Freedmen
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Rufus and S. Willard Saxton papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 431
Overview:
The papers include correspondence, journals, memorabilia, and photographs that document the life of Samuel Willard Saxton and the career of his brother General Rufus Saxton during the Civil War. The largest portion of the papers is composed of S. Willard Saxton's multi-volumed journal, which he began in 1847 while at Brook Farm and continued until the 1920s. The journal chronicles his career as a printer, aide-de-camp, and civil servant; his travels; family; his interests in the cultural life...
Dates:
1834-1934
Strong Family Collection
Collection
Call Number: MS 1198
Overview:
The collection consists of correspondence, legal and financial papers, diaries, writings, autographs, and other papers documenting the lives and activities of several generations of Strong family members and related Fowler, Pond, and Huntington families of Massachusetts and Connecticut. The bulk of the collection concerns the extended family of Phinehas Strong of Northampton, Massachusetts, and relates to the teaching and agriculture pursuits of family members in Ohio, Michigan, Virginia, and...
Dates:
1667-1925
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Strong Family Collection
Terry-Slocomb family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 483
Overview:
The papers consist of correspondence, a diary, household accounts, and professional documents relating to William Terry; his wife, Maria Roxana Slocomb Terry; his sister, Esther Asenath Terry; and their family and friends in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, and Minnesota.
Dates:
1809-1891
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Terry-Slocomb family papers