Vaughan family papers, 1768-1950.

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Vaughan family papers, 1768-1950.

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Papers of Benjamin Vaughan, physician, lawyer, diplomat, merchant, and agriculturist of Hallowell, Me.; of his sons merchants William O. and Petty; and many Vaughan family members. Concerns shipping; lumber trade with England, West Indies, and Calcutta; Maine Agricultural Society; Female Benevolent Society of Hallowell; land transactions in Maine; Hallowell Iron Foundry of John P. Flagg; First Parish Church in Cambridge, Mass.; the Cambridge Social Union; the War of 1812, including the Maine militia and seizures of ships; and slavery in Jamaica. Frequent correspondents are Robert H. Gardiner and Gideon Snow. (Cont.) Also papers of Ebenezer T. Warren, lawyer, of Hallowell, Me.; his brother, lawyer Samuel S. Warren; and other Warren family members including Ebenezer Warren of Foxborough, Mass. Includes materials on courts in Maine; legal papers; the Kennebec Bank; the First Baptist Meeting House in Hallowell; federalist politics and the statehood of Maine; and papers relating to the affairs of John Chandler, Samuel Curtis, Nathaniel Perley, Benjamin Ring, and Eleazar W. Ripley. Collection also includes diaries, account books, farm journals, court appointment records, court dockets, bank books, business records, and medical notes.

41 record cartons (stored offsite) and 1 oversize container (stored onsite)

Massachusetts Historical Society

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Massachusetts Historical Society

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Vaughan, William, 1752-1850

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Merchant and author. British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000563.0x000187 William Vaughan, the son of Samuel Vaughan and Sarah (Hallowell) Vaughan, was born in 1752 and became a prosperous merchant in London, although he lost most of his money later in life. From the guide to the Vaughan Family Papers, 1768-1950 (Massachusetts Historical Society) ...

Vaughan, Benjamin, 1751-1835

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Benjamin Vaughan lived through all the vicissitudes of an enlightened life during the age of revolution. Born in Jamaica to Samuel Vaughan, a merchant and planter, and Sarah Hallowell, a native Bostonian, Vaughan was raised in London and educated at Cambridge and Lincoln's Inn. At university, he fell in with the coterie of Joseph Priestley, Benjamin Franklin, Jeremy Bentham, and William Petty, the Earl of Shelburne, and imbibed many of their unorthodox, perhaps radical political, s...

Vaughan, Petty, 1788-1854

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Petty Vaughan was a merchant and lieutenant in the Maine Militia. He went to London as a teenager to work with his uncle, William Vaughan, and returned later to spend most of his commercial career there. From the guide to the Vaughan family papers, 1768-1950 (Massachusetts Historical Society ...

First Baptist Church (Hallowell, Me.)

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Ring, Benjamin.

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Flagg, John P.

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Kennebec Bank (Augusta, Me.)

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Warren, Samuel S., 1793-

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Chandler, John, 1762-1841

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Army officer, U.S. senator and representative of Massachusetts, and the U.S. senator of Maine. From the description of Notice of John Chandler, 1824. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79452646 U.S. Army officer; U.S. senator and representative of Massachusetts, and U.S. senator of Maine; served as U.S. customs collector in Portland from 1829-1837; of Augusta, Me. From the description of John Chandler document signed, 1833. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCa...

Ripley, Eleazer Wheelock, 1782-1839

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U.S. representative from Louisiana, army officer, and lawyer. From the description of Letter of Eleazer Wheelock Ripley, 1815. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79449547 Eleazer Wheelock Ripley served in the United States Army as a general in the War of 1812, and practiced law in New Orleans and West Feliciana Parish, La. after resigning his commission in 1820. He was a member of the Louisiana Senate in 1832, and was later elected to the U. S. Congress in 1835 where he served u...

Vaughan family.

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Vaughan, William Oliver, 1783-1826

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William Oliver Vaughan (1783-1826) was the son of Benjamin and Sarah Manning Vaughan. William Oliver was a gentleman farmer, ship owner, and merchant, primarily involved in the export of lumber and fur, in exchange for various commodities from the West Indies and elsewhere. In 1806, William Oliver married Martha Agry (d. 1856) and they had seven children. Benjamin Vaughan (1751-1835) was born in Jamaica to Samuel and Sarah Hallowell Vaughan. Benjamin resided in Engla...

Perley, Nathaniel, 1770-1824.

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Cambridge Social Union.

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Federal Party (Me.)

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Warren, Ebenezer, 1749-1824.

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Female Benevolent Society (Hallowell, Me.)

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First Church (Cambridge, Mass.)

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The First Church was formed in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1633, but in 1636 the minister and most of the members removed to Hartford, Conn. In 1829 the First Parish or First Church (Congregational) in Cambridge split into factions of Unitarian and Trinitarian persuasion. The latter, with the pastor Abiel Holmes, separated to form the Shepard Congregational Society, and continued subsequently under the name of the First Church. The Unitarians continued to be known as the First Parish, though cla...

Maine Agricultural Society.

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Warren, Ebenezer Tucker, 1779-1830.

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