Farm book, 1848-[1867] (bulk 1848-1855).

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Farm book, 1848-[1867] (bulk 1848-1855).

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Consists primarily of a ms. record (1848-1855) of Simmons' agricultural activities in Concord. Includes a plan of his orchard. Obituary clippings about Simmons and about his mother-in-law, Sarah Alden Bradford Ripley (1855 and [1867]) pasted in, with ms. annotations added, possibly by Mary E.R. Simmons, following journal.

1 v. : ill., plan ; 34 cm.

Concord Free Public Library, Special Collection

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Concord Free Public Library, Special Collection

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Ripley, Sarah Alden, 1793-1867

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Sarah Alden Bradford Ripley was born on July 31, 1793, in Boston, the daughter of Gamaliel Bradford III and Elizabeth Hickling Bradford. She was the oldest of nine children and, as her mother's health was poor, was largely responsible for her siblings' upbringing. Though the family lived in Boston, Sarah spent much time in Duxbury, where her grandfather Bradford lived and where she formed a lifelong friendship with Abba B. Allyn (later married to Convers Francis, brother of Lydia M...

Simmons, George F. (George Frederick), 1814-1855

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Clergyman in Waltham, Mass., Springfield, Mass., and Albany, N.Y. Born 1814 at Boston to William and Lucia Hammett Simmons; died Concord, Mass., 1855. Married Mary Emerson Ripley, daughter of Samuel and Sarah Alden Bradford Ripley. George and Mary Simmons had four children, one of them Edward, the artist. Rev. Samuel Ripley--son of Ezra Ripley, half-brother of Ralph Waldo Emerson's father William, and father-in-law of George Simmons--was Simmons' predecessor at the Independent Congr...