Family and Personal Paper Collections

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DOROTHY ADAMS SCRAPBOOK

ALCOTT FAMILY PAPERS (BHS)

ANDREW FAMILY PAPERS

ERIC BERGSTROM PAPERS

Barker Free School records

Files on other schools, churches, town organizations, houses

RUTH BRADFORD CANTERBURY SCRAPBOOKS

             1888-1902

             1913-1923

CHADWICK FAMILY PAPERS

PHYLLIS CHADWICK PAPERS

CHARLES CHAPLIN PAPERS

COGGIN FAMILY PAPERS (BHS)

COLE FAMILY (BHS)

             Deeds, 1830-1876

COLE-PRATT FAMILY PAPERS / ALBUM

CUNNINGHAM FAMILY PAPERS

1940s, incl. West Boxford Report Center, ration books, civil defense papers

B. Robert Cunningham Personal Diaries

FRANCIS CURTIS / FRANCIS CURTIS JR. PAPERS

    Deeds

REVEREND JOHN CUSHING PAPERS (Collection from Episcopal Divinity School)

PAUL C. DAVIS PAPERS

A. LOVELL ELLIOTT PAPERS

JONATHAN FOSTER PAPERS (BHS and oversize)

FRENCH FAMILY PAPERS (BHS)

WALTER FRENCH CARD SCRAPBOOK

TENNEY GAGE PAPERS

JAMES P. GRAY PAPERS

GOULD FAMILY PAPERS (BHS – also see Ipswich Inn papers: Gould, Lake, Nichols, Clarke families)

WINTHROP HAYNES COLLECTION

Winthrop Haynes correspondence

Boxford Biographies

Boxford Subjects

Boxford Organizations

First Church

Non-Boxford material

HERRICK PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS (people unidentified)

RICHARD HOPPING PAPERS

Books:

Book owned by Daniel and Sarah S. Spofford

“The American Spectator or Matrimonial Preceptor” (1797)

US Constitution

MARY ANN HOVEY (KIMBALL) MEMORABILIA

SOLOMON W. HOWE PAPERS

HAROLD D. HUSSEY PAPERS

INGALLS-PRICE-GOWAN PAPERS

Genealogy

Ella Ingalls Scrapbooks and Diaries, 1885-1970

Rosamond Ingalls Scrapbooks of Boxford Mass. & Other Towns, c.1957-1987

Iron Works

Ingaldsby

Photo Albums

Correspondence

Boxford

College Material

HARLAN P. KELSEY (Kelsey Highlands Plant Nursery)

Documents

Maps and Plans

Photographs

Postcards

Record Books and Ledgers

KILLAM FAMILY PAPERS / ALBUM

Deeds

EDITH C. KILLAM PAPERS

KIMBALL FAMILY PAPERS (BHS)

             Deeds, 1733-1870

             Genealogy

MARGARET LANE PAPERS

             Boxford play/pageant materials, 1910s-1920s

MILTON E. LORD PAPERS

Boxford Historical Society

Boxford Library Society

First Church

Parker-Morse House

Genealogical Research

FRANK MANNY PAPERS (also see Frank A. Manny BHS Collection)

             Personal Papers

             Annette Sawyer Manny greeting card album

             Frank A. Manny playbill album (mainly Boston theater venues)

NANCY MERRILL PAPERS

             BTA/BOLT (Boxford Trails Association / Boxford Open Land Trust)

Colby Park Project

NASON FAMILY PAPERS

             Includes Barker family material

GEORGE H. NASON WWI PAPERS

PARKHURST FAMILY PAPERS

Also see scrapbook collection, 1902-1979, framed Parkhurst coat of arms, Amy Parkhurst doll scrapbook

ROBERT PARKHURST PAPERS

Civil War letters of John Parkhurst

Sawyer family deeds

Henry and Hiram Towne

Killam and Parkhurst family records

Robert Parkhurst journals, ledgers, school notes

General Boxford files, including First Church

CONNIE PEABODY BROWN PAPERS

Boxford Ephemera

Peabody Family Records

Sarah Peabody teacher records (Schools 1 and 3)

Lucie Peabody notebooks

Albert B. Peabody’s European trip, 1878

PEARL FAMILY PAPERS

             Also see E.E. Pearl scrapbooks

             Also see Ladies’ Charitable Society - Elizabeth Sanborn Pearl

JOHN KIMBALL PEARL FAMILY PAPERS

ANNE PERKINS SCRAPBOOK

PERLEY FAMILY PAPERS (BHS)

PERLEY BROTHERS PAPERS (ELBRIDGE PERLEY AND HUMPHREY PERLEY) (BHS)

PERLEY-REA PAPERS

BARBARA PERLEY PAPERS

Perley Family

Boxford Material

Barbara’s Personal Papers

Notes and Drafts for Updated Dwellings of Boxford

Civil War letters of Rufus Emerson

Town of Boxford/Selectmen

Town of Boxford/Harry L. Cole diaries

Town of Boxford/Town Departments

Town of Boxford/WPA and CCC

PRICE FAMILY PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS

    Anne Price Myers' collection

SAWYER FAMILY PAPERS

ELIZABETH BARNES SAWYER FAMILY PAPERS (BHS)

ARTHUR M. SCHNEIDERMAN PAPERS

Copies of Boxford Town Records

Boxford Planning Board and Zoning Records

“Schools of Boxford” by Martha Coombs

SPOFFORD FAMILY COLLECTION

FRANK HENRY SPOFFORD JR.

Boxford Projects and Reports

SHAW FAMILY PAPERS

Kimball, Chandler and Shaw families

SALLY SPRAGUE (POWER) FAMILY PAPERS

CARLYLE AND KATHERINE THOMAS PAPERS

Boxford Subjects

Town of Boxford/Officials and Departments

Andrews Farm

Boxford Housing

Boxford Zoning Board of Appeals

Personal Papers

TOWNE FAMILY PAPERS (ALSO TOWNE FAMILY/iFARM)

TOWNE / PARKHURST ALBUM

MARGUERITE WHITLEY MAY PAPERS

AARON WOOD PERSONAL PAPERS (BHS)

             Estate of Francis Cogswell (1704-1774) to Eunice Cogswell Foster, Ipswich, MA, 1781

             Letters to wife Lydia Warren Wood Spofford, 1777

             Warrant to apprehend Joseph Anthony of Marblehead, MA, November 22, 1821

DOROTHY WOODBURY PAPERS

Town Owned Property

General Title Searches and Research Files

Law Suits and Court Papers