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Lloyd Vernon Briggs' collection of Massachusetts family records

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CONTAINER LIST

Box 1

Briggs, Cushing, Damon, Stetson, and Otis family records

Folder 1

Family papers -- Copies of Briggs family records, [approximately 1721-1850]

Included: The Will of John Briggs; An Inventory of the estate of Mr. John Briggs late of Boston in New England, deceased, 1730; The Account of John Briggs...; Copy of Suffolk Deeds, 1741; and biographical sketch of James Briggs

Folder 2

Family papers -- Letters (correspondence) to L. Vernon (Lloyd Vernon) Briggs, 1863-1941, (1913-1933)

4 letters. Included: Miscellaneous notes

Folder 3

Family papers -- Copies of Briggs family records, [approximately 1696-1923]

Included: Legal documents, letters, and notes related to Joseph, Walter, Lloyd, and Cornelius Briggs

Folder 4

Family papers -- Richmond, Eliza letter to "Mrs. Briggs", (1800, Apr. 25)

Dighton (Mass. : Town)

Folder 5

Family papers -- Copies of Cushing family records, [approximately 1803]

Included: Biographies and notes

Folder 6

Family papers -- Copy of Cushing, Isaac letter to William Tudor, (1803, Jan. 1)

Included: Notes related to Cushing and Doane family

Folder 7

Family papers -- Copies of Damon family records, [approximately 1731-1798]

Included: Legal documents and notes related to Ichabod, Asa, and Abigail Damon

Folder 8

Family papers -- Copies of Stetson (Stedson) family records, [approximately 1614-1647]

Included: Wills related to John, George, and Henry Stetson

Folder 9

Family papers -- Hammatt, Esther P. and William letter to Abigail C. Otis, (1837, Oct. 29)

Bangor (Me.)

Included: Copies

Folder 10

Family papers -- Hubbard, Frederick Heman "The Opium Habit and Alcoholism"

Folder 11

Family papers -- Miscellaneous fragments and tracts, (1847)

Included: Mankind Utterly Depraved by the Fall of Adam, no. 2; The Ruinous Consequences of Gambling, no. 200; John Robins, The Sailor, no. 219; and Three Queries to the Rejectors of Christianity, no. 258

Folder 12

Family papers -- Copies of Otis family reocrds, [approximately 1688-1905]

Included: Notes related to Joseph, Job, James, Hannah, Cushing, Abigail, Thomas, and Charlotte Otis

Folder 13

Family papers -- Copies of Otis family records, [approximately 1658-1750]

Included: Notes related to Daniel Cushing, Edward Gilman, John and Stephen Otis, and Martha Wilder

Folder 14

Family papers -- Copies of Otis family records, [approximately 1630-1880]

Included: Boston Births; Boston Marriages; Boston Deaths; Roxbury Births, Marriages, and Deaths; various Charleston records; and various church records

Folder 15

Family papers -- Copies of Otis family records, [approximately 1700-1800]

Included: Otis family deeds, Plymouth County

Folder 16

Family papers -- Copies of Otis family records, [approximately 1657-1756]

Included: Will and biographical notes related to John Otis; History of Bridgewater; and list of Otis men who served in Revolutionary War (including dates)

Folder 17

Family papers -- Copies of Otis family records, [approximately 1604-1875]

Included: Extracts from the Parish Register of St. John the Baptist, Glastonbury, Somerset, England and notes

Folder 18

Family papers -- Copies of Otis family records, [approximately 1658-1786]

Related to Otis family in Massachusetts

Folder 19

Family papers -- Copies of Otis family records, [approximately 1657-1793]

Included: Legal documents and notes related to John, James, and Job Otis

Folder 20

Family papers -- Copies of Otis family records, [approximatley 1727-1849]

Included: Information related to General Otis and Captain Baker

Folder 21

Family papers -- Copies of Otis family records, [approximately 1740-1840]

Included: Information related to Charles, James, Ignatius, Stephen, and Abigail Otis; Otis History of Cape Cod

Box 2

Thomas family records

Folder 1

Family papers -- Copies of Thomas family records, [approximately 1749-1779]

Excerpts of military volumes

Folder 2

Family papers -- Copies of Thomas family records, [approximately 1706-1791]

Included: William Thomas line and Plymouth deeds

Folder 3

Family papres -- Copies of Thomas family records, [approximately 1663-1819]

Included: Excerpts from court records and will of James Pitney, 1663

Folder 4

Family papers -- Copies of Thomas family records, [approximately 1734-1798]

Included: Information related to Nathaniel Ray, Joseph, William, Anthony, Daniel, Ephraim, James, Mary, Nathan, Samuel, Edward, William, and Ruth

Folder 5

Family papers -- Copies of Thomas family records, [approximately 1688-1741]

Included: Information related to Nathan Thomas, John Foster, and Thomas Stetson

Folder 6

Family papers -- Copies of Thomas family records, [approximately 1776-1781]

Excerpts from muster and pay rolls, first names beginning A-I

Folder 7

Family papers -- Copies of Thomas family records, [approximately 1776-1781]

Excerpts from muster and pay rolls, first names beginning J-O

Folder 8

Family papers -- Copies of Thomas family records, [approxiamtely 1776-1781]

Excerpts from muster and pay rolls, first names beginning P-Z

Box 3

Thomas family records

Folder 1

Family papers -- Copies of Thomas family records, [approximately 1635-1787]

Included: Excerpts from Massachusetts General Court; military volumes; and muster and payrolls

Folder 2

Family papers -- Copies of Thomas family records, [approximately 1710-1798]

Excerpts from Plymouth records

Folder 3

Family papers -- Copies of Thomas family records, [approximately 1710-1800]

Excerpts from Plymouth records

CONTAINER LIST