Family papers, 1749-1954.

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Family papers, 1749-1954.

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Papers preserved by Caroline Chamberlain and her sisters, Mable Adams and Claudia Chamberlain, documenting their ancestors in the Adams, Cranch, Norton, and Smith families in Massachusetts, New York, and Georgia. Daughters of Wisconsin Congressman Henry Cullen Adams, the women were connected through both parents to relatives of President John Adams. The collection consists of family correspondence, 1775-1850, undated; a 1749 music book; sermons by Jacob Norton; genealogy charts; discourse from the interment of Richard and Mary Cranch, 1811; and diaries kept by Elizabeth Cranch, 1787-1788 and 1795-1796, by Elizabeth Cranch Norton while living in Massachusetts, 1826-1827, by Jacob Porter Norton during service in the War of 1812 and while living in Georgia, and by Richard Greenleaf Norton while sailing from Boston to California in 1849. Included are photostats of an 1812 letter from John Adams to William Custis and a 1788 letter from his daughter to her cousin Elizabeth Cranch. The photographs include three images of Richard Greenleaf Norton, one daguerreotype, one carte-de-visite, and one tintype dated 1884; and one daguerreotype of Jacob Greenleaf Norton.

0.4 c.f. (1 archives box),1 reel of microfilm (35mm), and4 photographs (1 folder and 1 box)

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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SNAC Resource ID: 6715051

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Adams, John, 1735-1826

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John Adams (1735-1826) was the second president of the United States, born in Braintree (now Quincy), Massachusetts. He served as defense counsel for British soldiers accused of Boston Massacre in 1770; as delegate to Continental Congress from 1774 to 1778; as member of committee charged with drafting Declaration of Independence in 1776; as congressional commissioner to France from 1778 to 1779; as minister to United Provinces in 1780; and negotiated a loan from Dutch bankers in 1782. Adams join...

Norton, Jacob, 1764-1858

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Chamberlain, Caroline.

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Cranch family.

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Norton family.

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Norton, Richard Greenleaf.

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Smith family.

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Norton, Jacob Porter.

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Norton, Elizabeth Cranch, 1802- .

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Cranch, Elizabeth.

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Adams family.

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