CONCORD ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY COLLECTION,
1422-1957 (BULK 1676-1957)
Vault A70, CAS Unit 1
EXTENT: 15 linear feet (nine containers, one oversize folder, one oversize file drawer, and three volumes shelved unboxed).
ORGANIZATION AND ARRANGEMENT: The collection is organized into two series:
HISTORY: Organization in Concord, Mass., established in 1886 by a group of Concordians devoted to preserving and promoting local history, Judge John Shepard Keyes the prime mover among them. The collection of antiquarian Cummings E. Davis (a descendant of Concord settler Dolor Davis) formed the nucleus around which the Society’s holdings grew over time. Davis’s collection consisted of (as described by David Wood in The Concord Museum: Decorative Arts from a New England Collection, 1996, p. xv) “mostly colonial artifacts with local histories.” In 1887, the organization purchased the Reuben Brown House on Lexington Road, where it stored and displayed its collection until moving in 1930 to a new building (designed by noted Concord architect Harry Britton Little) at the intersection of Lexington Road and the Cambridge Turnpike. In the first decade of the twentieth century, the Society organized its holdings into period room groupings. In 1911, it published a catalog of its collection, prepared by its Secretary George Tolman, a local historian and genealogist. Beginning in 1930, the collection expanded significantly through gifts by Russell Hawes Kettell, an expert on and collector of early American furniture. Although its focus was from the first on decorative arts, by the 1970s the Concord Antiquarian Society had also amassed a sizeable collection of manuscripts, printed ephemera, and books and pamphlets. Most but not all of this material was connected to Concord by author, subject, or provenance. Since the Society’s focus was primarily on the display and interpretation of material culture in its museum (referred to variously as the Museum of the Concord Antiquarian Society, the Concord Antiquarian Museum, and the Concord Museum), organization and description of and research access to these documentary holdings were limited. During the early 1970s, the Society’s Board of Governors voted initially to deposit these materials in, and ultimately to give them to, the Concord Free Public Library. The Concord Antiquarian Society is known today as the Concord Museum.
SCOPE AND CONTENT: A heterogeneous collection of manuscript papers, records, ephemera, publications, and materials in other documentary forms. Items in the collection date from 1422 to 1957, with most of the collection falling between 1676 and 1957. Most items are connected to Concord in some way (by author, subject, or provenance), but a significant percentage consists of non-Concord materials or items only marginally related to Concord.
Series I. Papers, documents, records, and ephemera filed by personal, family, or organizational name, 1676-1957: This series constitutes most of the collection.
Among the diverse material types represented in Series I are found: wills, estate inventories, and probate documents; documents relating to widow’s thirds; power of attorney documents; indenture and apprenticeship documents; deeds and related property documents; bills, accounts, and receipts; account books; tax bills; genealogies and genealogical notes; advertisements; agreements; surveys and plans; calling cards; insurance policies; leases; personal letters and notes; business correspondence; a letter book; membership certificates; military enlistment, discharge, commission, disability, and pension documents, military orders, and other military records; diplomas and academic certificates; stock certificate; bank notes; currency and bonds; notes of exchange; postage currency; fiction, verse, and narrative prose pieces in manuscript; ephemera relating to political campaigns; penmanship exercises; clippings; inoculation certificate; handbills; announcements; printed programs; writs; bill of lading; promissory notes; demands for payment; obligation bonds; memorial card; invitations; admission tickets; menus; obituaries; warrants; school catalog; organizational records; checks; waybills; photographs; appointments to office; church records; invitations; petitions; manuscript cookbook and pharmacopoeia; ballot; coupons; calendar; letter of marque; brass stencil; sermons; marriage certificates; broadsides; pencil sketches and sketchbook; proclamation; postcard; pamphlet; product labels; greeting card; subscription list; permit; certificate of loss; payment voucher; lectures; first day of issue envelopes; stamps; billhead; circular letter; engraved portraits; epitaphs; printed order of services; coat of arms; biographical sketches; and transcribed records.
Personal, family, and organizational names represented in Series I include, but are not limited to: Abbott; Adams; Alcott; Aldrich; Ammidon; Archbald; Baldwin; Barber; Barrett; Bartlett; Barton; Bates; Berkshire Bank; Biglow; Bond; Boston Bank; Boston Clay Club; Bound; Bowers; Brettell; Brigham; Brimblecom; Brooks; Brown; Bruce; Provincia de Buenos Ayres; Bulkeley; Bull; Burr; Burr & Prichard; Buss; Buttrick; Campbell; Dominion of Canada; Cargill; Chandler; Chelsea Bank; The Cincinnati; Citizens’ Bank of Louisiana; Clark; Clover Club; Coates; Cole; Town of Concord (Mass.); Concord Academy; Concord and Groton Mail Stage; Concord Antiquarian Society; Concord Auxiliary Society for the Suppression of Intemperance; Concord Canoe Club; Concord Fire Society; Concord Lyceum; Concord Mail Stage; Concord Mill Dam Company; Confederate States of America; Colony of Connecticut; Continental Army; Conway; Cotton Planters Bank of Georgia; Cousins; Cuming/Cumming; Curtis; Dakin; Darby/Derby; Davis; Dennis & Thorndike; Dodge; Douglass; Drake; Dumas; Deane; Easterbrooks/Estabrook/Esterbrook; Eaton; Emerson; Exchange Bank (Minnesota); Farmer; Farrar; Fay; First Parish in Concord; Fiske; Fitchburg Railroad Corporation; Flagg; State of Florida; République Française; Francis; French; Friend; Frost; Garcia y Gonzalez; Garrison; State of Georgia; Goble; Griffin; Hale; Hales; Halifax, N.S.; Hallowell & Augusta Bank; Hancock; Harding; Harris; Harvard College; Hastings; Harlow; Heald; Heard; Heighington; Heywood/Heyward; Hildreth; Hill; Hoar; Hobby; Holden; Holland; Hosmer; Howard; Hubbard; Hudson; Hull; Hunt; Hurd; Jefferson; Jewett; Jones; Kendol [Kendall]; Kennebec Bank; Keyes; Kingsbury; Knapp; Lafayette; Lane; Lawrence; LeBrun; Leland; Town of Lincoln (Mass.); Litchfield; Longfellow; Machinists’ National Bank; Mann; Massachusetts Bay Colony; State of Massachusetts; Massachusetts Adjutant General’s Office; Julius Mathews Special Agency; Mechanics’ Savings Bank and Loan Association; McGuire; Melvin; Merriam; Merrimack River Baptist Young People’s Union; Society of Middlesex Husbandmen and Manufacturers; Miles; Mills; Minot/Minott; Monroe/Munroe; Moore; Morse; Nassau, N.P.; Newark, N.J.; State of North Carolina; Owen; Passamaquoddy Bank; Parker; Parkman; Parks; Peabody; Pickering; Porter; Potter; Prescott; Prichard; Proctor; Prout; Reed; State of Rhode Island; Rice; Rigby; Ripley; Rolph; Ross; Sabbath School Sewing Society; San Francisco Fire Department; Sanborn; Sawyer; Searle; Shattuck; Shovalley; Silver; Smith; Spauldin/Spaulding; Spofford; Staples; Stearns; Stone; Stow; Strange; Sullivan; Surette; Swan; Tarbell; Temple; Thompson; Thoreau; Thorndike; Tolman; True; United States; United States Postal Service; Wakefield; Ware; Warren; Washington; Washington Artillery; Wesson; Weston; Wheeler; Wheelock; Whig Party; Whitcomb; Whitmarsh; Willard; Wood/Woods; World’s Columbian Exposition; World’s Peace Jubilee; and Wright.
One significant item that a researcher might not expect to find in the Concord Antiquarian Society Collection is a 1676 manuscript sermon preached by the Reverend Robert Rigby at Chirk Church in
Series II. Items organized by form, 1422-1946 (bulk 1697-1946): This series contains minimally identified materials in a variety of material types and sizeable runs of periodicals, newspapers, and World War II posters, grouped in nine subseries by form rather than by name (account books; scrapbook; manuscripts; tintype; cartoons; printed ephemera; periodicals; newspapers; World War II posters).
The subseries Account books contains: an account book kept by an unidentified Boston merchant and one kept by an unidentified Concord merchant; fragments of two account books (one for a Boston business, one for a Smithfield, Rhode Island business); and a blank (unused) soft-cover ledger volume. The subseries Scrapbook consists of a scrapbook kept by an unidentified Boston or Boston-area compiler. The subseries Manuscripts includes: a fragment of a manuscript in Italian on vellum (dated 1422; the earliest item in the Concord Antiquarian Society Collection); three documents on parchment (one a fragment only); a poem; a listing of births (family name not given); prayers and religious reflections by an unidentified writer; a manuscript headed “B.Watson,” opening with the words “What is conscience?”; a fragment of a manuscript diary of sermons; and a sheaf of sermons and religious reflections. The subseries Tintype consists of one tintype from a portrait of an unidentified man. The subseries Cartoons contains a single sheet of paper with a Civil War period cartoon sketched in pencil on each side. The subseries Printed ephemera includes an envelope with an engraved portrait (John Charles Frémont?) and an engraved invitation (Inaugural Reception Promenade Concert, 1881). The subseries Periodicals consists of issues of The American Quarterly Review, The Edinburgh Review, and The North American Review, most of them from the collection of the Reverend Hersey Bradford Goodwin. The subseries Newspapers includes issues of newspapers and newspaper supplements or inserts published in various American locations, a number of them in Boston (some fifty titles represented). The subseries World War II posters consists of twenty-eight wartime posters (most represented by two or more copies), some by named artists (Norman Rockwell, Stevan Dohanos, Edmundson, E. McKnight Kauffer).
PROVENANCE: The Concord Antiquarian Society acquired the manuscript, ephemeral, and printed holdings in this collection from many gifts by numerous donors over a period of decades, from the late nineteenth into the mid-twentieth century. When specified in the descriptive information provided to the Library by the Society at the time the collection was transferred, donor name, date of donation to the CAS, and CAS number are included in the container list below.
SOURCE OF ACQUISITION: The Concord Antiquarian Society deposited the collection in the Concord Free Public Library in October of 1971. Negotiations toward a permanent gift took place in 1972 and 1973. The Board of Governors of the Concord Antiquarian Society voted in November of 1973 to make the deposit a gift, and the Concord Free Public Library Corporation voted the following month to accept the gift. The formal transfer of the collection was complete by or in early 1974.
ACCESS/PERMISSIONS: The Concord Free Public Library is the sole owner of the Concord Antiquarian Society Collection here described. All questions about access and permissions should be directed to the Curator of the Library’s William Munroe Special Collections.
ASSOCIATED COLLECTIONS: A number of separately cataloged collections and items in the Concord Free Public Library’s Special Collections were removed from the Concord Antiquarian Society Collection after its donation to the Library in the 1970s (see Processing History, below). The Library also holds several collections donated later by the Concord Museum. Additionally, the Library has acquired from sources other than the Concord Antiquarian Society/Concord Museum some collections relating to, or including items relating to, the Society’s activities and holdings (John Shepard Keyes Papers, 1837-1908; George Tolman Papers, ca. 1857-1904; Winnifred Sturdy Collection of Papers and Records Connected Primarily with Concord, Mass, 1663-1951; Allen French Papers Relating to the Proposed Transfer of the Adams Tolman Collection of Native American Artifacts from the Concord Free Public Library to the Concord Antiquarian Society, 1933-1934). The Concord Museum retains its own organizational archives, and also some manuscript and printed materials directly related to its decorative arts holdings.
PROCESSING HISTORY: For nearly two decades after its acquisition by the Concord Free Public Library, the Concord Antiquarian Society Collection was shelved according to an internal numbering system established by the Society, with patron access provided through handwritten or typed catalog cards containing a line or two of identifying information.
Once the collection was formally donated to the Library, CFPL staff began removing certain types of materials (for example, Concord-related broadsides and ephemera, printed books and pamphlets, and photographs) that might be added to established collections or serve as replacements for worn copies of much-used items. Some coherent sub-collections (Frank Merrill’s illustrations for the 1880 Roberts Brothers edition of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women and Stow family papers, for instance) were removed from the collection and handled as discrete units. Some items (volumes of Middlesex Agricultural Society records and Reuben Brown account books among them) were combined with similar Library holdings to form more comprehensive collections. This process continued into the 1990s.
In 1996, under a grant to the Concord Free Public Library by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC grant number 95-048), Project Assistant Sheri Kelley roughly reorganized the CAS Collection (minus materials that had earlier been removed from it), discarding CAS order in favor of a system that recognized personal, family, and organizational names as the points of entry by which researchers typically access manuscript and archival collections, and that also took into account the advisability of grouping some types of materials by form rather than name.
In 1997, volunteer and former intern Ruthanne Sheinkopf reworked portions of the reorganized collection and prepared a preliminary finding aid for a major part of it. In 2005 and 2006, Curator Leslie Wilson refined the organizational scheme, arranged all materials in the collection within it, prepared this full descriptive finding aid (recording CAS numbers and available information on the source of each item’s acquisition by the Society), and rehoused the entire collection.
Because this finding aid does not include material removed from the Concord Antiquarian Society Collection to other Library collections over the years, it represents only a part of the holdings given by the Society to the Concord Free Public Library in the 1970s. However, the Library’s online cataloging and electronic finding aids for discrete collections consisting of or including CAS materials systematically provide CAS numbers and acquisition information.
PROCESSED BY: LPW; finding aid completed 04/06. Processing assistance provided by volunteers Reed Anthony, Bette Aschaffenburg, and Jiro Ishihara.
To view the description of the contents of a section of the collection, click on the line in which it is listed.
SERIES II. Items organized by form, 1422-1946 (bulk 1697-1946):
Subseries A. Account books, 1770-1876 (bulk 1770-[186-?])
Subseries B. Scrapbook, ca. 1820-1858 (bulk ca. 1820-ca. 1830)
Subseries C. Manuscripts, 1422-1836, plus undated (bulk 1697-1836)
Subseries D. Tintype (undated)
Subseries F. Printed ephemera, [1845], 1881
Subseries G. Periodicals, 1827-1832
Subseries H. Newspapers, 1758 (in reprint)-1946
Subseries I. World War II posters, 1942-1945
CONTAINER LIST
SERIES I. Papers, documents, records, and ephemera filed by personal, family, or organizational name, 1676-1957:
Abbott and Lane papers, 1752-1866:
All presented by Edgar G. Rollins, Somerville, Mass.
Oversize Box 1, Folder 1:
20 Acres Standing Wood at Auction in Bedford. Will Be Sold at Public Auction … White and Yellow of first quality … Per order Mrs. L.H. Heywood. Bedford, Dec. 12, 1866. W.A. Lane & Co.,: Auctioneers [printed broadside] (Concord: Tolman's Book, Card and Job Printing Office, 1866). CAS D-305.
Box 1, Folder 1:
Will of Alice Stearns Abbott (undated). CAS D-305a.
Setting off of widow's thirds of Mrs. Lydia Lane (widow of Timothy), 1793 Dec. 30. CAS D-305b.
Inventory of the estate of Alice A. Lane, 1853 July 20. CAS D-305c.
Deed, Job Lane to Timothy Lane, 1756 Feb. 9, for pasture land in Bedford. CAS D-305d.
“Land of Dea. Job Lane Given to His Son Timothy Lane. Surveyed November A.D. 1755. Step. Davis Surd. … ” CAS D-305e.
Inventory of estate of Stephen Lane, 1827 May 28 (recorded 1827 June 5). CAS D-305f.
Bill for payment from estate of Allace A. Lane to John M. Hayward, 1854. CAS D-305g.
Deed, Matthew Whipple to Timothy Lane, 1757 Jan. 12, for upland and swamp in Bedford. CAS D-305h.
Account of funeral expenses for Allace A. Lane. 1854 Apr. 26 [?]. CAS D-305i.
“An account of the Births and Deaths of the Family of Timothy Lane, of Bedford … ,” ca. 1827. CAS D-305j.
Deed, Moses Abbott to Timothy Lane, 1757 Dec. 28, for land in Bedford. CAS D-305k.
Moses Abbott-Alice Stearns genealogy, containing entries dating 1761-1801. CAS D-305l.
Agreement between John Abbot of Westford and Susan J. Abbott [sic] of Bedford, 1837 May 9, regarding care of and expenses for her son John Henry Abbot. CAS D-305m.
“An Inventory of the Estate of Moses Abbott. Appraised Aug. 25th 1836.” CAS D-
305n.
Plan of a house, labeled “Moses Abbott, Bedford, Mass.” (undated). CAS D-305o.
“Land of Dea. Job Lane in Bedford Given to His Son Timothy Lane. Surveyed Decemr. ye 22nd 1752” (addendum 1761). CAS D-305p.
Deed, Job Lane to Timothy Lane, 1760 May 21, for land in Bedford. CAS D-305q.
Deed,
Deed, Ziba Lane to Stephen Lane, 1792 Apr. 5, for two pieces of property in Bedford. CAS D-305s.
Deed, Stephen Lane to David Reed and Eliab B. Lane, 1812 Jan. 17, for property in Bedford. CAS D-305t.
Deed, Job Lane to Timothy Lane, 1761 Apr. 1, for plow land and wood land in Bedford. CAS D-305u.
Deed, Timothy Lane to Stephen Lane, 1788 Jan. 11, for property in Bedford. CAS D-305v.
Four printed calling cards: calling card of Mr. and Mrs. J. Henry Abbott; “Beauty and Friendship”; “The Voice of Friendship”; “A fair exotic I have known … ” CAS D-305w.
Oversize Box 1, Folder 1:
Middlesex Mutual Fire Insurance Company policy on house and shoemaker's shop of Moses Abbott, 1829 Jan. 3. CAS D-1153.1.
Adams deeds: SEE UNDER CARGILL.
Alcott, A.B. (payment to): SEE UNDER CONCORD (MASS.).
Aldrich lease, 1696:
Box 1, Folder 2:
Lease (on parchment, folded), Francis Aldrich to Robert Ling, 1696 Sept. 6, for property in Suffolk,
Ammidon letter book, 1823-1825:
Box 1, Folder 3:
Letter book containing
Archbald-Whitmarsh genealogy (undated):
Box 1, Folder 4:
Family record for Henry and Emily Whitmarsh Archbald (undated). No CAS number. Donor unidentified.
Baldwin letters, 1812:
From the estate of Hallie C. Blake, Lexington, Mass., Vice President and Director of Lexington Trust (d. 1936 Feb. 25):
Box 1, Folder 5:
Two ALS, Tilly Merrick, Abiel Heywood, and Joseph Barrett to David Baldwin of East Sudbury, Concord, 1812 July 3 and 1812 Mar. 3, regarding county convention of Federalists. CAS D-1149.
Barber deed, 1758:
Oversize Box 1, Folder 2:
Deed, Mary Carlton to William Barber (of Charlestown), 1758 Nov. 20, for property in Charlestown. No CAS number. Donor unidentified.
Barrett papers and records, 1775-1862:
Box 1, Folder 6:
Note, Concord, 1812 Dec. 17: “I was caught in Bever Pond, in Lincoln, at 11 o'clock this day, by Messrs. T. Buttrick, S. Barrett, & H. Hunt,—& being the King of a large shoal of my subjects, & a very proud fish; I cannot consent to be roasted at any other than the ministerial spit.” CAS D-2079.3. Donor unidentified.
ALS, Bathsheba Whitman to Mrs. Susan Barrett (of Concord), Lexington, 1845 Nov. 30, urging a visit. CAS D-2079.2. Donor unidentified.
Notes (undated) by Cummings E. Davis on Barrett family genealogy. CAS D-2052.1a. Donor unidentified.
Deed, John M. Cheney to Jonathan F., Richard, Eliza W., and William E. Barrett (heirs of Joseph Barrett), 1850 June 24, for property mortgaged by Joseph Barrett. CAS D-2078.4. Donor unidentified.
Deed to David P. Barrett for lot no. 134 in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, 1862 May 10. CAS D-2087.1. Donor unidentified.
Box 1, Folder 7:
“The Civil War Experience of Major James A. Barrett, Born in Concord, Mass. 1832, Died in Brooklyn, N.Y., 1885” [autobiographical manuscript (transcribed)], with added typed page (transcription by Emma Barrett Lothrop from a letter from her sister Clara Hosmer Barrett Peterson regarding an old soldier's recollections of their father). CAS D-1102.2. Presented by Emma Barrett Lothrop (Mrs. Fred L. Lothrop, Fontana, Wisconsin), 1961 Oct.
Box 1, Folder 8:
Middlesex Society of Husbandmen and Manufacturers membership certificate for Richard Barrett, 1842 Sept. 27. CAS D-1177f. Presented by Mrs. J. Gleason, Sudbury, 1895 Oct. 7.
Box 1, Folder 9:
Account book, R. Barrett & Co., 1852 Mar. 15-1854 Apr. 21. CAS D-1824. Donor unidentified.
Box 1, Folder 10:
Barrett gift of Revolutionary War records, 1775-1777 (the name Barrett not represented in the records themselves): enlistment document for “the Massachusetts Service, for the Preservation of the Liberties of America” [no year specified] May 10-Sept. 12 (CAS D-2078.1); enlistment document for service in the Continental Army, 1775-1776 (CAS D-2078.1); commission of Edward Brigham as captain of the “third Company in the Sixth Regiment of Militia in the County of Worcester,” 1777 Aug. 27 (CAS D-2078.1b). All the gift of Mrs. Richard F. Barrett, Ridgelea, Warrenton, Virginia, 1940 Aug. (formerly the property of William Barrett of Concord).
Box 1, Folder 11:
Manuscript “Genealogy of Barrett family of Concord, Mass.,” copied by Frank S. Wilson, Brighton, Mass., 1904 Sept. 27, from Potter's 1887 Genealogies of Some Old Families of Concord, Mass. CAS D-2086.1. Presented by Mrs. Sherman Ware Barrett, Harvey, Ill., 1945 July.
Oversize Box 1, Folder 3:
Diploma, Nathan Henry Barrett, for completion of course of studies for B.A. at Harvard University, 1851 July 16, signed by President Jared Sparks and others. CAS D-1176d. Donor unidentified.
Barrett: SEE ALSO UNDER RICE.
Bartlett papers, 1816-1900:
Box 1, Folder 12:
Typescript “The Bartlett Family written by Susie Arthur in 1900.” CAS D-1110.2. Donor unidentified.
Certificate, Gorham Bartlett, for completion of course of studies in Greek at Harvard University, 1845 Aug. 27, signed by Professor C.C. Felton and President Josiah Quincy. CAS D-1176a. Donor unidentified.
Certificate, Gorham Bartlett, for completion of course of studies in Latin at Harvard University, 1845 Aug. 27, signed by Professor Charles Beck and President Josiah Quincy. CAS D-1176c. Donor unidentified.
Oversize Box 1, Folder 4:
Diploma, Josiah Bartlett, for completion of course of studies for B.A. at Harvard University, 1816 Aug. 28, signed by President John T. Kirkland and others. CAS D-1175a. Donor unidentified.
Diploma, Josiah Bartlett, for completion of course of studies for M.D. at Harvard University, 1819 Aug. 25, signed by President John T. Kirkland and others. CAS D-1175b. Donor unidentified.
Certificate of membership in Massachusetts Historical Society, Josiah Bartlett, 1836 Aug. 30. CAS D-1175c. Donor unidentified.
Certificate of membership in Massachusetts Historical Society, Josiah Bartlett, 1838 July 28. CAS D-1175d. Donor unidentified.
Diploma, Gorham Bartlett, for completion of course of studies for B.A. at Harvard University, 1845 Aug. 27, signed by President Josiah Quincy and others. CAS D-1176a. Donor unidentified.
Barton stock certificate, 1846:
Box 1, Folder 13:
Stock certificate to Sarah Barton for share number 41028 of Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway Company stock, 1846 Sept. 19. CAS D-2097.1. Donor unidentified.
Bates hay certificate, 1822:
Box 1, Folder 14:
Certificate for weighing of a load of hay belonging to Caleb Bates (John Vose, hay-weigher), 1822 Sept. 28. No CAS number.
Berkshire Bank bank note, 1807:
Box 1, Folder 15:
Five dollar bank note, Berkshire Bank (Pittsfield, Mass.), 1807. CAS D-1129. Presented by Frank Croft, Concord, 1959 Apr.
Biglow papers, 1821-1828:
All presented by Bertha L. Childs of Lawrence, Mass., great-granddaughter of Asa Biglow; first two items listed presented 1945 Dec., third item 1942 May 28.
Box 1, Folder 16:
Military commission of Asa Biglow as “Sergeant of a Company of Infantry in Concord, in the Third Regiment in the first Brigade, and Third Division of the Militia of Massachusetts,” 1824 Sept. 27. CAS D-2007a.
Military commission of Asa Biglow as “Sergeant of a Company Infantry [sic] in the 3 Regt in the company commanded by Capt Sherman Barrett in the First Brigade, and Third Division of the Militia of Massachusetts,” 1828 Sept. 19. CAS D-2007.
Oversize Box 1, Folder 5:
Certificate of membership in the Corinthian Lodge (Freemasons) in Concord, Asa Biglow, 1821 Nov. 5. CAS D-1152.1.
Bond (?) manuscript, 1855:
Box 1, Folder 17:
Untitled manuscript (a work of fiction; pages disordered), with the following unrelated notation (in the same hand) at the head of page [1]: “Jany. 5th 1855. Please pay Joanna Amory on order the Dividend now due on the Boston & Worcester Rail Road Co. Harriet B. Bond. To the Treasurer[,] Boston & Worcester R.R. Co.” CAS D-1143. Donor unidentified.
Bond: SEE ALSO UNDER BOUND.
Boston Bank bank note, 1813:
Box 1, Folder 18:
One dollar bank note, Boston Bank, 1813. CAS D-1168. Donor unidentified.
Boston Clay Club ribbon, 1844:
Box 1, Folder 19:
Boston Clay Club satin ribbon, 1844 Sept. 19. CAS M-1802. Donor unidentified.
Bound letters, 1790:
Box 1, Folder 20:
ALS, Ephraim Bound to Abel Weston (of Concord), Boston, 1790 May 2, regarding death of Rev. Thomas Gair. CAS D-2090.3. Donor unidentified.
ALS, Ephraim Bound to “My well be Loved Sister,” Boston, 1790 June 13. CAS D-1133.2. Donor unidentified.
Bowers deeds, 1731-1733:
Box 1, Folder 21:
Deed, John Spencer (of Boston) to Jonathan Bowers (of Billerica), 1733 Oct. 2, for property in Billerica. CAS D-2088.5. Donor unidentified.
Deed, Ebenezer Harriss (of Chelmsford) to Jonathan Bowers (of Billerica), 1731 Dec. 28, for “the one full third Part of the homstead and all the Parcels of land and medow which belonged to Nathaniel Blodget late of Chelmsford Deceased.” CAS D-2088.4. Donor unidentified.
Brettell letter, 1850:
Box 1, Folder 22:
ALS, J. Brettell to [Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar], Rotherham, 1850 Aug. 22, thanking Hoar for the printed proceedings of the 1850 celebration of the Concord Fight in Concord, referring to time spent with Hoar at Ambleside, where the two glimpsed “the greatest Poet of the Lakes” (i.e. Wordsworth), and elaborating on Brettell's interest in spelling reform and shorthand. Two printed brochures relating to phonetic spelling and shorthand enclosed. CAS D-1162. Donor unidentified.
Brigham papers: SEE UNDER MERRIAM.
Brimblecom letter, 1850:
Box 1, Folder 23:
ALS, Lucy A. Brimblecom to “My dear mother,” Grafton, 1850 June 20. CAS D-1155. Donor unidentified.
Brimblecom: SEE ALSO UNDER BUTTRICK.
Brooks and Francis papers, 1724-1836:
All presented by Mrs. Edwin C. Jenney of Brookline, Mass.
Box 1, Folder 24:
Mid-19th century genealogical record of Francis and Brooks families, updated to 1923, with curls and braids of hair of several family members affixed. CAS D-1150.1.
Mid-19th century genealogical record of Francis and Brooks families. CAS D-1156.1.
Middlesex Mutual Life Insurance Company policy for Isaac Brooks (house, furniture, currier's shop, tan-yard, and stock in currier's shop and tan-yard), 1826 Apr. 17. CAS D-1158.1.
Middlesex Mutual Life Insurance Company policy for Isaac Brooks (house, currier's shop, tan-yard, etc.), [1836?] (policy damaged; top portion only survives). No CAS number.
Manuscript “Names of the Petitioners for the Lexington Road in Lincoln—and vicinity,” 1830 Aug. 10. Petitioners include Isaac Brooks and Asa Brooks. CAS D-1159.1.
Oversize Box 1, Folder 6:
Deed, Ebenezer Brooks (of Concord) to Samuel Brooks (of Concord), 1724 Feb. 16, for meadow land in Concord. CAS D-1155.1.
Undated samples of work done by Jane Francis at the West Writing School. CAS D-1157.1.
Brooks: SEE ALSO UNDER WHITE DESK.
Brooks House (Acton, Mass.) clipping, 1934:
Box 1, Folder 25:
Clipped article by Frederick Brooks Noyes, labeled “Transcript, Nov. 17, 1934,” about the old Brooks House facing the common in Acton, Mass. CAS D-1151.1. Donor unidentified.
Brown papers and records, 1792-1803:
Box 1, Folder 26:
Certificate for smallpox innoculation of Misses Hepzibah and Sally Brown “in the hospital in Concord,” 1792 Oct. 3, signed by Joseph Hunt, Isaac Hurd, and Abiel Heywood, “Physicians of said Hospital.” CAS D-1730. Presented by George Thoreau Thatcher, Bangor, Maine. (The Sally Brown referred to in the item married Samuel Thatcher, George Thoreau Thatcher's great-grandfather.)
Box 1, Folder 27:
ALS, Eliphalet Bayley to Reuben Brown (saddler of Concord), Natick, 1801 Apr. 19(?), regarding account. No CAS number. Donor unidentified.
Collection of eleven miscellaneous accounts, notes, etc., relating to, or apparently relating to, the saddlery business of Reuben Brown of Concord, ca. 1801-1803. No CAS number. Donor unidentified.
Manuscript poem, “On the absconding of happy Ringwood,” 1802 July 1, apparently part of Reuben Brown papers and records. No CAS number. Donor unidentified.
Three manuscript pages of regimental records, 1800 Jan., apparently part of Reuben Brown papers and records. No CAS number. Donor unidentified.
Brown papers: SEE ALSO UNDER FARMER AND BROWN.
John Brown memorial program, 1859:
Box 1, Folder 28:
Printed program (broadside), Martyrdom of John Brown. Exercises at the Town, [sic] Hall, in Concord, On Friday, December 2nd, 1859 … CAS D-1105 (two copies) and CAS K-395aax. One copy (CAS D-1105) presented by Charles E. Brown; one copy (CAS K-395aax) presented by George Holden, 1940; donor of third copy unidentified.
Bruce: SEE UNDER WHITE DESK.
Provincia de Buenos Ayres currency, 1841:
Box 1, Folder 29:
One peso bill, Provincia de Buenos Ayres, 1841. CAS D-1129d. Presented by Frank Croft, Concord, 1959 Apr.
Bulkeley house location plan (undated):
Box 1, Folder 30:
Printed plan (undated), Sketch showing Location of wall believed to be the foundation of House of Rev. Peter Bulkeley Concord Mass. CAS D-1161. Donor unidentified.
Bull papers, ca. 1833-1862:
Oversize Box 1, Folder 7:
Certificate of membership in Bunker Hill Monument Association, Ephraim W. Bull, ca. 1833. CAS D-2061.1. Donor unrecorded.
Box 1, Folder 31:
ALS, Ephraim W. Bull to “My dear Sister,” Concord, 1862 Dec. 24. CAS D-1188g. Purchased by Russell H. Kettell from Mrs. Adams Tolman, and presented to the Concord Antiquarian Society in 1937.
Burr papers and Burr & Prichard records, 1815-1939:
Box 1, Folder 32:
Deed, Charles Melven [Melvin] (of Concord) as administrator of the estate of Jacob Farrar (of Concord) to Samuel Burr (of Concord), 1821 Oct. 27, for land and buildings in Concord. No CAS number. Donor unidentified.
Writ directing attachment of property of Phinehas Goodrich (of Acton) in the matter of Burr vs. Goodrich, 1825 Oct. 7. No CAS number. Donor unidentified.
Bill of lading for shipment of ten casks of timothy seed by Hussey & Mackay to Samuel Burr, 1824 Feb. 18. No CAS number. Donor unidentified.
Deed, Abel Minott (of Lincoln) to Samuel Burr, 1827 June 20, for a pew in the meetinghouse in Lincoln. No CAS number. Donor unidentified.
Memorandum of agreement between Samuel Stowe, Jr. and Samuel Burr and Moses Prichard, 1827 Oct. 31. (Burr and Prichard were to build a barn for Stowe.) CAS B-2072.6. Donor unidentified.
Deed, Peter Jones (of Concord) as executor for estate of Peter Jones (of Concord) to Samuel Burr, 1827 Apr. 16, for property in Concord. No CAS number. Donor unidentified.
Deed, Abel Moore as Deputy Sheriff of Middlesex County to Samuel Burr, 1828 Nov. 4, for the right of equity in redemption for property in Concord. No CAS number. Donor unidentified.
ALS, W. Prescott to Moses Prichard, 1830 Nov. 10, denying knowledge of Prichard's financial demands against Prescott. No CAS number. Donor unidentified.
Box 1, Folder 33:
One hundred and six bills (most receipted) and accounts for purchases of various goods and services made primarily by Samuel Burr, a few made by Moses Prichard, 1817-1831. No CAS numbers. Donor unidentified.
Box 1, Folder 34:
Eleven promissory notes (payment promised by or to Samuel Burr), 1817-1830. No CAS numbers. Donor unidentified.
Five business-related notes (requests to Samuel Burr to make payments to specified individuals, requests to Burr for delivery of goods, and one note by Burr to “Mr. Prichard” requesting payment), 1823-1829 (the note to Mr. Prichard undated). No CAS numbers. Donor unidentified.
Town of Concord tax bills for Samuel Burr and Moses Prichard, 1818-1829. No CAS numbers. Donor unidentified.
Four notices (two from Bunker-Hill Bank and two from Cambridge Bank) to Samuel Burr and Moses Prichard, 1830-1831, requesting payment for notes due. No CAS numbers. Donor unidentified.
Three legal documents (two writs of execution and one confession), 1824-1826, relating to cases in which money was owed Samuel Burr by Phinehas Bemis (of Lincoln), Daniel Reed (of Burlington), and Asa Parker (of Westford). Bemis and Parker writs: B-2072.1. Donor unidentified.
Bill, Harriet Moore to the Town of Concord, for instructing the Centre Distict School from 1825 May 9-1825 Oct. 15, receipted 1827 Jan. 19: “Recd. the above amount of Moses Prichard / Harriet Moore.” No CAS number. Donor unidentified.
Account of Samuel Burr with Israel Keyes for sale of stoves, 1822 Mar. 13-1826 Aug. 26. No CAS number. Donor unidentified.
ALS (undated), Samuel Burr to Israel Keyes & Co., containing account of Burr's sale of Keyes's stoves. No CAS number. Donor unidentified.
Account of purchases made by Samuel Burr of John Thoreau, 1828 Mar. 25-[1830] Mar. 24, receipted 1830 Sept. 24. No CAS number. Donor unidentified.
ALS, M.S. Lincoln to Samuel Burr, Boston, 1830 Dec. 3, regarding payment on account. No CAS number. Donor unidentified.
Manuscript account titled “An Account currant of the Mill owners” [Concord Mill Dam Company?] (undated), marked in ink on reverse “Memo S. Burr.” Damaged (in two pieces). No CAS number. Donor unidentified.
Two fragments of accounts of Samuel Burr with unidentified parties, one 1815-1818, one 1817-1819. No CAS numbers. Donor unidentified.
Writ directing Moses Prichard as Deputy Sheriff of Middlesex County to sell personal property of named parties at public auction, [1831 or 1832], written on reverse of description of real property. No CAS number. Donor unidentified.
Buss papers: SEE UNDER WOOD.
Buttrick and Buttrick-related papers and ephemera, 1890-1910:
Box 1, Folder 35:
Items in this folder from the bequest of Miss Martha Buttrick.
Printed memorial card (gold on black; cabinet card size) for Mrs. Lucretia Buttrick, who died 1892 Jan. 14 at the age of ninety. CAS D-1105.1.
Printed invitation with tear-off response form for Buttrick family reunion in Concord, 1897 Sept. 8, dated Melrose, 1897 July 1. CAS D-1107.1a.
Printed card of admission to Buttrick family reunion in Concord, 1897 Sept. 6. CAS D-1107.1b.
Receipt (printed, with manuscript additions) for the gift of one hundred dollars by Miss Martha M. Buttrick to the Highland Congregational Church, Lowell, Mass., toward the liquidation of the church debt, signed 1899 Nov. 29 by James G. Buttrick (treasurer). CAS D-1110.1.
Two copies of menu (hand written in pencil, on lined paper) for Thanksgiving dinner at the Grand Street Dining Hall in Lowell, Mass., 1902 Nov. 27. CAS D-1104.1a and 1104.1b.
Certificate of honorary membership for Miss Martha M. Buttrick in the Lincoln Farm Association, 1907 Sept. 28. CAS D-1727.
Obituary for Martha M. Buttrick (photocopy), from Lowell Courier Citizen, 1910 Mar. 11. CAS D-1112.1.
Manuscript paper (undated), with envelope, on the life of Major John Buttrick, prepared by his great-granddaughter, read at a meeting of the D.A.R. in Lowell at Gov. Greenhalge's home. CAS D-1108.1.
ALS (undated), Florrie E.D. to “Dear Friend.” CAS D-2046.
Box 1, Folder 36:
Items in this folder—originally belonging to Mrs. Alexander Martin of Boston (whose grandmother was a Buttrick)—presented by Miss Alice B. Willson, Salem, Mass.
Ticket of admittance (printed, with manuscript additions) for Col. J. Buttrick & Lady to Concord Ball, at Murphy's Hall, 1810 Jan. 22. CAS D-1154b.
Ticket of admittance (printed, with manuscript additions) for Miss Harriet Buttrick to Concord Ball, at Hamilton's Hotel, 1815 Jan. 3. CAS D-1154a.
Manuscript paper, “A Conference. On the pleasures of the antiquarian, traveller, literary recluse, and man of business. On the pleasures of the traveller,” by Samuel Brimblecom. CAS D-1154.
Manuscript paper, “A Conference. On the influence on personal happiness of natural temper, cultivated taste, external condition, and social intercourse. Influence of external condition [by Samuel Brimblecom].
Buttrick: SEE ALSO UNDER HOLDEN.
Buttrick: SEE ALSO UNDER WHITE DESK.
Campbell, Walter L.: SEE UNDER CITIZENS' BANK OF LOUISIANA.
Box 1, Folder 37:
Dominion of
Cargill and Cargill-related papers and deeds, 1750-1844:
Box 1, Folder 38:
CAS typescript description of the following four documents.
Military discharge certificate for Hugh Carrgill [Cargill] from His Majesty's XXIXth Regiment of Foot, as “unfit for further service,” 1774 Jan. 23. CAS D-1711.1. Donor unidentified.
Newspaper fragment from The New England Chronicle and Essex Gazette, 1775 [Nov. 2?]. CAS D-1711.2. Donor unidentified.
Two fragments of accounts. CAS D-1711.3-4. Donor unidentified.
Will of Hugh Cargill, 1798 Dec. 6. No CAS number. Donor unidentified.
Deed, Paul Adams (of Concord) to Amos H. Nutting and John Heald (of Carlisle), 1818 Nov. 20, for property in Carlisle. CAS D-2070.1. Donor unidentified.
Deed, John Lucas (of Boston) to Hugh Cargill (of Boston), 1791 Apr. 27, for property in Princeton, Mass. CAS D-2070.2. Donor unidentified.
Deed, Tilly Merrick (of Concord) to Hugh Cargill (of Concord), 1798 Sept. 3, for property in Concord. CAS D-2070.3 Donor unidentified.
Plan of land sold by Tilly Merrick to Hugh Cargill, surveyed by Ephraim Wood, 1798 Aug. 31. CAS D-2070.6. Donor unidentified.
Deed, John Cole (of Concord) to Hugh Cargill (of Boston), 1795 Apr. 16, for land and buildings in Concord. CAS D-2070.4. Donor unidentified.
Deed, John Greenleaf (boatbuilder of Boston) and Mary Greenleaf (his wife) to Rebecca Cargill, 1799 Sept. 5, for land and buildings in Concord. CAS D-2070.5. Donor unidentified.
Deed, Hugh Cargill (of Boston) to Joel Abbot (of Westford), 1797 May 3, for property in Westford. CAS D-2070.7. Donor unidentified.
Deed, Peter Jones (cooper, of Concord) to Paul Adams (of Concord), 1806 Mar. 25. CAS D-2070.8. Donor unidentified.
Deed, Robert Estabrook (of Concord) to Betty Estabrook and Rebecca Estabrook (his daughters), 1791 July 8, for one half of his farm in Concord. CAS D-2070.9. Donor unidentified.
Deed, Thomas Hubbard (of Concord) to Paul Adams (of Concord), 1802 Mar. 27, for pasture and wood land in Concord. CAS D-2070.10. Donor unidentified.
Deed, Daniel Cole (of Boston) to Rebecca Cargill (of Concord), 1799 July 13, for property in Concord. CAS D-2070.11. Donor unidentified.
Deed, Betsey Estabrook (of Concord) to Almira Adams (of Concord), 1844 Sept. 10, for property in Concord. CAS D-2070.12. Donor unidentified.
Deed, Susan D. Adams (widow of and administratrix for John Adams) and heirs Elisha Fuller and Susan Adams Fuller, JohnWheelock Graves and Ann Maria Adams Graves, Ephraim B. Patch and Martha Adams Patch, (all of Lowell), to Almira Adams (of Lowell), 1836 July 25, for property in Concord. CAS D-2070.13. Donor unidentified.
Deed, Isaac Melven (of Concord) to Paul Adams (of Concord), 1802 Apr. 3, for “the one half of the farm adjoining the farm of Robert Estabrook.” CAS D-2070.14. Donor unidentified.
Deed, John Buttrick (of Concord) to Paul Adams (of Concord), 1813 Dec. 10, for pasture land in Concord. CAS D-2070.16. Donor unidentified.
Deed, Norman Clark (of Princeton) to Hugh Cargill (of Boston) and John Lucas (of Boston), 1790 Apr. 24, for property in Princeton. CAS D-2070.17. Donor unidentified.
Deed, Betty Estabrook (of Concord) to Paul Adams (of Concord), 1814 Aug. 5, for “the one half of the lands and buildings lately belonging to Robert Estabrook.” CAS D-2070.18. Donor unidentified.
Deed, Timothy Barrett (of Concord) to Daniel Cole (of Concord), 1750 Dec. 12, for property (including dwelling and barn) in Concord. CAS D-2070.19. Donor unidentified.
Deed, Thomas Hunstable (bricklayer of Concord) to Hugh Cargill (of Concord), 1797 May 21, for a pew (No. 63) in the Concord meetinghouse. CAS D-2070.20. Donor unidentified.
Manuscript notes on life of Hugh Cargill: one page (from a family Bible?); two lined pages. CAS D-2070.21. Donor unidentified; presented to CAS in 1928.
Chandler deed, 1739/40:
Box 1, Folder 39:
Deed, Samuel Chandler (of Concord) to James Chandler (of Concord), 1739/40 Feb. 4, for property in Concord. CAS D-2088.1. Donor unidentified.
Chelsea Bank bank note, 1836:
Box 1, Folder 40:
Three dollar bank note, Chelsea Bank (Chelsea, Mass.), 1836. CAS D-1168. Donor unidentified.
The Cincinnati menu and wine list, 1854:
Box 1, Folder 41:
Printed menu and wine list, The Cincinnati, 1854 July 4. CAS K-395aaq. Donor unidentified.
Citizens' Bank of Louisiana check, 1858 (?):
Box 1, Folder 42:
Citizens' Bank of Louisiana check, for $8,000, made out to Walter L. Campbell, 1858 (?) Feb. 1. CAS D-1168. Donor unidentified.
Clark recollections, 1942:
Box 1, Folder 43:
“A Childhood recollection of Thoreau's ‘hut,'” by Ina Clark, 1942 July 8: manuscript of paper read at the 125th anniversary celebration of the birth of Henry David Thoreau at the Colonial Inn, Concord, Mass. CAS D-1154.1. Presented by Ina Clark, 1942 July.
Clover Club, 1894:
Box 1, Folder 44:
Printed program for “A Man of Letters,” presented by the Clover Club of Acton, Mass., at the Acton Town Hall, 1894 Dec. 19. CAS D-408z. Presented by Fred A. Tower, 1949.
Coates certificate, 1822 (?):
Oversize Box 1, Folder 8:
Certificate of membership in the Third Degree for Christopher Coates in Humanity Lodge (of Freemasons) in Brimfield, Mass., 1822 (?).
Cole deeds: SEE UNDER CARGILL.
Concord (Mass.) documents, 1676-1924:
Box 1, Folder 45:
Manuscript warrant to the Constables of Concord to summon Ebenezer Prout, Daniel Deane, Thomas Goble, and others to appear before the Court of Assistants in Boston on1696 Sept. 13, 1676 Sept. 9. No CAS number. Donor unidentified.
Receipt, A. Bronson Alcott to the Town of Concord for services as Superintendent of Schools, 1863 Feb. 28. CAS D-1182. Presented by Russell H. Kettell, 1936.
Printed request by Street Watering Committee for subscription of payment for sprinkling of streets during the coming season, made out (in manuscript) to A.J. Harlow, 1890 Apr. 19. CAS D-2006b. Presented by Mrs. Irving B. Howe, 1944.
Printed form tax bill for 1903 (not filled out). No CAS number. Donor unrecorded.
Typed handbill announcing community memorial service in Town Hall in honor of President Warren Gamaliel Harding, 1923 Aug. 8. CAS D-1131. Donor unidentified.
Printed program, Dedication exercises of the permanent memorial to the Concord Men Who Gave Their Lives in the World War, 1924 May 25. CAS D-1971a. Presented by Marion Peterson, 1967.
Concord Academy catalog, 1833:
Box 1, Folder 46:
Catalogue of Scholars Who Have Attended the Academy in Concord, Mass., the Quarter Ending November, 1833, Being the First Quarter of the Twelfth Year Since Its Establishment ([Concord: The Academy], 1833). CAS D-1190b. Donor unidentified.
Concord and Groton Mail Stage: SEE UNDER CONCORD MAIL STAGE.
Concord Antiquarian Society correspondence and records, 1888-1957:
Box 1, Folder 47:
ALS, George Frisbie Hoar to “My dear Brooks” [George Merrick Brooks], Washington, 1888 May 9, on U.S. Senate letterhead, regarding copies from State Department documents relating to the Revolution (the copies referred to filed under
Knapp). No CAS number. Letter presumed to have been filed at CAS by George Brooks.
TLS, Sherman Hoar to “Vice-Chairman” of the Concord Antiquarian Society, Boston, 1898 Sept. 8, on Offices of Samuel Hoar and Sherman Hoar letterhead, regarding a claim by Charles Fay Heywood, Administrator of the Estate of George Heywood, on a CAS clock formerly the property of George Heywood. CAS D-2059.1c. Letter presumed to have been filed at CAS by recipient.
Manuscript receipt for payment by Concord Antiquarian Society to Mrs. Anna Tracy for eighteen yards of rag carpet, 1901 May 8. CAS D-2064.1b. Receipt presumed to have been filed by CAS financial officer.
ALS, Edward E. Hale to “Dear Sir,” Roxbury, 1902 Aug. 10, declining invitation to speak [at the anniversary of Concord's founding and of the founding of the Concord Antiquarian Society], on letterhead. CAS D-2060.1b. Letter presumed to have been filed at CAS by recipient.
ALS, William Everett to “My dear Sir,” Quincy, 1902 Aug. 23, declining invitation to speak at the anniversary of Concord's founding and of the founding of the Concord Antiquarian Society. CAS D-2060.1a. Letter presumed to have been filed at CAS by recipient.
Three ALS, Mrs. G.S. Conger to George Tolman, Gouverneur, N.Y., 1902 Oct. 30, Nov. 17, and Dec. 22, regarding the genealogy of Abijah Wheeler. CAS D-2060.1f. Letters presumed to have been filed at CAS by George Tolman.
ALS, Henry S. Perham to George Tolman, Chelmsford, 1903 Dec. 24, regarding extracts from the diary of Rev. Ebenezer Bridge of Chelmsford, and Bridge's association with Dr. Cummings [John Cumming, Cumings, or Cuming] of Concord, accompanied by pages with transcribed extracts. No CAS number. Letter presumed to have been filed at CAS by George Tolman.
TLS, Sybil F. (Mrs. Joseph) Krauskopf to “Historical Society, Concord, Mass.,” Philadelphia, 1908 Aug. 31, on Rabbi Joseph Kraus letterhead, suggesting the preservation of the Orchard House (then for sale) by the Concord Antiquarian Society. CAS D-2060.1c. Letter presumed to have been filed at CAS by recipient.
ALS, Julian de Cordova to “Dear Sir,” Somerville (Mass.), 1921 May 16, on Union Glass Company letterhead (the cover letter for the gift of “an old letter concerning the elections in Concord”). CAS 1194d. Letter presumed to have been filed at CAS by recipient.
TLS, Louis B. Talbot to Fred A. Tower, Concord, 1928 Oct. 19, on Middlesex County Extension Service in Agriculture and Home Economics letterhead, (the cover letter for the gift of a sheet of William Monroe pencil labels (the labels referred to filed under Monroe/Munroe). CAS D-1107. Letter presumed to have been filed at CAS by Fred Tower.
ALS, John H. Moore to Hazel E. Cummin, Curator, Concord, 1932 Mar. 8, regarding John Brooks Moore and his development of a grape variety in Concord. Accompanied by a note from Allen French requesting that the letter be filed. CAS D-1100.1. Letter filed at CAS by request of Allen French.
Correspondence between Concord Antiquarian Society and Middlesex County Registry of Probate in East Cambridge regarding CAS request to obtain a copy of the will (1909 Nov. 11) of Martha M. Buttrick of Lowell, who bequeathed articles to the CAS. File consists of: TL (carbon copy), Mrs. Howard W. Kent to Middlesex County Registry of Probate, 1942 Apr. 30, requesting the papers listing Martha Buttrick's bequest to the CAS; printed card with manuscript additions from Loring P. Jordan, Register of Probate, 1942 May 6, specifying costs of copy of the will and of unofficial copy of the first page of the will; TL (carbon copy), Mrs. Howard W. Kent to Loring P. Jordan, 1942 May 14, requesting an unofficial copy of the first page of the will; TL (carbon copy), Mrs. Howard Kent to Loring P. Jordan, 1942 May 19, requesting the attachment to the will specifying the items bequeathed to the CAS; copy of will, 194[2] May 31; “unofficial” copy of first page only of will. CAS D-1148.1a. Letter presumed to have been filed at CAS by Mrs.
Two TLS, G. Norman Albree to Concord Antiquarian Society (one addressed to “Gentlemen” and one to Mrs. Howard W. Kent), Boston, 1945 Aug. 23 and 1946 Mar. 7, on letterhead, regarding potential gifts to CAS, accompanied by photocopied clipping concerning a Revolutionary bullet. No CAS number. Letters presumed to have been filed at CAS by recipient(s).
TLS, William E. Foster to “Gentlemen,” New York, 1951 Sept. 5, on Julius Mathews Special Agency letterhead (the cover letter for the gift of a printed broadside Fourth of July feature publication; broadside filed under Julius Mathews Special Agency). CAS D-1164.1. Letter presumed to have been filed at CAS by recipient.
TLS, Edward D. Dee to Mrs. Howard W. Kent, New York City, 1957 July 15, regarding gift of manuscript “The Old Sword,” in the hand of George Tolman (the manuscript referred to filed under Tolman). No CAS number. Letter presumed to have been filed at CAS by Mrs.
ALS, Ruth R. Wheeler to Hazel E. Cummin, Concord, [undated], on Thoreau Farm letterhead, regarding genealogy of Rebecca Wheeler. CAS D-2060.1g. Letter presumed to have been filed at CAS by Hazel Cummin.
Concord Auxiliary Society for the Suppression of Intemperance records, 1814-1817:
Box 1, Folder 48:
Bound manuscript record book for the Concord Auxiliary Society for the Suppression of Intemperance, containing constitution, subscribers' names, lists of officers, minutes, annual reports, and minutes of officers' meetings. CAS D-2076. Presented by Mrs. Sherman Hoar, 1908.
Concord Canoe Club records, 1902:
Box 1, Folder 49:
Printed “Concord Canoe Club Rules Adopted at a Meeting Held September 3, 1902”; “To the Stockholders of the Concord Canoe Club” (printed by-laws, [adopted 1902 Oct. 15]). CAS D-408y and D-408s. Presented by Fred A. Tower, 1949.
Concord Fire Society records, 1794-1849:
Box 1, Folder 50:
Manuscript Concord Fire Society record volume (paper cover, stitched), 1794-1795, including regulations, membership list, and minutes of 1795 Jan. 12 meeting. CAS B-1890.1. Presented by John Shepard Keyes, 1901 Apr. 29.
Typed transcript of same. CAS D-1111.2. Presumed to have been transcribed by a CAS staff member or volunteer.
Box 1, Folder 51:
Manuscript clerk's account book (soft leather cover) of the Concord Fire Society, 1822-1848, with transcribed additions (“Rules & Regulations,” membership list, and amendments to the rules and regulations) copied in 1904 by C.W. Prescott from Dr. Josiah Bartlett's Concord Fire Society record book. CAS K-328. “This book was presented to C.W. Prescott Dec 21 1903 by John S. Keyes.”
Box 1, Folder 52:
Bound manuscript Concord Fire Society record book, 1820-1849, including “Rules and Regulations,” minutes of meetings, listings of Quarterly Committee members, membership list. CAS B-1889.1. Presented by John Shepard Keyes, 1901 Apr. 29.
Box 1, Folder 53:
Bound manuscript Concord Fire Society record book, 1805-1846, including “Rules and regulations” and membership list. Blank pages of volume used later for farm accounts. CAS B-1800.2. Donor unidentified.
Concord Lyceum checks, 1862:
Box 1, Folder 54:
Eight printed checks (two for 5 cents, two for 10 cents, two for 25 cents, and two for 50 cents) directing cashier of Concord Bank to pay bearer (“to enable the Lyceum to make change”), 1862 Dec. 1, signed by Louis A. Surette (President of the Concord Lyceum). One of the 25 cent checks: CAS D-1160; donor unidentified. One of the 5 cent, one of the 10 cent, and one of 50 cent checks CAS D-1168; donor(s) unidentified. One of the 5 cent, one of the 10 cent, one of the 25 cent, and one of the 50 cent checks CAS D-1108; presented by John C. Friend, Beverly, Mass.
Concord Mail Stage/Concord and Groton Mail Stage waybills, 1825-1827:
Box 1, Folder 55:
Four waybills (1825 July 18 and Aug. 21, 1827 May 31 and June 5) for the Concord Mail Stage and Concord and Groton Mail Stage. CAS D-2004, D-2004a-c. Presented by Charlotte Johnson, 1944 Nov. 28.
Concord Mill Dam Company: SEE UNDER WRIGHT.
Confederate States of America bonds and currency, 1861-1864:
Box 1, Folder 56:
Confederate States of America bonds, as follows:
Fifty dollar bond, issued 1861 May 1. CAS D-1185. Donor unidentified.
Five hundred dollar bond, issued 1863 Mar. 2. CAS D-1172a. Donor unidentified.
Five hundred dollar bond, issued 1863 Mar. 2. CAS D-1172b. Donor unidentified.
One thousand dollar bond, issued 1864 July 1. CAS D-1172c. Donor unidentified.
Box 1, Folder 57:
Confederate States of America currency, in the following denominations:
One dollar (1864 Feb. 17). CAS D-1168. Donor unidentified.
Five dollars (1861 Sept. 2). CAS D-1168. Donor unidentified.
Five dollars (1861 Sept. 2). CAS D-1705. Donor unidentified.
Ten dollars (1861 July 25). CAS D-1705. Donor unidentified.
Ten dollars (1861 Sept. 2). CAS D-1168. Donor unidentified.
Ten dollars (1864 Feb. 17). CAS D-1168. Donor unidentified.
Twenty dollars (1863 Apr. 6). No CAS number. Donor unidentified.
Twenty dollars (1864 Feb. 17). CAS D-1168. Donor unidentified.
Fifty dollars (1864 Feb. 17). CAS D-1168. Donor unidentified.
One hundred dollars (1862 Sept. 1). CAS D-1138. Presented by William Willder Wheildon.
One hundred dollars (1862 Dec. 15). CAS D-1168. Donor unidentified.
Connecticut (Colony of) currency, 1776:
Box 1, Folder 58:
Two shilling bill, issued by the Colony of Connecticut, 1776 June 7 (New London: Printed by Timothy Green.). CAS D-1129k. Presented by Frank Croft, 1959 Apr.
Continental Army enlistment document, 1776:
Box 1, Folder 59:
Printed document of enlistment in Continental Army, with manuscript signatures of more than 75 men, 1776 Nov. 25. CAS D-400. Donor unidentified.
Conway: SEE UNDER SAWYER.
Cotton Planters Bank of
Box 1, Folder 60:
Two dollar bill, issued by the Cotton Planters Bank of Georgia, 1862 [rest of date illegible]. CAS D-1168. Donor unidentified.
Cousins deed, 1855, 1863:
Box 1, Folder 61:
Deed, Inhabitants of Concord to Thomas Cousins (of Concord), for lot No. 66 in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, 1855 Dec. 8, with addendum conveying lot to Augusta B. Carvill (of Waltham), 1863 June 6. CAS D-1106. Presented by Mrs. Adelaide A. Dalton, 1932 July 29.
Court of Assistants (Boston): SEE UNDER CONCORD (MASS.).
Cuming/Cumming papers, 175[-?]-1816:
Box 1, Folder 62:
ALS, John Cuming to “Dear Nabby,” Anapolis Royal, 175[-?] Aug. 19, professing his devotion. CAS D-2052.1f. Donor unidentified.
ALS, Elizabeth Cuming to “My Dear Brother,” 1784 July 15, Halifax. CAS D-2052.1g. Donor unidentified.
ALS, Isaac Stearns to Mrs. Abigail Cumming, Billerica, 1789 May 12, regarding a chaise. CAS D-1133.1. Donor unidentified.
Mounted printed announcement: For Sale. That valuable Farm, in Concord … formerly the estate of Doctor Cummings … (1810). CAS D-2017. Presented by Mrs. Frank C. Doble, Cambridge, from the collection of Edward Gilman Doble.
Will of James Cuming (of Castletown, Isle of Man); damaged and incomplete, date lacking. CAS 2052.1e. Donor unidentified.
Box 1, Folder 63:
Transcribed newspaper notice, Concord, 1816 Aug. 31 (transcription 1903). Notice reads: “Gazette Extra. Concord. Saturday Morning, Aug. 31, 1816. John Cumings, Esq. Agreeable to a notice in the Gazette, of August 24th, inst. the committee chosen for the purpose of making arrangements for celebrating the day in honor of John Cumings, Esquire, at Fair-Haven Pond, On Thursday, the 5th September, next, met, and proposed to the Ladies and Gentlemen of Concord, and its vicinity, that they meet at Hamilton's Hotel, at 9 o'clock, A.M. at which time the procession will be formed, and march to the River, where the boats will be in readiness to waft them to Fair Haven! Per order of the Committee, Abel Moore, Chairman. Concord, Aug. 31, A.D. 1816.” Formerly mounted and framed, with the following inscription on the reverse: “Framed by Alfred W. Hosmer, 1903.” Item removed from frame and mount. CAS D-1723. From the estate of Miss Mary Eaton.
Oversize Box 1, Folder 9:
Diploma, John Cuming, for M.A. at Harvard University, 1771 July 17. CAS D-1165. Donor unidentified.
Curtis advertisement, 1811:
Box 1, Folder 64:
Newspaper advertisement announcing opening of clock and watch shop in Concord by Lemuel Curtis, 1811 Nov. 2.
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Dakin and related papers, 1725-1908, plus undated:
Materials in Folders 1-4 presented by Mrs. Allen French.
Box 2, Folder 1:
Manuscript devotional manual addressed to “Children” (undated); ALS, M. Goodenow to Samuel Dakin, Sudbury, 1780 Feb. 26. CAS D-200.24.
Undated manuscript listing of Dakin family “Papers in possession of Aunt Jennie—retained by executors of Levi Dakin.” CAS D-200.27.
Two manuscript transcriptions of religious covenant signed by Samuel Dakin, copied from the original by Mrs. H.G. Burr, [175-?], emended 1753, 1756, 1758. CAS D-200.35.
Manuscript note, T.L. (?) Dakin, Cambridge, 1829 Dec. 13, regarding joining the church. CAS D-200.35.
Manuscript lines of verse remembered by Jane R. Dakin as part of her Sunday school lessons in Sudbury fifty years earlier, dated South Sudbury, 1876 Aug. 16. CAS D-200.35.
Note regarding 1874 death dates of Thomas L. Dakin and Mary L. Hunt. CAS D-200.35.
Manuscript genealogical notes titled “The name Dakin.” CAS D-200.35.
List of Dakin and Rogers births, dated South Sudbury, 1876 Aug. 19. CAS D-200.35.
Manuscript Dakin, Cutter, Hunt, and Haynes “Family Record, 1827,” containing vital record information dating from 1776 to 1840. CAS D-200.25.
ALS, Emily H. Spafford to Mr. Dakin, New York City, 1898 Jan. 30, regarding Dakin genealogy. CAS D-200.26.
Undated genealogical notes (in pencil) on French, Brown, and allied families. CAS D-200.26.
ALS, A. Dakin to Franklin Dakin, Brockton, 1901 May 12, regarding Dakin genealogy. CAS D-200.26.
Undated Dakin genealogical notes (in pencil). CAS D-200.26.
Undated Vinal genealogical notes (in ink). CAS D-200.26.
Undated manuscript “Wheeler Family Record” (in ink). CAS D-200.26.
Undated Burr and Dakin genealogical notes (in pencil), containing vital record information dating from 1869 to 1930. CAS D-200.26.
Undated Dakin, Hunt, and Goodenough genealogical notes (in ink), containing vital record information dating from 1837 to 1905. CAS D-200.26.
Undated Dakin, Brown, Hunt, Rogers, Eaton, and Moore genealogical notes (in pencil), containing vital record information dating from 1874 to 1898. CAS D-200.26.
Undated manuscript “William White Record” (in ink). CAS D-200.26.
Undated “White Family” notes (in pencil). CAS D-200.26.
Undated Farrar family genealogical notes (in ink). CAS D-200.26.
ALS, Frances Josephine (?) to “Dear Frank,” 1908 Mar. 8, regarding genealogical matters. CAS D-200.26.
Manuscript notes from the history of Mason, N.H., by John B. Hill and from Daniel B. Cutter's history of Jaffrey, N.H., including information on the Dakin, Minott, Barrett, Kendall, Wilson, Lawrence, Dickerman, Kingsley, and Farrar families. CAS D-200.26.
Dakin genealogical notes (in ink and pencil) on the Dakin family, on “recycled” receipt, Tuttle-Smith Company (Boston) to A.H. Burr, 1897 Jan. 19. CAS D-200.26.
Undated manuscript French family genealogical notes (in ink). CAS D-200.26.
ALS, Nathaniel French to Leander French, Concord, 1834 (?) Feb. CAS D-200.26.
ALS, Leander Maynard to “Dear Uncle,” Townsend Harbor, [18]65 Oct. 23. CAS D-200.26.
ALS, Susan Jenison to “Dear Brother,” Shrewsbury, 1864 (?) May 7. CAS D-200.26.
ALS, Susan Jenison to “My Dear Brother,” Pittsfield, [18 ]85 (?). CAS D-200.26.
Box 2, Folder 2:
Will of Joseph Dakin, 1739 May 8. CAS D-200.26.
Two copies of the will of Samuel Dakin, 1758 Apr. 25. Both copies CAS D-200.26.
Printed probate document with manuscript additions attesting to acceptance of will of Samuel Dakin of Sudbury as presented by Oliver Dakin and Samuel Dakin, and appointing Oliver Dakin and Samuel Dakin executors of the estate of Samuel Dakin, 1758 Sept. 11. CAS D-200.26.
Will of Samuel Dakin, 1807 Jan. 19. CAS D-200.26.
Undated inventory of estate of Samuel Dakin. CAS D-200.32.
Printed writ, with manuscript additions, ordering Levi Dakin to publish his appointment to and acceptance of the position of executor of the estate of Samuel Dakin, 1807 Apr. 15. CAS D-200.23.
Printed Court of Probate writ, with manuscript additions, ordering the recording of the estate inventory of Samuel Dakin as presented by executor Levi Dakin, 1807 June 23. CAS D-200.22.
Financial account of Levi Dakin as executor of the estate of Samuel Dakin, with attached writ ordering the recording of the account, 1807 Oct. 14. CAS D-200.22.
Printed certificate, with manuscript additions, approving the account of the estate of Samuel Dakin filed by Levi Dakin, 1807 Oct. 14. CAS D-200.23.
Second financial account of Levi Dakin as executor of the estate of Samuel Dakin, with attached writ ordering the recording of the account, 1808 Apr. 12. CAS D-200.33.
Printed certificate, with manuscript additions, approving the account of the estate of Samuel Dakin filed by Levi Dakin, 1808 Apr. 13. CAS D-200.24.
Printed appointment, with manuscript additions, of Levi Dakin as guardian to Sarah Wheeler, 1825 Apr. 12. CAS D-200.32.
Box 2, Folder 3:
Receipt for money, goods, and a cow received of Oliver Dakin and Samuel Dakin [as executors of the estate of Samuel Dakin] by Timothy Baker and Mary Baker, Littleton, 1761 Apr. 2, [witnessed by] David Maynard. CAS D-200.23.
Receipt for money and a cow received of Oliver Dakin and Samuel Dakin as executors of the estate of Samuel Dakin by Amos Wood and Dorothy Wood, Concord, 1763 Apr. 9, witnessed by Joseph Hosmer. CAS D-200.23.
Promissory note, Samuel Dakin to Isaac Hurd, Concord, 1801 Mar. 28, witnessed by Mary Wilder. CAS D-200.31.
Promissory note, Samuel Dakin to Abijah Brigham, Sudbury, 1803 Mar. 19, witnessed by Joseph Brigham. CAS D-200.21.
Promissory note, Samuel Dakin to Daniel Bowker, Jr., Sudbury, 1804 Apr. 27, witnessed by Daniel Bowker. CAS D-200.25.
Promissory note, Samuel Dakin to Aaron S. Bridge and Josiah Bridge, East Sudbury, 1806 Apr. 12. CAS D-200.31.
Promissory note, Samuel Dakin to John White, Concord, 1805 Apr. 19, witnessed by John Thoreau. CAS D-200.20.
Promissory note, Samuel Dakin to Aaron S. Bridge and Josiah Bridge, East Sudbury, 1806 Jan. 31, witnessed by Aaron S. Bridge. CAS D-200.20.
Receipt for payment of bill addressed to Samuel Dakin from Ashbel Kidder, 1807 Jan. 21, marked as paid 1808 Mar. 11 by Levi Dakin, executor of the estate of Samuel Dakin. CAS D-200.22.
Receipt for provisions received of Levi Dakin as executor of the estate of Samuel Dakin by Mehitable Dakin, Sudbury, 1807 Apr. 25. CAS D-200.31.
Receipt for money received of Levi Dakin [as executor of the estate of Samuel Dakin] by Thomas Walker as Trustee of “the church in Sudbury,” Sudbury, 1807 May 4. CAS D-200.31.
Receipt for payment received of Levi Dakin as executor of the estate of Samuel Dakin by Aaron S. Bridge and Josiah Bridge, East Sudbury, 1807 May 16. CAS D-200.25.
Receipt for payment received of Levi Dakin as executor of the estate of Samuel Dakin by Joshua Haynes, Sudbury, 1807 May 24. CAS D-200.21.
Receipt for wearing apparel received of Levi Dakin as executor of the estate of Samuel Dakin by Samuel Dakin and Abel Dakin, Sudbury, 1807 Oct. 5. CAS D-200.31.
Receipt of payment received of Levi Dakin as executor of the estate of Samuel Dakin by Ebenezer Plympton, for estate appraisal, Sudbury, 1807 Oct. 13. CAS D-200.25.
Receipt for payment received of Levi Dakin as executor of the estate of Samuel Dakin by John Vose, Concord, 1807 June 23. CAS D-200.21.
Receipt for payment received of Levi Dakin as executor of the estate of Samuel Dakin by Abijah Brigham, Sudbury, 1807 Dec. 8. CAS D-200.21.
Receipt for payment received of Levi Dakin as executor of the estate of Samuel Dakin by Silas Puffer, Sudbury, 1808 Jan. 25. CAS D-200.20.
Receipt for payment received of Levi Dakin as executor of the estate of Samuel Dakin by Isaac Hurd, Concord, 1808 Mar. 1. CAS D-200.20.
Receipt for payment received of Levi Dakin as executor of the estate of Samuel Dakin by David Lincoln, Sudbury, 1808 Mar. 7. CAS D-200.20.
Receipt for payment received of Levi Lincoln by Elijah Brown, 1810 Mar. 28. CAS D-200.20.
Receipt (undated) for payment received of Levi Lincoln by Roger Brown. CAS D-200.20.
Receipt for payment received of Thomas L. Dakin by H.C. Runnels, for twelve granite posts, 1858 Mar. 8. CAS D-200.21.
Box 2, Folder 4:
ALS (military orders), Ebenezer Nichols to Captain Samuel Dakin, 1756 May 17 (?). CAS D-200.32.
Bond, John Wood (of Concord) to Joseph Dakin (of Concord), 1725 May 19. CAS D-200.32.
Bond,
Deed, Elnathan Jones and Ephraim Jones (both of Concord) to Samuel Dakin (of Sudbury) 1738 Mar. 16, for property in the “Southerly Part” of Concord. CAS D-200.32.
Deed, James Miles (of Concord) to Samuel Dakin (of Sudbury), 1747 Mar. 27, for meadowland in Sudbury. CAS D-200.33.
Deed, Samuel Dakin (of Sudbury) to his son Samuel Dakin (of Sudbury), 1757 Nov. 24, for property in Sudbury and Concord. CAS D-200.33.
Power of attorney, widow Mary (Dakin) Worster (of Falmouth) to Samuel Dakin (of Sudbury), 1759 Aug. 31. CAS D-200.25.
Deed, Elizabeth Hosmer (of Concord), widow of Stephen Hosmer, to Samuel Dakin (of Sudbury), 1762 Dec. 23, for property in Concord. CAS D-200.34.
Deed, Thomas Hosmer (of Concord) to Samuel Dakin (of Sudbury), 1764 Dec. 11, for property in Concord. CAS D-200.34.
Deed, Daniel Bowker (of Sudbury) to Samuel Dakin (of Sudbury), 1769 Jan. 25, for property in Sudbury. CAS D-200.34.
Indenture by Jonathan Ingersoll (of Lexington) of his son Simeon Ingersoll to Joseph Noyes (of Sudbury), 1756 July 6. CAS D-200.25.
Undated agreement between Jabez Puffer (of Sudbury) and his son Jabez Puffer, Jr. regarding the placement of property in trust with Samuel Dakin (of Sudbury) to manage the care of the elder Puffers in old age and the payment of their funeral expenses, and bequests to the Puffer children from the estate of the elder Jabez, witnessed by Samuel Puffer, Jabez Puffer [Jr.], and William Puffer. CAS D-200.34.
Deed, John Minott [Minot] (of Concord) to Samuel Dakin (of Sudbury), 1753 Jan. 26, for property in Sudbury. CAS D-200.32.
Deed, Isaac Hurd (of Cambridge) to Nathaniel French (of Billerica), 1787 Oct. 10, for property in Billerica.
Deed, John Sawyer (of Sudbury) to Cyrus Hunt (of Sudbury), 1830 Apr. 14, for land (adjacent to Dakin property) and buildings in Sudbury. CAS D-200.23.
Deed, John Sawyer to Thomas Dakin, 1831 Mar. 18, for land and buildings in Sudbury. CAS D-200.33.
Manuscript “Account of the Several Bonds and notes for the use of the poore and the Respective Sums Conditioned in them which were committed to Mr. Benjamin Estabrook who was appointed Treasurer for the poore for the Time Being,” Sudbury, 1753 Apr. 2. Signed by the Sudbury selectmen, including Samuel Dakin. CAS D-200.33.
List of expenses of Sudbury “to be assessed on the Inhabitants” of the town, 1756 Oct. 29. Includes a line item for sum designated for Captain Samuel Dakin. CAS D-200.34.
Mounted photograph (albumen print) of Rickmansworth, the ancestral English home of Job Lane, annotated on the reverse by Franklin A. Dakin. CAS D-200.67.
Mounted photograph (albumen print) by M. Goulding<