Papers of Houghton family, 1789-1838.

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Papers of Houghton family, 1789-1838.

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A small group of Houghton family correspondence. Included are: two letters that Thomas Houghton wrote home from Andover, Mass. (1789, Apr. 21 and 1791, July 24); a letter to Houghton from his daughter Elizabeth (1790, Apr. 4, London); a document appointing Thomas Houghton, Jr. administrator of his father's estate (1797, July 12); citizenship certificate issued to John Harding, a papermaker, native of Great Marlow (Buckinghamshire) who had arrived to Andover from England in 1802 (1808, Apr. 28); three letters (1816-1829) addressed to Mary Agnes Houghton, including a letter of appreciation from the Salem East India Marine Society for her donation of "a medal of hte Duke of York;" and a letter addressed to Abraham Marland regarding the estate of Thomas Houghton, Jr.

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Houghton, Thomas, d. 1797.

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Houghton family.

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Thomas Houghton, an English born paper-maker emigrated to America early in 1789, due a financial "embarrassment." One of his sons, William, accompanied him. His wife, other son and daughter Elizabeth were left behind. Thomas and William Houghton landed in New York. Having failed to establish a paper-mill on the Hudson River, Houghton arrived to Andover, Mass. in the spring of 1789. He found employment as a manager of a paper-mill belonging to Samuel Phillips. Thomas Houghton died in Andover in 1...