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Adams, Fisher, and Hallett family papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss-445
Abstract
The Adams, Fisher, and Hallett family papers is comprised of a wide range of original documents including correspondence, a bible record, deeds, diaries, family registers, marriage intentions, newspaper clippings, photographs, probate records, recipes, receipts and wills. There are numerous poems, stories, lectures and addresses written by various family members. The photographs, many of which are identified, include daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, and tintypes. There is also a painted miniature...
Dates:
1779-1988; Majority of material found within ( 1840-1934)
Found in:
R. Stanton Avery Special Collections
Albert Harrison Hoyt papers, 1751-1920.
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Mss-186
Abstract
Correspondence, biographical sketches, genealogies, Bible records, public documents, notes, photos, and other papers, reflecting Albert H. Hoyt's genealogical and historical interests and his activities with Office of the Paymaster General and Massachusetts Treasury Office. Includes materials relating to the Freeman, Hoyt, Marshall, McClenachan, Randolph, and Stuart families.
Dates:
1751-1920
Found in:
R. Stanton Avery Special Collections
Alford family collection
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Mss-1174
Scope and Contents
This collection contains documents of Kenneth Thomas Alford (1914-1980) and his wife Clarissa Teacora (Brown) Alford (1913-1992). The documents include correspondence, deeds, photographs, estate papers, and copies of vital statistic certificates. There are also items documenting Kenneth's education at West Virginia State College, military service in the U.S. Marines 1943-1946, and 1972 retirement as a civilian computer operator working at L. G. Hanscom Field (Bedford, Mass.). The deeds...
Dates:
1912-1992
Found in:
R. Stanton Avery Special Collections
Alice Steele Cheney Baltzell papers, 1930-1935.
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Mss-1020
Scope and Contents
The collection represents Alice (Cheney) Baltzell's research of her Cheney ancestors. The collection consists primarily of genealogical notes regarding the Cheney family. The material includes pedigrees, county and town records, parish records, deeds and wills. These records are transcripts or photocopies taken from original documents. There is very little source material in this collection. The primary focus of the collection is on the English research of the Cheney family's...
Dates:
1930-1935.
Found in:
R. Stanton Avery Special Collections
Ana Byrd Hall papers, 1919-1924.
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Mss-300
Scope and Contents
Genealogies, notes, records and correspondence pertaining to the descendants of William Seavey (1601-1688) and Thomas Seavey (1627-1708/9) and allied families (Abbott, Bean, Drake, Hall, Odiorne, Pickering).
Dates:
1919-1924
Found in:
R. Stanton Avery Special Collections
Arthur E. Linnell papers, 1902-1968.
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Mss-25
Scope and Contents
Consists of genealogies for Cape Cod families, 1335-1968, compiled by Arthur E. Linnell of Wollaston, MA between 1902-1934 with additional records and ancestral charts prepared by his daughter, Amelia A. Linnell of Falmouth, MA, between 1950-1968. The genealogies are followed by a section of vital records, principally cemetery transcriptions from Cape Cod towns, ca. 1772-1946, and a group of 17 photographs and 12 glass plates primarily of Linnell family members.
Dates:
1902-1968
Found in:
R. Stanton Avery Special Collections
Arthur Enoch Howlett papers, 1959-1969.
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Mss-43
Scope and Contents
Contains correspondence and research notes on the descendants of Andrew Elliot (bap. 1627-1703), who immigrated to Beverly, Massachusetts from England in 1668. The notes includes extracts from Bible records (as well as the title page from an original 1801 Bible), state census records, ships' lists, wills and deeds. This is followed by a series of vital records from New England and Quebec on Elliot descendants. There is also research on 155 families allied to the Elliot family and a small...
Dates:
1959-1969
Found in:
R. Stanton Avery Special Collections
Atkinson and Lancaster family papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss-31
Abstract
The Atkinson and Lancaster family collection contains documents, photographs, ephemera, and textiles relating to five generations of the Atkinson family of Newburyport and Newton, Massachusetts, and Calcutta, India, the allied Lancaster family of Newburyport, and lesser amounts by the Cook family of Salem, Mass. The letters and business papers of John Atkinson, of Newburyport, Mass. and Calcutta, India, his daughter Doctor Lizzie D. R. Atkinson, and her siblings make up the bulk of the...
Dates:
1777-1964
Found in:
R. Stanton Avery Special Collections
Becker, Eckert, and Jacobi family correspondence
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Mss-1296
Scope and Contents
Collected letters, clippings, and some photographs received by Edward, Johanne, Elsie Jacobi, and Marguerite Marshall of Holliston, Mass., from their German relatives, including Becker, Eckert, Fischer, Jacobi, and other families. Letters likely concern family matters, but letters in English do comment on economic, political, and social conditions of Germany in the years following WWII. Many of the Marshall's German relatives resided in the cities of Chemnitz (later Karl-Marx-Stadt),...
Dates:
1879-1982; Majority of material found within 1933-1956
Found in:
R. Stanton Avery Special Collections
Bed Warmer
Collection
Identifier: TN027.1
Scope and Contents
A brass bed warmer with wooden handle and hinged lid, etched with a flower motif.
Dates:
Circa 1800
Found in:
Fine Art Collections