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Important Manuscript Collections at NEHGS

Selected items listed below demonstrate the breadth of just some of the materials in the NEHGS manuscript collections.
New England   Vermont
Connecticut   Nova Scotia
Maine   Great Britain
Massachusetts   Major Surnames Collections
New Hampshire   Ethnic Collections
Rhode Island   Fellows of the American Society of Genealogists

New England
Aspinwall, Algernon Alken. "Miscellaneous New England Families"; Register style format of 22 out of 23 Mayflower heads of families through the sixth generation (Mayflower Society project only goes five generations); fully compiled, incomplete, but undocumented; 55 parts [SG/ASP/2].

Bartlett, Elizabeth French and Joseph Gardner. Immigrant Origin Studies; ancestry of American immigrants from English and American sources collected for the NEHGS Committee on English and Foreign Research; [SG/BAR/86 (146)]

Dodge, Winifred Lovering (Holman), F.A.S.G. Holman Collection; being 1200+ early American family genealogies, mainly seventeenth century New Englanders with lineal descents; notes from mother Mary Campbell (Lovering) Holman, F.A.S.G.; 27 volumes of separate genealogies [Mss/A/H63].

Reed, Marion Charlotte, about 1300 families (includes some NY families)

Torrey, Clarence Almon, F.A.S.G. New England Marriages Prior to 1700, microfilmed in 1979 and incompletely published in 1985; CD-ROM with full citations published in 2001; also his research notes for Clark, Fairbanks, Gates, Gawkroger, Gilbert, Gilman, Heald, Roe, Torrey, Whitebread, and Young families [SG/TOR/5; 147].


Connecticut
Bowen, Clarence Winthrop. Genealogies of Woodstock (CT) Families; source notes for published work; additional material on families (Hayward to 2:). [SG/BOW/9 (49)]

Hinman, Royal Ralph. Early Connecticut Families; eleven folio volumes; alphabetically arranged; A-Danielson and Hinman were published in 1853-1856 [SL/CON/12].

Prindle, Paul Wesley, F.A.S.G. Paul Wesley Prindle Papers. Research on Stamford and Greenwich, CT families (also colonial Plymouth Co. MA, Palatine and Mohawk families of NY / VA with smaller amounts on Dutch and Schoarie Valley families of NY, Palatine families of PA, Mayflower families, and English royalty / heraldry) [Mss 322]


Maine
Weeden, Eugene F. Weeden Collection; Eighty-six bound volumes plus other material covering families and primary sources for Berwick, ME and Somersworth, NH [SG/WEE/7]


Massachusetts
.... .Direct Tax List of 1798 for Massachusetts and Maine; mostly complete; twenty document boxes; microfilmed in 1979 [F63/M343/1978 microfilm also LOAN and Mss B M35 (134)].

Abbot, Charlotte Helen. Early Records of Families in Andover (MA); Fourteen typescript volumes and fifteen reels of notes; original at the Andover Historical Society [Mss Cb 137].

Badlam, Stephen. Badlam Collection; early Boston MA area surveyor [Spec. Col. 11 B I].

Banks, Charles Edward. Settlers of Martha's Vineyard; Twenty-five volumes in loose leaf binders with mounted records and clippings; notes for his three-volume history on the same [Mss A B32 and Mss Cb 59, 60, 91].

Barlow, Claude Willis, F.A.S.G. "Massachusetts and Connecticut Families"; alphabetically arranged notes and correspondence; a Worcester County, MA specialist [Mss A B37]

Chamberlain, George Walter. Various Genealogies of Massachusetts Families; 193 families [SG/CHA/6].

Corbin, Walter E. Corbin Collection; being the Vital Records, Gravestone Inscriptions, Church Records and Town Clerk's Books of 77 towns in central and western Massachusetts and ten other towns (parts 1-186) and Compiled Genealogies of most Early Residents of Belchertown, Hancock, Northampton, Pittsfield, Southampton, Wales and Ware (parts 187-242) [F63/C8 microfilm also LOAN and SG/COR/5]

Dorchester Antiquarian Society Collection. Historical notes on early Dorchester, MA and its families [Mss/B/D36].

Hinckley, Abbie L and Gustavus A. Barnstable (MA) Town Records; Twelve volumes of town and vital records; nine volumes of county probate abstracts [Mss 419].

Hodges, Almon Danforth, Jr. Various Massachusetts Genealogies; Seventy-one families in 119 volumes; indexed [SG/HOD/6].

McLean, Maclain Warren, F.A.S.G. Maclain Warren McLean Papers. Compiled genealogies of southeastern New England families (especially Crosby, Ellis, and Gifford families but also the Bourne, Dimmock, Fish, Gibbs, Handy, Howland, Landers, Nye, Parker, Perry, and Swift families.) [Mss 369]

Reed, Marion Charlotte. Genealogies of over 1200 Early American Families; Twenty-seven seventeeth-century New England families alphabetically arranged and 1300+ client reports on families mostly in New England or New York [SG/REE/3; 220].

Scots' Charitable Society of Boston. Records, 1657-1952. Twenty-two volumes of minutes, accounts, member lists, programs, correspondence, memorial notices, and other data concerning the oldest private charitable organization in the United States. Manuscript collection may be consulted only with prior permission of the Scots' Charitable Society [F73.1/S36/R43/1979 microfilm]

Sprague, Waldo C. Sprague Collection; early families of Braintree, Quincy, and Randolph; Curtis, Thayer, and Wales genealogies [F74/B6/S67/1983 Microfilm also LOAN and SG/SPR/17].

Wyeth Funeral Service Records. Cambridge, MA firm; chronological arrangement [Mss 223].


New Hampshire
Hardon, Henry Winthrop. Various New Hampshire Genealogies; eleven family genealogies on unpublished families; some indexed [SG/HAR/4].

Shackford, Samuel Burnham. Samuel B Shackford Papers; Seventy-two genealogies of NH families, many are unpublished families [SG/SHA/5].


Rhode Island
Austin, John O. Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island; annotated by the author; one volume [SL/RHO/5].


Vermont
Doane, Gilbert H., F.A.S.G., Gilbert H Doane Papers; Twenty-three boxes for Fairfield, VT families and seven boxes for the Hungerford family [Mss 16].


Nova Scotia
Brechin, W P. Brechin Collection; Nova Scotia family research [Spec. Col. II B 3].

Crowell, Fred E. New Englanders in Nova Scotia; scrapbook of Crowell's articles published in the "Yarmouth Herald" and many in manuscript form (unpublished); surname index to key name of each article; background notes; abstractions from provincial and town records concerning the New England Planters; 650+ families covered; 1938; microfilmed in 1979 [F1036.8/C78/1979 microfilm also LOAN and SG/CRO/1].

Eaton, Arthur Wentworth Hamilton. Nova Scotia Families; 169 family genealogies with some Nova Scotia vital records dealing with Nova Scotia planters and United Empire Loyalists; concentrated research for Hants and Kings Counties [SG/EAT/l].


Great Britain
..... . Great Britain Exchequer - Protestant house-keepers ... in several Baronies of Dunluce Walke ... in 1740 [Mss 270].

Howard, Joseph Jackson. Pedigrees of Families of Great Britain; descendants of Alfred the Great; fifty volumes individually indexed; index every ten volumes and cumulative index [SG/HOW/4 (81)].

Moriarty, George Andrew, Jr., F.A.S.G. Feudal Genealogy; English ancestry of Edward and Ellen (Newton) Carleton of Rowley, MA; Richard Palgrave of Charlestown, MA; William Sargent of Malden, MA; John Throckmorton of Providence, RI; four boxes and 18 bound volumes of immigrant genealogies [SG/MOR/24 (136)] and Plantagenet Ancestry; forbears of Edward III and Phillippa of Hainault [SG/PLA/10].

Somerby, Horatio Gates. English data on many early families in America. [SG SOM 5 (154)]


Major Surname Collections
Ames, Azel. Ames Collection; descendants of William Ames of Bridgewater, MA; source material for a book that was never published; raw data organized in subject folders with identification numbers as was to appear in genealogy; index. [Mss A A63 (214)].

Andrews, Henry Franklin. Miscellaneous Unpublished Genealogy of the Andrews and Hamlin Families; 53 volumes; 32 of these volumes on the descendants of John Andrews of Ipswich MA [SG/AND/10].

Barbour, Edmund Dana. Descendants of Capt. George Barbour of Medfield (MA); ten- volume typescript; source material; indexed; 1907 [CS/71/B24/1907 and SG/BAR/18 (50)].

Behan, Jeanette W. Jeanette W. Behan Papers; Woodworth family through seven generations; indexed [Mss 207].

Bugbee, Justin Coy. Bugbee Family [Mss 222].

Corbin, Walter E. Descendants of Robert Elwell of Gloucester MA; five-volume dictionary format with four boxes of supporting notes and work by other renowned genealogists [Mss A E55].

Cram, Elmer H. Elmer H Cram Papers; Cram family; indexed with two detailed appendices by Ardis King (1990) [Mss 200].

Cooke, Rollin Hillyer. The Cook and Lewis Families; includes most New England families with these surnames [SG/COO/8].

Curtis, Harlow Dunham. Richard Curtis of Dorchester and Wallingford; index [Mss 314].

Curtis, Harold E. Curtis Family; all Curtis families of New England; index [Mss 269].

Daffin, Hildegarde S. Snow Family [Mss 231].

Davis, Edwin Gerry. Davis Families; includes most New Englanders with this surname; difficult arrangement even though it is indexed [SG/DAV/33].

Dodge, Winifred Lovering (Holman). Research notes, mostly compiled and extensive on the following families: miscellaneous Bentley families [SG/BEN/15]; Robert Claflin [SG/CLA/7]; William Clark of Dorchester, MA [SG/CLA/18; 71]; New England Combes or Coombes families [SG/COM/20; 95]; Governor John Endicott [SG/END/12; 295]; Robert Fletcher of Concord, MA [SG/FLE/7]; and John Lovering [SG/LOV/30].

Eldridge, William H. Eldridge Family [Mss 276].

Endicott, William Crowninshield, Jr. Endicott Families; descendants of Governor John Endicott [SG/END/10].

Eustis, William Tracy. Thomas Dutton Genealogy; three manuscript volumes; unindexed [SG/DUT/ll].

Freeman, Willis. Freeman Families; all Freemans of England, New England, and the mid-Atlantic states; sixty volumes alphabetically arranged by first name in two parts (male and female) [SG/FRE/55 (111)].

Gay, Frederick Lewis. John Gay of Dedham (MA) [SG/GAY/5].

Goff, Thomas T, and Cleo Goff Bartels. Goff Collection; descendants of John Goff; index [Mss/A/G64].

Gorham, Henry S. Gorham Genealogy; descendants of John Gorham of Barnstable, MA, son-in-law of John Howland (Mayflower passenger) through the eighth generation with the last two volumes briefly dealing with the ninth and tenth generations; 28 volumes; 1931-1944 [CS/71/G668/1931].

Goss, William O. William 0 Goss Papers; Whitehouse family; indexed [Mss 151].

Hall, Trella M. Trella M Hall Papers; Sweet family; indexed [Mss 152].

Horton, Byron Barnes. Horton Family [Mss A H67].

Ivie, Alvin E. Ivie, Ivy, Ives Family; an Irish family; alphabetical arranged [Mss 279].

Jamieson, Joseph W. Jamieson Papers; Bradford genealogy; indexed [Mss 5].

Martin, Samuel Hays. Martin Genealogy, Volume 2; volume one published [SG/MAR/20].

Mayo, Chester Garst. Mayo Family [Mss 225].

Nickerson, William Emery. Nickerson Genealogy; descendants of William Nickerson of Chatham MA; source material and 29 volumes of compiled genealogy; indexed [SG/NIC/31,40-40b].

Palmer, Horace Wilbur. Palmer Families; descendants of all American Palmers; 13 volumes [Mss 297].

Putnam, Eben. Eben Putnam Papers. Focus on the descendants of John Putnam of Salem, MA, extensive research on Putnam families in NY's Mohawk Valley and lesser amounts on southern lines [Mss 399].

Search, Robert M. Church Family; subject folder arrangement [Mss 248].

Silvester, Albert H. Richard Silvester Family; indexed [Mss 247].

Tibbetts, Charles S. Knight Family (of MA and ME) [SG/KNV/21].

Trim, Robert S. Trim Family Papers; alphabetically arranged [Mss 273].

Wales, Charles M. Charles M Wales Papers; Wales family card index of vital records [Mss 88].

Wetherbee, Winthrop. Wetherbee Family; indexed by generation [Mss 218].

Woolford, Mariette Mellen; Richard Mellen of Charlestown MA; 1902 [Mss Cb 1109].


Ethnic
Ottery, RuEllen "Rudi". Brotherton Indian Collection. Includes tribal rolls, censuses, lineages from Brotherton progenitors, and enrollment files collected from individuals of Brotherton descent wishing to be placed on the Brotherton Indian rolls (as part of a larger effort to petition the federal government for formal recognition as an Indian tribe). [Mss 395]


Fellows of the American Society of Genealogists (FASG) collections
Rev. Dr. Arthur Adams, FASG (Founding Fellow), [SG ADA 20 ] [37]
John Insley Coddington, FASG (Founding Fellow), [Mss 440 ]
Dr. Harold Bowditch, FASG, [Bowditch Heraldry Collection ]
George Andrews Moriarty, Jr., FASG, [SG MOR 24] [136]
Mary Campbell Lovering Holman, FASG, [Mss A H63 ]
Winifred Lovering Holman Dodge, FASG, [Mss A H63 ]
Clarence Almon Torrey, FASG, [SG/TOR/5 ] [147]
Rev. Dr. Gilbert H. Doane, FASG, [Mss 16 ]
William Herbert Wood, FASG, [Mss 435 ]
Rev. Dr. Frederick Lewis Weis, FASG, [Mss 108 ]
Dr. Robert H. Montgomery, FASG, [Mss H 8 ]
Paul Wesley Prindle, FASG, [Mss 322 ]
Rachel E. Barclay, FASG
Maclean W. McLean, FAsG, [Mss 369 ]
Claude Willis Barlow, FASG, [Mss A B37 ]