Historic New England

Sayward family papers

The collection includes family papers, papers relating the Sayward House, photographic material, and printed material. There is significant documentation of individuals from the earlier period of the family's history, the mid to late 1700s and early 1800s. Documentation is thinner in the late 1800s ...

Date: 1741-1987

Collection: Sayward family papers

GUSN: 173763

Ref. Code: MS031

Family papers

This series includes the papers of individual family members. When studying a particular subject, it is important to cross check the files of various family members, because they may contain complementary information (for instance, the financial records of Jonathan Sayward should be studied in conju...

Date: 1741-1977

Collection: Sayward family papers

GUSN: 174185

Ref. Code: MS031.01

Sayward House papers

This series includes financial and legal records as well as the records of the transfer of the house to Historic New England (then the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities). The financial materials include bills and correspondence regarding repairs and painting. The legal material...

Date: 1884-1987

Collection: Sayward family papers

GUSN: 174193

Ref. Code: MS031.02

Group portrait, Porter, Higgs and Williams, full length, undated

A group of three men, Porter, Higgs and Williams, sit on a blanket surrounded by bushes with a dog behind one of the men who is laying down. There is food and beverages in front of each person.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 173768

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.2230.0020.001

Exterior view of a house with four people sitting on the porch, Oak Bluffs, Martha's Vineyard, Mass., undated

An exterior view of a house with four people, three women and a man, sit in rocking chairs and regular chairs on a porch in Martha's Vineyard, Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts. There are two rooftops attached to the house; the one over the porch has an American flag reaching out over the top of it while t...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 173770

Ref. Code: PC001.02.03.TMP.034

Exterior view of a group of men and women outside a home, Portsmouth, N.H., undated

This is an exterior view of a group of men and women outside a house with a tree in the front yard in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Each of them has a flower or bouquet of flowers in their lap or attached to their clothing.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 173773

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USNH.1380.0080.002

Photographic materials

Many of the family photographs (including the photograph album) date from the time of Elizabeth and Mary Barrell who probably collected them. The materials called "York, Me., 1886" are a copy of an album still in the possession of the Wheeler family.

Date: 1850-1975

Collection: Sayward family papers

GUSN: 174194

Ref. Code: MS031.03

Stereograph of five children in the ocean, Mass., undated

This is a group of five children standing in the ocean next to a beach in Massachusetts. On the horizon line of the stereograph you can see a piece of land.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 174177

Ref. Code: PC001.04.02.5200.001

Printed materials

This series includes printed materials, primarily newspaper clippings, collected by members of the Sayward, Barrell, and Cheever families. It includes obituaries of family members (box 3, folder 4) and materials related to the history of York, Maine.

Date: 1806-1975

Collection: Sayward family papers

GUSN: 174195

Ref. Code: MS031.04

Stereograph of a street with groups of people and horses, Greenfield, Mass., undated

This is a street in the town of Greenfield, Massachusetts during the winter where people have gathered with their horses and sleighs. In the distance the street is lined with buildings which people are coming in and out of.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 174182

Ref. Code: PC001.04.01.USMA.0680.0010.002

Market day, Greenfield, Massachusetts

This is a group of people outside on market day with their wagons and horses in Greenfield, Massachusetts.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 174192

Ref. Code: PC001.04.01.USMA.0680.0010.003

Interior view of a room in a duck blind, Ponkapoag, Canton, Mass., undated

This is the interior of a room in a duck stand in Ponkapoag, Canton, Massachusetts. There is a rocking chair in front of a window with the shade drawn. On either side of the chair are shelves on the wall containing miscellaneous hunting items including a shelf of ammunition. A row of rifles stand...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 174196

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0510.0040.002

Exterior view of Mr. Wadworth's house at Cottage Hill, Winthrop, Massachusetts

This is the exterior view of Mr. Wadworth's house with groups of people lining up to enter in Cottage Hill, Winthrop, Massachusetts. The house is decorated with flags and they are celebrating the anniversary of the National Lancers. Horses are lined up in front of the house and in the background t...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 174202

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.3480.0040.001

Exterior view of Idlewild Cottage with two women and four children sitting on the porch steps, Nahant, Mass., undated

This is an exterior view of two women and four children sitting on the stairs of the Idlewild cottage porch in Nahant, Massachusetts. There is ivy growing on the porch railings and a rocking chair is behind the group of people.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 174218

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.1950.0040.001

Legal records

This subseries includes legal records related to the Sayward House, including correspondence and deeds.

Date: 1901-1977

Collection: Sayward family papers

GUSN: 174432

Ref. Code: MS031.02.04

Financial records

The materials in this subseries document the maintenance of the Sayward House from 1902 to 1976.

Date: 1902-1976

Collection: Sayward family papers

GUSN: 174434

Ref. Code: MS031.02.01

Exterior view of Idlewild Cottage with two women and four children sitting in front, Nahant, Mass., undated

This is an exterior view of the Idlewild Cottage with two women and four children sitting in front in Nahant, Massachusetts. There is a sign over the porch that says Idlewild and a shed in the background.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 174223

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.1950.0040.002

Exterior view of a duck blind, Ponkapoag, Canton, Mass., undated

This is the exterior view of a duck stand and hunting camp in Ponkapoag, Canton, Massachusetts. The door to the camp is open and you can see inside. There is a dog on the steps leading into the camp and there are hanging ducks around to the right. There are several tree limbs on top of the house t...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 174228

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0510.0020.001

Joseph Sayward (1684-1741)

This subseries includes a copy of Joseph Sayward's will. Joseph Sayward was born in 1684 and was the son of Jonathan and Mary (Austin) Sayward. In 1709, he married Mary Webber of York, Maine. He was a carpenter and joiner by trade; town records state an authorization in 1721 that "Joseph Sayward sha...

Date: 1741

Collection: Sayward family papers

GUSN: 174373

Ref. Code: MS031.01.01

Exterior view of the Dixwell House with Eliza Dixwell and another woman sitting on the porch, Moss Hill, Jamaica Plain, undated

This is an exterior view of the Dixwell House with Eliza Dixwell and another woman sitting on the porch on Moss Hill Mountain, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. A large house is behind the two women that are sitting on the porch. There is ivy growing over some of the posts that hold up the porch roof ...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 174237

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.1470.0140.001

Jonathan Sayward (1713-1797)

This subseries includes correspondence, financial records (including Joseph Blackburn's bill for painting Jonathan's daughter, Sally), legal papers (appointments, deeds, oaths, a will, and a petition), literary papers (a note and an obituary), and undated maps. Jonathan Sayward was born in 1713 in Y...

Date: 1741-1792

Collection: Sayward family papers

GUSN: 174562

Ref. Code: MS031.01.02

Large group of people outside a house, Woburn, MA., Aug. 16,1876

This is a large group of men and women standing and sitting outside a house in Woburn, Massachusetts.

Date: 1876-08-16

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 174252

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.3490.0030.001

Elizabeth Plummer Sayward (1764-1810)

This subseries includes a copy of Elizabeth Plummer Sayward's will and literary papers (genealogy, obituaries). Elizabeth Plummer Sayward was born in 1764 and was the second wife of Jonathan Sayward, whom she married in 1779. She died in 1810.

Date: 1779-1813

Collection: Sayward family papers

GUSN: 174261

Ref. Code: MS031.01.03

Crowd on ferry pier, Provincetown, Mass., undated

This is a line of men, women and children getting off or getting onto a ship from Provincetown, Massachusetts. The bridge is used for the railroad as there are tracks on the left hand side of it. In the distance there are other ships and boats on the ocean.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 174259

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.2400.0040.001

Sarah Sayward Barrell (1738-1805) and Nathaniel Barrell (1732-1831)

This subseries includes miscellaneous papers of Sarah "Sally" Sayward Barrell and Nathaniel Barrell, such as undated letters and obituaries. Nathaniel Barrell was born in 1732 and was a member of a mercantile family. He married Sarah Sayward (b. 1738) in 1758. They had 11 children: Sarah Sayward, Na...

Date: 1775-1831

Collection: Sayward family papers

GUSN: 174560

Ref. Code: MS031.01.04

Street scene, Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts

In Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts there is a roadway with several houses on both sides. There are two large trees growing in an the area that divides the houses.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 174268

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.2200.0020.002

Sarah Sayward Barrell Keating Wood (1759-1855)

This subseries includes a small collection of literary papers. Sarah "Sally" Sayward Barrell was born in 1759 to Sarah and Nathaniel Barrell. She was the author of four novels and one collection of stories and is renowned as Maine's first novelist. In 1778, she married Richard Keating, with whom she...

Date: 1841-1847

Collection: Sayward family papers

GUSN: 174284

Ref. Code: MS031.01.05

Jonathan Sayward Barrell (1772-1857)

This subseries includes correspondence, financial records (cashbook, receipt book, letters received, notes payable), legal papers (appointments, deeds, oath, and his sister Hannah's will), and printed material. Jonathan Sayward Barrell (b. 1772) was the seventh child of Sarah and Nathaniel Barrell. ...

Date: 1794-1854

Collection: Sayward family papers

GUSN: 179592

Ref. Code: MS031.01.06

Men, women and children at the beach, Vineyard Haven, Mass., undated

This is a beach in Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts and several men, women and children are swimming and enjoying recreational activities.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 174289

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.3070.0010.004

Letters from Annie Fields

This folder contains nine letters from Annie Fields to Martha Osgood.

Date: 1870-1873

Collection: Martha Usher Osgood papers

GUSN: 173135

Ref. Code: MS030.001.02

Letters from Annie Fields

This folder contains ten letters from Annie Fields to Martha Osgood.

Date: 1874-1878

Collection: Martha Usher Osgood papers

GUSN: 173132

Ref. Code: MS030.001.03

Letters from Annie Fields

This folder contains fifteen letters from Annie Fields to Martha Osgood.

Date: 1878-1884

Collection: Martha Usher Osgood papers

GUSN: 179588

Ref. Code: MS030.001.04

Letters from Annie Fields

This folder contains sixteen letters from Annie Fields to Martha Osgood.

Date: 1884-1888

Collection: Martha Usher Osgood papers

GUSN: 179589

Ref. Code: MS030.001.05

Letters from Annie Fields

This folder contains twenty-three letters from Annie Fields to Martha Osgood.

Date: undated

Collection: Martha Usher Osgood papers

GUSN: 179590

Ref. Code: MS030.001.06

Letters from James Fields

This folder contains one letter from James Fields to Martha Osgood.

Date: undated

Collection: Martha Usher Osgood papers

GUSN: 179591

Ref. Code: MS030.001.07

Letters from Mary Rice Jewett

This folder contains five letters from Mary Rice Jewett to Martha Osgood.

Date: 1886-1891

Collection: Martha Usher Osgood papers

GUSN: 173141

Ref. Code: MS030.002.01

Letters from Sarah Orne Jewett

This folder includes nine letters from Sarah Orne Jewett to Martha Osgood, in which Jewett writes about her literary efforts in the 1880s.

Date: 1884-1891, undated

Collection: Martha Usher Osgood papers

GUSN: 173142

Ref. Code: MS030.003.01

Letters from various correspondents

This folder contains nine letters from Ellen Robbins, Celia Thaxter, and James Russell Lowell. The letters from Lowell (two items) allude to Mrs. Osgood's floral gifts and to several of his personal problems.

Date: undated

Collection: Martha Usher Osgood papers

GUSN: 173198

Ref. Code: MS030.004.01

Letters sent by Martha Osgood and letters sent and received by others

This folder contains five letters, including one sent by Martha Osgood to her sister Rebecca Usher which describes the house of James and Annie Fields at 148 Charles Street, its furnishings, and the luncheon Osgood enjoyed there. Also included is a letter to Annie Fields from Charles Eliot Norton in...

Date: undated

Collection: Martha Usher Osgood papers

GUSN: 173152

Ref. Code: MS030.005.01

Dr. Barstow's anniversary dinner, July 1, 1868

A large group of people celebrate an anniversary dinner for Dr. Barstow in Keene, New Hampshire on July 1, 1868. Men and women, dressed in finery, are seated and stand at long dining tables with wooden chairs. The ceiling and lighting fixtures are decorated with greenery. A few flowered centerpie...

Date: 1868-07-01

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 173175

Ref. Code: PC001.04.01.USNH.0600.0010.001

Papers of James Rundlet (1780-1852)

Series I, Papers of James Rundlet (1780-1852), 1780-1863, undated (#2.1-2.3, 3.1-3.20, C.1.1-C.1.35, C.2.1-C.2.30, C.3.14, OV.025.01, OV.025.03, x.x-x.x), contains account books, bankbooks, cancelled checks, correspondence, deeds, estate papers, financial records, legal documents, memorandums, noteb...

Date: 1780-1863, undated

Collection: Rundlet-May family papers

GUSN: 173183

Ref. Code: MS025.01

Stereograph of two men harvesting a hay field, Mt. Rural, Newburyport, Mass., undated

Two men harvest hay from a field in Newburyport, Massachusetts near Mt. Rural. One of the men sits on a hay cutter pulled by two horses and another man stands behind him. A fence and stone wall surround part of the field and several houses are in the distance.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 173188

Ref. Code: PC001.04.01.USMA.1270.0130.001

Correspondence

Subseries A, Correspondence, 1806-1846 (#C.1.1-C.1.4, C.3.14), contains correspondence sent and received by James Rundlet (1780-1852). Also included in the subseries is a letter book. Among the letters received are correspondence from Mann & Barnard (1806); Benjamin Wiggin (1813); Charles Carter (1...

Date: 1806-1846

Collection: Rundlet-May family papers

GUSN: 173237

Ref. Code: MS025.01.01

Financial records

Subseries B, Financial records, 1792-1852, undated (#2.1-2.3, C.1.5-C.1.21, C.2.1-2.21, OV.025.01, OV.025.03), contains account books, bankbooks, bills of exchange, cancelled checks, insurance policies, invoices, memoranda, notes, stock certificates, and other financial records belonging to James Ru...

Date: 1792-1852, undated

Collection: Rundlet-May family papers

GUSN: 173240

Ref. Code: MS025.01.02

Stereograph of a nighttime scene at Paragon Park, Nantasket Beach, Hull, Mass., undated

Exterior view of Paragon Park in Nantasket Beach, Massachusetts at nighttime with all of the buildings lit for visitors. There is a reflection of the buildings in the ocean water in front of the park.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 173212

Ref. Code: PC001.04.01.USMA.0860.0010.001

Legal documents

Subseries C. Legal documents, 1780-1851, undated (#C.1.22-C.1.34), contains property deeds, estate papers, mortgages, and indentures. The series includes deeds for property on Middle Street and Market Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire; deeds for pews (1795-1796); and deeds for property in Exeter,...

Date: 1780-1851, undated

Collection: Rundlet-May family papers

GUSN: 173243

Ref. Code: MS025.01.03

Literary papers

Subseries D. Literary papers and printed material, 1787-1793, undated (#C.2.22-C.2.25), contains copybooks and other related papers. The series includes a collection of James Rundlet's copybooks for the subjects of geography, geometry, logic, penmanship, mathematics, trigonometry, rhetoric, and phi...

Date: 1787-1793, undated

Collection: Rundlet-May family papers

GUSN: 173245

Ref. Code: MS025.01.04

Printed materials

i720Subseries E. Printed material, 1796-1845, undated (#C.1.35, #C.2.26-C.2.30), contains catalogues and other printed material (including newspapers). The series includes printed material related to the New York Life Insurance Trust & Company, specifically Rules and Proposals (1830), a report (183...

Date: 1796-1845, undated

Collection: Rundlet-May family papers

GUSN: 173477

Ref. Code: MS025.01.05

Maps and drawings

i720Subseries F, Maps and drawings, 1810-1863, undated (#x.x-x.x), includes architectural drawings of the Rundlet-May House's façade and plan, the façade of his store and alterations proposed after his death, maps of bounty lands in Illinois and of United States lead mines on the upper Mississippi R...

Date: 1810-1863, undated

Collection: Rundlet-May family papers

GUSN: 173478

Ref. Code: MS025.01.06

Stereograph of three people in the doorway of H.J. Woods storefront, location unknown, undated

Two women in dresses stand in the doorway of the H.J. Woods millinery store, which sells hats, boots and shoes. A man wearing a suit stands to the left.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 173234

Ref. Code: PC001.04.02.TMP.015

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