Collection of autographs of Charles E. Goodspeed, 1660-1865 (bulk1710-1790).

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Collection of autographs of Charles E. Goodspeed, 1660-1865 (bulk1710-1790).

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Charles E. Goodspeed's collection of autographs, chiefly accounts, invoices, bills, and estate inventories relating to colonial and revolutionary Massachusetts, with individual items dealing with other New England states, New York and Pennsylvania. Included are cargo records of various merchant ships, bills of sale of slaves, payments made by the Massachusetts colonial government to printers, scribes, tax collectors, etc., and financial, legal, and other records relating to various companies of Massachusetts militia and the Continental Army, including enlistment records (1776). Also included are a 1671 letter from a recent English settler in Virginia to his "deare love" back home, a few complaints filed in Groton, Con. against individuals who violated Sabbath by "necessary traveling" and "playing and laughing", sermons and devotional poetry, including individual pieces by Samuel Philips and Cotton Mather, a letter from Mary S. Parker to George Nixon Briggs forwarding the representative from Massachusetts "three petitions for the abolishing of slavery and the slave trade in the District of Columbia signed by 225 wives and daughters of your constituents." (1837), and other sundry items. Also included are a few watercolors and prints, including a small watercolor portrait of a lady, by Thomas Birch, and a print of the view of the Fort Pulaski, Ga. in 1862.

282 pieces.1 box, also 1 envelope.

Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens

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Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728

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Goodspeed, Charles E. (Charles Eliot), 1867-1950

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