Groome family manuscript volume and sketchbook, 1816-1877.

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Groome family manuscript volume and sketchbook, 1816-1877.

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Manuscript volume chiefly in the hand of Peregrine William Groome of Easton, Maryland, divided for accounts and other entries, and sketchbook by Maria Elizabeth Groome. The accounts document expenditures from 1816 to 1867. Other entries, dating to 1867, include copies of correspondence, a "memorandum" on Peregrine Groome's life, and records of the "Births, Ages &c of the Family of Daniel Groome." Correspondence consists of copies of letters of introduction for Peregrine William Groome, dated February 1828, from Peregrine's uncle Samuel Groome, future President Martin Van Buren, and Nathan Sandford. The volume includes annotations dating to 1877 in unidentified hands. The sketchbook includes approximately 45 pencil drawings, as well as two watercolors, of characters and views observed on a tour of Europe. The accounts and memorandum, which note annual expenditures and expenses for basic goods, as well as travel and trips to cultural events such as the theater, document the domestic and social affairs of a 19th century New England family.

0.21 linear ft. (1 box)

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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Groome family.

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Peregrine William Groome (1794-1870), his daughter Maria Elizabeth Groome (1820-1875), and his uncle Samuel Groome (1777-1928) are identified in Harry Connelly Groome's The Groome family and connections (Philadelphia: Press of J. B. Lippincott Company, 1907) as descendants of the Groome family of Maryland, originally of Middlesex, England, and first prominent in New England among traders and merchants in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. Daniel Groome (1758-1805) and Martha Gibbons (1767-1...

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Martin Van Buren (b. Kinderhook, New York, December 5, 1782-d. July 24, 1862, Kinderhook, New York), studied law, was admitted to bar, New York, 1803; moved to Huson surrogate of Columbia Co.; member of State Senate, 1813-1820; attorney general of New York, 1815-1819; delegate to state constitutional convention, 1821; U.S. Senate Democrat, March 4, 1821-1828; Governor of New York, 1828-1829; U.s. Secretary of State, March 12, 1829 - August 1, 1831; Vice President, 1832; President, 1836-1840....

Groome, Daniel, 1758-1805.

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Groome, Maria Elizabeth, 1820-1875.

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Sandford, Nathan.

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Groome, Samuel, 1777-1828.

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Groome, Martha Gibbons, 1767-1797.

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Groome, Peregrine William, 1794-1870.

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