Coggin Family Papers Inventory

Box 36 – 

Jacob Coggin (of Tewksbury), father of William – 

Miscellaneous items, c. 1830-1860

Tewksbury Cemetery map, 1860

William and Mary Coggin – 

Journal, 1853-1855, trip to Montreal and Quebec

Mary Coggin – 

Diary: 1867, 1875

William Coggin – 

Correspondence from J. E. Bartlett, 1887

“Rev. William Symmes Coggin and His Ministry of Fifty Years”

William Coggin – 

Petition to Dartmouth by J. E. Bartlett, 1893

William Coggin –

Sermons, 1851-1874

William Coggin –

Discourse delivered on the 25th Anniversary of his Settlement, 1864

William Coggin – 

F. A. Howe receipt, miscellaneous religious notes

William Coggin – 

Miscellaneous printed religious material, 1863 and undated

William Coggin – 

“Index Rerum,” 1834, filled in with religious quotes and poems

First Congregational Church – 

Papers re: addition to meeting house, undated

William Coggin – 

Resolutions re: Rev. William Coggin, 1868 and 1896

William Coggin – 

Dedication of the Coggin Memorial Chapel, 1895

Box 37 – 

William Coggin – 

Diplomas – Dartmouth College

William Coggin – 

Membership certificates

Florence Coggin –

Testimonial – Ipswich Female Seminary

Maps Re: Civil War – 

“New Map of Charleston Harbor Showing the Scene of the Great Naval Contest Between the Iron Clad Monitors and the Rebel Batteries, also the Lines of Fire, Forts, Obstructions, Inlets, Princ’l Plantations & Etc.” G. W. Tomlinson, Boston, MA, 1863

“The Potomac Army War Map. Designed to show the Present Fighting Ground in Virginia to Meet the demand of the Times” B. B. Russell, Boston, MA, undated

“Frank Leslie’s War Maps and Companion to the Newspaper: Third Edition” 1862

“Prison at Andersonville, GA” (Sanitary Bulletin, Vol. 1, No. 21.), undated

Newspapers and Clippings – 1860s-1880s

Kennebec Journal, Augusta, ME, March 4, 1864

Kennebec Journal, Augusta, ME, November 4, 1864

Kennebec Journal, Augusta, ME, May 12, 1865 (President Lincoln death coverage)

Boston Daily Journal, Boston, MA, April 20, 1865 (President Lincoln death coverage) 

New York Observer, New York, NY, April 27, 1865 (President Lincoln death coverage)

New York Observer, New York, NY, July 27, 1865

Daily Evening Traveller, Boston, MA, December 31, 1868

Boston Daily Journal, Boston, MA, January 19, 1865

The Congregationalist, Boston, MA, June 30, 1865

Essex County Mercury, Salem, MA, April 29, 1868 (Rev. Coggin gives notice to leave Boxford)

Marblehead Messenger, Marblehead, MA, June 15, 1872 (Rev. Benjamin Russell Allen funeral services)

Seven Thirty Facts and Figures / Patriotic Songs (broadside), 1868

Boston Daily Journal, Boston, MA , January 20, 1865 

The Boston Daily Globe, Boston, MA, September 20, 1881 (President Garfield death)

The Boston Daily Globe, Boston, MA, September 27, 1881

Boston Evening Journal, Boston, MA, September 19, 1881 (President Garfield death)

Boston Evening Journal, Boston, MA, September 20, 1881 (President Garfield death)

Lowell Daily Courier, Lowell, MA, October 9, 1880

The Illustrated Christian Weekly (incomplete), March 5, 1881

The Congregationalist, Boston, MA (incomplete), June 10, 1864

The Congregationalist, Boston, MA (incomplete), December 16, 1864

The Congregationalist, Boston, MA (incomplete), June 23, 1865

The Congregationalist, Boston, MA (incomplete), June 30, 1865

The Congregationalist, Boston, MA (incomplete), July 14, 1865

Essex County Mercury, Salem, MA (incomplete), April 5, 1865

Boston Journal, Boston, MA (incomplete), April 6, 1865

“Theodore Parker, A Lecture Delivered at Watertown, February 18th, 1864, By Rev. W. L. Gage,” Daily Evening Traveller, Boston, MA, February 27, 1864

Clippings – 1860s

“The Death of President Lincoln,” Boston, MA, April 18, 1865

“The Great Movement of Gen. Grant, Letter from ‘Carleton’,” Boston Evening Journal, April 2, 1865

“The Inauguration of President Lincoln” (2nd term)

“The Wee-Bit Bairn” poem by J. E. Rankin

“Welcome and Tears on the Return of the Army of Freedom” poem by G. W. Light

“The Assault upon Fort Steadman, Utter Defeat of the Rebels” March 25, 1865

“Sherman’s In Savannah” poem, anonymous

“A Ballad of the Battle-Field” poem, Springfield Republican

“Youth’s Department” section, New York Observer clipping, New York, NY, June 2, 1864

“Youth’s Department” section, New York Observer clipping, New York, NY, June 23, 1864

“Youth’s Department” section, New York Observer clipping, New York, NY, July 7, 1864 (incl. marriage and death notice section)

“Youth’s Department” section, New York Observer clipping, New York, NY, July 14, 1864 (incl. marriage and death notice section)

“Youth’s Department” section, New York Observer clipping, New York, NY, June 1865 (incl. marriage and death notice section)

“Youth’s Department” section, New York Observer clipping, New York, NY, September 1, 1864 (incl. marriage and death notice section)

“The Last Days of the President”

“The Mountain Lamb” by Rev. John Todd, The Congregationalist, Boston, MA

“Reports of Popular Lectures, ‘The Political Horoscope.’, Lecture by Rev. Henry Ward Beecher,” 1864

“A Rainy Day in Camp” poem, 1864

“Our City Cousins,” 1865

“Betsey Destroys the Paper,” poem, anonymous, 1864

“A Singular Incident: To the Editor of the Boston Journal”

Catharine Hopkins obituary (Mt. Holyoke Seminary), The Congregationalist, Boston, MA

“’Oh Why Should the Spirit of Mortal Be Proud!’ The Favorite Poem of the Late President” by William Knox

“Grant and Meade Described”

“Details of the Capture of Jeff. Davis”

“The Eternal Goodness” poem, John G. Whittier

“On Fire” April, 1864

“Sinking of the Alabama” June 26, 1864

“Dr. Lyman Beecher” 1864

“The Election” November, 1863

“The Pursuit of Lee,” Boston Daily Globe, April 14, 1865

“Sheridan’s Ride” poem, undated

“Jonathan to John” poem, undated

“Flowers on the Battle-Field” poem, undated

“Old Shag” by Rev. John Todd, The Congregationalist, Boston, MA

Dr. Jonathan Brown obituary, Tewksbury, MA, d. August 20, 1867

“Excitement in New York, Mrs. John Tyler Visited”

“Letter From President Lincoln”

“Dirge, On The Death of Abraham Lincoln” poem by Lydia L. A. Very

“Abraham Lincoln, Foully Assassinated April 14, 1865” poem, anonymous

“The Great Jubilee Meeting at Faneuil Hall in honor of the Fall of Richmond”

Dr. Stephen Hase memorial from John Hancock Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons, Methuen, MA, August 29, 1864

“Work Goes Wrong” poem by Mrs. Sophia W. Lloyd

“The Niagara of the West – The Great Shoshone Falls” 1866

“The President’s Views Forcibly Stated”

“Death of Major Joseph W. Paine” and “Letter From President Lincoln”

“The Last Hours of Rev. T. Starr King” San Francisco, 1864

“New England Women’s Auxiliary Association: Monthly Report” September 15, 1864

“Who Is Responsible for the War? Who Accountable for its Horrors and Desolations” Flyer, 1861

“March of the Fourteenth Maine Regiment, May, 1865” poem, anonymous

“Wonders of Sleep”

“God’s Child, Not Mine” poem by Mrs. Milburn, 1864

Clippings, 1870s

“Irenaens Letters. Hints to People Going Over the Sea” The Observer, 1877

“Editorial Correspondence” London, April 9, 1877

“Boston Monday Lectures with preludes. By Rev. Joseph Cook. Goethe and Shakespeare on Marriage,” Boston Daily Advertiser, Boston, MA, April 10, 1878

“By Telegraph. The Late George Peabody,” Daily Evening Traveller, Boston, MA, February 8, 1870

“The Royal and Noble Marriage” 1871

Clippings, 1880s

Hattie L. Clark obituary (daughter of Deacon Joshua Clark of Tewksbury), 1888

“The Sun Darkened” 1881

“Removal of the President. Departure from the White House. The Removal Successfully Accomplished. The Journey to Long Branch Begun” 1881 (President Garfield)

Clippings, 1890s

“High Street Church” Lowell, MA, 1895

Jacob Coggin obituary, Tewksbury, MA, 1890

Clippings, undated

“What the Scriptures Say Concerning Property” 

“Curious Facts About Water” and “Religious Animals”

“The Dreams That Came True (The Second Dream)” poem by Jean Ingelow“

Address of Rev. Dr. Kirk, to the Graduating Class, At the late Anniversary of Mount Holyoke Female Seminary”

“A Sermon Preached at Woburn December 29, 1771, A. M. by Jacob Coggin”

“Petroleum” by Prof. W. D. Gunning

“Worry” 

“An Angel in the Way” poem, undated

“Minister’s Wives”

Poem by Mrs. Flemings for death of Deacon O. R. Clark, Tewksbury, MA

“The Song of Pocahontas”

“The Star and the Child” poem, Littell’s Living Age

“A Day of Thanksgiving” Abraham Lincoln

Scrapbook –

1850s, mainly non-Boxford (Boxford obits copied to obituary file)

Scrapbook loose material folder

Snow’s Pathfinder Railway Guide, 1863 (includes Boxford on maps)

Civil War political publications and fliers