HISTORICAL NOTE

These papers: Letters and deeds, are mostly concerned with selling the property of Samuel McLanathan, 1782-1863, in Andover. He was born in Rutland< Mass. In 1782 and lived in Lowell; on Lowell Street and on Summer Street in Andover. He owned land on Summer Street, also in West Parrish, Hillsborough, New Hampshire and Portland, Maine. His widow, born Keziah Leland of Sherborn, Mass. Sold the Summer Street house and land to Abraham S. Barnard in 1805. They had eleven children, of whom Emily, b. 1805, married Chauncy S. Colton; Samuel, Jr., b. 1814 and Ella Augusta who married Alex McLane of Dorchester appear in these papers. Samuel, Jr. had five children by three wives. By Elizabeth Dickey, he had Elizabeth, who married Dr. Charles Packard; Myra, who married Alfred Hemenway: and Frederick W. McLanathan. By her sister Sarah Dickey, he had Edward Payson who died young. By his third wife, Hannah Maria Edwards of Portland he had Ann Burt. The three children by his first wife appear in these papers.

Processed by Mary F. Morgan, December 1982.