provisional Government to hold council with Indian tribes on the Columbia River after the Whitman ...