Family and Personal Paper Collections
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DOROTHY ADAMS SCRAPBOOK
BENSON FAMILY PAPERS
Alan Benson Scrapbook, 1963-2001
Barker Free School records
Files on other schools, churches, town organizations, houses
RUTH BRADFORD CANTERBURY SCRAPBOOKS
1888-1902
1913-1923
Deeds, 1830-1876
COLE-PRATT FAMILY PAPERS / ALBUM
CUNNINGHAM FAMILY PAPERS
1940s, incl. West Boxford Report Center, ration books, civil defense papers
B. Robert Cunningham Personal Diaries
FRANCIS CURTIS / FRANCIS CURTIS JR. PAPERS
REVEREND JOHN CUSHING PAPERS (Collection from Episcopal Divinity School)
PAUL C. DAVIS PAPERS
A. LOVELL ELLIOTT PAPERS
JONATHAN FOSTER PAPERS (BHS and oversize)
WALTER FRENCH CARD SCRAPBOOK
JAMES P. GRAY PAPERS
GOULD FAMILY PAPERS (BHS – also see Ipswich Inn papers: Gould, Lake, Nichols, Clarke families)
Winthrop Haynes correspondence
Boxford Biographies
Boxford Subjects
Boxford Organizations
First Church
Non-Boxford material
HERRICK PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS (people unidentified)
RICHARD HOPPING PAPERS
Books:
Book owned by Daniel and Sarah S. Spofford
“The American Spectator or Matrimonial Preceptor” (1797)
US Constitution
MARY ANN HOVEY (KIMBALL) MEMORABILIA
HAROLD D. HUSSEY PAPERS
Genealogy
Ella Ingalls Scrapbooks and Diaries, 1885-1970
Rosamond Ingalls Scrapbooks of Boxford Mass. & Other Towns, c.1957-1987
Iron Works
Ingaldsby
Photo Albums
Correspondence
Boxford
College Material
HARLAN P. KELSEY (Kelsey Highlands Plant Nursery)
Documents
Photographs
Postcards
EDITH C. KILLAM PAPERS
KIMBALL FAMILY PAPERS (BHS)
Genealogy
MARGARET LANE PAPERS
Boxford play/pageant materials, 1910s-1920s
Boxford Historical Society
Boxford Library Society
First Church
Parker-Morse House
Genealogical Research
FRANK MANNY PAPERS (also see Frank A. Manny BHS Collection)
Personal Papers
Annette Sawyer Manny greeting card album
Frank A. Manny playbill album (mainly Boston theater venues)
NANCY MERRILL PAPERS
BTA/BOLT (Boxford Trails Association / Boxford Open Land Trust)
Colby Park Project
LAWRENCE D. MORRIS - WITCH HOLLOW FARM COLLECTION
474 Ipswich Road - Focus on the conservation of this property
Includes Barker family material
PARKHURST FAMILY PAPERS
Also see scrapbook collection, 1902-1979, framed Parkhurst coat of arms, Amy Parkhurst doll scrapbook
Civil War letters of John Parkhurst
Sawyer family deeds
Henry and Hiram Towne
Killam and Parkhurst family records
Robert Parkhurst journals, ledgers, school notes
General Boxford files, including First Church
Boxford Ephemera
Peabody Family Records
Sarah Peabody teacher records (Schools 1 and 3)
Lucie Peabody notebooks
Albert B. Peabody’s European trip, 1878
PEARL FAMILY PAPERS
Also see E.E. Pearl scrapbooks
Also see Ladies’ Charitable Society - Elizabeth Sanborn Pearl
JOHN KIMBALL PEARL FAMILY PAPERS
ANNE PERKINS SCRAPBOOK
PERLEY BROTHERS PAPERS (ELBRIDGE PERLEY AND HUMPHREY PERLEY) (BHS)
BARBARA PERLEY PAPERS
Perley Family
Boxford Material
Barbara’s Personal Papers
Notes and Drafts for Updated Dwellings of Boxford
Civil War letters of Rufus Emerson
Town of Boxford/Selectmen
Town of Boxford/Harry L. Cole diaries
Town of Boxford/Town Departments
Town of Boxford/WPA and CCC
PRICE FAMILY PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS
Anne Price Myers' collection
ELIZABETH BARNES SAWYER FAMILY PAPERS (BHS)
Copies of Boxford Town Records
Boxford Planning Board and Zoning Records
“Schools of Boxford” by Martha Coombs
SPOFFORD FAMILY COLLECTION
FRANK HENRY SPOFFORD JR.
Boxford Projects and Reports
Kimball, Chandler and Shaw families
SALLY SPRAGUE (POWER) FAMILY PAPERS
CARLYLE AND KATHERINE THOMAS PAPERS
Boxford Subjects
Town of Boxford/Officials and Departments
Andrews Farm
Boxford Housing
Boxford Zoning Board of Appeals
Personal Papers
TOWNE FAMILY PAPERS (ALSO TOWNE FAMILY/iFARM)
TOWNE / PARKHURST ALBUM
MARGUERITE WHITLEY MAY PAPERS
AARON WOOD PERSONAL PAPERS (BHS)
Estate of Francis Cogswell (1704-1774) to Eunice Cogswell Foster, Ipswich, MA, 1781
Letters to wife Lydia Warren Wood Spofford, 1777
Warrant to apprehend Joseph Anthony of Marblehead, MA, November 22, 1821
Town Owned Property
General Title Searches and Research Files
Law Suits and Court Papers