Bryant-Mason-Smith family papers, 1767-1861.

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Bryant-Mason-Smith family papers, 1767-1861.

Papers of the interrelated Bryant, Mason, and Smith families, including: personal and military papers and a letterbook of outgoing official correspondence (1786-97) of Capt. John Bryant, Deputy Commissary of Military Stores at the Springfield Armory (Mass.), in particular with Henry Knox and Samuel Hodgdon; a few military papers of Col. David Mason, Bryant's father-in-law and predecessor at the Springfield Armory, including a notebook and a few Revolutionary War documents kept as an officer in Crane's Artillery (3rd Continental) Regiment; family and personal correspondence among John Bryant Jr. (including his children's tuition bills), Mary Cleveland (Smith) Bryant, Mary Cleveland Bryant, David Mason, Jr., Hannah Mason Bryant, Susan Mason Smith (including personal religious reflections), Sarah Smith (including writings and poetry), Ebenezer Cleveland, John Wheelock Smith, as well as other members of the Bryant, Smith, Mason, Perkins, and Cleveland families. The collection also contains genealogical and biographical information on the Bryant, Mason, Symmes, Smith, and Cleveland families.

4 boxes.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7264640

Massachusetts Historical Society

Related Entities

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Bryant family.

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Bryant, John, 1743-1816.

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Cleveland family.

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Mason, David, 1751-1795.

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Mason family.

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Bryant, John, 1780-1865.

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Smith, John Wheelock, d. 1814.

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Bryant, Mary Cleveland, 1808-1876.

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United States. Army

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The United States Army is the largest branch of the United States Armed Forces and performs land-based military operations. It is one of the seven uniformed services of the United States and is designated as the Army of the United States in the United States Constitution, Article 2, Section 2, Clause 1 and United States Code, Title 10, Subtitle B, Chapter 301, Section 3001. As the largest and senior branch of the U.S. military, the modern U.S. Army has its roots in the Continental Army, which wa...

Smith family.

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Hodgdon, Samuel, 1745-1824

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Pennsylvanian; quartermaster of the U.S. Army, Mar. 4, 1791 - Apr. 19, 1792. From the description of Orders : 1791 Sept. 15-21. (Newberry Library). WorldCat record id: 37868498 Army officer. From the description of Papers of Samuel Hodgdon, 1794-1800. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79456308 ...

Smith, Susan Mason, 1763-1845.

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United States. Continental Army. 3rd Continental Artillery Regiment (Crane's)

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Bryant, Hannah Mason, 1727-1829.

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Mason, David, 1726-1794

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Perkins family.

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Bryant, Mary Cleveland Smith, 1784-1860.

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Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

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American revolutionary officer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to Thomas Jefferson, 1793 Apr. 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270596665 From the description of Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to General Henry Jackson, 1796 Oct. 26. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270596669 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Westpoint, to Colonel Pickering, Quartermaster General, 1782 Sept. 15. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270598200 ...

Springfield Armory (U.S.)

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Federal armory established at Springfield, Mass., in 1794; by 1890 had become the U.S. Army's main laboratory for testing and developing new small arms which it manufactured until its closing in 1968. From the description of Statement of expenditures, 1900-1948. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70938180 From the description of Springfield Armory progress reports, 1961-1967. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70938326 From the description of Phase out information, 1964-197...

Cleveland, Ebenezer, 1725-1805.

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Smith, Sarah, 1789-1812.

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