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Manuscript Collections at the Andover Historical Society
Please note, this manuscript listing is a work in progress and
currently being expanded. Additional listings will be added as they are transcribed. You can also visit our
Search page, to look for a particular
manuscript listing or related notes. (Last updated Feb. 23, 2010)
Manuscript collections are available for study and research during
regular open hours at the Andover Historical Society, Tues-Sat, 10am
- 4pm.
| Ms # |
Collection Title
(click for additional notes about each
collection) |
| Ms S 2 |
John Frye "Junior" Papers
Deeds, official town papers and estate
papers of John Frye “Junior, 1682-1753 and other members of
his family (34 items) |
| Ms S 3 |
Hezekiah Ballard Papers
Chiefly deeds and papers concerning land
distribution of Hezekiah Ballard, Jr., 1720-1803 of Andover.
Also papers of other members of the Ballard family. (30
items) |
| Ms S 4 |
Zebediah Chandler Papers
Chiefly deeds and papers concerning land
distribution of Zebediah Chandler, 1683-1766, of Andover and
the descendents of his brother John, 1680-1741(20 items) |
| Ms S 52 |
Joshua Chandler (1758-1817)
Papers
Chiefly bills and receipts, 1758-1871 of
four generations of Joshua Chandlers. Also town assessors'
record, 1800-1812 and c. 1850. (Volume: 5 inches) |
| Ms S 73 |
Captain Benjamin Hitchings
Papers
Account Book, orders, and shipping papers
of sea captain sailing between Boston, Europe, India and
Indonesia, 1816-1821 (28 items) |
| Ms S 129 |
Hill Family Papers
Penmanship book of Asa Hill, c. 1834; an
account book and receipts of Ira B. Hill, 1891-1902, owner
of livery stable. (11 items) |
| Ms S 134 |
Taft Collection
Chiefly ledgers found in house built by
David Gray, in 1812. Material by David Gray, 1762-1844;
David Gray, 1798-1870; Henry Jenkins Gray, 1806-1881 and
Henry Gray, 1852-1909. Also, Samuel Cummings, 1774-1816;
Charles Cummings, 1804-1873; Abiel Pearson, M.D., 1755-1827
and William Griffin, Jr., 1766-1830. Includes town records,
especially Overseers of the Poor. (Volume: 18 inches) |
| Ms S 156 |
Mary Ann Loring Currier Papers
Chiefly letters, 1831-1843, addressed to
Mary Ann Loring, who in 1835 married Anthony D. Currier of
Newburyport. (73 items, in one volume) |
| Ms S 157 |
H. Winthrop Peirce Papers
Costumed drawings and theatrical programs
for pageants, 1918-1921 (15 items) |
| Ms S 158 |
George W. W. Dove Papers
Chiefly mounted newspaper clipping
concerning collapse of Pacific Guano CO., 1889 and Cook
Arctic Expedition of 1894. Also Civil War Military Papers.
(Volume: 2 inches) |
| Ms S 159 |
Mary Jean Craik Papers
Letters, 1920-1954, from political figures
sent to a patriotic nurse. (38 items) |
| Ms S 162 |
John G. Russell Papers
Chiefly correspondence of John G. Russell,
shoemaker, member of West Parish Church and Spiritualist.
Includes material by other member of his family and paper
shoe patterns. (55 items) |
| Ms S 163 |
Lydia Zanpe Whitlock Papers
Chiefly bills and receipts of New Jersey
widow, coping during the Revolution. (92 items) |
| Ms S 171 |
Lydia Clark Abbott Flint Papers
Chiefly letters, written 1814, concerning
student life in Bradford Academy, Bradford, Mass., a female
seminary. (31 items) |
| Ms S 172 |
Mary James Abbott Papers
Chiefly letters, written 1836-1838, concerning the
experiences of Mary James Abbott of Andover, 1810-1857, as a
schoolteacher and Protestant missionary in French Canada.
Also material by other members of the Abbott, Foster, and
Holt families and from the South Church, Andover. (219
items) |
| Ms S 196 |
Punchard Free School Trustees Records
Chiefly minutes, 1850-1980, of trustees in
charge of endowed secondary school which became public high
school. (6 folders) |
| Ms S 197 |
Punchard Free School Records
Chiefly programs from prize essay contests
and graduation exercises, c.1870-1950. Also copies of
student periodicals, 1880-1957, of an endowed secondary
school which became public high school. Also architectural
drawings. (10 inches, oversize portfolio) |
| Ms S 205 |
Mehitable Abbott Russell Papers
Twenty-nine letters, written between 1805
and 1857 to Mehitable Abbott Russell. She had gone from
Andover to Maine, but four, perhaps five of her daughters
returned to Andover to work in the textile mills and
described their experiences. (29 items) |
| Ms S 210 |
Samuel
McLanathan Papers
Correspondence and deeds, chiefly concerned with the sale
of property on Summer Street, Andover in 1865 (29 items) |
| Ms S 212 |
Samuel
Jenkins, 1775-c.1845 Papers
Chiefly deeds, of four generations of Samuel Jenkinses,
1765-1846 (29 items) |
| Ms S 213 |
Franklin H.
Stacey Papers
Chiefly printed regulations and questionaires kept by a
member of the Andover Selective Service Board during World
War I (63 items) |
| Ms S 230 |
Obadiah
Foster Papers
Fifteen deeds, sixty-five bills and receipts, 1729-1829,
of Obadiah Foster, 1741-1780, and his family, with his
estate settlements by his redoubtable widow, Hannah Ballard
Foster Chandler, 1748-1838 (80 items) |
| Ms S 231 |
Mary
Caldwell Papers
Twelve deeds, one note of hand, 1762-1843 concerning
property in the Scotland District of Andover (13 items) |
| Ms S 235 |
Nathan
Foster Abbott Papers
Five notebooks: personnel expense, 1848-1857. Pay and
labor records of the laborers of Andover roads, 1854;
diaries 1878-1891 of Andover machinist who became a farmer
(5 volumes) |
| Ms S 242 |
Charles Shed
Daybook
Shed Family daybook, used first from 1803 to 1808 by an
unidentified spinner, handweaver and tailor, second, from
1818 to 1821 by Charles Shed, a young boy (1 volume) |
| Ms S 259 |
Henry S.
Robinson
Civil War material including diary by Lieutenant in 36th
Massachusetts Regiment. Also diary of his daughter-in-law,
as a married women in East Boston, 1884-1885 (46 items) |
| Ms S 313 |
Bessie P. Goldsmith Papers
Chiefly lectures and articles on Andover history, c.
1920-1965. Includes family papers and historical
reminiscences by John Houghton Flint, b.c. 1880, and 1880,
and others. (5 inches) |
| Ms S 352 |
Currency Collection
Chiefly Confederate bills by included bills from colonial
and U.S. New England Banks, counterfeit U.S. and others.
(123 items) |
| Ms S 376 |
West Parish Church Records
Running records of rural Congregational Church,
1826-1957. (Four linear feet) |
| Ms S 420 |
Mary Byers Smith Papers
Chiefly correspondence, journals, addresses and
historical sketches concerning John Smith, 1796-1886, and
his brother Peter, 1802-1880. They came penniless from
Scotland and prospered in Andover as proprietors of Smith
and Dove Co., manufacturers of linen twine. Also material by
other family members. (Four inches) |
| Ms S 556 |
William A. Trow Collection
Chiefly collected items concerning the Samuel Phillips
family during the American Revolution. Also town meeting
resolutions, other town and family papers. (70 documents) |
| Ms S 557 |
Records of Andover Chapter, American Red Cross
Records of public health organization, 1915-1976. Former
names: Andover Tuberculosis Association, Andover; Public
Health Association. (8 inches, 6 oversize scrapbooks) |
| Ms S 558 |
Shattuck Farm Records
Chiefly account books, 1848-1957 of prosperous dairy
farm. (8 inches, 2 oversize volumes) |
| Ms S 637 |
Charles Edward Abbott, M.D. Collection
Chiefly deeds of descendents of Jonathan Abbott,
1687-1770 of eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Also
some personal papers and papers of unrelated Andover
residents. (5 inches) |
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| Ms S 790 |
Mary Byers
Smith Collection
Poems, historical sketches, photographs concerning Mary
Byers Smith (1885-1983). She was the granddaughter of John
Smith (see Ms S 420 Inventory), and the daughter of Joseph
Warren Smith and Fannie S. Donald (1 box) |
| Ms S 795 |
Gray Farm
Collection
Consists of correspondence, deeds, wills, receipts of
David Gray, his descendents, and others. (30 inches) |
| Ms S 796 |
Civil War
Soldiers and Sailors Papers
Complete record of names of all men from Andover; muster
rolls, subscription lists, miscellaneous rebel papers,
correspondence, clothing account books; morning report
books; and disbursements in aid of families of volunteers.
1860-1870.(9 inches) |
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