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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

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Adams, Fisher, and Hallett family papers

Albert Harrison Hoyt papers, 1751-1920.

Alford family collection

Alice Steele Cheney Baltzell papers, 1930-1935.

Ana Byrd Hall papers, 1919-1924.

Arthur E. Linnell papers, 1902-1968.

Arthur Enoch Howlett papers, 1959-1969.

Atkinson and Lancaster family papers

Becker, Eckert, and Jacobi family correspondence

Bed Warmer

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