1733-1917
Guide to the Collection
Abstract
This collection mainly consists of autographs collected by Jeremiah Colburn of Boston, Mass. Included are politicians, military figures, doctors, scientists, businessmen, literary figures, historians, librarians, and collectors of coins, medals, books, and autographs. The bulk of the autographs appear on correspondence. Correspondents represent various New England and Southern states, some European countries, and span the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. Also included is biographical material for many of the signees. Other contributors of autographs and portrait reproductions include Francis Fayette Stockwell and the Bostonian Society.
Biographical Sketch
Jeremiah Colburn (1815-1891) was born 12 January 1815 to Calvin Colburn and Catherine Sybil Lakin Colburn. He married Eliza Ann Blackman (1820-1897) in 1846. They had one son, Jeremiah Blackman Colburn (1849-1849). Colburn was employed as a clerk for Seth James Thomas and his hat business before succeeding him in 1840. In 1853, Colburn was appointed as an appraiser in the Boston Custom House, a position he held until 1861. For the next 30 years, Colburn spent much of his time engaging in his personal interests, which included collecting autographs, coins, medals, books, manuscripts, art, various other antiquities, and natural history. He was a founder of the Prince Society (1858); Boston Numismatic Society (1860), serving as its president from 1865 until his death; and Boston Antiquarian Club (1879), which later became the Bostonian Society (1881). He was also a life member of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, where he served on numerous committees and the Board of Directors, as well as a committee to publish the American Journal of Numismatics. Other memberships included the Granite Club, No. 1 and Boston's Keystone Club, No. 1. Colburn was a longtime contributor to the Historical Magazine and published Bibliography of the Local History of Massachusetts. Jeremiah Colburn died 30 December 1891.
Francis Fayette Stockwell (1834-1913) was born 11 November 1834 in Charlton, Mass. to Leonard Stockwell and Orilla Sessions Stockwell. He married Martha Berry (1833-1908) in 1860. He trained and worked in Boston as an engraver and for much of his career operated out of 99 Court Street. Stockwell died 1 November 1913.
Sources
New England Historic Genealogical Society. Memorial Biographies of the New England Historic Genealogical Society. Vol. IX. 1890-1897. Boston: NEHGS, 1908.
Collection Description
The Jeremiah Colburn autograph collection additions consists of 4 manuscript boxes of autographs, newspaper clippings, printed material, and portrait reproductions mainly collected by Jeremiah Colburn. An album containing autographs of Massachusetts governors compiled by Francis Fayette Stockwell, as well as some later autographs, were added to the collection while housed at the Bostonian Society.
The collection contains autographs of prominent figures from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries who represent numerous New England and Southern states, as well as European countries. They include businessmen, politicians, military and literary figures, doctors, scientists, historians, librarians, and fellow collectors of coins, medals, books, and autographs. The bulk of the autographs appear on correspondence but also include marriage certificates, power of attorney statements, tax forms, and receipts. Colburn appears to have acquired many of the signatures through his position as appraiser at the Boston Custom House and roles and connections he maintained through his involvement with the New England Historic Genealogical Society, Bostonian Society, Prince Society, Boston Numismatic Society, American Journal of Numismatics, Granite Club, No. 1, and Boston Keystone Club, No. 1. He also appears to have acquired autographs through purchase of individual items and bulk items from shops and estate sales. He included newsclippings and printed materials that provide biographical information for many of the signees.
Acquisition Information
Deposit from the Bostonian Society, 1971.
Custodial History
The Jeremiah Colburn autograph collection additions were bequeathed to the Bostonian Society following the death of Eliza Ann Blackman Colburn in 1897. They maintained the collection until 1971 when it was deposited at the Massachusetts Historical Society. While kept at the Bostonian Society, an autograph volume of Massachusetts governors was added to the collection. An inventory notes this volume was complied by Francis Fayette Stockwell. Miscellaneous autographs that post-date Stockwell's death were also added before the collection was deposited at the MHS.
Detailed Description of the Collection
I. Miscellaneous autographs, 1733-1901
Arranged alphabetically.
Abbot, Abiel
Abernathy, John
Aiken, David
Allan, John
Allen, Charles
Allen, Heman
Ames, Fisher
Ames, Fred L.
Ames, Joseph
Ammidown, Holmes
Anderson, John
Andrews, John
Andros, Richard Salter Storr
Anthon, Charles Edward
Anthon, John Hone
Appleton, John
Apthorp, John Trecothick
Archer, William Segar
Armstrong, Samuel Turell
Arnold, Samuel Greene
Arnold, Welcome
Arthur, Timothy Shay
Ashley, Chester
Ashmun, George
Aspinwall, Thomas
Atherton, Charles Gordon
Atherton, Charles Humphrey
Atwater, Moses
Austin, Benjamin
Austin, James P.
Bache, Nancy Clarke Fowler (Mrs. Alexander Dallas)
Bainbridge, William
Baird, Spencer Fullerton
Baldwin, Henry
Baldwin, Loammi
Baldwin, William Henry
Bancroft, Aaron
Bancroft, George
Banks, A. P.
Banks, Charles Edward
Banks, Nathaniel Prentice
Barbour, James
Barbour, John Strode
Barker, Jacob
Barlow, Joel
Barlow, Samuel Latham Mitchill
Barnard, Henry
Barnes, Isaac O.
Barnes, William Henry Linow
Barnum, Phineas Taylor
Barrett, George H.
Barry, John Stetson
Barrymore, William
Barstow, G.
Bartlett, John Russell
Bartlet, William
Bartol, Cyrus Augustus
Barton, William Gardner
Bates, Barnabas
Bates, Isaac Chapman
Bates, J. C.
Bayard, Richard Henry
Baylies, Francis
Beach, Erasmus Darwin
Beck, Charles
Beckwith, Henry Truman
Beecher, Henry Ward
Beecher, John
Belknap, Jeremy
Bell, Charles Henry
Bell, Samuel
Bell, Samuel Dana
Benjamin, Judah Philip
Benjamin, Park
Bent, Josiah, Jr.
Benton, Thomas Hart
Bernard, Simon
Biddle, Nicholas
Bidwell, Barnabas
Binney, Horace
Bishop, H. W.
Bishop, William
Blake, G.
Bland, Theodorick
Bliss, George
Boker, George Henry
Bolles, Lucius
Booth, Edwin
Bouton, James Warren
Boutwell, George Sewall
Bowles, Samuel
Bradbury, John Merrill
Bradbury, John Ware
Bradlee, Caleb Davis
Brazer, John
Brevoort, James Carson
Briggs, George Nixon
Brigham, Elijah
Brimmer, Martin
Brinley, G. W.
Brock, Bobert Alonzo
Brodhead, John Romeyn
Brooks, Charles Timothy
Brooks, Henry Mason
Brooks, James
Brown, A. H.
Brown, David Paul
Brown, Julius Lewis
Brown, Moses
Browne, Thomas Quincy
Brownson, Orestes Augustus
Bryant, Walter Augustus
Bryant, William Cullen
Buchanan, James
Buckalew, Charles Rollin
Buckingham, Joseph Tinker
Budington, William Ives
Burges, Tristam
Burnham, Thomas Oliver Hazard Perry
Burr, Aaron
Burritt, Elihu
Burt, William Lathrop
Bush, George
Bushnell, Charles Ira
Bushnell, Horace
Butler, Benjamin Franklin
Calhoun, John Caldwell
Cambreleng, Churchill Caldom
Cameron, John
Cameron, Simon
Campbell, George Washington
Carey, Henry Charles
Case, Albert
Cass, Lewis
Caster, George R.
Caswell, Alexis
Cattell, William Cassady
Caverly, Robert Boodey
Chaffin, John Crowninshield
Chamberlain, Mellen
Chandler, Joseph Ripley
Chapman, George Thomas
Chapman, J., Jr.
Chase, Salmon Portland
Child, Francis J.
Chipman, Daniel
Choate, Stephen
Chopin, E. H.
Churchill, John Wesley
Claflin, William
Clap, Asa
Clark, Lewis Gaylord
Clark, James
Clarke, Dorus
Clarke, Samuel C.
Clay, Cassius Marcellus
Cleaveland, Charles
Clemens, Jeremiah
Clifford, John Henry
Clifford, Nathan
Clinton, DeWitt
Cobb, David
Cobb, Samuel Crocker
Codman, John (1755-1803)
Codman, John (1814-1900)
Coffin, Isaac
Coffin, Peleg, Jr.
Cogswell, John Bear Doane
Colman, Henry
Colman, Samuel
Combe, George
Connolly, William T.
Cook, Clarence
Cook, Zebedee, Jr.
Cooke, Josiah Parsons, Jr.
Coolidge, D. H.
Coolidge, George A.
Coombs, Leslie
Cooper, Samuel
Cooper, William
Corwin, Thomas
Cotting, Benjamin Eddy
Cotton, John
Craigie, Andrew
Cranch, William
Crawford, William Harris
Crockett, Davy
Curry, George Law
Curtis, Benjamin Robbins
Curtis, Charles P.
Curtis, Edward
Curtis, George William
Curwen, John
Cushing, Caleb
Cushing, Charles
Cushing, John Perkins
Cushing, Luther Stearns
Cushing, Thomas
Cushing, William
Cushman, Charlotte
Cushman, Henry Wyles
Custis, George Washington
Cutler, Samuel
Cutter, Ammi Ruhamah
Cutts, Richard
Dallas, Alexander James
Dallas, George Mifflin
Dalton, Tristam
Davenport, Edward Loomis
Davis, Charles Augustus
Davis, John Brazer
Davis, J. P.
Davis, John [(1761-1847)]
Davis, John
Davis, John Wesley
Dawson, Henry Barton
Dayton, William Lewis
Dean, John Ward
Dean, Paul
Deane, Charles
Dearborn, Henry
Dearborn, Henry Alexander Scammell
Derby, Elias Haskett
DeSilver, Robert P.
Devens, Richard M.
Dewey, Orville
deWitt, Francis
Dexter, Franklin
Dexter, Henry Martyn
Dexter, Samuel
Dickerson, Mahlon
Dickinson, Daniel Stevens
Dickinson, R.
Dobbin, James Cochran
Donnelly, Charles F.
Dorr, Thomas Wilson
Dougherty, Daniel
Dowes, Thomas
Drake, Francis Samuel
Drake, Samuel Adams
Drake, Samuel Gardner
Drew, Edward Bangs
Ducornet, Louis Joseph César
Dunlap, Robert Pinckney
Du Ponceau, Peter Steven
Durivage, Francis Alexander
Durrie, Daniel Steele
Duvall, Gabriel
Duyckinck, Evert Augustus
Dwight, H. W.
Earle, Pliny
Eastburn, Manton
Eaton, Asa
Edwards, J., Jr.
Egle, William Henry
Eliot, Samuel
Elliston, Robert William
Ellsworth, Oliver
Emerson, George Barrell
Emery, Samuel Hopkins
Emmet, Thomas Addis (1828-1919)
Erskine, John
Etting, Frank Marx
Eustapheve, Alexis
Eustis, William
Evans, George
Evarts, Jeremiah
Everett, William
Fahnestock, G. W.
Fairfield, John
Farley, Frederick A.
Farrar, John
Felt, Joseph B.
Felton, Cornelius Conway
Field, Cyrus W.
Field, Edward Mann
Finotti, Joseph Maria
Fisher, Nathaniel
Fiske, Rev. Thaddeus
Fitts, J. H.
Fletcher, Richard
Flint, James
Flint, Royal
Florence, Thomas B.
Folsom, Charles
Foot, Solomon
Foote, Henry W.
Forbes, Robert Bennett
Force, Peter
Forney, John Wien
Forrest, Edwin
Forster, Edward Jacob
Foster, William Eaton
Fouquet, Henri
Fowler, Samuel P.
Francis, Convers
Francis, Tappan Eustis
Frelinghuysen, Theodore
Frothingham, Nathaniel Langdon
Frothingham, Richard
Gales, Joseph, Jr.
Gannett, Caleb
Gannett, Ezra Stiles
Gardner, Francis
Gardner, Henry Joseph
C. G. G.
Gardoqui, James
Gaston, William
Gay, Frederick Lewis
Gibbes, Robert Wilson
Gibbs, George
Gilbert, William Lewis
Gillet, Ransom Hooker
Gilman, Arthur
Gilman, Daniel Coit
Godfrey, John Edwards
Goldsborough, Robert Henry
Goodell, Abner Cheney, Jr.
Goodhue, Benjamin
Goodman, Alfred Thomas
Goodwin, Samuel G.
Gordon, George W.
Gori, Andrea Madiai
Goss, Elbridge Henry
Gould, Benjamin Apthorp
Gould, David
Gourgas, Francis Richard
Gowans, William
Grafton, Charles Chapman
Grafton, Joseph
Graham, John
Dr. Grassi
Gray, Asa
Gray, Barry
Gray, William, Jr.
Greely, Adolphus Washington
Green, Aaron
Green, Joshua
Green, Samuel A.
Greene, Charles Gordon
Greene, Gardiner
Greenhalge, Frederic Thomas
Greenleaf, Simon
Greenough, Henry
Greenwood, Francis William Pitt
Greenwood, Grace
Griffin, Nathaniel Herrick
Grinnell, Joseph
Guyot, Arnold Henry
Gwin, William McKendree
Haddock, Charles Brickett
Hale, Amos
Hale, John Parker
Hale, Sarah Josepha Buell
Hall, Benjamin Homer
Hall, Hiland
Hall, James
Hamersley, William James
Hamilton, James (1786-1857)
Harland, Marion
Harper, Robert Goodloe
Harper, William
Harris, R. D.
Hart, Charles Henry
Hartt Shipyard
Harvey, Matthew
Haven, F.
Haven, Samuel Foster
Hawley, Jesse
Hayden, Horace Edward
Hayden, Lewis Sydenham
Healy, George Peter Alexander
Heinrich, Anthony Philip
Henry, Joseph
Henshaw, David
Henshaw, Harriet E.
Hersey, George D.
Hewes, Horace Greeley
Hibbard, Harry
Hickcox, John Howard
Higginson, Stephen
Hill, Anna F. Carruth
Hill, Hamilton Andrews
Hill, Isaac
Hillard, George Stillman
Hilliard, Henry Washington
Hincks, Francis
Hinkley, Willard Hall
Hinman, Royal Ralph
Hoadly, Charles Jeremy
Hoar, D. Blakely
Hobbie, Selah Reeve
Hoffman, David
Hoffman, Ogden
Holcombe, William Frederic
Holland, Frederic West
Holmes, Sylvester
Holten, J. F.
Homans, John
Homer, Jonathan
Homes, Henry Augustus
Hooper, Foster
Hopkinson, Joseph
Hoppin, Nicholas
Hosmer, William Howe Cuyler
Houghton, George Frederick
Houghton, George H.
Houston, Samuel
Howard, Joseph Jackson
Howe, G. M.
Hoyt, Albert Hamilton
Hubbard, Aaron D.
Hubbard, Henry
Hubbard, Jonathan Hatch
Hudson, Charles
Hunnewell, James Frothingham
Huntington, A.
Huntington, Elisha
Huntington, Jabez Williams
Huntington, Samuel
Ide, Abijah Metcalfe, Jr.
Ingersoll, C.
Ingersoll, Charles Jared
Ingersoll, Jared
Ingersoll, Joseph Reed
Ingraham, Edward Duncan
Jackson, Charles Thomas
Jackson, James
James, George Payne Rainsford
Jarvis, Leonard
Jay, John
Jenifer, Daniel of St. Thomas
Jenks, Samuel Haynes
Jennison, Samuel
Jewett, James C.
Johnson, Richard Mentor
Johnson, William O.
Jones, Jehu Glancy
Kean, Charles
Kelley, William Darrah
Kemble, Fanny
Kemble, Gouverneur
Kennedy, John Pendelton
Kent, Joseph
Kettell, Thomas Prentice
Kimball, Moses
King, A. P.
King, Preston
King, Rufus
King, Thomas Butler
King, William Rufus
Kinnicutt, Thomas
Knight, Horatio Gates
Koehler, Sylvester Rosa
LaMothe, Henri G.
Lamson, Alvan
Lane, James Pillsbury
Lane, Joseph
Lansing, John, Jr.
Lardner, Dionysius
Latham, Milton Slocum
Latrobe, John Hazelhurst Boneval
Lawrence, Abbott
Lawrence, Amos
Lawrence, R. W.
Lee, Arthur
Lee, Richard Bland
Lee, William
Leffingwell, E. H.
Legare, Hugh Swinton
Leland, Horace
Leland, Phineas Washington
LeRoy, Timothy
Leveridge, Cornelius A.
Lewis, Winslow
Lincoln, Levi
Lincoln, Solomon
Livingston, Edward
Livingston, John Henry
Lloyd, James
Lord, Daniel
Lord, Melvin
Loring, Charles Greely
Loring, George Bailey
Lossing, Benson
Loubat, Joseph Florimond
Lovering, Warren
Lowe, Charles
Lowell, Anna Cabot
Lowell, Francis Cabot
Lunt, George
Lutter, C. W.
Lyell, Charles
Lyman, William
McCleary, Samuel Foster
McClellan, George Brinton
Macdonald, Moses
McDuffie, George
McKeen, Joseph
MacKenzie, Robert Shelton
McKeon, John
McLane, Louis
Malcolm, Howard
Mallalieu, Willard Francis
Mann, Horace
Mansur, Joseph Warren
Marcy, William Learned
Maris, Edward
Marvin, William Theophilus Rogers
Marsh, George Perkins
Marshall, Orasmus Holmes
Martin, John Hill
Martin, Luther
Mason, James Murray
Mason, Jeremiah
Mason, John Young
Mason, George
Mathews, Cornelius
Maury, James
May, Frederick Warren Goddard
May, Samuel
May, Samuel Joseph
McChesney, Joseph Henry
Meagher, Thomas Francis
Meehan, John Silva
Meigs, Henry
Mercur, Rodney A.
Meredith, Samuel
Messinger, G. W.
Middleton, Henry (1770-1846)
Miller, Jacob Welsh
Mills, John
Miltimore, James
Mitchell, Augustus
Moore, George Henry
Moore, J. C.
Moore, J. F.
Morison, Nathaniel Holmes
Morril, David Lawrence
Morrill, George
Morris, Fred. W.
Morris, Robert (1734-1806)
Morris, Robert (1810-1892)
Morrison, Thomas
Morse, Jedidiah
Morse, Leopold
Morton, Marcus
Motley, John Lothrop
Mott, Valentine
Moulton, Mace
Munroe, Nathan
Nason, Elias
Neal, John
Newell, William
Niles, John Milton
Niles, Nathaniel
Norris, Joseph Parker
Norris, Moses, Jr.
Northrop, J.
Norton, Andrews
O'Callaghan, Edmund Bailey
O'Connor, Charles
Oldbuck, Truman
Oliphant, David
Oliver, George Stewart Johonnot
Orr, Benjamin
Orr, Jehu Amaziah
Osgood, Gayton Pickman
O'Sullivan, John Louis
Otis, Albert Boyd
Otis, Amos
Otis, Eliza Wetherby
Otis, Fanny
Otis, George W., Jr.
Otis, Harrison Gray (1765-1848)
Otis, Harrison Gray (1856-1915)
Otis, William Church
Owen, Robert Dale
Paige, Lucius Robinson
Paine, Henry M.
Paine, Nathaniel
Paine, Nathaniel (1832-1917)
Parker, Amasa Junius
Parker, John Mason
Parks, C. R.
Parks, Gorham
Parris, Albion Keith
Parsons, Albert S.
Patterson, David Williams
Patterson, Robert
Patterson, Robert Wilson
Payne, John Howard
Payson, Thomas Eliot
Peabody, Andrew Preston
Peabody, George
Pearson, Jonathan
Peirce, Benjamin
Pennington, William
Perley, Ira
Perry, William Stevens
Peters, Richard
Phelps, Ansel, Jr.
Phelps, John Wolcott
Phelps, Samuel Shethar
Pickens, Francis Wilkinson
Pickering, John
Pickman, Benjamin
Pickman, D. L., Jr.
Pickman, William
Pierce, Franklin
Pierce, George J.
Pinckney, Thomas
Pinkney, William
Pintard, John Marsden
Playfair, Lyon Playfair, Baron
Plumer, William
Poinsett, Joel Roberts
Poole, William Frederick
Poor, Arthur H.
Poore, Benjamin Perley
Pope, John
Porter, Edward Griffin
Pratt, George Williams
Pratt, John Frank
Pratt, James Timothy
Prescott, William
Price, Bonamy
Prince, John
Prince, Nathaniel
Prime, William Cowper
Pruyn, John Van Schaick Lansing
Pugh, George Ellis
Pulsifer, William Henry
Purple, Samuel Smith
Putnam, John Phelps
Putnam, Samuel
Quincy, Edmund
Quincy, Josiah
Quincy, Samuel Miller
Quint, Alonzo Hall
Rand, Charles F.
Rand, Edward Sprague, III
Randall, Josiah
Randolph, David Meade
Randolph, John
Randolph, Richard, Jr.
Randolph, Thomas Jefferson
Rantoul, Robert
Rantoul, Robert, Jr.
Read, John Meredith
Read, John Meredith, Jr.
Redfield, John Henry
Reed, William Bradford
Richmond, Edward
Ripley, Ezra
Ritchie, Thomas
Rives, William Cabell
Robbins, Chandler
Robbins, Chandler (1810-1882)
Robinson, Edward
Robinson, Jonathan
Robinson, Thomas Hastings
Rodney, A.
Rogers, C.
Rogers, Henry B.
Rogers, John Smyth
Rogers, William Barton
Root, Erastus
Ropes, John Codman
Rosenthal, Albert
Routh, John
Rowland, Kate Mason
Ruffin, Edmund
Ruggles, Benjamin
Rumford, Benjamin Thompson, Graf von
Ruschenberger, William Samuel Waithman
Rush, Richard
Russ, Augustus
Russell, John Brooks
Russell, Lorenzo
Russell, Samuel Hammond
Russell, William Eustis
Sampson, William Thomas
Sargent, Gus.
Sargent, Horace Binney
Sargent, John T.
Savage, James
Savary, George
Scherb, E. Vitalis
Schroeder, Francis
Scoville, Joseph Alfred
Sedgwick, Arthur George
Sedgwick, Catharine Maria
Sedgwick, Charles
Sedgwick, Penelope
Sedgwick, Theodore
Sedgwick, William Ellery
Sergeant, John
Sewall, David
Sewall, Samuel (d. 1804)
Sewall, Samuel
Seward, William Henry
Seymour, Horatio
Seymour, R. W.
Sharp, Daniel
Shaw, Lemuel (1781-1861)
Shaw, Lemuel (1828-1884)
Shaw, Robert Gould
Shaw, Samuel Savage
Shea, John Gilmary
Sherman, Roger M.
Shield, James
Shillaber, Benjamin Penhallow
Shurtleff, Benjamin
Shurtleff, Nathaniel Bradstreet
Sibley, John Langdon
Sigourney, Lydia Howard Huntley
Silliman, Benjamin
Simms, William Gilmore
Skinner, John Stuart
Slafter, Edmund Farwell
Smallwood, Samuel Nicholas
Smith, Albert
Smith, Francis Ormand Jonathan
Smith, Jeremiah
Smith, John Cotton
Smith, M.
Smyth, Thomas
Snow, S. T.
Snow, Prince
Soule, Pierre
Southard, Samuel Lewis
Southgate, Robert
Spencer, A. W.
Sprague, Charles James
Sprague, Joseph E.
Sprague, William Buell
Stanton, Richard Henty
Staples, William Read
Stearns, Asahel
Stearns, Henry Putnam
Steele, John Hardy
Steuben, Frederick William
Stevens, Oliver
Stevens, Thaddeus
Stevenson, Andrew
Stickney, Matthew Adams
Stiles, Ezra
Stiles, Henry Reed
Stockton, John Potter
Stone, William Leete, Jr.
Story, Isaac
Stowe, Calvin Ellis
Streeter, Sebastian Ferris
Strong, Caleb
Sullivan, William
Sumner, Increase
Sumner, William Hyslop
Swartwout, Samuel
Taliaferro, John
Tallmadge, Nathaniel Pitcher
Taney, Roger Brooke
Tappan, Lewis
Tazewell, Littleton Waller
Tefft, Israel Keech
Tenney, Jonathan
Tenney, Samuel
Thacher, George
Thacher, Joseph Savage
Thacher, Thomas
Thainville, Dubois
Thayer, Nathaniel
Thiebaut, M. E.
Thomas, Seth James
Thompson, Abraham Rand
Thompson, James D.
Thorburn, Grant
Thornton, Thomas Gilbert
Thrasher, John Sidney
Thruston, Gates Phillips
Ticknor, George
Tillinghast, Caleb Benjamin
Tillinghast, Nicholas
Tod, David
Tracy, N.
Trask, Job
Trumbull, James Hammond
Trumbull, John (1750-1831)
Tucker, Beverly
Tucker, Henry St. George
Tuckerman, Joseph
Turner, Alfred Thomas
Turner, Thomas
Tuttle, Charles Wesley
Tyler, William
Tyng, Dudley Atkins
Tyng, Stephen Higginson
Underwood, Francis Henry
Underwood, Joseph Rogers
Upham, Charles Wentworth
Van Buren, John
Van Ness, Cornelius Peter
Varnum, John
Varnum, Joseph Bradley
Vaughan, Charles
Vincent, Mary Ann
Vingut, Fransisco Javier
Vinton, Alexander Hamilton
Wade, Benjamin Franklin
Walden, Treadwell
Walker, Amasa
Walker, Clement Adams
Walker, James
Wall, Garret Dorset
Wallack, James William
Walley, Samuel Hurd
Walworth, Reuben Hyde
Ward, Andrew Henshaw
Ward, Samuel
Ware, Henry, Jr.
Ware, William Robert
Washburn, Alexander C.
Washburn, Israel, Jr.
Washburn, William Barrett
Wayne, James Moore
Webster, John White
Webster, Sidney
Weld, Horatio Hastings
Welles, Arnold
Wellington, Oliver Hastings
Welles, Arnold
Wells, John
Wells, John Sullivan
Wentworth, John
Wentworth, Joshua
Wheatland, Henry
Wheelock, James Ripley
White, Hugh S.
White, Stephen
Whitefield, Edwin
Whitehead, William Adee
Whitney, Peter
Whitney, William
Wickliffe, Robert
Widgery, William
Wigglesworth, Edward
Wilder, Marshall Pinckney
Wilkins, William
Williams, Barney
Williams, Charles Kilbourne
Williams, Chauncy Kilborn
Williams, Henry
Williams, James
Williams, Nathaniel W.
Williams, William
Williamson, Joseph
Willis, Nathaniel
Willis, William
Willis, Zephaniah
Wilson, W.
Wingate, Joseph Ferdinand
Winslow, Hubbard
Winsor, Justin
Wirt, William
Wise, Henry Alexander
Wise, John P.
Wisner, Benjamin Blydenburg
Wood, Abiel
Woodward, Ashbel
Woodward, George W.
Woodworth, John
Wright, Silas, Jr.
Miscellaneous
II. Mayors of Boston, 1813-1917
Arranged alphabetically.
Not all Boston mayors are included.
Bancroft, George
Bond, William
Chapman, Jonathan
Cobb, Samuel Crocker
Collins, Patrick Andrew
Curley, James Michael
Curtis, Edwin Upton
Davis, Thomas Aspinwall
Eliot, Samuel Atkins
Fitzgerald, John Francis
Gaston, William
Green, Samuel Abbott
Greenhalge, Frederic Thomas
Hart, Thomas Norton
Hibbard, George Albee
Lincoln, Frederic Walker, Jr.
Lyman, Theodore, Jr.
Matthews, Nathan
Norcross, Otis
O'Brien, Hugh
Otis, Harrison Gray
Palmer, Albert
Peters, Andrew James
Phillips, John
Pierce, Henry Lillie
Quincy, Josiah (1772-1864)
Quincy, Josiah
Rice, Alexander Hamilton
Shurtleff, Nathaniel Bradstreet
Smith, Jerome Van Crowninshield
Wells, Charles
Whelton, Daniel Aloysius
III. Governors of Massachusetts, 1767-1915
Arranged in order of succession.
Not all Massachusetts governors are included. This series consists of a disbound album that includes documents attached to paper supports and loose items. An inventory notes this album was compiled by Francis Fayette Stockwell.
Hancock, John
Bowdoin, James
Adams, Samuel
Sumner, Increase
Gill, Moses
Strong, Caleb
Sullivan, James
Gore, Christopher
Gerry, Elbridge
Brooks, John (1752-1825)
Eustis, William
Lincoln, Levi, Jr.
Davis, John (1787-1854)
Everett, Edward
Morton, Marcus
Briggs, George Nixon
Boutwell, George Sewall
Clifford, John Henry
Washburn, Emory
Gardner, Henry Joseph
Banks, Nathaniel Prentice
Andrew, John Albion
Bullock, Alexander Hamilton
Claflin, William
Washburn, William Barrett
Talbot, Thomas
Gaston, William
Rice, Alexander Hamilton
Long, John Davis
Butler, Benjamin Franklin
Robinson, George Dexter
Ames, Oliver
Brackett, John Quincy Adams
Russell, William Eustis
Greenhalge, Frederic Thomas
Wolcott, Roger
Crane, Winthrop Murray
Bates, John Lewis
Douglas, William Lewis
Guild, Curtis, Jr.
Draper, Eben Sumner
Foss, Eugene Noble
IV. Inventories, undated
This series contains handwritten and typed copies of inventories of autographs in the collection pertaining to Boston mayors, Massachusetts governors, and additions to the Jeremiah Colburn collection by the Bostonian Society.
Preferred Citation
Jeremiah Colburn autograph collection additions, Massachusetts Historical Society.
Access Terms
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