Papers, 1816-1835.

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Papers, 1816-1835.

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Baldwin's papers include correspondence, legal documents, accounts, diaries, historical notes and transcripts, genealogical material, and three volumes of epitaphs copied from graveyards throughout New England. The materials include four volumes of correspondence as librarian at the American Antiquarian Society (1 February 1832-12 August 1835), five diaries for the period 1829 to 1835 (except from September 1832 to September 1833), a legal account book and docket books, genealogical material on the Baldwin family, notes for his projected history of Sutton, Mass., an index to Cotton Mather's Magnalia Christi Americana, 1826, and three boxes of loose materials which consist of general correspondence, legal documents, and accounts. There is also an index, 1827, to Thomas Hutchinson's History of Massachusetts.

3 boxes (approximately 1700 loose manuscripts).16 v. ; octavo.6 v. ; folio.

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Christopher Columbus Baldwin (1800-1835), son of Eden and Abigail Force Baldwin, studied at Leicester Academy and Harvard College, from which he was expelled after a disturbance and just before graduation in May 1823. He studied law with John Davis and Charles Allen and was admitted to the bar in October 1826. He began his practice in Worcester but moved to Barre and then Sutton in 1830, before returning to Worcester in 1832. Baldwin was especially interested in history ...

Hutchinson, Thomas, 1711-1780

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Governor of Massachusetts. From the description of Certification, 1752. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70960172 At this time, Hutchinson was judge of probate in Suffolk County (1749-1766); later he was royal governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (1771-1774) From the description of A Brief State of that Part of Massachusetts Bay which is situated East of the Province of Main (sic) with reasons for erecting it into a separate & distinct Province : manuscript...

American Antiquarian Society

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The American Antiquarian Society was founded in Worcester, Mass., in 1812, largely through the efforts of Isaiah Thomas (1749-1831). The Society's original stated purpose was to "encourage the collection and preservation of the Antiquities of our country, and of curious and valuable productions in Art and Nature [that] have a tendency to enlarge the sphere of human knowledge." AAS from its inception attempted to be national in its collecting and its membership, which is by election....