Papers III, 1769-1919, bulk: 1769-1870.

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Papers III, 1769-1919, bulk: 1769-1870.

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Correspondence of Cary family members, including Samuel Cary (1742-1812), his wife Sarah Gray Cary, his children Samuel (1773-1810), Henry, Lucius, Ann Montague, and Thomas Greaves Cary Sr.; also his grandchildren Thomas Greaves Cary Jr., Emma Forbes Cary, and Caroline Gardner Cary Curtis. Included is a series of letters from Mercy Otis Warren to Sarah Gray Cary. Most of the correspondence concerns family matters. The younger Samuel Cary discusses the Cary plantation in his letters from Grenada. Also included are copied records of births, marriages, and burials of Graves family members from 1571 to 1650; a few letters from Louis Agassiz to Thomas G. Cary Jr.; Emma Cary's recollections of her 1857 trip to Italy and her memories of the actor Edwin Booth; and letters describing the death of Richard Cary at the Battle of Cedar Mountain, 1862. (Cont'd) Also diaries of Caroline Curtis, 1849-1917; a letter from Thomas Handasyd Perkins giving advice to his son on how to conduct himself during a voyage to China in 1813; and a scrapbook genealogy of the Cary family.

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Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873

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Swiss-American zoologist and geologist. Professor of zoology and geology at Harvard University. Louis Agassiz was born in Môtier-en-Vuly, Switzerland. He studied at the universities of Zürich, Erlangen (Ph.D., 1829), Heidelberg, and Munich (M.D., 1830). Agassiz studied medicine briefly but turned to zoology, with a special interest in fishes and fossils, while studying under the French naturalist Cuvier. In 1832 he became professor of natural history at the University of Neuchâtel, Sw...

Perkins, Thomas Handasyd, 1764-1854

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Cary, Ann Montague, 1787-1882.

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Cary, Henry, ca.1785-1857.

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Curtis, Caroline Gardner Cary, 1827-1917.

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Cary family.

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Graves family.

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Warren, Mercy Otis, 1728-1814

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Historian, poet, and dramatist. From the description of History of the rise, progress, and termination of the American Revolution : manuscripts, 1801-1805. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71069040 Poet, historian, and playwright. From the description of Papers of Mercy Otis Warren, 1709-1841. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71067673 Mercy Otis Warren (1728-1814) was born in Barnstable, Mass., the daughter of James Otis (1702-1778) and Mary Allyne Otis (170...

Cary, Thomas G. (Thomas Greaves), 1791-1859

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The San Francisco vigilance committees were local militia movements formed to fight the crime and government corruption brought on by the California gold rush. From the description of Reminiscences of San Francisco and California : manuscript, [18--] (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612869671 From the description of The vigilance committee of San Francisco, 1851 ; The Chinese in California ; Clipper-ships and the China trade. manuscript, [18--] (Harvard University)....

Cary, Samuel, 1742-1812.

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Samuel Cary, Jr., was born in 1742 in the Boston suburb of Chelsea. Following his graduation from Harvard, he moved to the West Indies where he managed plantations for various individuals before purchasing a Grenada sugar plantation. In 1772, after the death of his father, Cary left the West Indies and returned to live in the Chelsea family home. Charles Spooner was a British planter who owned several plantations in the Caribbean, specifically the Leeward Islands of the ...

Cary, Thomas Greaves, 1824-1888.

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Cary, Harriet, 1790-1873.

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Booth, Edwin, 1833-1893

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American actor. From the description of Autograph letters signed (2) : New York and Chicago, to Elsie Leslie, 1889 Dec. 5 and 1890 Mar. 16. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270532629 From the description of Letters, 1858, 1887. (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat record id: 56685372 Edwin Booth (1833-1893) was the son of Junius Brutus Booth, the great British tragedian, and the older brother of John Wilkes Booth; Edwin was best known for his Shakespearean roles. ...

Cary, Samuel, 1773-1810.

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Cary, Richard, 1836-1862.

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Cary, Lucius, 1782-1826.

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Cary, Emma Forbes.

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Cary, Sarah Gray, 1753-1825.

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