Collection description: Show includes Nathan Brooks and Brooks family private documents, 1777-1917: Nathan Brooks private paperwork, 1777-1862; Mary Merrick Brooks correspondence, European naiset 1819-1863; Franklin Brooks paperwork, 1854-1857; Caroline Downes Brooks (Hoar) documentation, 1817, 1837; George Merrick Brooks paperwork, 1840-1893; Brooks paperwork, 1891-1917; Mary D.
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Nathan Brooks’s personal files tend to be: telecommunications, 1801-1862, consisting primarily from emails so you’re able to Nathan Brooks with from the him interfiled (characters registered in 2 sequences, one-primarily extended communications-install alphabetically by brands out-of correspondents and when you look at the private correspondent records from the date, another arranged totally chronologically); product, 1825-1844, created by Brooks’s governmental activities (such as for example his Whig involvements, included in this his services while the an organizer of and you will treasurer to have July 4th Whig festivals in the Concord when you look at the 1840 and you may 1844); circulars and notices in accordance with alumni and Overseer factors at Harvard, 1836-1838; data, 1823-1840, according to Brooks’s guardianship out-of his daughter Caroline’s heredity from her mother and his awesome handling of their offers in the The The united kingdomt Cup Company; assets documents (renting and deeds the real deal estate within the Concord and you will Lincoln and you can one woodlot questionnaire quantifying oak and you can pine information on the Fairhaven Mountain when you look at the Concord), 1824-1855; manuscript Brooks loved ones genealogical posts (undated; with which has beginning, matrimony, and you may demise pointers off 1755 so you can 1831); various manuscript facts, 1777, as well as undated, and additionally a great 1777 commissary certification for Col. [Eleazer] Brooks, a beverage meal, recommendations getting potato growing, and “Breakdown out-of People one leftover Gold Ware . . . within the Boston.”
Hoar; Samuel Hoar; Lewis L
Correspondents on series away from emails registered by-name were Caroline Brooks (Nathan’s d, Humphrey, Isaac, Joshua, and you may William Brooks (brothers); Daniel Brooks (a friend and cousin); George Brooks (son); J. Brooks (nephew); John H. Hartwell (cousin); Martha Keith (“Precious Sibling”); and you can Elizabeth. F. Paige (school buddy). Correspondents one of emails install chronologically were: Chester Adams; Josiah Adams; Edward W. Andrews; B. D. Bartlett; Samuel Burnham; Phila Waters Burr; Ephraim Buttrick; James L. Child; Joshua Youngster; Caleb Cushing; Josiah Davis; S. H. Davis; Amelia M. Edwards; George Barrell Emerson; Ann T. Jones; George F. Farley; Amos Farnsworth; Nathaniel Freeman; B. Gannett; C. Grosvenor; L. P. Grosvenor; George Hallway; Jo Hilliard; Timothy Hilliard; Nathaniel P. Merrick; Caleb Moon; Sophia Munroe; George Newton; L. Peabody; Cyrus Peirce; C. D. Grams. Perry; Timothy Prescott; Ezra Ripley; Miss S. Ripley; Samuel Ripley; William Smith; William F. Stone; William H. Sumner; Solomon Thayer; C. An effective. Tuttle; Sarah Tuttle; Age. A beneficial. Ware; F. W. Ware; An excellent. C. Watson; Charles Good. Wheeler; Jonas Wheeler; William J. Whipple; Nathaniel Whitman; Benjamin Willard; L. and you will J. (John) Wright. Characters from Mary Merrick Merrick Brooks to their husband were you to definitely (Get thirteen, 1838) authored out-of Philadelphia, where Mrs. Brooks are planning new Antislavery Meeting out-of American Feminine. The overall correspondence document boasts emails out-of Samuel Hoar inside the Washington, March 17, 1836 (“Abolition keeps all of us some enjoying here in this cooler year”); away from also to L. and J. Wright (Mr. and you will Mrs. John Wright) when you look at the Worcester regarding Caroline Brooks’s schooling; to help you Amos Farnsworth (Oct twenty-five, 1837) regarding Nathan Brooks, which, just like the a candidate having a seat in the us Congress, refuses to spell out their opinions regarding the bondage matter; out of Samuel Ripley (November 28, 1839) throughout the George Brooks’s schooling in the Waltham; and you can from Amelia Yards. Edwards (June 4, 1846) regarding their own reputation once the organist at the First Parish.
Mary Merrick Brooks’s communication consists of a good folder from characters in order to Maria Parker in the Billerica (a sibling), 1819-1836, and an excellent folder out-of characters, 1833-1863, from individuals correspondents, filed of the day. One of the correspondents regarding the second folder: emails from spouse Nathan, stepdaughter Caroline, son George, cousin Lloyd Garrison (July 31, 1863).