Show malfunction: Collection includes Nathan Brooks and you can Brooks family members individual papers, 1777-1917: Nathan Brooks private documents, 1777-1862; Mary Merrick Brooks interaction, 1819-1863; Franklin Brooks records, 1854-1857; Caroline Downes Brooks (Hoar) documents, 1817, 1837; George Merrick Brooks records, 1840-1893; Brooks files, 1891-1917; Mary D.
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Nathan Brooks’s individual documentation were: communication, 1801-1862, composed primarily off letters to Nathan Brooks with a few of the your interfiled (letters recorded in two sequences, one-mainly prolonged interaction-setup alphabetically by brands off correspondents and in personal correspondent files by the big date, others build completely chronologically); product, 1825-1844, made by Brooks’s governmental items (such as his Whig engagements, included in this their services while the a coordinator regarding and you will treasurer for July 4th Whig celebrations in Concord when you look at the 1840 and you will 1844); circulars and sees per alumni and Overseer circumstances in the Harvard, 1836-1838; data files, 1823-1840, according to Brooks’s guardianship away from their daughter Caroline’s genetics of their particular mother and his handling of their shares in the The new The united kingdomt Cup Organization; property files (apartments and deeds the real deal estate inside Concord and Lincoln and you may one woodlot questionnaire quantifying pine and you can oak resources on the Fairhaven Mountain in Concord), 1824-1855; manuscript Brooks relatives genealogical listings (undated; that has had delivery, matrimony, and you can passing suggestions away from 1755 to help you 1831); various manuscript things, 1777, also undated, as well as an excellent 1777 commissary certification to own Col. [Eleazer] Brooks, a beverage menu, recommendations for potato planting, and you will “Malfunction out of Class you to remaining Gold Ware . . . inside the Boston.”
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Correspondents from the series from characters filed by-name were Caroline Brooks (Nathan’s d, Humphrey, Isaac, kauniit Italia-naiset Joshua, and you may William Brooks (brothers); Daniel Brooks (a pal and you will cousin); George Brooks (son); J. Brooks (nephew); John H. Hartwell (cousin); Martha Keith (“Dear Brother”); and E. F. Paige (college or university pal). Correspondents one of letters set-up chronologically become: Chester Adams; Josiah Adams; Edward W. Andrews; B. D. Bartlett; Samuel Burnham; Phila Oceans Burr; Ephraim Buttrick; James L. Child; Joshua Child; Caleb Cushing; Josiah Davis; S. H. Davis; Amelia Yards. 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. G. 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; Elizabeth. A beneficial. Ware; F. W. Ware; A good. C. Watson; Charles An excellent. Wheeler; Jonas Wheeler; William J. Whipple; Nathaniel Whitman; Benjamin Willard; L. and you can J. (John) Wright. Letters out-of Mary Merrick Merrick Brooks in order to their own partner become you to (May 13, 1838) written from Philadelphia, where Mrs. Brooks is actually planning to the brand new Antislavery Seminar out-of Western Feminine. The general communications document comes with characters out-of Samuel Hoar into the Washington, March 17, 1836 (“Abolition keeps united states slightly enjoying in which cool year”); regarding and also to L. and you can J. Wright (Mr. and you will Mrs. John Wright) inside Worcester out-of Caroline Brooks’s schooling; in order to Amos Farnsworth (Oct 25, 1837) out-of Nathan Brooks, exactly who, due to the fact a candidate to own a chair in america Congress, declines to spell out their feedback about your slavery question; off Samuel Ripley (November 28, 1839) on the George Brooks’s schooling into the Waltham; and you will from Amelia Yards. Edwards (Summer 4, 1846) regarding their own status once the organist in the Very first Parish.
Mary Merrick Brooks’s communications contains a beneficial folder off emails to help you Maria Parker within the Billerica (a cousin), 1819-1836, and you may good folder from emails, 1833-1863, regarding individuals correspondents, submitted from the time. Among the many correspondents about second folder: emails from husband Nathan, stepdaughter Caroline, young buck George, sister Lloyd Garrison (July 30, 1863).
