Massachusetts) Massachusetts Historical Society (Boston
Author
Publisher
Massachusetts Historical Society
Pub. Date
c1982
Physical Desc
41 microfilm reels ; 35 mm.
Language
English
Description
"The Lee family papers, 1535-1957, consist of twenty archival boxes of loose manuscripts, one oversize folder and 164 volumes of business records, letterbooks, personal journals and scrapbooks. The collection consists chiefly of the personal papers of Henry Lee (1782- 1860), a prosperous India merchant and free trade economist and publicist; his wife, Mary Jackson Lee (1783-1860); and their son, Henry Lee Jr. (1817-1898), a banker, theatrical entrepreneur...
Author
Publisher
Massachusetts Historical Society
Pub. Date
c1970-1981
Physical Desc
23 microfilm reels ; 35 mm.
Language
English
Description
Cotton Mather (1663-1728) is famous as the clergyman involved with the witch trials in Massachusetts (although the guide to these papers only refers to one witch trial as a separate entity). He was also a notable intellectual, author, and scholar. His father, Increase Mather (1639-1723), was also a famous clergyman who served as the president of Harvard College between 1685 and 1701. The microfilms of both sets of papers serve as original sources...
Author
Publisher
Massachusetts Historical Society
Pub. Date
c1981, 1986 reprints
Physical Desc
4, 21 p.
Language
English
Description
These guides to the microfilms entitled "The Mather papers" cover the filming of the papers of Cotton Mather (1663-1728), and the papers of his father, Increase Mather (1639-1823). The guides give summaries of the contents of each reel. Cotton Mather is famous as a clergyman involved with the witch trials in Massachusetts; he was also an intellectual, author, and scholar. His father, Increase Mather, was also a famous clergyman who served as president...
Author
Publisher
s.n
Pub. Date
1986?]
Physical Desc
45 p. [i.e. 45 leaves]
Language
English
Description
"This publication presents 28 individual collections arranged in 16 parts, with some of the smaller collections being grouped in one part. Some collections record the experiences of individuals who served successively in more than one military unit, and some collections record pre-and post-war material"--[p. 1].
Author
Series
Publisher
Massachusetts Historical Society
Pub. Date
1918
Physical Desc
xxxvii, 194 p.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A number of letters addressed to Jasper Mauduit...were sold at auction in London in 1916, and were purchased by Mr. Charles G. Washburn, a member of this Society"--Note.
Author
Series
Publisher
Massachusetts Historical Society
Pub. Date
1914-1915
Physical Desc
2 v. : facsims., ports.
Language
English
Description
"The letters and papers printed in these volumes formed a part of the commercial correspondence of four generations of a Newport mercantile house. The earlier letters were of the Redwood family. The house of Ayrault of Newport entered about the middle of the eighteenth century as also that of Lopez. To the second half of the century, the firms of Lopez and Champlin contribute the larger part"--Prefatory note, v. 1.
Author
Series
National inventory of documentary sources in the United States volume 3.1.1-3.1.277
Publisher
Chadwyck-Healey
Pub. Date
1984
Physical Desc
285 microfiches ; 11 x 15 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Massachusetts Historical Society
Pub. Date
1978, 1986 printing
Physical Desc
[12] p.
Language
English
Description
"The Caleb Strong papers, consisting of two bound volumes of manuscripts reproduced on one roll of film, contain materials pertaining to Caleb Strong Sr. (1710-1776), a Northampton tanner, and his son, Caleb Strong Jr. (1745-1819), delegate to the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention (1779), state senator (1780-1789), delegate to the Philadelphia Constitutional Convention (1787), United States Senator (1789-1796), and governor of Massachusetts...
Author
Publisher
Massachusetts Historical Society
Pub. Date
c1977, 1986 reprint
Physical Desc
[10], 20 p. : facsims.
Language
English
Description
This guide to the Smith--Townsend papers. 1670-1892, is actually composed of photocopies of the catalog cards covering this collection at the Massachusetts Historical Society. The collection itself is available (on microfilm) entitled as follows: The Smith--Townsend papers, 1670-1892 / Massachusetts Historical Society. Boston, Mass. : Massachusetts Historical Society, c1977.
The microfilm of the manuscript collection "... brings together materials...
Author
Publisher
Massachusetts Historical Society
Pub. Date
c1977
Physical Desc
xvi, 123 p., [2] folded leaves of plates : geneal. tables
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The microfilm edition of the papers of the Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, and Upham families encompasses, with a few exceptions as noted hereafter, (1) the entire collection of papers owned and in the possession of Hugh Upham Clark of Arlington, Virginia; (2) the corpus of the collections in the Massachusetts Historical Society which make up the Society's holdings in the papers of the several families, including items in those collections neither written...
Author
Publisher
University Microfilms International
Pub. Date
1986
Physical Desc
[12], 65 p.
Language
English
Description
"The Lee family papers, 1535-1957, consists of twenty archival boxes of loose manuscripts, one oversize folder, and 164 volumes of business reports, letterbooks, personal journals and scrapbooks. The collection consists chiefly of the personal papers of Henry Lee (1782- 1867), a prosperous India merchant and free trade economist and publicist; his wife, Mary Jackson Lee (1783-1860); and their son, Henry Lee Jr. (1817-1898), a banker, theatrical entrepreneur...