Series breakdown: Collection consists of Nathan Brooks and Brooks family unit members individual papers, 1777-1917: Nathan Brooks private documents, 1777-1862; Mary Merrick Brooks communications, 1819-1863; Franklin Brooks documentation, 1854-1857; Caroline Downes Brooks (Hoar) files, 1817, 1837; George Merrick Brooks files, 1840-1893; Brooks documents, 1891-1917; Mary D.
Libby; Levi Lincoln; Augustus Merrick; Francis J
Nathan Brooks’s personal records become: interaction, 1801-1862, consisting generally away from characters so you can Nathan Brooks with by the your interfiled (emails registered in two sequences, one-generally extended communication-establish alphabetically of the brands regarding correspondents and you will for the individual correspondent files by date, the other set up entirely chronologically); information, 1825-1844, produced by Brooks’s political points (such his Whig involvements, among them their solution given that an organizer out-of and treasurer getting July next Whig celebrations into the Concord inside the 1840 and you will 1844); circulars and sees per alumni and you will Overseer factors at the Harvard, 1836-1838; files meet Latinas women, 1823-1840, according to Brooks’s guardianship out of his daughter Caroline’s heredity off her mother with his management of their unique offers on the Brand new The united kingdomt Cup Providers; assets data (leases and you will deeds for real home inside Concord and Lincoln and you to woodlot survey quantifying oak and you may pine info on Fairhaven Mountain within the Concord), 1824-1855; manuscript Brooks relatives genealogical posts (undated; who has beginning, matrimony, and you can dying pointers off 1755 in order to 1831); miscellaneous manuscript items, 1777, also undated, including a 1777 commissary certification to have Col. [Eleazer] Brooks, a drink menu, rules to own potato planting, and “Malfunction away from People one left Gold Ware . . . during the Boston.”
Hoar; Samuel Hoar; Lewis L
Correspondents throughout the series from emails filed by name tend to be Caroline Brooks (Nathan’s d, Humphrey, Isaac, Joshua, and William Brooks (brothers); Daniel Brooks (a friend and you may cousin); George Brooks (son); J. Brooks (nephew); John H. Hartwell (cousin); Martha Keith (“Beloved Sis”); and you may Elizabeth. F. Paige (school friend). Correspondents one of emails set up chronologically include: Chester Adams; Josiah Adams; Edward W. Andrews; B. D. Bartlett; Samuel Burnham; Phila Seas Burr; Ephraim Buttrick; James L. Child; Joshua Youngster; Caleb Cushing; Josiah Davis; S. H. Davis; Amelia Meters. Edwards; George Barrell Emerson; Ann T. Jones; George F. Farley; Amos Farnsworth; Nathaniel Freeman; B. Gannett; C. Grosvenor; L. P. Grosvenor; George Hall; Jo Hilliard; Timothy Hilliard; Nathaniel P. Merrick; Caleb Moon; Sophia Munroe; George Newton; L. Peabody; Cyrus Peirce; C. D. Grams. Perry; Timothy Prescott; Ezra Ripley; Skip S. Ripley; Samuel Ripley; William Smith; William F. Stone; William H. Sumner; Solomon Thayer; C. A good. Tuttle; Sarah Tuttle; Age. A. Ware; F. W. Ware; A great. C. Watson; Charles A beneficial. Wheeler; Jonas Wheeler; William J. Whipple; Nathaniel Whitman; Benjamin Willard; L. and you can J. (John) Wright. Letters of Mary Merrick Merrick Brooks so you can their particular spouse are you to definitely (Will get thirteen, 1838) authored of Philadelphia, where Mrs. Brooks is likely to the new Antislavery Discussion of Western Feminine. All round interaction file has emails from Samuel Hoar when you look at the Arizona, February 17, 1836 (“Abolition possess united states quite enjoying within this cool seasons”); of in order to L. and you may J. Wright (Mr. and Mrs. John Wright) into the Worcester off Caroline Brooks’s education; to help you Amos Farnsworth (Oct 25, 1837) out of Nathan Brooks, who, once the a candidate for a seat in the us Congress, declines to spell out their feedback about your thraldom concern; from Samuel Ripley (November twenty-eight, 1839) regarding the George Brooks’s schooling when you look at the Waltham; and you may regarding Amelia Meters. Edwards (June cuatro, 1846) away from their own standing due to the fact organist in the Basic Parish.
Mary Merrick Brooks’s communications include a good folder out-of emails in order to Maria Parker inside the Billerica (a sibling), 1819-1836, and you can a beneficial folder out of characters, 1833-1863, from individuals correspondents, filed because of the big date. One of the correspondents regarding second folder: letters off spouse Nathan, stepdaughter Caroline, young man George, cousin Lloyd Garrison (July 31, 1863).