Deeds -- Massachusetts -- Boston
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Alford family collection
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 37432000180143]
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
Charles Calvin Stuart papers, 1752-1974
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 37432000163115]
Identifier: Mss-685
Abstract
This collection consists of photocopies of documents used by Charles Calvin Stuart (b. 1909) to compile genealogical data on his family, ancestors, and the ancestors of his wife. The source documents include birth, marriage, and death certificates, Bible records, and genealogical correspondence. There are also copies of documents concerning Union soldier Charles Palfray Bosson (1839-1918), Robert Josselyn (b. 1810), and Mary Morse of Otego, NY.
Dates:
1752-1974
Clark family papers, 1644-1868.
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 37432000171829]
Identifier: Mss-1030
Scope and Contents
The bulk of the collection consists of deeds, bills and receipts, agreements, bonds, and promissory notes concerning six generations of the Clark family of Newton, Waltham, and Watertown, Massachusetts. A large portion of the documents relate to John Clark V (1766-1850), a Justice of the Peace in Waltham. His papers also include estate settlements and guardianships as well as marriage intentions and numerous medical and educational bills and receipts.
Five other John Clarks are represented...
Dates:
1644-1868
Dorchester Antiquarian and Historical Society collection, 1635-1874.
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Mss-624
Abstract
The Dorchester Antiquarian and Historical Society was instituted on 27 January 1843 for the “collection and preservation of books, pamphlets, manuscripts and curiosities, bearing on the biography and history of men and things in the United States, from the earliest period”. In 1907, all records and activity of the Dorchester Antiquarian and Historical Society ceased.Account books, broadsides, correspondence, deeds, diaries, estate inventories, marriage intentions, meeting...
Dates:
1635-1874; Majority of material found within (: 1720-1870)
William Foster papers, 1734-1879.
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Mss-28
Scope and Contents
Collection contains letters sent between William Foster Jr. and William's father, siblings and their spouses, nieces and nephews, and children. Correspondents include brother-in-law Harrison Gray Otis, Andrew Ritchie, daughter and son-in-law James E. and Virginia (Foster) Coppinger, daughter Jeanne Francoise "Fanny" (Foster) Tudor, brother Leonard Foster, sisters Grace (Foster) Apthorp and Mary (Foster) Apthorp, and Nathan Spear Jr. William also received personal letters from friends in...
Dates:
1734-1879