Foster family autograph collection, 1621-1930.

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Foster family autograph collection, 1621-1930.

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The autograph collection consists of letters, notes, diaries, printed documents, broadsides and other ephemera collected by the families of Joseph Dwight (1703 1765), Jedediah Foster (1726 1779), and his son Dwight Foster (1757 1823), with additions from several generations of descendants. The collection includes documents and letters of United States presidents and members of their cabinet from the administrations of George Washington through Ulysses S. Grant, including John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; autographs of the signers of the Declaration of Independence; autographs of members of the Continental Congress; material related to the French and Indian War, American Revolution, French Revolution and the Napoleonic era; and autographs of many notable political, military and literary figures. The collection also includes personal, legal and military papers kept by generations of the Foster and related Dwight families of Massachusetts including Joseph Dwight (1703 1765), Dwight Foster (1757-1823), Jedediah Foster (1726 1779), and Dwight Foster (1757 1823) among other family members, 1648-1930; legal correspondence kept by Dwight Foster (1828-1884) while serving as a lawyer with the firm Foster and Estabrook in Worcester, Mass., 1856-57; and legal documents related to family estates managed by Abbott Lawrence of Boston, Mass., 1836-91.

30 boxes, 4 oversize boxes and 2 v.

Massachusetts Historical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 7766182

Massachusetts Historical Society

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