Series description: Series consists of Nathan Brooks and Brooks members of the family personal documentation, 1777-1917: Nathan Brooks personal papers, 1777-1862; Mary Merrick Brooks communication, 1819-1863; Franklin Brooks documentation, 1854-1857; Caroline Downes Brooks (Hoar) documentation, 1817, 1837; George Merrick Brooks documents, 1840-1893; Brooks documents, 1891-1917; Mary D.
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Nathan Brooks’s personal files become: interaction, 1801-1862, composed generally away from characters so you can Nathan Brooks with from the your interfiled (letters filed in two sequences, one-primarily offered communications-build alphabetically from the brands from correspondents and you may in the personal correspondent data files by date, the other arranged totally chronologically); product, 1825-1844, generated by Brooks’s political products (including his Whig engagements, among them their solution since a coordinator out of and you will treasurer having July last Whig celebrations from inside the Concord inside the 1840 and you can 1844); circulars and you may observes in accordance with alumni and you may Overseer things at the Harvard, 1836-1838; data files, 1823-1840, based on Brooks’s custody out of his daughter Caroline’s heredity out of their unique mommy and his handling of their unique shares throughout the The newest The united kingdomt Mug Company; possessions documents (leases and you may deeds the real deal estate inside the Concord and Lincoln and that woodlot questionnaire quantifying oak and you may oak info with the Fairhaven Mountain into the Concord), 1824-1855; manuscript Brooks household members genealogical listings (undated; which has birth, relationships, and you will death recommendations out of 1755 so you’re able to 1831); miscellaneous manuscript points, 1777, along with undated, along with a good 1777 commissary certification to have Col. [Eleazer] Brooks, a drink recipe, rules to possess potato planting, and “Dysfunction away from Group one to leftover Silver Ware . . . within the Boston.”
Hoar; Samuel Hoar; Lewis L
Correspondents on sequence regarding characters filed by-name include Caroline Brooks (Nathan’s d, Humphrey, Isaac, Joshua, and William Brooks (brothers); Daniel Brooks (a buddy and you will relative); George Brooks (son); J. Brooks (nephew); John H. Hartwell (cousin); Martha Keith (“Dear Aunt”); and you will Elizabeth. F. Paige (college or university buddy). Correspondents one of letters put up chronologically were: 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 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 Moonlight; 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 good. Ware; F. W. Ware; Good. C. Watson; Charles A good. Wheeler; Jonas Wheeler; William J. Whipple; Nathaniel Whitman; Benjamin Willard; L. and J. (John) Wright. Letters off Mary Merrick Merrick Brooks to help you her husband were one (Will get thirteen, 1838) composed out-of Philadelphia, where Mrs. Brooks is planning to the Antislavery Summit of Western Female. The general correspondence document is sold with characters away from Samuel Hoar during the Arizona, February 17, 1836 (“Abolition provides you a little enjoying here in that it cold seasons”); out-of in order to L. and J. Wright (Mr. and Mrs. John Wright) inside the Worcester from Caroline Brooks’s education; so you’re able to Amos Farnsworth (October twenty-five, 1837) of resurssi Nathan Brooks, whom, given that an applicant to possess a chair in america Congress, refuses to explain his viewpoints about your slavery matter; off Samuel Ripley (November 28, 1839) on the George Brooks’s schooling inside Waltham; and away from Amelia Meters. Edwards (Summer 4, 1846) out-of their own position since the organist from the Earliest Parish.
Mary Merrick Brooks’s communication includes a good folder of emails to help you Maria Parker for the Billerica (a sibling), 1819-1836, and you will good folder away from characters, 1833-1863, out of individuals correspondents, submitted of the go out. Among the correspondents on the second folder: letters off spouse Nathan, stepdaughter Caroline, young buck George, sibling Lloyd Garrison (July 29, 1863).