Porter-Phelps-Huntington family papers, 1698-1968 (bulk 1800-1950).

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Porter-Phelps-Huntington family papers, 1698-1968 (bulk 1800-1950).

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Personal papers (chiefly correspondence) created by eight generations of one extended family living in their ancestral home and farm at "Forty Acres," Hadley, Massachusetts (built in 1752 by Moses Porter for his wife Elizabeth Pitkin Porter, and preserved in the 20th century by Dr. James Lincoln Huntington to become the Porter-Phelps-Huntington House museum). The collection includes incoming and outgoing correspondence, printed material written by, written about or saved by individuals, school papers, financial papers, legal papers, and occasionally diaries, journals and account books. Includes papers of several clergymen active in Massachusetts and New York State (Dan Huntington; Frederic Dan Huntington, Amherst College Class of 1839, and his wife Hannah Sargent Huntington; James Otis Huntington; George Putnam Huntington; Paul Huntington), a noted author and social reformer (Arria Sargent Huntington), lawyers (Charles Phelps and Moses Charles Porter Phelps), and a publisher (Constant Huntington). The papers are a particularly rich source for women's diaries and mother-daughter correspondence, particularly that of Elizabeth Porter Phelps and her daughter Elizabeth Whiting Phelps Huntington; and Lilly Barrett Huntington, her mother Lucy Stearns Barrett and daugher Catharine Sargent Huntington, who was active in Boston and Provincetown theater. Local history of Hadley, Massachusetts is well documented, as well as social history of upper-middle class New England.

177 boxes (90 linear ft.)

Amherst College. Library

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Amherst College. Library

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Huntington, Michael Paul St. Agnan, 1882-1967

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Porter, Moses, 1722-1755

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Amherst College. Class of 1839. Huntington.

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Huntington, James O. S. (Otis Sargent), 1854-

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Huntington, Elizabeth Whiting Phelps, 1779-1847

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Phelps family.

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Huntington family.

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Huntington, Dan, 1774-1864

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Huntington, George Putnam, 1844-1904

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Huntington, Lilly St. Agnan Barrett, 1848-1926

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Huntington, Constant Davis, 1976-1962

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Phelps, Elizabeth Porter, 1747-1817

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Barrett, Lucy Stearns, 1828-1916

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Porter family.

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Huntington, F. D. (Frederic Dan), 1819-1904

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Huntington graduated from Harvard in 1842, taught Christian morals and served as Preacher at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Frederic Dan Huntington, 1869. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972795 Frederick Dan Huntington (1819-1904) graduated from Amherst College in 1839. In 1842, he graduated from Harvard Divinity School and was ordained to the South Congregational Church (Unitarian) in Boston. In 1855, he became a preacher at Harvard College and joine...

Huntington, Arria S. (Arria Sargent), 1848-1921

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Huntington, Hannah Dane Sargent, 1822-1910

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Huntington, James Lincoln.

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Porter, Elizabeth Pitkin, 1719-1798

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Porter-Phelps-Huntington House Museum (Mass.)

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Phelps, Charles, 1717-1789

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Phelps, Charles.

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