Family papers, 1754-1901.

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Family papers, 1754-1901.

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Collection includes: folder 1 - Robert Treat Paine (1731-1814) letter to Richard Cranch, 1754 Oct. 13, philosophical reflections and mentioning George Whitefield's sermons; folder 2 - Robert Treat Paine (1773-1811), elegies for his brother Robert Treat Paine (1770-1798) by Paine (with additional lines of poetry) and John Lathrop ("written at Calcutta"); folder 3 - petition of Thomas Paine to change name to Robert Treat Paine, 1803 March; folder 4 - bibliography of the prose and poetry of Robert Treat Paine, 1812 Feb. 21; folder 5 - estate of R.T.P., dividends to his children, 1817; folder 6 - legal and financial documents, inc. J. William Sturgis, deed to land in Winthrop Street to Elisha Clapp (1823 Jan. 14), receipt, estate of Judge Paine to William Prescott (1824 Sept. 20), will of Elisha Clapp (1830 Dec. 13), will of Mary (Paine) Clapp (1832 Aug. 10), power of attorney to R.T. Paine for Mary Clapp (1842 April 4), agreement with Samuel Greele concerning the estate of Mary Clapp (1842 April 13), deed of Samuel Greele to R.T. Paine (1842 May 5), receipt of Richard Clapp, estate of Mary Clapp (1842 May 9), receipt, estate of Mary Clapp (1843 April 18); folder 7 - S. S. Wilde, letter to Mary Clapp (1836 Feb. 6, regarding a copy of the portrait of David Cobb by Francis Alexander); folder 8 - genealogical notes on the Paine family of Barnstable Co.; folder 9 - letters to Robert Treat Paine (1803-1885) from Martin Van Buren (1842 Jan. 11), Edward Everett (1856 July 22), Charles Sprague (1863 June 20), William Joseph Adams (1866 Feb. 16, inviting Paine to view photograph of an ancient Aztec calendar at the Athenaeum), Edward Wigglesworth (1866 March 7, regarding the death of Adams, Assistant Librarian of the Boston Athenaeum, with copy of Mrs. Adams' letter to Wigglesworth), and Josiah Paine (1884 Aug. 22, regarding Paine family in Barnstable Co.; folder 10 - Robert Treat Paine (1835-1910), letter setting out distribution of estate (1901 March 9); Robert Treat Paine (1866-), report cards for 1876-7, 1877-8, 1882-3. With certificates (flat folder Mss. .F25): Robert Treat Paine (1803-1885), (1) membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1830 Nov. 10, signed by Nathaniel Bowditch, John Farrar, Jacob Bigelow and Nathan Hale (2) membership in the Accademia di Scienze e Lettere di Palermo, 1835 Feb. 4, signed by Niccolò Cacciatore, certificate drawn by Matteo Chilardi and engraved by Francesco Chilardi (3) membership in the American Philosophical Society, 1838 April 20, signed by Peter Stephen Du Ponceau (4) Robert Treat Paine (1835-1910), appointment as Justice of the Peace for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1879 Jan. 28, signed by Henry B. Peirce.

10 folders in box ; 26 cm. + 1 flat folder.

Boston Athenaeum

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Paine, Robert Treat, 1731-1814

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Robert Treat Paine (March 11, 1731 – May 11, 1814) was an American lawyer, politician, and Founding Father of the United States who signed the Continental Association and the Declaration of Independence as a representative of Massachusetts. He served as the state's first attorney general, and served as an associate justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, the state's highest court. Paine was also a founding member of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society and had always opposed slavery. ...

Everett, Edward, 1794-1865

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Edward Everett was an American statesman, clergyman, and orator, as well as professor of Greek at Harvard University and president of Harvard University, 1846-1849. Everett was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, and graduated from Harvard with highest honors in 1811, completing an M.A. in Divinity in 1814. After a brief stint as a minister, Harvard offered him the newly created position of Professor of Greek; brilliant but untrained, Everett went to Göttingen to prepare for...

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The American Academy of Arts and Sciences was chartered by the legislature of Massachusetts in 1780 and is the second oldest learned society in the U.S. Among its incorporators were James Bowdoin, John Adams, Samuel Adams, and John Hancock. From the description of Records of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1775-1800 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122413111 ...

American Philosophical Society

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Cacciatore, Niccolò, 1780-1841

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Paine, Robert Treat, 1803-1885

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Alexander Dallas Bache (1806-1867) was an important scientific reformer during the early nineteenth century. From his position as superintendent of the United States Coast Survey, and through leadership roles in the scientific institutions of the time, Bache helped bring American science into alignment with the professional nature of its European counterpart. In addition, Bache fostered the reform of public education in America. On July 19, 1806 Alexander Dallas Bache wa...

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Clapp, Elisha.

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Cobb, David, 1748-1830

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Revolutionary War soldier and aide-de-camp to General George Washington, speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives and president of the Senate, physician, judge, member of Congress, lieutenant governor of Massachusetts, and a founder of the Society of the Cincinnati and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. At the time of this letter, Cobb was a resident of Gouldsboro, Maine. From the description of David Cobb letter, 1806 June 29. (Duke University Library). WorldCat...

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Hale, Nathan, 1784-1863

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Farrar, John, 1779-1853

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Paine, Josiah.

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Van Buren, Martin, 1782-1862

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Bowditch, Nathaniel, 1773-1838

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American writer on navigation. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Salem, to an unidentified recipient, 1810 Nov. 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270910812 From the description of Letter signed : Boston, to William Vaughan in London, 1837 May 29. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270910815 Astronomer, mathematician, and insurance executive. From the description of Nathaniel Bowditch correspondence, 1809. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 794511...

Chilardi, Matteo.

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Sprague, Charles, 1791-1875

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Bigelow, Jacob, 1786-1879

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