Papers of Fisher Ames and the Ames and Fowler families, 1774-ca. 1900s.

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Papers of Fisher Ames and the Ames and Fowler families, 1774-ca. 1900s.

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This collection contains three pieces of correspondence, a handwritten political speech, a brief handwritten genealogy of the Bayley family, two cabinet card portraits, a child's glove, and an embroidered pocketbook. Notably, the embroidered pocketbook, correspondence, and political speech help document aspects of Fisher Ames's life as a young man, brother, and Federalist orator. The correspondence was written by Ames and his son John Worthington to Ames's sister and brother-in-law, Deborah and Samuel Shuttleworth. While these items can be associated with the Ames family, their exact relationship to the other items is unclear. The genealogy, photographs, and glove are undated and unattributed and appear to have been created in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The collection was likely maintained by descendants of the Bayley and Fowler families, with whom the Ames family appears to have been connected by marriage.

.4 cubic feet (1 half-legal document box and 1 flat box)

Harvard University Archives.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8113382

Harvard University Archives.

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Fowler family.

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Ames, Fisher, 1758-1808

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Fowler, Yolande,

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