Family papers, 1692-1988.

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Family papers, 1692-1988.

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Articles, clippings, deeds, wills, contracts, bills and receipts, speeches, pamphlets, tracts, reports, term papers, essays, interviews, military records, family and business letters, and memory books. Also includes genealogical correspondence; transcribed family data from Bibles; ancestor charts and family group sheets; and birth, baptism, marriage, and death certificates. Of note is a letter from Daniel Webster, 1845; memoir of Rev. William Benjamin, 1860; memoir of a whaling voyage by John R.W. Benjamin (1831-1906), 1851-1852. Photographs include tintypes, cartes de visite, photographs, and postcards of cranberry bogs, Shinnecock Indians, the Long Island Railroad, and portraits.

2 cubic ft.

Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

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Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

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