Barnes - Sawyer Family Papers Inventory
Box 35a
Adaline Barnes – Letters to Mary B. Gould, 1843, 1848
Benjamin S. Barnes – Letters received
Warren H. Prichard, 1897
Elizabeth S. Jones (cousin), 1900
Benjamin S. Barnes – Letters received from Luther S. Morgan, 1864-1865
Grace Barnes (Waltham) – Letters sent to brother Phineas Barnes, 1814-1832
Grace Barnes – Letters received from Sally Spofford, 1806
Mary F. Barnes – Letter sent to cousins, 1916
Mary E. Barnes – Letter sent to Sally Spofford, 1805
Mary E. Barnes – Letters sent to brother Phineas Barnes, 1815-1823
Mary E. Barnes – Letters sent to father Phineas Barnes, 1825-1826
Mary E. Barnes – Letters received
Letters between Phineas Barnes and Sarah Spofford, 1805-1806
Phineas Barnes – Letters received, 1805-1848
Samuel Barnes – Letters sent to brother Phineas Barnes, 1799 and undated
Sarah Barnes – Letter sent to Mary E. Barnes, 1827
Thomas Barnes – Letter sent to niece, 1856
George Whitefield Sawyer – Letter sent to brother William Sawyer, 1845
Mary Osgood Sawyer – Letters received from cousin Mary Lizzy, 1856 [crossed letter]
Samuel Sawyer – Letters received
Aaron Perkins, 1775 (copy made 1853)
John Low – 1798
Joseph Sawyer – 1791, 1799
Sophia B. Sawyer – Letters received from brother Isaac B. Howe, 1848-1856
William Sawyer – Letter to his parents, 1866
William Sawyer – Letter to wife, 1887
William Sawyer – Letters received from “Gus” in Colorado, 1871-1873
William Sawyer – Letter received from niece or nephew, 1881 [discusses Sarah Sawyer Lord b. 1801]
Augusta Hibbard – Letter received from Eliza W. Smith, undated [post-1860]
Letter received from N. H. Shipley and “Villa”, March 13, 1873
Charlotte Hibbard (Methuen) – Letters received from daughter Augusta Hibbard, 1860
Isaac B. Howe (?) – Letters to father from “Ike” in Iowa, 1868-1870
Letters – Miscellaneous Barnes Family
Phineas Barnes – Letter from Charles Jarvis Warren, 1899
Mary B. Gould – Letter from Elijah G [Gould?], 1837
Hannah Spofford – Letter to unknown friend, 1803
Lydia Warren Wood Spofford – Letter from sister Rebecca Warren, 1777
Miscellaneous
Tax list for First Parish, 1845
Sophia Howe Sawyer – Letter from son, Isaac Howe Sawyer, 1892
Sophia Howe Sawyer – Letter from daughter Evie Sawyer Harris, undated
Sophia Howe Sawyer – Letter from mother (?) in Northfield, VT, 1852
Windsor Herbert Howe – Letter to his brothers and sisters, 1948 [contains info from family Bible]
Notice re: business licenses from Boxford selectmen for Asa Peabody and Jonathan Wood, 1793 [signed by selectmen Francis Perley, Parker Spofford, Simeon Stiles]
Approval of Innholder license for Parker Spofford, 1793
Joseph H. Allen – Letter from Sunday School members, 1838
Ephraim Foster – Certification of his birth in 1807 by mother Mary Harriman, 1828
Hannah Wood – Letter of recommendation signed by Peter Eaton, 1807
Receipt of money paid by Charles Pearl to James Careton, 1858
Receipt of money paid by Hendry Pearley [Henry Perley] to Richard Hood, Wenham, 1786
Note for money owed to Samuel Sias by Harry Hunton, Reading, 1866 [also mentions Reuben Richardson of Stoneham]
Copy of letter to Daniel Fuller requesting the formation of a Third Parish in Boxford, 1824
Letter – From mother to children, includes article from April, 1862
Pressed paper envelope addressed to Frank L. Sawyer, 1884
Exercises at Harmony Cemetery in connection with placing a marker on the grave of Lydia Warren Spofford, 1935
Miscellaneous receipts
Draft of proposed resolution to Continental Congress re: money (old & new currency), 1780
Phineas Barnes – Receipts, 1804-1829
Samuel Sawyer (Capt. Aaron P. Lord of Ipswich papers) –
Deed conveying that Samuel Sawyer and wife Elisabeth give up her right of dower to Samuel Lord, April 2, 1771
Deed from Samuel Sawyer (Ipswich) to Philip Lord and Samuel Lord, March 1, 1799
Deed for execution of Isaac Smith vs estate of Francis Cogswell, 1760
Deed for use of wood on land from Nathaniel Perley to Samuel Lord and Samuel Sawyer, Ipswich, April 14, 1761
Paper re: Joseph Hodgkins and Aaron Perkins in Revolutionary War
Assessor’s Warrant to Tax Collector in Second Parish, 1760
Samuel Sawyer – Military commission, 1866
Alfred Kimball – Military commission, 1816
James Bridgman Sawyer – Obituary, 1925
Wedding invitations –
Mary Elisabeth Barnes and William F. Sawyer, 1873
Annie E. Sawyer and Joseph F. Black, 1880
Boxford Temperance Pledge, bef. 1865
Notes for Independence Day speech or ceremony, c. 1812
Bill of Fare for Ordination Dinner of Rev. Samuel Ripley, Waltham, 1807
Schoolhouse #4 papers, 1805-1837
Miscellaneous Barnes Papers
Phineas Barnes – Military commission, 1805
Gravestone notes – Seth W. Gay, Susan E. Gay, Susan E. H. Gay, George W. Smith, Harriet E. Blodgett, Charles B. Gay, George W. Gay
Poem – “He Giveth His Beloved Sleep”
Drawing of lace collar with note by A. Barnes
Invitation to home of John M. Foster and Sarah R. Abbott
Lock of hair “Elijah’s” (Elijah Gould m. to Mary Barnes?)
Penciled note with names
Hand-written Biblical verse
Signatures cut from documents:
P. Barnes, 1836
Thomas Sinclair
John G. Hood
Mary Barnes
William Johnson Jr.
D. Mighill (David Mighill)
P. Spofford
P. Barnes, 1813
John Prince
Jacob Peabody
Samuel Barnes, 1750
Miscellaneous Papers
Mehitable Arvilla Hibbard letter to (husband James Brown Sawyer Lord?)
Envelope addressed to A. P. Lord Esqr., Ipswich
Receipt of salary paid to Isaac Briggs, June 2, 1843
Promissory note from Thomas Killam to Mary Averill, Middleton, September 20, 1774 / Reverse: receipt of payment from Widow Sarah Killam, Thomas Killam administratrix to Mary Averill, March 15, 1782
Promissory note from Ebenezer Killam to David Lake, Topsfield, MA, May 12, 1769
Note to Samuel Sawyer of Exeter from Timothy Dexter of Newburyport Re: House purchase, January 28, 1786
Note to Mr. Barnes to publish the marriage of Mr. Herman Kimball (Bradford) to Harriet Day (Boxford), March 3, 1829
Death certificate for David Barnard, Watertown, August 23, 1775, certified by B.S. Barnes, May 3, 1893 [“he was Gramma Spofford’s 1st husband”]
Deed from Foster Averill (Londonderry, NH) to Sarah Averhill (Andover, MA) with reserved right of Samuel Perley, Jr., February 26, 1846
Obituary for Ann Parker, wife of Deacon Nathan Parker (Essex Street Church in Boston), written in 1797, copied by Sarah R. Barnes of Boxford, July 14, 1863
Request by Josiah Woodbury for Boxford residents to dig his cellar (1 Middleton Road) in exchange for a town common where Old Town Hall / Council on Aging (4 Middleton Road) stands today, c. 1816
Mary Barnes – Letter from sister Sarah Barnes, Wheaton Female Seminary, February 13, 1855
Mary Barnes – Letter from friend “Green”, Camp Meige, Readeville, MA, August 14, 1864
Mary Barnes – Letter from cousin Eva Barnes, Georgetown, MA, undated
Mary Barnes – Copy of letter to “Nell P.” re: engagement to Will Sawyer, August 8, 1872
Mary “Lizzy” Sawyer – Letter to brother about Louisa P. Sawyer marriage to Orlando R. Millett, July 11, 1864
Mary Perley (Miss) – Letter from S.S., Andover, MA, September 17, 1803
John Sawyer – Letter to aunt in Boxford, Fairfax, OH, c. 1865
Envelope addressed to Mrs. William F. Sawyer, Los Angeles, CA, 1916
M. P. Sweetser – Letter to Mrs. A. E. Marsh, Cliftondale, MA, November 1891
Letter to Miss Hibbard (Augusta?) from “Annie”, September 19, 1860
Cough medicine prescription (recipe?) for “Will” from Doctor Cogswell
Letter to “Mamma”, Georgetown, MA, January 5, 1894
Frank Sawyer – Party invitation from Abbie Clark
Print – “The First Steam Railroad Passenger Excursion Train in America”, 1870
Postcard – Nevins Memorial, Methuen, MA
Postcard – Church by pond (not Boxford)
Thomas Killam – information from “Mass. Soldiers and Sailors in the War of the Revolution”
Birth record for Polly Abthorp (1794), Chatham, MA, printed 1943
“Pilgrim Hymn” – Felecia D. Hemans – Note about Mary on back, May 25, 1905
Christmas word game c. 1920s-1950s
Box 35b – Legal Documents
Sawyer Deeds, 1753-1806, 1858
Deed for 62 North Street, Salem, MA, from William Sawyer, Lydia R. Foster and Charles I. Foster to Ariel Cook, October 13, 1858
Deed of Ipswich land from William and Elizabeth Foster (Ipswich, MA) to John Hodgkins (Ipswich, MA), June 26, 1756
Deed of Sanford land from estate of Isaac Fellows (Sanford, ME) to John Low (Sanford, ME), December 29, 1779
Deed of Fairfield land from Joseph and John Sawyer (Fairfield, ME) to Samuel Sawyer (Ipswich, MA), February 8, 1793
Deed of Ipswich land from Samuel Lord 3rd (Ipswich, MA) to Samuel Sawyer (Ipswich, MA), August 12, 1772
Deed of Ipswich land from John and William Cogswell (Boston, MA) to Samuel Sawyer (Ipswich, MA), May 2, 1781
Hand-drawn map of land, 1 acre, by surveyor R. Manning
Deed of Wells salt marsh from Francis Sayer [Sawyer] (Ipswich, MA) to son Samuel Sawyer (Ipswich, MA), May 15, 1756
Deed of Scarborough salt marsh from Tristram and Elizabeth Gilman (North Yarmouth), Daniel Sawyer (Wells), Samuel Sawyer (Ipswich) to Eunice Harris aka Eunice Curtis, wife of John Curtis (Boxford), February 28, 1789 (2 copies)
Deed of Scarborough salt marsh from Tristram and Elizabeth Gilman (North Yarmouth), Daniel Sawyer (Wells), Samuel Sawyer (Ipswich) to Mary Harris (Ipswich), February 28, 1789
Deed of Scarborough salt marsh from Tristram and Elizabeth Gilman (North Yarmouth), Daniel Sawyer (Wells), Samuel Sawyer (Ipswich) to Eunice Harris aka Eunice Curtis, wife of John Curtis (Boxford), February 28, 1789
Deed of Ipswich house from John Harris (Ipswich) to Samuel Sawyer (Ipswich), May 1, 1806
Deed to townhouses on Jeffries Neck from Mary Sweet (Ipswich) to Samuel Sawyer and Jeremiah Lord, Jr. (Ipswich), May 12, 1756
Deed of Ipswich land from Samuel and Elizabeth Sawyer (Ipswich) to Phillip Lord (Ipswich), March 5, 1774
Deed of Ipswich Land from Thomas and Abigail Hodgkins to Samuel Sawyer (Ipswich), June 7, 1790
Deed of Scarborough salt marsh from John and Eunice (Harris) Curtis (Wolfborough, NH) to Samuel Sawyer (Ipswich), April 20, 1792
Deed of Scarborough salt marsh from Mary Harris (Ipswich) to Samuel Sawyer (Ipswich), July 12, 1792
Deed of Ipswich house from James and Elisabeth Lord (Ipswich) to Samuel Sawyer (Ipswich), April 13, 1789
Deed of land from Jonas Bowman (Fairfield, ME) to Samuel Sawyer (Ipswich), April, 1789
Deed for ¼ dwelling house in Ipswich from Jonathan Cogswell (Boston) to Samuel Sawyer (Ipswich), May 12, 1781
Deed from James and Mary Lord (Ipswich) to son James Lord Jr. (Ipswich), April 24, 1762
Deed of Ipswich land from Samuel Sawyer to Phillip and Samuel Lord (Ipswich), April 27, 1798
Deed of Lincoln county [Maine] land from John True, Daniel True and Isaac Shaw (all recently of Winthrop, MA but now of Seabrook, NH) to Samuel Sawyer (Ipswich), April 3, 1786
Deed of Ipswich land and part of house from Phillip Lord and Samuel Lord (Ipswich) to Samuel Sawyer (Ipswich), February 4, 1800
Deed of Ipswich land and part of a house from Aaron Smith and Dorothy Smith (Ipswich) to Samuel Sawyer (Ipswich), April 17, 1771
Deed of Ipswich house from Abner Harris (Ipswich), executor of father Abner Harris to Samuel Sawyer (Ipswich), May 28, 1777
Deed of Turkey Hill Ipswich land from Jeremiah Staniford and Mary Staniford (Ipswich) to Samuel Sawyer (Ipswich), April 20, 1790
Deed of Ipswich land from Daniel Safford (Ipswich) to Samuel Sawyer (Ipswich), April 30, 1761
Deed of Ipswich land from John Burnam (Ipswich) to Samuel Sawyer (Ipswich), February 2, 1753
Deed of house and land from James Lord (Ipswich) to son James Lord Jr. (Ipswich), January 19, 1780
Sawyer Deeds, 1746-1845
Deed of Ipswich salt marsh from Amos Perley and Sarah Perley (Boxford) to Aaron Wood (Boxford), April 11, 1783
Deed of Boxford land from Samuel Kimball (Boxford) and Mary Kimball (widow, Boxford) to William Sawyer, September 6, 1845
Deed of Ipswich land from John Cogswell (Boston) to Samuel Sawyer (Ipswich), June 2, 1794
Deed of Ipswich land from John Hodgkins Jr., guardian of Thomas Hovey (Ipswich) to Samuel Sawyer (Ipswich), May 7, 1761
Deed of Ipswich land from Thomas Wait (Ipswich) to Abraham Knowlton (Ipswich), March 11, 1746
Deed of Ipswich land from Eunice Foster (Ipswich) to Samuel Sawyer (Ipswich), November 20, 1788
Deed of Salem, MA land from Samuel Symonds (Salem, MA) to Samuel Cook (Salem, MA), 1782
Deed of Wells, ME land from Francis Sayer [Sawyer] (Ipswich) to son Samuel Sayer [Sawyer] (Ipswich), August 30, 1756
Deed of Chichester land from Edmund Rand (Chichester, NH) to John Langmaid (Chichester, NH), May 4, 1784
Deed of Ipswich land from Daniel Noyes (Ipswich) by petition of Eunice Foster (Ipswich), guardian of Joshua and Susanna Foster, to Samuel Sawyer, March 3, 1790
Deed of Salem, MA land from Samuel Rea (Salem, MA), administrator of Samuel Cook (Salem, MA) estate to Jonas Foster and Moody Foster (Salem, MA), March 25, 1824
Deed of half of Boxford/Andover farm from John Foster (Boxford) to Joseph Foster (Boxford), March 7, 1833 (29 Brookview Road)
Deed of Boxford home from Richard F. Gurley (Boxford) to Henry Atherton (Boxford), March 15, 1855 (2 Lawrence Road)
Indenture agreement between Benjamin Spofford (Boxford) and Phineas Barnes (Boxford) and Nathaniel Nelson (Rowley), who agree to work Spofford’s farm, April 20, 1830 (20 Kelsey Road)
Cogswell, Francis – Will extract, undated
Kimball, Alfred – Will, Salem, MA, July 21, 1828
Foster, Ephraim – Estate inventory, Boxford, 1807
Gould, Elijah – Estate appraisal, North Andover, 1856
Sawyer, Samuel – legal dispute against estate of Michael Farley (Ipswich), 1791
Sawyer, Samuel – Appraisal of land in Ipswich belonging to Jonathan Caldwell for Samuel Sawyer and Captain Daniel Rogers, 1788
Property Line Affadavits –
Affadavit of property lines in Kennebec by David Philbrooks (Pittston, ME), 1795
Affadavit of property in Wells by David Littlefield (Wells, ME), 1750 [describes Indian attack]
Sawyer, Samuel – Sales of ¼ share of loot to Samuel Sawyer by privateers William Bennet and Joseph Permit of Exeter, NH, 1778
Sawyer, Samuel – Land dispute with Daniel Rogers (Ipswich) over land held in right of their wives, Mary Rogers and Elizabeth Sawyer, 1788
Sayer, Francis – Promissory note to Francis Sayer (Jamestown, ME) from William Sayer and Sarah Sayer (Wells, ME)
Sawyer, Samuel – Court order to pay damages to Ralph Cross Jr., Newburyport, 1771
Wood, Aaron – Papers RE: Aaron Wood estate and Boxford Academy, 1825-1827
Sawyer, Samuel – Proprietor’s land agreement, Ipswich, 1765
Sawyer, Samuel – Guardianship document for William Leatherland, 1761
Barnes, Benjamin S. – Agreement to pay Sidney Perley, lawyer, in case against United States for damages by soldiers to 20 Kelsey Road, 1889
Box 58 –
Sawyer, Freeman folder
Barnes, Benjamin S. – Day Book, 1856-1860 and 1860-1863
Spofford, Polly Adams – Deed of land to Benjamin Spofford, 1828
Kimball, John – Deed for a piece of Bixby Meadow of Andover sold by the Proprietors of Andover, 1797
Boxford School District #4 meeting warrants, 1827 and 1837
Household Inventory for John Hood (?) of Topsfield, no date
Order to lay out highway in Middleton, which used to be part of Topsfield and possibly also Boxford, 1765 (testimony of John Howe of Boxford)
Sawyer, John and Freeman folder 1
Mary Sawyer – Will
Mary Sawyer – Obituaries
Mary Sawyer – writings
Sawyer – Black marriage invitation
“The History of Lucy Jackson”
“A Noble Youth, or William Mason”
“Boxford’s 25 Species of Ferns” by Mary Sawyer
Business card for Samuel Kidder, Jr. Apothecary, Lowell, with prescription on reverse, 1849
Samuel A. Sawyer – Newspaper article, 1892
Material removed from Sawyer family Bibles in 1938
Christmas card from John to Uncle Silas
Letter to Ellen from Florence, Italy, undated, unsigned
Samuel L. Sawyer – Envelope addressed to him in Boxford
Samuel L. Sawyer – Letters from brother John Sawyer
William C. Lane – Obituaries
Mary Sawyer – Letter of appreciation from the Tyler Public Library
Annie Sawyer Black – Obituaries
Miscellaneous Sawyer family letters
Annie Elizabeth Black (Sawyer) – Passport, 1911
Sawyer, John and Freeman folder 2
Elizabeth Lamson – Copybook
Joseph Franklin Black – Obituary
Mary Sawyer – “Behind the Blockade”
Mary Francis Sawyer – Lasell Junior College commencement, 1941
Sawyer, John and Freeman folder 3
Mary Sawyer – Letter to sister, undated
Mary Sawyer – Birthday poem to sister Annie, 1901
Mary Sawyer – Poems
Mary Sawyer – Chautanqua Library School graduation certificate
Elisabeth Sawyer – Letter to daughter Annie, 1865
Mary Sawyer – Essays written in Schoolhouse #2
Annie Black – Letters of condolence to Mrs. Black
Annie Black – Letter from her Aunt Mary, 1880
Pressed flowers
Joseph F. Black – Military papers
Annie Sawyer Black – Ribbon and other material from Essex County Fair
Joseph Black and Annie Sawyer – Marriage vows
Gardner Lamson – German newspaper article
Mary Sawyer (?) – “The Northern Bulletin” Vol. 1 No. 2, Nov. 1877 “Home Learning School” – Boxford newspaper
Copy of letter to Mr. and Mrs. Coggin on Golden Wedding Anniversary, 1890
Copy of letter to Mr. and Mrs. Andrews Silver Wedding Anniversary, 1884
Letter to Miss. Sawyer from an old Boxford friend, mentions Cleveland Farm, 1921
Annie Sawyer – Letter from her sister Mary Sawyer, 1890