Milton E. Lord Papers

Box 1

-          Boxford Historical Society, 1937-1953

-          Boxford Historical Society - Holyoke-French House (history of house and inhabitants, including information on some objects and reminiscences of Gertrude French as she was enumerating her wishes for her estate)

-          Boxford Historical Society – Speeches

o   Notes for speeches on Boxford History and the Holyoke-French House

-          Boxford Library Society

o   Copy of 1776 constitution of society (original in BHDC collection)

o   Letter from John Pearl Jr. to Moses Dorman, March 7, 1801

-          Libraries

o   Annual Reports, 1950, 1951

o   Meeting announcements, 1951-1954

-          Boxford Maps

o   Copy of Massachusetts General Court Resolution requiring towns to make surveys of their territories, 1830

-          Boxford Population, 1765-1940

-          Boxford Schools – Elementary, 1942-1960

o   Graduation exercises, 1943-1945

o   Programs for musical performances

o   Report of the School Building Committee, 1950

o   School Department letter to Boxford voters, 1951

o   Letters from Boxford School Housing Committee / Boxford School House Committee, 1952

o   Flier for “Proposed Cole Elementary School Addition” with architectural renderings, 1960

o   Flier for “Proposed Spofford Pond School Addition” with architectural renderings, 1968

o   Architectural renderings for Proposed Elementary School, 195[?] (Plan “A)

o   Architectural renderings for Proposed Changes in Aaron Wood School and Proposed Changes in Gardner Morse School (Plan “B”)

-          Boxford Schools – Masconomet

o   Invitation to Masconomet open house and dedication

o   Dedication booklet

o   “Report to the Citizens from the Masconomet Regional District School Committee” c.1956 (includes diagrams and renderings)

o   Masconomet Regional District School Committee letter RE: Population growth, October 24, 1960

o   Plans for Masconomet addition with supporting letter from Masconomet Regional District School Committee, 1968

o   Letter from the League of Women Voters of Topsfield-Boxford RE: Masconomet School addition, 1968

o   Summary Report: School Building Needs: Masconomet Regional School District, 1961

o   Letter to voters and taxpayers of Boxford, Middleton and Topsfield from the Citizens Committee for the Facts RE: Reasons to vote against construction of Masconomet School, September 26, 1956

-          First Church – Auditor’s Report, 1943

-          First Church – Historical Sketch

o   Play about the history of First Church, c.1940s

-          First Church – Ministers, 1943-1945

o   Pastoral Supply Committee search for new pastor and hiring of Thomas Curtis

-          First Church – Miscellaneous

o   Meeting and event notices

o   Letters to congregation

o   Blueprint for “Preliminary Plan Indication Proposed Alterations & Additions Boxford Congregational Church” (plans for basement and new well, septic and heating)

-          First Church – Old House Sunday

o   Outline for address by Milton E. Lord, “The Pastorate of the Rev. John Rogers, Second Minister of the Boxford Church,” 1944

o   Address by Winthrop P. Haynes, 1942

-          First Church – Parish Finance Committee, 1939-1945


Box 2

-          Genealogical Information, A-H

o   Citations from Essex Antiquarian (publication in BHDC collection) for following: Edwin S. Adams, Hepzibah Andrews (Mrs. Abraham How), Robert Andrews, Bixby genealogy, Cornelius Brown, Dorman, Reuben Gragg, Mrs. David Haynes, Joseph Hovey

-          Genealogical Information, French Family

-          Genealogical Information, Holyoke Family

-          Genealogical Information, K-R

o   Elisa Kingsbury, Jacob Peabody, Rufus Porter

o   Citations from Essex Antiquarian (publication in BHDC collection) for following: Francis Peabody, George Peabody, Capt. John Peabody, Rev. Oliver Peabody, Perley, Asa Perley, Mary Perley, Sarah Porter (Mrs. Samuel Porter), Tyler Porter, Abraham Redington

-          Genealogical Information, Rogers Family

-          Genealogical Information, S-Z

o   Rev. Thomas Symmes

o   Citations from Essex Antiquarian (publication in BHDC collection) for following: Ruth Symonds, Richard Tyler, Daniel Wood

-          Parker-Morse House (Perley #234)

o   Short play about the Morse-Parker house and family in the Civil War by Alice P. Austin, 1942