1303-1941; bulk: 1795-1916
Guide to the Collection
Abstract
This collection consists of the papers of Nathan Appleton (1779-1861), merchant, manufacturer, banker, and congressman; his sons, Thomas Gold Appleton (1812-1884) and Nathan Appleton, Jr. (1843-1906); and other family members.
Biographical Sketch
Nathan Appleton
Born in New Ipswich, New Hampshire, on October 6, 1779, Nathan Appleton was the seventh son of Isaac Appleton, a wealthy New Hampshire farmer, and Mary Adams Appleton, a native of Concord, Massachusetts. Though he passed entrance examinations for Dartmouth College, young Appleton elected to forsake higher education and join his older brother Samuel in the mercantile business in Boston.
Beginning as a bookkeeper in 1794, Nathan became a full partner in S. & N. Appleton Company in 1800 and thereafter was the firm's dominant influence. He focused Appleton trade toward England and devised a strategy by which one brother based in Boston and the other in Liverpool could keep close track of transatlantic operations. As a result of his ingenuity and flexibility, the company flourished despite disruptions caused by the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812. Buoyed by his success, Nathan organized a number of new partnerships after 1809 with other Boston traders and Appleton family members, most notably his younger brother Eben and cousin William.
After the War of 1812, with trade conditions uncertain, he took the plunge into the relatively new field of cotton textile manufacturing. Appleton invested heavily in the power mill of Francis Cabot Lowell in Waltham, Massachusetts. With a resourceful group of associates, including Lowell, his nephew John A. Lowell, John W. Boott, Kirk Boott, and Patrick Tracy Jackson, he developed financing and marketing techniques which became models for the textile industry. Appleton's special contribution was the textile sales agency, a specialized company that created marketing outlets through which the cloth produced could be sold and which provided working capital that could be used to expand the fledgling textile operations. By the time of his death in 1861, Nathan Appleton had invested $800,000 in over thirty separate firms.
A director of most of the important New England banks and a prolific author of articles, letters to the editor, and pamphlets, Appleton became a natural spokesman for his region's economic elite on national financial matters. Though he supported Nicholas Biddle, the principal director of the Bank of the United States in his 1833 struggle with President Andrew Jackson, Appleton became a severe critic of what he viewed as the highhanded and unorthodox methods of Biddle over the next eight years and opposed the proposal of Henry Clay for a new Bank charter. In a highly acclaimed pamphlet, Remarks on Currency and Banking (1841), he advocated a smaller, less centralized national financial institution in which power could not be concentrated in the hands of a single individual.
In 1830, the ubiquitous Nathan Appleton entered national politics. After having served six terms as a Massachusetts state legislator, he sought and won a congressional seat, defeating merchant and free trader Henry Lee in a spirited contest. As the representative of the manufacturing element in the 24th Congress, Appleton was called upon to design the high tariff of 1832. He advanced the merits of his tariff in a series of articles in the Philadelphia Banner of the Constitution and engaged in a celebrated debate over the issue with Representative George McDuffie of South Carolina on the floor of the House. Always uncomfortable in the political world, Appleton left Congress after a single term to attend to his ailing wife, Maria Theresa Gold Appleton (who died in 1833), and his myriad business and philanthropic interests. He returned to Congress briefly in 1842, serving out the last three months of the term of Robert C. Winthrop, who had resigned.
In his last years, Appleton continued to follow political and economic developments closely and spoke out regularly. As a conservative nationalist in the 1850s, he stood firmly against antislavery agitation and called upon his southern friends to recognize the commonality of interest with the north and abandon talk of secession. His 17-page Letter to the Hon. William C. Rives of Virginia, on Slavery and the Union (1860) masterfully stated the nationalist creed and was his last major writing. Appleton died at 82 on July 14, 1861, some three months after the firing on Fort Sumter had begun the Civil War.
Thomas Gold Appleton
Thomas Gold Appleton was born in Boston on March 31, 1812. The son of Nathan Appleton and Maria Theresa Gold Appleton of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, he attended the Round Hill School conducted by George Bancroft and Joseph Cogswell in Northampton, Massachusetts, and graduated from Harvard in the class of 1831.
Deeming himself ill-fitted for the business world of his father, the younger Appleton became a leading member of the artistic and literary salons of Boston and the capitals of Europe. A friend of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Lothrop Motley, and Wendell Phillips, he tried painting and wrote essays and poetry with modest success. Among his more notable literary efforts are Faded Leaves (1872), a book of poems; A Sheaf of Papers (1875), a collection of essays; and A Nile Journal (1876), the record of one of his many trips. Appleton was probably best known, however, as a bon vivant and wit. As such, he was, according to Holmes, the "favorite guest of every banquet." Thomas Gold Appleton died in New York on April 17, 1884.
Nathan Appleton, Jr.
Nathan Appleton, Jr., was born in Boston on February 2, 1843, the son of Nathan Appleton and his second wife, Harriot Coffin Sumner Appleton. He graduated from Harvard in 1863 and went off to serve in the Civil War as a second lieutenant with the Fifth Massachusetts Battery. He fought at Rappahannock Station, the Wilderness, Mine Run, and Spotsylvania, where he was wounded in the right arm, and was present at the Battle of Five Forks and Lee's surrender at Appomattox.
After the war, the scion of wealth traveled widely and dabbled unsuccessfully in banking and the cotton business. He was an indefatigable joiner of organizations and promoter of causes from the prevention of cruelty to animals to the establishment of an American empire in the Caribbean and the Pacific. For a time he was even employed as an unpaid agent for French engineer and entrepreneur Ferdinand de Lesseps, who, like Appleton, was interested in building a canal through the Isthmus of Panama. Appleton died in Boston on August 25, 1906.
Collection Description
The Appleton family papers consist of twenty archival boxes of loose manuscripts; 93 bound volumes of journals, letterbooks, and scrapbooks; and three oversize folders of legal documents and genealogical materials. The collection contains chiefly the personal papers of Nathan Appleton (1779-1861), a prominent Boston merchant, manufacturer, banker, and congressman, and the papers of his sons, Thomas Gold Appleton (1812-1884), an artist and poet, and Nathan Appleton, Jr. (1843-1906), a Civil War officer and businessman. Other members of the Appleton family and the related Armistead and Coffin families represented in the collection are: Nathaniel Appleton (1731-1798), Samuel Appleton (1766-1853), Moses Appleton (1773-1849), Eben Appleton (1784-1823), William Appleton (1786-1862), Harriot Coffin Sumner Appleton (1802-1867), Moses Larke Appleton (1811-1859), William Sumner Appleton (1840-1903), William Sumner Appleton, Jr. (1874-1947), Georgiana Louisa Frances Armistead Appleton, and Francis Coffin.
Nathan Appleton's papers concern trade with England, the textile industry, and national politics. They contain information on the War of 1812, Appleton's position in favor of slavery, antebellum tariff legislation in Congress, and Whig Party politics. Major correspondents include Nicholas Biddle (1786-1844), Abbott Lawrence (1792-1855), William Cabell Rives (1793-1868), Charles Sumner (1811-1874), and Daniel Webster (1782-1852).
The papers of artist and poet Thomas G. Appleton contain descriptions of his early days at Round Hill School, his travels in Europe, and Boston social life. The papers of Nathan Appleton, Jr., concern his service in the Fifth Battery of the Massachusetts Light Artillery during the Civil War, his business dealings, his promotion of American imperialism, and the plans of Ferdinand de Lesseps (1805-1894) for a Panama Canal.
Also included in the collection is the 1820-1825 diary of Isaac Foster Coffin (1787-1861) describing the political upheaval and revolution in Chile.
The Appleton family papers are arranged into three series: I. Loose manuscripts, II. Bound volumes, and III. Oversize material. Series I, Loose manuscripts, is further divided into eight subseries. The first subseries consists of Boxes 1-11 and contains general Appleton family correspondence and legal documents. The rest of the series consists primarily of the writings of the various Appletons and assorted typescripts and printed material concerning family members. This material is arranged alphabetically by person, with miscellaneous loose manuscripts and Appleton family photographs at the end. Series II, Bound volumes, has also been arranged by individual family member. Series III consists of miscellaneous oversize documents.
Acquisition Information
Gift of the Appleton family.
Detailed Description of the Collection
I. Loose manuscripts, 1539-1941
This series is divided into eight subseries: A. General correspondence; B. Nathan Appleton papers; C. Nathan Appleton, Jr., papers; D. Samuel Appleton papers; E. Thomas Gold Appleton papers; F. William Appleton papers; G. William Sumner Appleton papers; and H. Miscellany. For a select index of individuals, events, organizations, and subjects of historical significance appearing in this series, see Select Index to Boxes 1-19 below.
A. General correspondence, 1539-1941
This subseries consists of general Appleton family correspondence and legal documents. Boxes 1 and 2 contain an assortment of letters and documents, the most important of which are the receipts and records of Nathaniel Appleton, Continental (later United States) Loan Officer for Massachusetts, ca. 1778-1798.
Boxes 2-9 contain the incoming and outgoing correspondence of Nathan Appleton. The letters to his brothers Samuel and Eben in Boxes 2 and 3 are especially important for Nathan's trading practices and depict his consummate skill in avoiding the blockades and embargo restrictions during the perilous period of the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812. Boxes 3-6 are principally concerned with Appleton's role in manufacturing. Letters to and from Kirk Boott, John A. Lowell, and Timothy Wiggin discuss Appleton's business methods, and statistical reports in Boxes 3-9 demonstrate the state of Appleton investments and the textile industry in general.
Correspondence containing Appleton's economic and political views is scattered throughout but is primarily concentrated in Boxes 4-9. Important correspondents for economic matters are: Nicholas Biddle, Henry C. Carey, Thomas B. Curtis, Abbott Lawrence, and John A. Stevens. For Whig political matters, letters to and from Edward Everett, John G. Palfrey, Daniel Webster, and Robert C. Winthrop are significant. Appleton's correspondence with Charles Sumner (Box 6), to whom his second wife, Harriot, was related, contains the views of the two men on the diplomacy of Daniel Webster, the Mexican War, the annexation of Texas, slavery, and the Whig nomination of Zachary Taylor. Appleton's letters to and from southerners Henry W. Hilliard and William C. Rives articulate sectional questions in the period just prior to the Civil War. An interesting oddity in the collection is a group of letters to and from English Episcopal minister and theologian William E. Heygate discussing original sin, the trinity, and other religious matters, which were published as The Doctrines of Original Sin and the Trinity (1859). Other notable Nathan Appleton correspondents are: Charles Francis Adams, George Bancroft, William Ellery Channing, John J. Crittenden, Millard Fillmore, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (husband of Nathan's daughter Fanny), Thomas H. Perkins, Josiah Quincy, Theodore Sedgwick, and George Ticknor.
This subseries also contains a considerable amount of the correspondence of Thomas Gold Appleton and Nathan Appleton, Jr. The letters of Thomas Gold Appleton are almost exclusively to and from family members and are interspersed throughout Boxes 3-11. The most important correspondence is with his father, Nathan Appleton, 1824-1861. In it are vivid descriptions of the Round Hill School, Harvard, the social life of Boston, and the many countries the younger Appleton visited. Particularly interesting are Appleton's discussions of his aristocratic hosts in England and mainland Europe and of French politics in the age of Napoleon III.
The letters of Nathan Appleton, Jr., are concentrated in Boxes 9-11. They consist of a small amount of correspondence from Appleton's childhood, a significant body of letters from his Civil War service, and a collection of primarily incoming correspondence dealing with his business ventures and organizational interests and the drive for an American empire in the 1880s and 1890s.
Civil War letters to Appleton's mother, Harriot Coffin Sumner Appleton, and his sister, Harriot ("Hattie") Appleton, 1863-1865, are located in Box 9, Folders 5-8, and provide detail on the activities of the Fifth Massachusetts Battery, as well as the wounded Appleton's convalescence in Europe. Also included is a 6-page Appleton article on the Battle of Five Forks (9.8). Business correspondence with Charles Bowles in Boxes 10 and 11 concerns the operations of Bowles Brothers & Company, an international banking concern based in Paris, and reveals the workings of high finance in the 1870s and 1880s. Letters in Box 11 from Cuba revolutionary J. Monzon Aguirre, Admiral George E. Belknap, Ferdinand de Lesseps (in French), George Frisbie Hoar, Henry Cabot Lodge, and John Davis Long indicate Appleton's interest in American expansionism and the related construction of an isthmian canal through Panama.
This subseries also contains some letters from Appleton relative Francis Coffin (Boxes 2-3) to Salem merchant John Derby regarding trade conditions in Europe and China, 1804-1816. Correspondence between Georgiana Louisa Frances Armistead Appleton and Captain George H. Preble, 1873-1876 (10.6-10), discusses her father, George Armistead, and his heroism in rescuing the American flag at the Battle of Fort McHenry in 1815.
Miscellaneous correspondence and legal documents, undated
Transcripts of legal documents and correspondence; receipts and records of the Continental (later the United States) Loan Office of Massachusetts, 1539-1786
Transcripts of legal documents and correspondence; receipts and records of the Continental (later the United States) Loan Office of Massachusetts, 1787-1790
Correspondence; additional receipts and records of the United States Loan Office; a list of invalid pensioners in Massachusetts and their monthly and 6-month allowance (Mar.-Sep. 1794), 1791-1814
Correspondence, etc., 1815-1825
Correspondence, etc., 1826-1831
Correspondence, etc., 1832-1839
Correspondence, etc., 1840-1846
Correspondence, etc., 1847-1853
Correspondence, etc., 1854-1860
Correspondence, etc., 1861-1866
Correspondence, etc., 1867
Correspondence, etc., 1868-1877
Correspondence, etc., 1878-1882
Correspondence, etc., 1883-1941
B. Nathan Appleton papers, 1795-1865
This subseries contains articles, speeches, essays, and pamphlets written by the prolific Nathan Appleton, 1812-1858, on such wide-ranging subjects as banking and the United States Bank, the tariff, debtors, factory labor, Whig Party policies, Appleton's own election campaign, the cotton manufacturing industry, religious matters, slavery, the philosopher Dugald Stewart, and the writings of Alexis de Tocqueville. The subseries also contains a small but not insignificant body of correspondence with English and American genealogists concerning early Appleton family history, 1795-1865. Also included are Appleton's will (13.5) and the handwritten original of a 45-page autobiographical sketch, "Sketches of Autobiography" (13.10).
Notes, public letters, speeches, and pamphlets, 1812-1856
Notes, essays, and articles; Appleton's will; miscellaneous pamphlets and printed material, including an autobiographical sketch of Nathan Appleton, an index to his correspondence, various honorary degrees, and a poem by Franklin Dexter on Fanny and Mary Appleton, 1820-1858
Correspondence concerning the Appleton genealogy, 1795-1865
Genealogical notes concerning the Appleton family, undated
C. Nathan Appleton, Jr., papers, 1873-1896
This subseries consists of the papers and writings of Nathan Appleton, Jr., including a handwritten autobiography, literary sketches of important people and events, a journal of a trip to Central and South America in 1885, miscellaneous addresses given before various civic organizations, translations, notes, and other writings.
Autobiography, essays, short stories, and literary sketches; journal of a trip to Central and South America (1885); addresses; biography of Appleton by James Wallace Fuller, 1873-1888
Addresses and literary sketches, 1889-1896
Translations of "Souvenirs of Madame Vigée Le Brun, Letters to Princess Kouraikin," undated
Translations of "Souvenirs of Madame Vigée Le Brun, Letters to Princess Kouraikin," undated
Notes and miscellany concerning the Appleton genealogy and the Marquis de Lafayette, undated
D. Samuel Appleton papers, 1853
This subseries consists of a brief memorial to Samuel Appleton.
E. Thomas Gold Appleton papers, [1827-1883]
This subseries contains the handwritten essays and poetry of Thomas Gold Appleton and an undated inventory of works of art belonging to Thomas Gold Appleton and William Sumner Appleton.
F. William Appleton papers, 1816-1853
This subseries contains typescripts of the diary of William Appleton, which richly details the family's business activities and Boston social life, as well as notes and a memorial volume. Note: William Appleton's original 1816 line-a-day diary is located in Series II, Subseries F (Volume 65). Entries in these typescripts dated 7 Nov.-20 Dec. 1816 appear to be expanded entries from that line-a-day diary.
G. William Sumner Appleton papers, undated
This subseries contains undated notes, letters, transcripts, and printed material concerning numismatics and genealogy, the particular passions of William Sumner Appleton. Genealogical material includes the Appleton and Armistead genealogy, in addition to miscellaneous genealogical materials on various families compiled by William Sumner Appleton.
H. Miscellany, 1840-1937
This subseries contains printed material concerning Appleton family wills and memorials, Ferdinand de Lesseps, the Civil War, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, the Manassas Industrial School, and the Red Cross, as well as photographs of Appleton family members, Giuseppe Garibaldi, and Ulysses S. Grant.
Miscellaneous printed material and newspaper clippings, 1840-1908
Prints, engravings, photographs, and other miscellaneous material, undated
Note: Photographs have been removed to the MHS Photo Archives.
[Pamphlets and other printed material, 1850-1937]
Note: This box has been removed from the collection, and the pamphlets and other printed material cataloged separately. For a list of removed items, see Materials Removed from the Collection below.
II. Bound volumes, 1799-1916
This series is divided into eleven subseries: A. Miscellaneous volumes; B. Nathan Appleton volumes; C. Nathan Appleton, Jr., volumes; D. Samuel Appleton volumes; E. Thomas Gold Appleton volumes; F. William Appleton volumes; G. William Sumner Appleton volumes; H. William Sumner Appleton, Jr., volumes; I. Isaac Foster Coffin volumes; J. Martha C. Derby volumes; and K. H.G. Somerby volumes.
A. Miscellaneous volumes, 1832-1885
Anonymous ancestral (genealogical) tablet, undated
Anonymous diary for 1819, undated
Appletons of Ipswich, Mass. genealogy, undated
Copies of Appleton documents, undated
Baker of Norfolk genealogy, undated
Dole of Gloucestershire genealogy, undated
Gray of Essex genealogy, undated
John Isaak 1500 genealogy
Anonymous school history notebook, undated
Scrapbook of Christmas and Easter cards belonging to Edith S. Appleton, 1881-1885
Account book belonging to Harriot Sumner Appleton, 1861-1865
Scrapbook of newspaper clippings and printed material thought to have belonged to Harriot Sumner Appleton, 1832-1861
B. Nathan Appleton volumes, 1802-1861
This subseries contains the personal journals of Nathan Appleton describing his travels through Europe and the southern United States between 1802 and 1810, including his comparison of American and Europe (vol. 13) and a description of an auction of enslaved people (vol. 14). Other volumes in this subseries include a personal account book, four notebooks containing notes on subjects ranging from genealogy to wines to business matters, and four scrapbooks of newspaper articles and pamphlets written by or about Nathan Appleton concerning banking, manufacturing, politics, slavery, the tariff, and the Appleton genealogy.
Personal journal, 1802
Personal journal, 1804-1805
Personal journal, 1810
Notebook, undated
Genealogy notebook, undated
Memorandum notebook, 1824
Account notebook, [1835-1837]
Account book, 1815-1834
Scrapbook, undated
Scrapbook, 1779-1861
Scrapbook, 1808-1860
Scrapbook, 1830-1861
C. Nathan Appleton, Jr., volumes, 1799-1904
This subseries consists of the journals, letterbooks, notebooks, and scrapbooks of Nathan Appleton, Jr. These volumes include personal journals, kept between 1850 and 1900, describing Appleton's childhood, travels, and later business career. Volumes 25 (1850-1851), 27 (1856-1857), and 30 [1871] are fairly substantial accounts of Appleton activities. Volumes 26, 28-29, and 31-33 are line-a-day journals noting daily weather, meetings, and appointments. This subseries also includes Appleton's letterbooks, 1870-1904, containing material on international banking, manufacturing, trade with Russia, the Civil War, and American imperialism in Cuba and the Philippines, as well as correspondence about French diplomat Ferdinand de Lesseps and early efforts to build a Panama Canal. Other items in this subseries are: notebooks containing school lessons, personal recollections, and notes on the Civil War, the Panama Canal, and imperialism in Santo Domingo and Haiti; scrapbooks of clippings on the Civil War, Hawaiian annexation, banking, free trade, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and the Suez, Panama, and Cape Cod Canals; material concerning George Armistead (1780-1818), an Appleton relative who was a hero in the Battle of Fort McHenry; and the book "Harvard College During the War," by Nathan Appleton, Jr., which includes poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell, and Samuel Francis Smith.
Personal journal, 1850-1851
Personal journal, 1853
Personal journal, 1856-1857
Personal journal, 1858
Personal journal, 1860
Personal journal, [1871]
Personal journal, 1876
Personal journal, 1877
Personal journal, 1900
Letterbook, 1870-1875
Letterbook, 1870-1875
Letterbook, 1875-1876
Letterbook, 1876-1904
Notebook, undated
Notebook, undated
Notebook, 1852-1853
Notebook, 1856-1858
Notebook, 1869
Notebook, 1885
Notebook, 1889-1890
Scrapbook, 1799-1899
Scrapbook, 1843-1903
Scrapbook, 1875-1876
Scrapbook, 1877-1897
Scrapbook, 1878-1879
Scrapbook, 1879-1881
Scrapbook, 1879-1905
Scrapbook, 1881-1884
Scrapbook, 1883-1885
Scrapbook, 1885-1886
Scrapbook, 1892-1894
Scrapbook, 1895-1896
Scrapbook, 1897-1899
"Harvard College During the War," 1890
D. Samuel Appleton volumes, 1815-1853
This subseries consists of volumes belonging to Samuel Appleton. Correspondence contained in the letterbooks concerns charitable institutions.
Letterbook, 1815-1852
Letterbook, 1815-1852
Party invitation list, 1838
Scrapbook, 1830-1853
E. Thomas Gold Appleton volumes, 1830-1884
This subseries contains a travel journal kept by Thomas Gold Appleton on a 1830-1831 trip through Canada and New York, including some sketches and poetry both by Appleton and other poets. Included in this subseries is a 1884 memorial to Appleton by George William Curtis.
Travel journal, 1830-1831
Memorial by George William Curtis, transcribed by Maria Goodwin, 1884
F. William Appleton volumes, 1816
This subseries consists of a line-a-day diary of William Appleton. Note: A typescript of William Appleton's diary is located in Series I, Subseries F (Box 17, Folders 1-5). Entries in the typescript dated 7 Nov.-20 Dec. 1816 appear to be expanded entries from this line-a-day diary.
G. William Sumner Appleton volumes, 1854-1872
The bulk of this subseries consists of notebooks kept by William Sumner Appleton containing transcripts of records and notes on the genealogy of the Appletons and other families. The subseries also contains a line-a-day diary and a scrapbook on numismatics.
Line-a-day diary and almanack, 1859
"Memoranda" genealogical notebook, undated
"Memorials" genealogical notebook, undated
"Notes for England" genealogical notebook, undated
Genealogical notebook, undated
"Early settlements of New England" genealogical notebook, undated
Genealogical notebook, undated
Genealogical notebook, undated
"Wills at London" genealogical notebook, undated
Genealogical notebook, undated
Genealogical notebook, 1862
Genealogical notebook, 1868
Genealogical notebook, 1871
Scrapbook, 1854-1872
H. William Sumner Appleton, Jr., volumes, 1899-1916
This subseries contains the scrapbooks of William Sumner Appleton, Jr., including material on Boston and Massachusetts government and society, the performing arts, and Harvard athletics.
Scrapbook, 1899-1901
Scrapbook, 1904-1905
Scrapbook, 1909-1910
Scrapbook, 1912-1913
Scrapbook, 1914-1915
Scrapbook, 1915-1916
I. Isaac Foster Coffin volumes, 1820-[1825]
This subseries consists of journals, ca. 1820-1825, thought to have been kept by Appleton relative Isaac Foster Coffin and transcribed by Martha C. Derby. The journals contain especially good descriptions of the political upheaval in Chile and the revolution led by Bernardo O'Higgins (1778-1842), as well as detailed descriptions of Chilean scenery.
Journal, 1820
Journal, 1820
Journal, 1823
Journal, 1824
Journal, [1825]
J. Martha C. Derby volumes, 1829-1836
This series contains a journal kept by Martha C. Derby on a trip to Niagara Falls and a notebook of Derby and Harriot Coffin Sumner.
Journal, 1829
Notebook, 1836
K. H.G. Somerby volumes, 1851
This subseries consists of a notebook of English genealogist H.G. Somerby containing genealogical notes, transcripts, and charts on the Appleton family.
III. Oversize material, 1303-1874
This series contains 17th-century legal documents concerning Appleton family members in England, genealogical materials, a lengthy description of the considerable coin collection of William Sumner Appleton (also held by the Massachusetts Historical Society), and other oversize Appleton family documents.
Legal document concerning the property of Sir Isaac Appleton; miscellaneous degrees and honors of Nathan Appleton; circular of identification from the Bowles Brothers banking concern belonging to Nathan Appleton, Jr.; articles and descriptions of various coins and medals by William Sumner Appleton; passport of William Sumner Appleton, 1303, 1608-1872
Genealogical shields, charts, etc., compiled mostly by William Sumner Appleton, undated-1874
Legal documents on parchment (right of free warren, articles of indenture) concerning Appleton family members, 1615-1711
Select Index to Boxes 1-19
This index contains the names of select individuals, events, organizations, and subjects of historical significance appearing in Boxes 1-19 (Series I). The numbers following each item indicate the box(es) and folder(s) where information about that item is located. For example, information about abolitionism can be found in Box 4, Folder 14, as well as in Box 5, Folders 2, 6, and 12, etc.
Note: The collection has been rehoused since this index was created. Overflow from Boxes 1, 9, and 10 have been moved to Boxes 1a, 9a, and 10a, respectively, although folder numbers have been retained. Papers originally in Box 1, Folder 28, for example, are now located in Box 1a, Folder 28. See the Detailed Description of the Collection above to request boxes.
| Abolitionism, 4.14, 5.2, 5.6, 5.12, 6.12, 7.4, 7.8, 8.6, 8.12, 8.13, 12.17, 13.7, 15.2, 15.4, 15.5, 17.3, 17.4 |
| Adams, Charles Francis, 6.12, 6.14, 8.12 |
| Adams, John Quincy, 4.8, 5.1, 5.2, 5.4, 13.10 |
| Agassiz, Louis, 7.2, 10.8 |
| Aguirre, J. Monzon, 11.12, 11.14 |
| Alaska, 10.2 |
| Alexander II, Tsar (Russia), 9.11, 9.12, 10.2 |
| Allston, Washington, 5.12, 6.9, 6.10 |
| Almack, Richard, 7.9, 7.10, 7.12, 8.1, 8.12, 13.14, 13.15, 13.17, 13.19, 13.19 |
| American Antiquarian Society (Worcester, Mass.), 9.2 |
| American Colonization Society, 7.3 |
| American Joint National Agency Ltd., 10.4, 10.5, 10.9, 10.12, 11.7 |
| American System, 5.2-3, 5.5, 5.8, 7.6 |
| Amberley, Viscount, 10.10 |
| Amherst, William Pitt (Earl Amherst of Arracan), 3.4 |
| Amory, Thomas C., Jr., 8.6, 10.5 |
| Amoskeag Manufacturing Company (Manchester, N.H.), 6.7, 6.11 |
| Andrew, John A[lbion], 14.14 |
| Andros, Edmund, 9.3, 14.2 |
| Angell, George T[horndike], 10.16, 11.6 |
| Antimasons, 5.12 |
| Appleton, Aaron (1768-1852), 5.2, 6.4, 6.6, 6.10, 7.3 |
| Appleton, Alfred Greenleaf, 3.5, 3.6 |
| Appleton, Ann Louisa (Mrs. Samuel Wells), 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.8-10, 3.12-14, 7.1 |
| Appleton, Benjamin B[arnard], 13.16 |
| Appleton, Caroline LeRoy (Mrs. Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte), 8.11 |
| Appleton, Charles H[enderson], 2.23, 3.1, 17.5 |
| Appleton, C[harles] H[ook] (1833-1874), 8.2 |
| Appleton, Charles Louis (b. 1846), 11.9 |
| Appleton, Charles Sedgwick (1815-1835), 3.15, 4.5-7, 4.9-10, 4.12, 4.14, 5.6, 5.9, 5.11 |
| Appleton, C[harles] T[ilden], 6.10 |
| Appleton, Daniel (1692-1762), 1.13, 1.20 |
| Appleton, Daniel (b. 1825), 8.6, 8.11, 13.19 |
| Appleton, Daniel F[uller] (b. 1826), 9.3 |
| Appleton, Eben (1784-1823), 2.11-12, 2.15, 2.18-24, 2.26-27, 3.1-5, 3.7, 3.9-10, 4.3, 4.9, 13.10, 13.13, 17.3 |
| Appleton, Eben & Company (Liverpool, England), 2.19, 2.20, 2.21, 2.22, 2.24 |
| Appleton, Eben (b. 1845), 9.2, 9.9, 10.5, 10.6 |
| Appleton, Edith Stuart (Mrs. William Sumner Appleton), 10.10, 10.15 |
| Appleton, Edward Dale, 11.17 |
| Appleton, Elisabeth ("Eliza," d. 1754), 1.1, 1.18, 1.19 |
| Appleton, Emily (Mrs. Moses Jewett), 2.13, 2.16 |
| Appleton, Emily Warren (Mrs. William Appleton), 9.8, 9.9, 10.12, 18.4 |
| Appleton, Frances Ann Atkinson, 10.1 |
| Appleton, Francis Henry (1823-1854), 15.2, 15.3, 15.4 |
| Appleton, F[rancis] P[arker], 9.3 |
| Appleton, George Alfred, 3.13 |
| Appleton, George Armistead (b. 1843), 9.3, 9.4 |
| Appleton, George W[ashington] (1775-1808), 1.33, 2.4 |
| Appleton, Georgiana Louisa Frances Armistead (Mrs. William Stuart Appleton), 7.10, 7.12, 9.1-2, 9.4, 9.9, 10.6-10 |
| Appleton, Harriot Coffin Sumner (Mrs. Nathan Appleton), 1.2, 5.12, 6.10, 7.1, 7.3-10, 8.2, 8.4-6, 8.8-9, 8.11, 8.13, 9.1-4, 9.6-8, 9.10-12, 10.1-2, 10.8, 19.5, 19.8 |
| Appleton, Henry, 11.9, 11.13 |
| Appleton, Isaac (1664-1747), 1.18 |
| Appleton, Isaac (1704-1794), 1.21, 1.22, 1.29 |
| Appleton, Isaac (1731-1806), 1.25 |
| Appleton, Isaac (1762-1853), 3.11, 3.15, 6.12, 13.15, 14.2 |
| Appleton, Isabel Slade (Mrs. Eben Appleton), 10.4 |
| Appleton, James (1785-1862), 13.13, 13.14 |
| Appleton, James (1785-1872), 13.18 |
| Appleton, James, Jr., 7.11, 13.17 |
| Appleton, J[ames] Amory (1818-1843), 5.12, 17.2, 17.3, 17.4 |
| Appleton, James W[aldingfield], 11.17 |
| Appleton, Jane Sophia Hill (Mrs. Moses Larke Appleton), 8.13 |
| Appleton, Rev. Jesse, 2.5-6, 2.15-16, 2.26, 3.1, 3.3, 19.1 |
| Appleton, John (1652-1739), 1.13, 1.15-16, 1.18, 1.21 |
| Appleton, John (1739-1817), 1.30-33, 2.1-4, 2.9 |
| Appleton, John (1758-1824), 1.24-25, 1.27-28, 1.30, 1.32, 2.6 |
| Appleton, John (b. 1804), 7.12, 8.1, 9.3 |
| Appleton, John {1809-1869), 13.15-16, 13.18 |
| Appleton, John (1815-1864), 8.6, 8.12 |
| Appleton, John Howard, 11.16 |
| Appleton, John James (1792-1864), 8.3, 8.11, 13.18 |
| Appleton, John James Osgood (1843-1872), 10.3-5, 14.11 |
| Appleton, John Sparhawk, 3.4, 13.13-14 |
| Appleton, John W. M., 10.5, 10.6, 10.13, 10.16, 11.1, 11.5-6, 11.11, 11.13, 11.15 |
| Appleton, Joseph (b. 1751), 1.22 |
| Appleton, Joseph (1764-1791), 1.29, 2.1, 4.13 |
| Appleton, Joseph Warren (called William in later life), 17.3-4 |
| Appleton, Lewis, 11.3 |
| Appleton, Margaret (b. 1851), 8.13 |
| Appleton, Maria Theresa Gold (Mrs. Nathan Appleton), 3.4, 4.7, 5.5, 17.3 |
| Appleton, Mary Anne Cutler (Mrs. William Appleton), 7.8, 17.1, 17.3-5 |
| Appleton, Mary B[riard], 13.6 |
| Appleton, Mary Ernestine Abercrombie (Mrs. Samuel Appleton), 9.5 |
| Appleton, Mary Lekain Gore (Mrs. Samuel Appleton, "Aunt Sam"), 3.10, 4.12, 5.11-13 |
| Appleton, Moses (1773-1849), 2.1-4, 2.16, 2.18, 2.26-27, 3.4-6, 3.8-12, 3.14-16, 4.2-3, 5.6, 5.13-14, 6.11, 6.13-14, 7.1-2 |
| Appleton, Moses Larke {1811-1859), 3.11, 5.5-7, 5.10, 6.4, 6.8, 6.13, 7.2, 7.4-5, 7.9, 7.12, 8.1, 8.3-4, 8.10-11, 14.1 |
| Appleton, Nathan (1779-1861), 2.4, 2.7-11, 2.13-14, 2.16-27, 3.1-16, 4.1-14, 5.1-15, 6.1-14, 7.1-12, 8.1-13, 9.1-3, 12.1-19, 13.1-12, 14.1-2, 14.5-7, 17.3, 19.4 |
| Appleton, Nathan & Company (Boston, Mass.), 2.19, 2.20 |
| Appleton, Nathan (1843-1906), 1.2, 7.1-2, 7.4-6, 7.8-11, 8.1-2, 8.5-6, 8.8, 8.11-13, 9.1, 9.3-12, 10.1-6, 10.8-15, 11.3.4, 11.16, 14.6-17, 15.1-15, 16.1-12, 18.2, 19.5, 19.6, 19.7 |
| Appleton, Nathan Dane (1794-1861), 6.3 |
| Appleton, Rev. Nathaniel (1693-1784), 1.20-22, 1.25 |
| Appleton, Nathaniel (1731-1798), Commissioner of Loans, Boston, 1.23-33, 2.1-4, 2.6-8 |
| Appleton, Nathaniel (1779-1818), 2.16 |
| Appleton, Nathaniel Walker (1755-1795), 1.24-25, 1.30, 1.33, 2.1 |
| Appleton, Nathaniel Walker (1783-1848), 2.23, 3.1, 5.11, 6.5, 6.8, 17.5 |
| Appleton, Priscilla, 3.5-6, 4.1 |
| Appleton, Col. Samuel (1624-1696), 1.11, 1.13 |
| Appleton, Samuel (b. 1713), 2.4 |
| Appleton, Samuel (1766-1853), 2.1-2, 2.4-5, 2.8-10, 2.13-14, 2.19, 2.23-27, 3.1-9, 3.11-13, 3.16, 4.5, 4.9, 4.12, 5.4, 5.6-7, 5.9, 5.11-12, 5.14, 6.1, 6.9, 6.11, 7.7, 7.11-12, 8.2, 13.10, 16.13 |
| Appleton, S. & N. Company (Boston, Mass.), 2.10, 2.17, 2.19, 2.24 |
| Appleton, Samuel (b. 1803), 3.14, 5.5, 6.7, 6.9, 7.6, 8.1, 8.2, 8.4, 8.6, 8.8, 8.10, 8.12, 9.1 |
| Appleton, Samuel Appleton (1811-1861), 5.12, 5.13, 7.12, 9.1 |
| Appleton, Samuel B., 8.3 |
| Appleton, Sarah Odiorne (Mrs. Henry Appleton, later Mrs. William Appleton), 1.22 |
| Appleton, Thomas, 2.8, 2.10, 2.13, 2.16, 3.2, 3.13, 3.14 |
| Appleton, Thomas & Company, 3.2 |
| Appleton, Thomas Gold (1812-1884), 3.13, 3.15-16, 4.1-12, 4.14, 5.1-12, 5.14-15, 6.2-5, 6.7-12, 6.14, 7.1-9, 7.11-12, 8.1, 8.3-6, 8.8, 8.10, 8.12-13, 9.1, 9.5-6, 9.9-12, 10.1, 10.3-4, 10.8, 10.11-14, 11.1-2, 13.15, 14.1, 16.14-17, 19.7 |
| Appleton, William (1747-1785), 1.22 |
| Appleton, William (1786-1862), 2.7-10, 2.17, 3.4, 5.1, 5.14-15, 8.2, 8.12, 8.13, 9.1-2, 17.1-5, 18.4 |
| Appleton, William (b. 1825), 9.8 |
| Appleton, William G[reenleaf] (1791-1864), 2.23 |
| Appleton, William H[enry] (b. 1814), 8.9, 10.5, 10.9 |
| Appleton, William Stuart, 8.4, 9.1-3, 9.5, 10.8, 10.13 |
| Appleton, William Sullivan (1815-1836), 17.2-3 |
| Appleton, William Sumner (1840-1903), 7.2-3, 8.2, 8.10, 9.2-3, 9.8, 9.10-12, 10.1-3, 10.6, 10.10, 10.13-15, 11.2, 11.9, 11.16, 17.6-12 |
| Appleton, William Sumner (1874-1947), 11.3, 11.16-7 |
| Appleton Chapel (Harvard), 8.2, 14.14 |
| Appleton Company, 4.10, 4.12-13, 5.7, 5.9, 5.12, 5.14, 6.1-4, 6.8-9, 6.11, 6.13, 7.1, 8.1-3 |
| Appleton Memorial, 7.7, 8.2, 13.16-19 |
| Appomattox Court House (Va.), 9.8 |
| Armistead, George (1780-1818), 2.16, 10.6-11 |
| Army of the Potomac, 9.5-8, 14.13, 15.2-3 |
| Associated Banks Commission, 5.14 |
| Association of American Geologists and Naturalists (Boston Chapter), 6.11, 7.1 |
| Atherton, Charles H., 3.10-11, 5.5, 5.9, 7.2, 13.3 |
| Australian Ballot, 11.7 |
| Austria, 9.11 |
| Bacon, Edwin M[unroe], 10.10 |
| Bacon, Henry, 11.4 |
| Baldwin, Simeon E[ben], 11.1-3, 11.5 |
| Bancroft, George, 3.16, 4.1-9, 7.4, 13.17 |
| Bank Bills I & II (1841), 6.4 |
| Bank of Boston, 6.1-3, 6.8, 8.7, 9.1, 12.2, 12.8, 12.13, 13.10 |
| Bank of New York, 6.2-3, 6.8, 8.7, 12.2, 12.13, 12.15, 13.10, 14.8 |
| Bank of Philadelphia, 5.13-15, 6.1-3, 6.8, 8.7, 12.13, 13.10, 17.3-4 |
| Bank of the United States, 3.3-5. 3.7, 3.12, 4.8-11, 5.1-3, 5.7-9, 5.13-15, 6.1-3, 7.11, 12.13, 12.19, 13.10, 17.2-3 |
| Banks, Nathaniel P[rentiss], 9.1, 10.2, 11.2, 14.17 |
| Baring Brothers & Company (London), 10.7 |
| Barker, William P., 10.9-10, 10.13, 17.8 |
| Barnburners, 7.2, 7.7, 12.17 |
| Barnum, Phineas T[aylor], 11.4 |
| Barrett, Mary Appleton (Mrs. Joseph Barrett), 2.10, 2.13, 2.18, 2.20, 2.27, 3.4, 3.6, 3.8, 3.10-11, 5.11, 7.7, 7.10 |
| Barrett, Nathan, 1.31 |
| Bartholdi, Frederic Auguste, 11.5 |
| Bartlett, Sidney, 10.6-7, 10.9 |
| Bartlett, T[ruman] H[owl], 11.7 |
| Batchelder, Samuel, 3.11, 3.14, 7.7 |
| Bates, Isaac C[hapman], 6.4, 6.9 |
| Bates, Joshua, 6.5, 7.8 |
| Belknap, George E[ugene], 11.14 |
| Belknap, Jeremy, 15.4, 15.5 |
| Bennett, James Gordon, 10.8 |
| Benson, Eugene, 10.15, 11.10 |
| Bent, Mary Narcissa Barrett, 7.3, 7.12, 8.1, 8.11-12, 9.3 |
| Benton, Thomas H[art], 6.7 |
| Biddle, Nicholas, 4.10-11, 5.14, 7.11, 12.13, 13.10, 17.2, 17.3 |
| Bigelow, John P., 6.5, 6.9 |
| Blair, Francis Preston, 10.9 |
| Blake, Francis, 10.12, 11.7, 11.14 |
| Blatchford, Caroline Frances Appleton, 6.10, 9.2, 13.16 |
| Blatchford, R[ichard] M[ilford], 7.2 |
| Blatchford, Samuel, 9.2-3, 9.5 |
| Bleecker, H[armanus], 3.8-10, 4.2, 5.13 |
| Blockades (War of 1812), 2.25, 2.27 |
| Bolivar, Simon, 15.4-5 |
| Bond, George, 5.1, 5.8-9 |
| Boott, John W., 7.2, 13.3 |
| Boott, Kirk, 3.11, 4.5, 4.12-13, 5.6, 7.2, 13.3, 13.10 |
| Boston & Worcester Railroad, 7.4 |
| Boston Manufacturing Company (Waltham, Mass.), 3.11-12, 4.12-14, 6.7-8, 6.10-11, 7.2, 13.3, 14.17 |
| Boston Public Latin School, 14.15 |
| Boston Society of Natural History, 7.1, 8.5 |
| Boutwell, George S[ewall], 10.3 |
| Bowditch, Nathaniel I., 8.2 |
| Bowen, Francis, 7.8, 8.5, 8.11 |
| Bowles, Charles, 1.2, 10.1-6, 10.8-16, 11.1-3, 11.7-10, 11.14-15, 16.9 |
| Bowles, Gordon, 10.5 |
| Bowles, Samuel, 14.15 |
| Bowles, Susan M. (Mrs. Charles Bowles), 10.13, 10.16, 11.1-3, 11.7-10, 11.14-15 |
| Bowles, William R., 10.2, 10.9 |
| Bowles Brothers & Company (Paris), 10.1-3, 10.5-12, 10.16, 11.12-13, 14.6-7 |
| Bradford, Gamaliel, 11.15 |
| Brazil, 14.16 |
| Brown, John, 13.7 |
| Buchanan, James, 8.5 |
| Buckingham, Joseph T[inker], 5.8 |
| Bunker Hill Monument Association (Mass.), 6.7, 17.2-4 |
| Burke, Sir John Bernard, 13.18 |
| Burlingame, Anson, 10.2, 14.11 |
| Burnham, Sarah H[ook] Appleton (Mrs. John Burnham), 2.20 |
| Cabot, Henry, 5.15. 6.6 |
| Cabot, Samuel, 5.15, 17.3 |
| Calhoun, John C[aldwell], 5.5-6, 7.3, 12.15 |
| Canada, 7.4-5, 8.1 |
| Cape Cod Canal, 11.6 |
| Carey, Henry C[harles], 6.1-2, 6.5, 6.9, 7.3, 7.5, 7.8, 7.10, 8.6-7, 8.9 |
| Carlyle, Thomas, 7.6 |
| Carnatz, Eliza [Coffin], 9.10-12 |
| Casanova, Francesco-Giuseppe, 14.15 |
| Centennial Exhibition (1876), 10.6-10, 10.14 |
| Century Magazine, 11.3 |
| Cesnola, Luigi Palma Di, 10.12 |
| Channing, W[illiam] E[llery], 3.16, 5.6, 5.9, 15.3 |
| Chesapeake Affair (1807), 2.22 |
| Chicopee Mills (Mass.), 4.12 |
| China, 2.26, 3.4, 9.1, 17.3-4 |
| Choate, Rufus, 13.14 |
| Cholera, 5.4-6, 5.13, 7.4-5 |
| Chopin, Frederic, 7.3 |
| Chotteau, Leon, 10.12, 11.1, 11.6 |
| Christian Register, 7.4 |
| Church, Frederic Edwin, 9.6, 10.5, 10.13, 10.15, 11.1 |
| Civil War, 9.1, 9.4-9, 11.3, 11.9, 11.16, 13.7, 14.6, 14.11, 14.13-15, 15.2-3, 18.3 |
| Clarke, James Freeman, 8.11 |
| Clay, Cassius Marcellus, 9.10 |
| Clay, Henry, 2.26, 5.1-3, 5.6-7, 6.3-4, 6.6, 6.9, 12.15, 13.10, 14.8 |
| Cleveland, Grover, 16.5 |
| Clifford, John Henry, 7.11-12, 14.8 |
| Clinton, DeWitt, 2.24 |
| Cobb, Cyrus, 11.13-14 |
| Cobb, Darius, 11.1, 11.10, 11.14 |
| Cobb, Howell, 8.7 |
| Cobden, Richard, 7.4-6, 8.12-13 |
| Coffin, David, 2.10, 2.11 |
| Coffin, Charles, 2.5, 2.9, 2.18, 2.25 |
| Coffin, Francis, 2.13-16, 2.19-20, 2.22, 2.24-27, 3.1-4, 3.9, 5.9 |
| Coffin, Sir Isaac, 2.26-27, 3.11, 4.10, 4.12 |
| Coffin, I[saac] F[oster] ("Uncle Foster"), 1.2, 7.9 |
| Coffin, Thomas, 2.11-13, 2.18, 2.20 |
| Cogswell, Joseph, 3.16, 4.1-9 |
| Cogswell, William, 11.5, 11.7 |
| Columbus, Christopher, 16.9-10, 18.9 |
| Compromise of 1850, 7.3, 7.7, 8.4, 8.13, 12.17, 13.7, 14.8 |
| Constitution, U. S. S., 11.12 |
| Cooke, Josiah P[arsons], 8.5, 13.14 |
| Coolidge, Thomas Jefferson (1831-1920), 10.3 |
| Coolidge, Thomas Jefferson (1863-1912), 11.13 |
| Cooper, Henry Ernest, 11.12, 16.13 |
| Corwin, Thomas, 7.7-8 |
| Cotton (and woolen) manufacturing, 2.22, 3.10-14, 4.2, 4.6, 4.8-13, 5.5, 5.9, 5.14, 6.2, 6.5, 6.10, 6.13-14, 7.1-2, 7.5, 7.7, 7.11-12, 9.1, 12.9, 12.11, 13.3, 14.6-7 |
| Couture, Thomas, 8.13, 16.3 |
| Crittenden, J[ohn] J[ordan], 7.3-4, 8.7 |
| Crockett, David (Davy), 5.12 |
| Crystal Palace (London), 7.8-9, 8.5 |
| Currency, 5.15, 6.1, 6.11, 7.3, 7.8, 7.10-11, 8.3, 8.7-8, 8.12, 10.2, 10.8, 10.12, 11.6, 11.8, 12.2, 12.8, 12.13, 17.2 |
| Curtis, George T[icknor], 8.7 |
| Curtis, Harriot Appleton (Mrs. Greely S. Curtis, "Hattie"), 1.2, 7.4, 7.8-9, 9.5-8, 9.10, 9.12, 10.4-5, 11.4, 11.16, 19.8 |
| Curtis, Thomas B., 4.14, 5.1, 5.4, 5.14, 8.7 |
| Cushing, Caleb, 6.4 |
| Cushing, John P., 4.10 |
| Cushing & Appleton (Salem, Mass.), 2.12 |
| Dallas, A[lexander] J[ames], 3.1-3 |
| Dallas, [George] [Mifflin], 5.6, 5.14 |
| Dana, Edith Longfellow (Mrs. Richard Henry Dana III), 11.7, 11.16, 19.8 |
| Dartmouth College, 2.4, 8.2 |
| Davenport, Rufus, 4.12 |
| Davidson, John, 3.3 |
| Davis, Charles Augustus, 6.3, 8.7 |
| Davis, John, 5.5 |
| Dearborn, H[enry] A[lexander] S[cammell], 6.5 |
| Democratic Party, 3.11, 10.4 |
| de Lesseps, Ferdinand, 10.12-13, 10.15, 11.1-2, 14.6, 14.15-17, 15.4-5, 15.7 |
| Derby, Elias Hasket, 2.6, 2.8-9 |
| Derby, John, 2.9, 2.11-20, 2.22, 2.24-27, 3.1-4, 3.9 |
| Derby, Martha C. (Mrs. Richard C. Derby), 4.3 |
| Derby, Richard C., 2.14-16, 2.20, 4.3, 8.9 |
| de Wolfe, Elsie Anderson, 10.14 |
| Dexter, Franklin, 13.4, 17.3 |
| Dickens, Charles, 10.1 |
| Dix, Dorothea L[ynde], 6.4, 6.6 |
| Dreyer, William C., 10.5, 11.12-13 |
| Dudley, Joseph, 1.15-16, 1.27 |
| Dwight, Edmund, 6.6 |
| East Chelmsford, Mass., 3.10-14, 3.16, 4.1 |
| Eaton Affair (1831), 5.2 |
| Edison, Thomas Alva, 10.12 |
| Edmands, John Wiley, 6.8, 7.8 |
| Egypt, 10.2-3 |
| Eliot, Charles William, 8.10, 14.14 |
| Eliot, Samuel A[tkins], 6.11, 7.1, 7.6-8, 7.11 |
| Embargos (War of 1812), 2.23-24, 2.26 |
| Emerson, Charles, 8.12, 9.1-2 |
| Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 7.3, 18.3 |
| Emery, Samuel, 2.2-3 |
| Endicott, William C., Jr., 11.17 |
| England, 2.11, 2.19-27, 3.1-2, 3.4, 4.2, 4.6, 4.8, 4.10-11, 5.2, 5.14, 6.1, 6.4, 6.8, 6.10, 6.13-14, 7.4-6, 7.8, 7.10, 8.1, 8.12-13, 9.1, 9.12, 14.8 |
| Evarts, William M[axwell], 10.15 |
| Everett, Alexander H[ill], 4.12, 4.14, 5.2. 5.9, 5.12 |
| Everett, David, 2.5, 2.25 |
| Everett, Dorothy Appleton (Mrs. David Everett, "Dolly"), 2.11, 2.26, 3.8, 3.10, 4.13, 6.9 |
| Everett, Edward, 3.15, 4.11, 6.9. 7.4, 7.6, 7.11, 8.1-2, 8.4-5, 8.10, 9.2, 9.8, 13.16, 14.13, 17.3 |
| Everett, William, 11.6 |
| Farmer, John, 13.14 |
| Federal Party, 12.6, 13.11 |
| Felton, C[ornelius] C[onway], 8.12 |
| Fifteenth Amendment -- Constitution (1868), 15.2 |
| Fifth Massachusetts Battery (Army of the Potomac), 9.5-8, 11.16 |
| Fillmore, Abigail Powers (Mrs. Millard Fillmore), 7.9 |
| Fillmore, Millard, 6.11, 7.4, 8.1, 8.5, 8.11, 9.4, 12.15 |
| Five Forks, Battle of (1865), 9.8, 11.3, 14.13 |
| Fletcher, Julia, 10.11 |
| Fletcher, Richard, 5.14 |
| Forbes, J[ohn] Murray, 11.2 |
| Foreign Exhibition (Boston, Mass., 1883), 11.1 |
| Forney, John W[eiss], 10.14 |
| Forward, Walter, 6.6 |
| Foster, Isaac, 1.22, 2.23 |
| Fourteenth Amendment -- Constitution (1866), 15.2 |
| France, 2.20-27, 3.1, 5.11, 6.8, 6.14, 7.2, 7.4-6, 7.10, 7.12, 8.6, 8.11-13, 9.1, 9.12, 10.4-5, 15.2, 15.7, 17.2 |
| Franco-American Treaty of Commerce, Committee for the, 10.12-13 |
| Franklin, Benjamin, 1.12, 9.9 |
| Franklin, William Temple, 9.9 |
| Free Soil Party, 7.5, 7.8, 12.17 |
| Free Trade, 5.2, 6.8, 6.14, 7.8, 8.6, 8.12 |
| Freedmen's Bureau, 9.9 |
| Frelinghuysen-Zavala Treaty (1884), 11.8 |
| French, Daniel C[hester], 11.6-7 |
| French Spoliation Claims (1835), 5.10 |
| Friday Club, 18.10 |
| Friends of Free Trade, 4.13 |
| Fugitive Slave Law (1850), 7.8-9, 10.1 |
| Fuller, Col. [John Wallace], 14.7 |
| Gales, Joseph, 7.1, 7.3, 7.7, 7.9 |
| Gales & Seaton, 7.7-9, 7.11, 8.1-2 |
| Gallatin, Albert, 2.24, 5.8, 5.13, 5.14, 12.13, 13.10 |
| Gambetta, Leon, 10.12, 11.1, 14.17, 15.4, 15.5, 19.11 |
| Gannett, Ezra Stiles, 4.8, 4.12, 5.7, 6.11, 8.1, 9.2 |
| Gannett, William Channing, 11.16 |
| Gardner, Francis, 14.15 |
| Garibaldi, Giuseppe, 9.1, 9.7, 9.11, 14.11, 15.4-5 |
| Garrison, William Lloyd, 7.4, 15.2 |
| Garrison, William R[e Tallack], 10.8 |
| Gay, W[entworth] Allan, 10.11, 10.12 |
| Genealogy, Appleton, 3.7, 5.9, 7.1-2, 7.10, 9.4, 9.8-9, 10.1, 10.3, 10.9-11, 10.13, 11.1, 11.5-6, 11.9, 11.13, 13.13-19, 14.1-5, 15.4-7, 17.15, 18.4 |
| Geology, 4.1, 4.9, 6.8, 6.10, 7.1, 13.10 |
| Ghent, Peace of (1815), 3.1 |
| Gifford, Ellen M., 11.1-3, 11.5 |
| Giles Resolutions (1793), 2.18 |
| Gillig, Henry F., 10.8, 10.10, 11.13 |
| Gilman, John Taylor, 2.16 |
| Gilmore, Patrick S[arsfield], 15.4-5 |
| Gold, Thomas A., 6.5, 6.6, 6.12 |
| Gold, Thomas R[uggles], 2.18, 2.22-23, 3.2, 3.3 |
| Goodwin, James J., 11.6-13 |
| Goodwin, Maria, 6.11, 8.1, 8.7, 9.4 |
| Goodwin, W[illiam] W[atson], 8.10 |
| Gore, C[hristopher], 3.16 |
| Gorham, Benjamin, 5.8 |
| Gouge, William M., 6.4 |
| Gould, Augustus A[ddison], 6.10, 7.1 |
| Grant, Ulysses S[impson], 9.6-8, 10.5, 10.8, 14.13, 14.16, 15.3, 18.8, 19.12 |
| Gray, F[rancis] C[alley], 5.2, 5.8, 5.13, 8.4, 17.2 |
| Greeley, Horace, 6.10 |
| Greene, Mary Anne Appleton (Mrs. John Singleton Copley Greene), 17.3 |
| Greenhalge, Frederick Thomas, 11.8 |
| Greenough, Horatio, 5.11, 7.10 |
| Grinnell, Joseph, 6.9 |
| Grinnell, M[oses] H[icks], 7.2 |
| Guthrie, James, 7.12 |
| Hale, Charles, 8.7, 10.3 |
| Hale, David, 6.3, 6.9 |
| Hale, Edward E[verett], 11.11 |
| Hale, Nathan, 5.1, 7.4 |
| Hall, Basil, 4.5, 4.7, 4.9, 8.7 |
| Hamilton, Alexander, 1.32-33, 5.6 |
| Hamilton Manufacturing Company (Lowell, Mass.), 4.9-10, 4.12-13, 5.12, 6.7 |
| Hancock, John, 1.22 |
| Harvard University, 7.8-10, 7.12, 8.2, 8.5, 11.6, 14.13-15, 15.2, 18.3 |
| Hasty Pudding Club (Harvard), 14.14 |
| Haven, Henry, 1.32 |
| Haven, Joseph, 1.21, 1.29, 1.30-31 |
| Haven, Nathaniel, 1.30, 2.4, 3.15 |
| Hawaii, 11.8, 11.10, 11.12, 11.14, 15.8 |
| Hay, John Milton, 11.15 |
| Healy, George P[eter] A[lexander], 6.14, 7.1, 10.13, 17.3 |
| Hedge, Frederic H[enry], 8.11 |
| Heygate, William E., 8.8-12 |
| Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 11.10 |
| Hillard, George, 8.1 |
| Hilliard, Henry W[ashington], 7.3-5, 7.7, 7.9, 8.4-5, 8.7, 8.12 |
| Hoar, George F[risbie], 11.7 |
| Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 7.11, 8.6, 18.3 |
| Holt, Mary Appleton (Mrs. Asa Holt), 7.12, 8.10 |
| Homans, J. Smith, 7.11, 8.7 |
| Hooper, Samuel, 7.10, 7.11, 8.3 |
| Horsford, E[ben] N[orton], 11.7 |
| Hubbard, Samuel, 5.14 |
| Hunt, Freeman, 6.10, 8.2-3, 8.7 |
| Hunt, William Morris, 9.10, 16.1 |
| Hunter, Georgiana Louisa Frances Gillis Armistead Appleton (Mrs. George M. Hunter), 9.2-4 |
| Hunter, Joseph, 13.17-18 |
| Huntington, J[abez] W[illiams], 5.7-8 |
| Hurlbert, William Henry, 10.12 |
| Impressment (War of 1812), 2.24-25 |
| India, 8.7 |
| Ingersoll, J[oseph] R[eed], 6.14, 9.3 |
| International Arbitration & Peace Association, 11.3 |
| International Harmony Service, 11.8-10, 11.14 |
| Ipswich, Mass., 13.14, 18.7 |
| Irish potato famine (1847), 6.14, 7.1, 17.2-3 |
| Italy, 7.10, 8.12, 9.1, 9.7, 9.8, 9.11, 10.1 |
| Jackson, Andrew, 4.8, 5.5-6, 5.8, 10.11, 12.17 |
| Jackson, Charles, 3.11, 4.8, 6.6 |
| Jackson, Charles C., 1.2, 9.4, 9.6 |
| Jackson, Patrick Tracy, 6.6, 7.2, 9.1, 13.3, 13.10, 14.7 |
| Jackson Manufacturing Company (Nashua, N.H.), 5.12 |
| Japan, 10.11-12, 11.8 |
| Jay, John, 11.1 |
| Jefferson, Thomas, 5.6, 12.6 |
| Jenifer, Daniel, 5.7, 5.9 |
| Jenks, William, 8.12, 13.17 |
| Jewett, Appleton, 3.14, 4.2-3 |
| Jewett, Isaac Appleton, 5.11, 5.13, 6.3, 7.6-8 |
| Jewett, Sara, 10.11, 11.10 |
| Johnson, Andrew, 9.12 |
| Joint National School of Geneva (Switzerland), 10.9-10 |
| Jones, John Percival, 11.10 |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854), 8.1, 8.4, 8.13, 12.17, 17.3 |
| Kennedy, John P[endleton], 6.6, 7.6, 7.10, 9.3 |
| Key, Francis Scott, 6.2, 10.6-9, 10.11 |
| Kidder, Edward H. ("Ned"), 8.12, 9.1-4, 9.7 |
| Kimball, Richard B[urleigh], 10.6, 10.10 |
| King, James G[ore], 6.2, 7.3, 17.3 |
| King, Rufus, 2.11 |
| King Philip's War (1675-1676), 1.11 |
| Knight, Louisa Armistead Appleton (Mrs. Frederick Irving Knight), 9.1-2, 9.4-5, 9.9 |
| Knox, Henry, 2.4 |
| Kossuth, Louis, 7.4, 7.10, 17.2 |
| Lafayette, Marquis de, 3.14-15, 9.9, 15.4-6, 16.9 |
| Lake Champlain, Battle of (1814), 2.27 |
| Langtry, Lillie, 10.13 |
| Lawrence, Abbott, 6.3. 6.6-7, 7.2-6, 7.10, 8.3-4, 12.18, 13.16, 17.3-4, 18.6 |
| Lawrence, Amos, 4.14, 5.1, 5.6, 5.9, 6.5, 8.4, 8.12, 12.18, 13.16, 17.2-3 |
| Lawrence, A. & A. Company, 5.15, 12.18 |
| Lawrence, Amos A[dams], 17.3-4 |
| Lawrence, Katherine (Mrs. Abbott Lawrence), 8.7, 8.11 |
| Lawrence, Sarah Elizabeth Appleton (Mrs. Amos A. Lawrence), 17.3-4 |
| Lawrence Manufacturing Company (Mass.), 5.10-11, 6.7-8 |
| Le Brun, Marie Louise Elizabeth Vigee, 14.15, 15.9-15, 16.1-7 |
| Lee, Henry (1782-1867), 4.13, 5.8-9, 8.12, 13.10 |
| Lee, Henry (1817-1898), 11.6, 11.10 |
| Lee, Joseph, 2.26-27 |
| Lee, Robert E., 9.8 |
| Leipzig, Battle of (1813), 2.26 |
| Lewis, Alonso, 13.14, 13.17 |
| Lexington Centennial Celebrations (Mass., 1875), 14.13 |
| Liberia, 7.2-4, 7.12, 8.1 |
| Liberty Party, 6.4 |
| Lieber, Francis, 4.14, 5.8, 5.10, 9.3 |
| Lincoln, Abraham, 8.12, 9.7-8, 14.11, 14.13, 15.2, 15.4-5, 17.3 |
| Lincoln, Levi, 4.11, 5.2, 5.7 |
| Livermore, George, 8.5 |
| Lloyd, James, 4.6 |
| Locks & Canals Company (Merrimack River), 4.13, 5.9, 7.2, 8.9 |
| Loco-Focos, 6.6, 12.17 |
| Lodge, Giles, 2.24 |
| Lodge, Henry Cabot, 11.6-8, 11.10, 11.12-14, 14.14 |
| Long, John D[avis], 11.12, 11.14-15 |
| Longfellow, Alice M., 11.7 |
| Longfellow, Charles, 6.12, 9.6, 9.10-11 |
| Longfellow, Frances Elizabeth Appleton (Mrs. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "Fanny"), 5.11, 6.4, 6.8, 7.3, 7.8 |
| Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 6.9, 7.4, 7.12, 8.13, 9.3-4, 9.8, 13.15, 14.11, 15.3, 18.3, 19.8 |
| Lossing, Benson J[ohn], 9.4 |
| Lowell, Charles, 3.11, 5.9 |
| Lowell, Francis Cabot (1775-1817), 13.3, 13.10, 14.17 |
| Lowell, Francis Cabot (1803-1874), 5.14, 7.2, 7.10-11, 8.2 |
| Lowell, John, 10.9 |
| Lowell, John A[mory], 5.6, 5.9, 5.15, 6.6, 6.8, 6.11, 10.3, 13.3, 17.3, 18.3 |
| Lowell, Mass., 4.1, 4.7, 5.9, 5.12, 6.4, 7.2, 8.8-9, 8.11, 13.3, 13.10 |
| Lowell Bleachery (Mass.), 6.5, 6.10 |
| Lowell Company (Mass.), 4.13, 5.12 |
| Lowell Mills (Mass.), 4.7, 5.12, 6.5, 6.10, 9.1 |
| Lyell, Sir Charles, 7.8, 7.10, 14.13 |
| Lyman, George Williams, 5.9. 5.14, 6.8, 9.1 |
| Lyman, Theodore, Jr. (1792-1849), 5.6 |
| Lyman, Theodore III (1833-1897), 9.6, 9.8 |
| McCall, Samuel Walker, 11.8, 11.12-13, 15.7 |
| McCulloch, Hugh, 11.12-13 |
| McDuffie, George, 5.1-2, 5.4-6, 12.11, 12.15, 13.10 |
| McHenry, Fort, Battle of (1814), 10.6-10 |
| Mackintosh, Angus, 7.8 |
| Mackintosh, Mary Appleton (Mrs. R. J. Mackintosh), 5.10, 7.9, 8.2, 8.6, 10.2, 11.4, 13.15 |
| McLane, [Louis], 5.4 |
| Macon's Bill No. 2 (1810), 2.19 |
| Madison, James, 2.21, 2.23-24, 2.27, 3.2 |
| Mananth, John S., 10.5, 10.7, 10.9 |
| Manassas Industrial School (Va.), 11.11 |
| Manchester & Liverpool Railroad (England), 4.12 |
| Manchester Mills (N.H.), 6.5-7 |
| Mann, Horace, 6.2 |
| Martin, James, 4.13-14, 6.1-3 |
| Massachusetts Historical Society, 5.9, 8.3, 8.12, 9.1 |
| Massachusetts Hospital Life Insurance Company, 3.12, 3.16, 5.9, 5.12, 5.14, 7.5, 7.11, 8.2, 9.1 |
| Massachusetts State Texas Committee, 6.12, 6.14 |
| Maximilian, Emperor (Mexico), 9.12 |
| Maxwell, H[ugh] , 7.2 |
| Mayflower Society (Plymouth, Mass.), 11.11 |
| Mead, Edwin D[oak], 11.7 |
| Meade, George Gordon, 9.6, 9.8, 14.11 |
| Meade, R[ichard] W[orsam], 11.10 |
| Memminger, C[hristopher] G[ustavus], 8.7, 8.9 |
| Mercer, Charles Fenton, 6.1, 6.12, 7.10 |
| Meredith, William Morris, 7.5-6, 11.9 |
| Merrimack Manufacturing Company (Lowell, Mass.), 3.11-16, 4.2, 4.6-7, 4.9-12, 5.4-6, 5.12, 5.14, 6.10, 7.2-5, 7.10, 8.3, 8.9, 8.11, 8.13, 9.1-2, 13.3, 13.10 |
| Mexican War (1846-1848), 6.14, 7.1, 7.3, 17.3 |
| Mexico, 5.12, 6.14, 9.9, 17.3 |
| Middlesex Mechanics Association (Mass.), 6.10, 7.2, 13.3 |
| Mills, James K., 6.2, 6.6, 17.3 |
| Minami, S. T., 10.8-9 |
| Mine Run Campaign (1863), 9.6 |
| Mitchell, Henry, 11.10-11 |
| Monroe, James, 3.5 |
| Moody, Paul, 7.2, 13.3, 13.10, 14.17 |
| Moran, Benjamin, 10.4 |
| Morgan, Junius S[pencer], 11.12-13 |
| Mormons, 10.3 |
| Morse, Isaac Edward, 6.12 |
| Morse, John T[orrey], 11.10, 11.14 |
| Mosquito Territory (Central America), 12.18 |
| Motley, John Lothrop, 14.15 |
| Motley, Thomas, 5.2-3, 5.5, 5.12-13, 8.1, 8.11, 9.3 |
| Mountford, William, 8.11, 10.8-9 |
| Napoleon I, Emperor (France), 2.11, 2.21, 2.23-26, 3.1-2, 14.14 |
| Napoleon III, Emperor (France), 7.10, 7.12, 8.6, 8.11, 8.12, 9.1, 9.8, 9.10, 9.12, 10.6, 10.14 |
| Nashua Mills (N.H.), 4.13 |
| National Intelligencer, 7.1, 7.3 |
| Native Americans, 1.11, 5.3-5 |
| Need, William, 10.11 |
| New England Bank, 2.27, 3.1-3, 12.8 |
| New England Historic-Genealogical Society, 7.11, 10.6-8, 11.6-7, 11.12 |
| New Ipswich, N.H., 1.25, 2.3, 2.15, 2.22, 7.6-7, 13.10 |
| New Ipswich Factory (N.H.), 2.22, 2.25, 3.12-13, 3.15-16 |
| Newport, R.I., 6.12, 7.9, 8.3, 9.12, 10.4 |
| Newton, Edward A., 7.8, 8.5, 8.7, 8.12, 9.1 |
| Nicaragua, 11.8 |
| Niles, Hezekiah, 4.8 |
| Non-Intercourse Act (1809), 2.18-23 |
| Norton, Andrews, 6.10, 6.14 |
| Norton, Charles Eliot, 8.9, 8.11, 11.7 |
| Nourse, Joseph, 1.33, 2.1 |
| Nullification Controversy (1831-1833), 5.1-2, 5.5-7, 6.3, 8.6, 17.1, 17.3 |
| Numismatics, 17.6 |
| Ober, Frederick A[lbion], 11.8-9 |
| Orders in Council, British (1807), 2.20-22, 2.24, 13.10, 17.5 |
| Oregon, 6.11, 17.3, 17.4 |
| Otis, H[arrison] G[ray], 4.11, 5.1-3, 5.14, 6.14 |
| Ovington, Edward J., 11.4 |
| Paige, James William, 4.10, 4.12, 4.14, 5.12, 5.14, 8.4 |
| Paige, James W. & Company, 4.10, 5.14, 5.15, 7.5 |
| Palfrey, John G[orham], 4.10, 6.10, 6.12, 6.14, 8.10-11, 9.3 |
| Palmerston, Lord Henry John Temple, 12.18 |
| Panama Canal, 7.6, 10.3, 10.12-14, 11.2, 11.8, 11.12-14, 14.6, 14.15-17, 15.4-5, 15.7 |
| Panic of 1837, 5.13-15, 13.10, 17.2-3 |
| Panic of 1857, 8.7, 12.15, 17.3 |
| Parker, Daniel P., 2.19, 2.21-22, 2.24, 13.10 |
| Parker, John M[ason], 6.6, 6.8, 7.1, 7.3-4, 7.6-7 |
| Parker, Appleton & Company, 2.19, 2.22, 2.24, 17.5 |
| Parkman, George, 7.5, 17.2-3 |
| Parsons, Theophilus, 2.20 |
| Payne, John Howard, 5.9 |
| Peary, Josephine D. (Mrs. Robert Edwin Peary), 11.10 |
| Pedro II (Dom Pedro II de Alcantara), Emperor (Brazil), 14.16 |
| Peel, Sir Robert, 6.13 |
| Peirce, Benjamin, 10.9 |
| Peixotto, George Da Maduro, 1.2, 11.10-11 |
| Perkins, Thomas, 1.32, 2.7 |
| Perkins, Thomas H[andasyd], 5.15, 6.6, 7.11 |
| Peterborough Factory (N.H.), 3.11-16 |
| Phi Beta Kappa Society, 10.8 |
| Philadelphia Banner of the Constitution, 4.13 |
| Philadelphia Convention (1848), 7.2-3 |
| Phillips, Samuel, 2.6 |
| Phillips, Wendell, 9.1, 15.2 |
| Phillips, Willard, 5.3, 5.7 |
| Pickering, John, 5.5, 6.11 |
| Pierce, Edward L., 10.11 |
| Pierce, Franklin, 8.4, 17.3 |
| Pinault, Eugene, 10.5 |
| Pinault, Marie Augustine Appleton (Mrs. Eugene Pinault), 10.5 |
| Plaisted, Mary Jane Appleton (Mrs. Samuel Plaisted), 3.8, 3.12, 7.9, 8.2, 8.4 |
| Plymouth Colony, Mass., 10.3 |
| Poland, 6.14, 7.2, 9.10-11 |
| Polk, James Knox, 6.11, 6.13-14, 7.1, 12.15, 12.17, 17.3 |
| Porter, David Dixon, 11.4 |
| Porter, Horace, 11.12-13 |
| Post, Albert Kintzing ("Kin" or ''Kinny"), 1.2, 8.13, 9.1, 9.5-9, 9.12, 15.2 |
| Post, Lina (Mrs. Albert Kintzing Post), 9.7, 10.6 |
| Power loom, 4.2, 4.9, 4.13, 7.2, 13.3 |
| Preble, George Henry, 10.6-10 |
| Prentiss, Appleton, 1.1, 1.32, 2.1-2 |
| Prescott, William H[ickling], 6.13, 8.1, 8.5, 13.17 |
| Prison Reform, 6.4, 6.6 |
| Purdy, Caroline T., 10.10 |
| Putnam, Eben, 11.6-7, 11.10-11 |
| Putnam, Frederic Ward, 11.5-6 |
| Quincy, Josiah, 6.10, 6.12, 13.16 |
| Ralston, William C[hapman], 14.14 |
| Randall, Charles S[turtevant], 11.6, 11.9-10 |
| Randall, Samuel J[ackson], 8.7, 8.10 |
| Reconstruction, 10.1, 15.2 |
| Religion, 1.1, 5.1, 8.8-12 |
| Republican Party, 10.4 |
| Revolutions of 1848, 7.2, 7.4, 7.6, 7.10, 17.2 |
| Rives, W[illiam] C[abell], 5.6, 6.3, 6.13, 6.14, 8.12 |
| Rives, William Cabell, Jr., 8.13 |
| Rockwell, Julius, 7.3 |
| Rodriguez, A., 16.6 |
| Rogers, Henry D[arwin], 6.10, 7.12 |
| Rogers, William B[arton], 8.6 |
| Roosevelt, Theodore, 11.13 |
| Ropes, J[ohn] C[odman], 11.10 |
| Rosecrans, William Starke, 9.5 |
| Round Hill School (Northampton, Mass.), 3.16, 4.1-9 |
| Russell, Lord John, 6.13, 7.1 |
| Russell, John E., 11.11 |
| Russell, Jonathan, 2.26 |
| Russia, 2.19, 2.23-25, 2.27, 6.3, 6.10, 7.10, 8.1, 9.10-11, 10.2-3 |
| Salem East India Marine Society, 2.16 |
| Saltonstall, Leverett, 6.5 |
| Santa Anna, Antonio Lopez de, 5.12 |
| Santo Domingo, 15.2 |
| Sargent, L[ucius] M[anlius], 8.6 |
| Savage, James, 5.2, 6.5, 13.15, 13.17 |
| Schenck, Robert C[umming], 10.5, 14.13 |
| Sears, David, 4.9, 5.12, 6.3, 7.8, 8.11 |
| Secession, 8.12, 8.13, 9.1, 13.7, 17.3 |
| Second Seminole War (1835-1843), 5.12 |
| Sedgwick, Catharine Maria, 3.15, 5.8, 8.4, 8.5 |
| Sedgwick, H[enry] D[wight], 3.1, 3.5 |
| Sedgwick, S[usan] (Mrs. Theodore Sedgwick II), 4.2 |
| Sedgwick, Theodore II, 3.15, 4.1, 5.5 |
| Selfridge, Thomas O[liver], 10.5, 10.13-14 |
| Sewall, Samuel, 13.15, 13.18 |
| Sewall, Samuel E., 4.14, 5.16 |
| Sewall, Williams & Company, 3.5-6 |
| Seward, William H[enry], 7.1, 14.11 |
| Shadrach, 7.8 |
| Shattuck, George B., 9.5-7, 9.9, 9.11 |
| Shaw, Lemuel, 3.13, 7.4 |
| Shaw, Robert G[ould], 6.6, 7.11 |
| Sheridan, Philip Henry, 9.8 |
| Sherman, William Tecumseh, 9.7-8 |
| Sims, Thomas, 7.8 |
| Slavery, 4.14, 5.2, 6.14, 7.3-5, 7.8, 7.12, 8.1, 8.11-13, 9.1, 12.17, 13.7, 15.2, 17.3 |
| Smith, Samuel Francis, 18.3 |
| Smith, Truman, 6.13, 7.3 |
| Smith, William O., 11.1, 11.12 |
| Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, 10.3, 10.12, 10.16, 11.1-3, 11.5-6, 11.8, 14.6, 14.16, 18.4 |
| Society of Antiquaries, 13.18 |
| Somerby, H. G., 1.3, 7.9-10, 8.5, 9.8, 10.1-3, 13.18-19 |
| Somerset Club (Boston, Mass.), 10.9, 18.10 |
| Sons of the American Revolution, 11.6, 11.8-12, 11.14 |
| South Carolina, 5.1-2, 5.4, 5.6, 8.13, 9.1 |
| Sparks, Jared, 7.9, 13.16 |
| Spooner, Lysander, 8.8 |
| Spotsylvania Campaign (1864), 9.7 |
| Sprague, Kate Chase (Mrs. William Sprague), 8.6, 10.2, 10.10, 10.12, 10.15, 14.15 |
| "Star Spangled Banner," 9.4, 10.3, 10.6-10 |
| Stark Manufacturing Company (Manchester, N.H.), 6.10, 8.13, 9.1 |
| Statue of Liberty, 10.15, 15.7 |
| Steele, John, 2.7 |
| Stetson, William F., 10.5, 10.10-11 |
| Stevens, John A[ustin], 6.1-2, 8.7 |
| Stewart, Dugald, 13.8 |
| Stoddard, Charles Warren, 11.13 |
| Stone, William Oliver, 10.9 |
| Storer, Bellamy, 11.8 |
| Storrow, Samuel Appleton, 13.19 |
| Strong, Caleb, 1.33 |
| Sturgis, Bryant L., 4.14 |
| Sturgis, William, 6.5-6, 6.11 |
| Suez Canal, 10.2, 10.3, 14.6 |
| Suffolk Manufacturing Company (Lowell, Mass.), 5.12-13, 6.1-2, 6.5, 6.7, 6.10-11, 7.10 |
| Sullivan, Henry D. ("Sully"), 8.5-6, 8.12, 9.1, 9.4-6, 10.5 |
| Sullivan, T. R., 10.3, 11.15 |
| Sullivan, William, 4.9, 4.14, 5.1-4, 5.6 |
| Sumner, Charles, 6.4-6, 6.9, 6.12, 6.14, 7.3, 7.8, 10.5, 12.17 |
| Sumner, Harriot Coffin (Mrs. Jesse Sumner), 6.6, 7.9, 8.6, 19.8 |
| Sumner, Jesse, 1.1, 2.13, 2.20, 2.27, 3.4, 4.2, 6.6, 7.1, 7.9 |
| Sumner, William H., 3.7, 7.10 |
| Sumner & Coffin, 2.11-19, 2.25-27 |
| Sumter, Fort, Battle of (1861), 17.3 |
| Symonds, Samuel, 1.9-11 |
| Tammany Hall (N.Y.), 5.12 |
| Tappan, Lewis, 3.1, 3.6 |
| Tariff of 1816, 3.1-3, 5.6, 13.3 |
| Tariff of 1824, 3.12-13, 12.5 |
| Tariff of 1828 (Tariff of Abominations), 13.7 |
| Tariff of 1832, 5.1-7, 8.6, 12.11, 13.7, 13.10 |
| Tariff of 1833 (Compromise Tariff), 6.3-5, 6.9 |
| Tariff of 1842, 6.5-6, 6.9-10, 8.6, 12.14-15, 17.3 |
| Tariff of 1846, 6.13, 7.3, 7.5-6, 7.8, 9.1, 12.14, 13.3 |
| Tariff of 1857, 8.7 |
| Taylor, James E[arl], 11.9 |
| Taylor, Zachary, 7.2-3 |
| Texas, 5.12, 6.11-12, 6.14, 7.3, 17.3-4 |
| Thacher, Peter O[xenbridge], 5.3 |
| Thaxter & Bartlett, 10.6, 10.8 |
| Thiers, Adolphe, 10.11 |
| Thornton, J[ohn] Wingate, 8.5, 13.15-16 |
| Ticknor, Anna (Mrs. George Ticknor), 7.3, 7.6 |
| Ticknor, George, 5.9, 5.12, 6.10, 7.5, 7.8, 7.11, 8.1-3, 8.9-12, 13.16 |
| Tileston, Thomas, 8.7 |
| Titus, L[illie] B. (Mrs. Nelson V. Titus), 11.12-13 |
| Tocqueville, Alexis de, 13.11 |
| Todd, Sarah Appleton, 8.11, 9.4 |
| Totten, George M[uirson], 10.14 |
| Treasury, United States Department of the, 1.27, 1.33, 2.1-2, 2.7, 3.3 |
| Tremont Manufacturing Company (Mass.), 4.13, 5.9-10, 5.13-14, 6.1, 6.7, 8.3 |
| Trent Affair (1861), 17.3 |
| Triumphant, ship, 17.5 |
| Trott, Elizabeth C., 11.11, 11.13-15 |
| Turkey, 7.10, 10.2-3 |
| Tyler, John, 6.5-6 |
| Vallandigham, Clement Laird, 9.6 |
| Van Buren, Martin, 5.2, 5.12, 7.2, 12.17 |
| Vanderbilt, W[illiam] H[enry], 10.10 |
| Vinton, Frederic P[orter], 11.10, 11.14 |
| Wainwright, Charles Sheils, 9.6-8, 10.4-5 |
| Walker, James, 8.2, 8.4-6 |
| Walker, Robert James, 6.11, 12.15 |
| Waltham, Mass., 14.17 |
| Waltham Bleachery (Mass.), 6.10 |
| Waltham Mill (Mass.), 3.1, 3.3, 3.10, 3.12-14, 3.16, 4.8-9, 4.12-14, 5.9-12, 5.14, 6.8, 6.12, 13.3, 13.10 |
| War of 1812, 2.22-27, 3.1, 10.11, 12.1, 13.3, 13.10, 17.5 |
| Ward, Benjamin C., 3.1, 9.3 |
| Ward, Benjamin C. & Company, 3.1-3, 3.5-6, 3.9, 3.12, 4.9, 13.3, 13.10, 14.17 |
| Ward, Samuel, 5.14, 17.3 |
| Ward, Thomas W[ren], 5.2, 5.14, 6.3, 6.14, 7.8, 17.3 |
| Ward, William, 3.1-2 |
| Warren, John C[ollins], 5.5-6, 6.7, 7.9, 13.16 |
| Washington, George, 15.4-5 |
| Washington, D.C., 14.13 |
| Washington, D.C. -- The burning of, 2.26-27 |
| Waters, Henry F., 11.6-14 |
| Webster, A. LeRoy, 5.11 |
| Webster, Daniel, 3.14-15, 4.5, 4.8, 4.12-14, 5.1, 5.4-6, 5.8, 5.13, 6.5, 6.11-13, 7.2-3, 7.5, 7.7-8, 7.10-11, 12.15, 13.10, 17.2-3 |
| Webster, John White, 3.16, 4.1, 7.5, 17.2-3 |
| Webster-Ashburton Treaty (1842), 6.5 |
| Wells, Elias, 7.2 |
| Wells, Samuel, 5.10, 5.12, 5.14, 6.8-11, 6.13, 7.1-2, 7.4, 7.9, 7.12, 8.1, 8.3-6, 8.10-11, 9.3, 10.5-6, 13.16 |
| West Indies, 7.3, 7.8, 8.1 |
| Whig Party, 5.9, 5.12, 6.6, 6.9, 6.13-14, 7.2-3, 7.6, 8.13, 12.17, 15.2, 17.3-4 |
| Whitman, Ezekiel, 3.6 |
| Whitney, Anne, 10.7 |
| Wiggin, Timothy, 3.10-11, 3.14 |
| Wilde, R[ichard] H[enry], 5.12 |
| Wilder, Marshall [Pinckney], 10.6-7 |
| Wilderness Campaign (1864), 9.7 |
| Wilkes, Charles, 14.11 |
| Williams, Margaret Gibbs Appleton (Mrs. John Floyd Williams), 1.31, 13.18 |
| Williams, Marianne Brown (Mrs. Norman Williams), 13.19 |
| Wilmot Proviso (1846), 7.5, 13.7 |
| Wilson, James Grant, 10.14, 11.14 |
| Wingate, Paine, 2.16, 5.5 |
| Winslow, Isaac, 4.13 |
| Winthrop, Frederick, 9.8 |
| Winthrop, Robert Charles, 5.8, 6.14, 7.5, 8.2, 8.7, 8.11-12, 9.1, 9.3, 10.13-14 13.15, 17.3 |
| Winthrop, Robert Charles, Jr., 11.6-7, 11.10, 11.15 |
| Wolcott, Oliver, 2.1, 2.2 |
| Wood, Matilda (Mrs. John Wood), 11.11, 11.13 |
| Wood, R[ichard] D., 6.2-3 |
| Woodbury, Levi, 5.14 |
| Woolsey, Sarah C[hauncy], 10.16 |
| Wyse, Lucien B[onaparte], 10.13, 10.15, 11.8 |
| Young, Alexander, 6.1, 13.16 |
| Young, Brigham, 10.3 |
Preferred Citation
Appleton family papers, Massachusetts Historical Society.
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Materials Removed from the Collection
Photographs
Photographs from this collection have been removed to the MHS Photo Archives. The daguerreotype of Nathan Appleton (Photo. 1.6) and unidentified tintypes have been removed to the MHS Photo Archives and stored by format.
Printed Materials
Appleton, Nathan. Centennial Movement: A Comedy in Five Acts (Boston: Lockwood, Brooks, and Co., 1877)
Appleton, Nathan. Reconciliation: A Comedy in Four Acts
Appleton, Samuel. The Will of Samuel Appleton: with remarks by one of the executors (Boston: John Wilson & Son, 1853)
Appleton, Thomas Gold. Will of Thomas Gold Appleton
Appleton, William S. Memoir of William Henry Whitmore (Cambridge: John Wilson & Son, 1901)
Appleton Farms: Sunday Afternoon, August twenty-second Nineteen Hundred and Twenty [dedication of tablet in memory of Samuel Appleton]
Bowles, Charles. Aid to the Sick and wounded in the Battle of Life: A Lecture (1892)
Ellen M. Gifford Sheltering Home for Animals Report (Boston: David Clapp & Son, 1899)
Emery, George F. John Appleton: Read Before the Maine Historical Society, December 18, 1890
Excerpts from A Gentleman of Letters by William T. Cummings
Hill, Aaron. History of Fort McHenry (Baltimore, Md., 1937)
Lawrence, Abbott. Letter from Mr. Lawrence to Mr. Clayton (Washington: GPO, 1853)
M.D. Jones & Co. Illustrated Catalogue of Grave Markers, Etc.
Manassas Industrial School [circular, ca. 1897?]
Manhattan Monthly issue for July, 1876
Mitchell, Henry. Viscount Ferdinand De Lesseps (Philadelphia: American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1896)
Taylor, James E. Catalogue and Price List of Photographs of James E. Taylor's Paintings...of our Civil War and Frontier History (New York, ca. 1881)