Scope and Contents The Dean Family Papers contains documents relating to the Benjamin and Alice (Lofthouse) Dean family of Clitheroe, England, Lowell, Mass., and Providence, R.I. The genealogical interests of Benjamin’s children and grandchildren are apparent throughout the collection; besides genealogical notes and charts, there is an 1867 letter by Benjamin’s brother Robert Dean of Manchester, England in which he provides genealogical information for his niece in America. The collection contains several...

Scope and Contents The Dorothea Barton Cogswell Papers, 1647-1975 (bulk 1710-1853) is a collection divided into three groups. The first is a collection of applications to the Society of Stukely Wescott Descendants of America from 1937-1975, evidently copies she retained while secretary of that organization. The second is a gathering of ancestral charts and notes compiled by her mother, Theodora (Bates) Cogswell (1883-1955); her grandfather, Edward Russell Cogswell...