1669-1880
Guide to the Microfilm Edition
Representative digitized documents from this collection:
Abstract
This collection consists of correspondence, business and legal papers, account books, letterbooks, diaries, school copybooks, and genealogical information pertaining to the Smith family of Boston, Medford, and Weymouth, Mass., and related families, including the Carter and Adams families.
Biographical Sketches
William Smith (1667-1730) (identified in this guide as "Capt. William Smith") was a mariner and merchant of Medford, Mass. He married Abigail Fowle (1679-1760), later Abigail Fowle Smith Edwards. Their children were: Abigail Smith (1700-1788), who married Simon Tufts; Sarah Smith (1703-1775), who married Samuel Edwards; William Smith (1706-1783), who married Elizabeth Quincy (1721-1775); Anna Smith (1708-1781), who married Ebenezer Kent; Mary Smith (1710-1800), who married Ebenezer Austin; and Isaac Smith (1719-1787), who married Elizabeth Storer (1726-1786).
William Smith (1706-1783) (identified in this guide as "Rev. William Smith") was the pastor of the First Church, Weymouth, Mass. His children with Elizabeth Quincy Smith were: Mary Smith (1741-1811), who married Richard Cranch (1726-1811); Abigail Smith (1744-1818), who married John Adams (1735-1826); William Smith (1746-1787), who married Catherine Louisa Salmon; and Elizabeth Smith (1750-1815), who married first John Shaw and second Stephen Peabody (1741-1819).
Isaac Smith (1719-1787) (identified in this guide as "Isaac Smith") was an active trader in the cod fishery and one of the wealthiest merchant-shipowners in Boston. His children with Elizabeth Storer Smith were: Isaac Smith (1749-1829); William Smith (1755-1816), who married Hannah Carter (1764-1836); Mary Smith (1757-1839), who married first Edward Gray and second Samuel Allyne Otis (1740-1814); and Elizabeth Smith (1760-1849), who married John P. Hale.
Isaac Smith (1749-1829) (identified in this guide as "Isaac Smith, Jr.") was a loyalist who fled to England but returned in 1784 to obtain a reinstatement of citizenship.
William Smith (1755-1816) (identified in this guide as "William Smith") continued the family business. His children with Hannah Carter Smith were: William Smith (d. 1811) (identified in this guide as "William Smith, Jr."); Isaac Smith (d. 1813) (identified in this guide as "Isaac Smith III"); Elizabeth Smith, who married Edward Cruft; Hannah Smith (1794-1863), who married Benjamin T. Pickman (1790-1835); and Thomas Carter Smith (1796-1880), who married Frances Barnard (1804-1885) and also continued the family business.
Collection Description
The microfilm edition of the Smith-Carter family papers pertains primarily to the Smith family of Medford, Boston, and Weymouth, Mass., including Capt. William Smith, Abigail Fowle Smith Edwards, Isaac Smith, Isaac Smith, Jr., William Smith, and Thomas Carter Smith.
The collection consists of loose manuscripts, microfilmed on Reels 1-5, followed by letterbooks, journals, and account books on Reel 6. Included are deeds, invoices, account books, and legal documents pertaining to the estate of Capt. William Smith and Abigail Fowle Smith Edwards; notes, receipts, letters, and accounts kept by Isaac Smith, William Smith, and Thomas Carter Smith detailing the commercial interests of the family; Boston tax bills; deeds to and plans of family property; lists of debts owed and stock on hand; bills of lading; sailing orders; information on insurance rates, prices, and cargoes; and voluminous personal and family correspondence.
Papers related to the loyalist Isaac Smith, Jr. highlight the politics of the Revolutionary era. Correspondence includes letters from Isaac Smith, Jr. during two trips to Great Britain in 1770-1771 and 1775-1783, as well as letters from Isaac Smith, Elizabeth Storer Smith, and Elizabeth Smith Hale documenting the American side of the struggle. The collection also contains the Civil War letters of William V. Smith, the son of Thomas Carter Smith and Frances Barnard Smith, who served as an officer in the 7th United States Colored Infantry Regiment.
Also represented in this collection are members of the Adams, Bernard, Boylston, Carter, Otis, and Pickman families. Included are letters of Abigail Adams, John Adams, and John Quincy Adams.
Other Formats
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Detailed Description of the Collection
I. Loose manuscripts, 1669-1880digital content
The papers in this series have been microfilmed chronologically, with some exceptions. Some items may be out of order.
Reminder: Box 2 spans 1764-1777 and has 18 folders.
Copy of deed and description of property, 24 Feb. 1766, removed to OS Box, Folder 2.
II. Bound volumes, 1709-1811
The volumes in this series have been microfilmed chronologically, with some exceptions. Some items may be out of order.
Chronological List of Items
This list contains all of the documents in the Smith-Carter family papers. With a few exceptions (including the bound volumes on Reel 6), the items in this collection have been microfilmed in chronological order. See the Detailed Description of the Collection above for reel numbers.
NOTE: Items do not necessarily appear on the microfilm in the exact order listed below. General dates may have been filmed at the end of the year (for example, 1798 after 31 Dec. 1798), and multiple items with the same date may be out of order. For help locating items on the microfilm, consult a reference librarian.
1669-1772
Deed of sale from John Cole to Thomas Smith for land at Charlestown, 29 Mar. 1669 [manuscript copy]
Signed by James Cary and James Treadway.
Mortgage from Thomas Smith to John Richards, 11 Dec. 1669
Signed by Joseph Browne.
Deed of trust from Thomas Smith to John Chinery and Thomas Boylston, 27 Mar. 1671
Signed by Thomas Danforth, Jr. and Joseph Whiting.
Will of John Smith of Boston, 23 Sep. 1673 [copy]
Will of Nathaniel Woodward, 29 Sep. 1675 [copy]
Account by [Thomas Smith] for a voyage to the East Indies, 20 Oct. 1676
Deed from Thomas Brattle to John Foskett, 29 Mar. 1678
Deed of trust of Thomas Smith, 20 June 1679
Will of Henry Bright, 25 June 1680 [copy]
Will of [George Fowle], 11 Mar. 1682
Record of the finding of the Boston Court of Assistants in the reversal of the suit brought by Jeremiah Tay against Thomas and Rachel Harwood, 1 Mar. 1692 [copy]
Will of Thomas Smith, 24 Feb. 1696 [copy]
Deed from Anna Ruggles to Isaac Fowle, 6 Dec. 1699
Signed by William Sheaff.
Bond of Sarah Smith, 10 July 1701
Signed by Richard Boylston, Nathaniel Dowse, Isaac Fowle, and Isaac Fowle, Jr. Capt. William Smith, power of attorney.
Bill of sale from John Devin to Capt. William Smith for 1/8 part of the ship Dragon, 11 July 1701
Signed by Edward Larkin and Thomas Wasse.
Deed from John Newell to Capt. William Smith for land at Charlestown, 22 May 1703
Signed by Hannah Newell, Thomas Lord, and Nathaniel Dowse.
Writ of attachment of Jeremiah Tay, 20 June 1704
Promissory note of John Williams of Boston, 27 Sep. 1705
Bill of sale from Job Randall (Scituate) to Capt. William Smith for the brigantine Abigail and Elizabeth, 28 Nov. 1707
Signed by John Johnston and Edward Weaver.
Account book of Capt. William Smith, 1709-1718, with added entries by Abigail Fowle Smith Edwards for 1734-1739 and by Isaac Smith for 1756-1757
Deed of sale from Elisha Odlin (Boston) to Isaac Fowle for the Stoney Brook mill, 12 Feb. 1709
Signed by Peter Thomas.
Deed of sale from Caleb Gardner (Brookline) to Capt. William Smith for land at Charlestown, 1 May 1710
Signed by Theophilus Juory, Caleb Call, and Abiel Gardner.
Deed of sale from Anna Adams to Isaac Fowle for land at Charlestown, 28 Apr. 1711
Signed by Calvin Galpin and Joshua Scottow.
Copy in Photostat Collection.
Receipt from John Fowle (Charlestown) to Capt. William Smith for payment of his debt to John Fowle's estate, 23 Oct. 1711
Extract from deeds of Boston land sold to Isaiah Tay and Paul Dudley, 1 Nov. 1711
Power of attorney from Joseph White (Boston) to Capt. William Smith related to his interest in the brigantine Abigail and Sarah, 11 Nov. 1712
Signed by Robert Learmond and Seth Sweetser.
Deed of sale from John Wadsworth (Duxbury) to Capt. William Smith for part interest in the brigantine Abigail and Sarah, 12 Dec. 1712
Signed by Edward Gray and John Green.
Record of the Massachusetts General Court order related to the petition of Mercy Tay to sell her property, 27 May 1713 [copy]
Mortgage from Mercy Tay to William Clarke, 26 Aug. 1713 [copy]
Letter from Thomas Smith (Carolina) to Capt. William Smith about his grandmother's estate, 5 Mar. 1714
Account of freight shipped in the Charlestown Galley from Nevis, May 1714
Bill from Matthew Johnson to Samuel Trumbull, 8 June 1714
Invoice of Capt. William Smith for cargo shipped in the Charlestown Galley to Nevis, July 1714
Bill from Matthew Johnson to Samuel Trumbull, Aug.-Dec. 1714
Account of Capt. William Smith with [Samuel Trumbull] for goods delivered by Capt. Ely, [1714]
Account of Capt. William Smith with Samuel Trumbull for 1712-1715, 7 Feb. 1715
Bond from Capt. William Smith (Charlestown) to Jeremiah Allen on the bottom of the ship Charlestown Galley for the voyage to Nevis and return, 8 Feb. 1715
Signed by James Gooch, Jr. and John Gooch.
Bond from Capt. William Smith (Charlestown) to Charles Chambers, 15 Feb. 1715
Signed by Daniel Russell and Rebecca Russell.
Release from Thomas Smith (St. James Parish, Calif.) to Capt. William Smith of the rights to his grandfather's estate, with page of memoranda related to witnesses and its execution, 12 Mar. 1715
Deed from Thomas Smith to Capt. William Smith, 12 Mar. 1715
Signed by Francis Holmes, Abraham Wakeham, and John Webster.
Bill of lading for a shipment of sugar by Capt. William Smith in the ship Welfare from Nevis to London, 30 Apr. 1715
Clearance papers of the ship Charlestown Galley, issued by Daniel Smith at Nevis, 16 May 1715
Memo of the account of Capt. William Smith with Thomas Washington, 11 June 1715
Deed from Henry Phillips to Capt. William Smith, 5 Dec. 1715
Signed by Benjamin Bunker and John Phillips.
Deed from Vincent Carter to Capt. William Smith, 6 Dec. 1715
Signed by Joseph Phipps and Samuel Burr.
Bond from Capt. William Smith to Benjamin Stevens, 30 Dec. 1715
Signed by John Edmands and Josiah Treadway.
Account of Capt. William Smith with the estate of Thomas Washington, 1716
Letter from John Hoffman [Huffman] (Nevis) to Capt. William Smith about part interest in a shipping venture, 20 Mar. 1716
Receipt from Daniel Russell (Charlestown) to Capt. William Smith for payment for a pew in First Church, Charlestown, Mass., 24 Sep. 1716
Copy in Photostat Collection.
Bill of lading from Maximillian Dowse (Charlestown) for shipment by Capt. William Smith on the brigantine Esther to Nevis, 20 Dec. 1716
Copy in Photostat Collection.
Elegy written on the death of the Pretender Perkin, 1717
Possibly filmed with undated material.
Bill of sale from John Taylor (Charlestown) to Capt. William Smith for the ship Charlestown Galley, 15 Jan. 1717
Signed by Thomas Chapman.
Deed from Nathaniel Heaton to Capt. William Smith, 19 July 1717
Signed by Susanna Heaton, Joseph Lynde, and Benjamin Dowse, Jr.
Deed from Thomas White to Capt. William Smith, 4 Nov. 1717
Signed by Joseph Stimson [Stimpson].
Record of the birth of George Fowle's son Isaac, 4 Dec. 1717 [copy]
Will of Isaac Fowle, 4 Dec. 1717 [copy]
Letter from Thomas Smith (South Carolina) to Capt. William Smith about the smallpox and pirate raids in South Carolina, 1 July 1718
Letter from Edmund and John Knight (Boston) to Capt. William Smith about shipment on the Charlestown Galley for Nevis, with invoice and bill of lading, 16 Dec. 1718
Deed from Isaiah Tay, Jr. to Richard Pullen, 10 Jan. 1719
Signed by Samuel Tyley, Jr. and Isaiah Tay, Sr.
Receipt from George Meriwether (Nevis) to Capt. William Smith on behalf of Thomas and Mary Washington, 24 Apr. 1719
Receipt from Daniel Alford to Capt. William Smith, 1 July 1719
Receipt from Charles Apthorp to Capt. William Smith, 19 Oct. 1719
Summons from Charles Chambers (Charlestown) to Capt. William Smith to appear in Middlesex County Court to answer the charges of Samuel Whittemore, with copy of Smith's case in answer, 2 Aug. 1720
Signed by Charles Chambers.
Summons of Samuel Whittemore to appear in Middlesex County Court to answer the suit brought by Capt. William Smith, with writ of attachment, 16 Aug. 1720
Account book of [Capt. William Smith], 1721-1730
Deed from Alford Butler to Richard Pullen, 13 Mar. 1721 [copy]
Invitation to Hull Abbot's ordination at First Church, Charlestown, Mass., 22 Jan. 1724
Letter from Thomas Smith (South Carolina) to Rev. William Smith about sending his son for a visit to Charlestown, 3 Feb. 1724
Letter from William Griffin (Nevis) to [Capt.] William Smith on business matters, 2 June 1724
Bill of lading for the ship Friendship, [1725]
Receipt from Ebenezer Breed (Charlestown) to Rev. William Smith for payment for salt, 24 May 1725
Account of Samuel Prescott with [Capt. William Smith], 1726
Letter from James Aiken (St. Christophers) to [Capt.] William Smith on business matters and about the ship Cambridge, 13 July 1726
Copy in Photostat Collection.
Invoice of Capt. William Smith for a cargo of fish shipped on the brigantine Success, 26 Dec. 1726
Receipt from Edward Bromfield, Jr. (Boston) to Rev. William Smith, 24 Mar. 1727
Thanksgiving sermon preached by [Seth Storer] at First Church, Watertown, Mass., 7 Nov. 1728
Letter of condolence from Isaac Watts to Mrs. Mather on the death of her children, 7 Nov. 1728
Bill from Ebenezer Austin (Charlestown) to Capt. William Smith, 17 Oct. 1729
Deed from Rachel Proctor to John Edwards, goldsmith, 15 Apr. 1731
Signed by James Pitson and George Monk.
Letter of administration from Jonathan Remington to Abigail Fowle Smith Edwards and Rev. William Smith for the settlement of Capt. William Smith's estate, 14 May 1731
Copy in Photostat Collection.
Administrators' account of the settlement of the estate of Capt. William Smith, 1732
Inventory of the real estate and personal property of Capt. William Smith, with administrators' disbursements, Jan. 1732
Inventory of the estate of Capt. William Smith, 10 Jan. 1732
Attested by Daniel Frothingham and others.
Account related to the appraisal and division of the estate of Capt. William Smith, [June 1733]
Appraisal and division of the estate of Capt. William Smith, 6 June 1733 [2 complete copies and one incomplete copy]
Beneficiaries include Samuel Frothingham, Anna Smith Kent, William Willis, Rev. William Smith, Sarah Smith Edwards, Samuel Brooks, Samuel Webb, Simon Tufts, Mary Smith Austin, Abigail Smith Tufts, and John Sprague.
Letter from Joseph Green (Boston) to Benjamin Pollard, 7 June 1733
Promissory note from Rev. William Smith (Charlestown) to Abigail Fowle Smith Edwards, 23 Jan. 1734
Poem: Answer by [Joseph Green] to Belcher's speech to the New Hampshire legislature, 27 Jan. 1734 [unsigned]
Poem: "Governor Belcher's Answer to an Answer of the House of Representatives of New Hampshire in Verse," by [Joseph Green], Feb. 1734
Poem: "A True and Impartial Account of the Celebration of the Prince of Orange's Nuptials at Portsmouth," by [Joseph Green], 3 June 1734
Account book kept by Abigail Fowle Smith Edwards containing funeral and other expenses related to the estate of Beriah Bright Fowle, July-Nov. 1734
Will of Beriah Bright Fowle, 16 Aug. 1734
Inventory of the estate of Beriah Bright Fowle, 29 Nov. 1734
See Jan. 1735.
Account of Abigail Fowle Smith Edwards with Joshua Scottow for 1733-1734, Nov. 1734
List of china and kitchen utensils belonging to the estate of Capt. William Smith, 1734
Record of the division of household goods belonging to the estate of Capt. William Smith, with memorandum by [Samuel Edwards] of Sarah Smith Edwards's portion, [1735]
Administrators' account of the disposition of the estate of Capt. William Smith, 1735-1736
Inventory of the estate of Beriah Bright Fowle, 29 Nov. 1734
NOTE: This item was previously misdated Jan. 1735 and microfilmed under that date.
Bill from Abigail Fowle Smith Edwards to the Beriah Bright Fowle estate, 24 Feb. 1735
Inventory and administrators' account of the estate of Capt. William Smith, 1731-1735
Administrators' account of the disposition of the estate of Capt. William Smith, with receipt from Rev. William Smith (Charlestown) for settlement, 1736
Letter from Benjamin Smith (South Carolina) to Rev. William Smith, 5 Feb. 1736
Memorandum by [Thomas] Hancock of a financial transaction with William Peck, Jan. 1737
Articles of association and list of 1737 members of a religious society in Charlestown, Mass., formed in 1703 to hold weekly prayer meetings and dissolved in 1737, 1703-1737
Probably copied by Isaac Smith.
Account book of Abigail Fowle Smith Edwards, 1738-1742
Memoranda by Isaac Smith on sermons heard, Boston, Mass., 1739-1740
Possibly filmed with undated material.
Poem: "A Supplement to Tom Kilby's Drollery," [1740]
Boston tax bill of Isaac Smith, 1740
Account book of Isaac Smith, 1740-1755
Letterbook of Isaac Smith, 30 Jan. 1740-14 Mar. 1744
Bond from Hezekiah Blanchard (Boston) to Abigail Fowle Smith Edwards, 5 Feb. 1740
Signed by Samuel Edwards.
Annual account of the assets and debits of Isaac Smith, 24 July 1740-1743
Boston tax bill of Isaac Smith, 1741
Account book of Isaac Smith, 1741-1744
Diary of Isaac Smith of a trip to Rhode Island and Connecticut with Rev. Gilbert Tennent, 7 Mar.-4 [Apr.] 1741
Diary of [Isaac Smith] of church attendance, with memoranda of ministers and sermons preached, 13 Aug. 1741-7 Jan. 1742
"A solemn covenant between the Holy Ghost and my own soul," by Isaac Smith, 12 Nov. 1741
Boston tax bill of Isaac Smith, 1742
Diary of [Isaac Smith] of church attendance, with memoranda of ministers and sermons preached, mainly at Charlestown, Mass., 8 Jan.-4 Apr. 1742
Diary of [Isaac Smith] of church attendance, with memoranda of ministers and sermons preached at Charlestown and Boston, 5 Apr.-12 Sep. 1742
Bill from Richard Miller to Capt. Kent and Mr. Edwards for lumber and services, Sep. 1742
Bill from Richard Miller to Capt. Kent and others for work done on his house, 13 Sep. 1742
Diary of [Isaac Smith] of church attendance, with memoranda of ministers and sermons preached, mainly at Charlestown, Mass., 13 Sep. [1742]-[Apr. 1743]
Discourse on John Moorehead "to be communicated to the public," by [Isaac Fowle], 30 Dec. 1742
Funeral list of the Smith family headed by Rev. Cooper, [1743]
Boston tax bill of Isaac Smith, 1743
Account of Mary Smith Austin with Isaac Smith, 1743-1745
Diary of [Isaac Smith] of church attendance, with memoranda of ministers and sermons preached at Charlestown and Boston, 1 May [1743]-1 Apr. [1744]
Boston tax bill of Isaac Smith, with special assessment for completion of the North Battery, 1744
Account book of Isaac Smith, 1744-1746
Account of debts owed to Isaac Smith, 1744-1748
Boston tax bill of Isaac Smith, 1745
Account of the estate of Ebenezer Austin with Isaac Smith for 1743-1745, 10 Feb. 1745
Boston tax bill of Isaac Smith, 1746
Account book of Isaac Smith, 1746-1747
Quitclaim deed from John Edwards to Samuel Edwards, 13 Sep. 1746
Signed by Daniel Parker and John Coburn.
Copy in Photostat Collection.
List of Smith family births, 9 Oct. 1746
Boston tax bill of Isaac Smith, 1747
Boston tax bill of Isaac Smith, 1748
Letter from Sarah Floyd (Medford) to Abigail Fowle Smith Edwards about accusations against her servant, 11 Apr. 1748
Boston tax bill of Isaac Smith, 1749
Letter from Francis Ayscough to Jonathan Belcher about John Sergeant's Native American mission, 10 Feb. 1749 [copy]
Receipt from Samuel Edwards for Abigail Fowle Smith Edwards's account, [175-]
Poem: "To V.D.," [1750]
Boston tax bill of Isaac Smith, 1750
Poem: Verses to N.D., 26 July 1750
Boston tax bill of Isaac Smith, 1751
Epitaph by Malachi Gill for his wife, 18 Oct. 1751
Boston tax bill of Isaac Smith, 1752
Boston tax bill of Isaac Smith, 1753
Warrant for the appearance of Silvenus Scott in the Suffolk Court complaint against his forbidding the banns of Joseph Scott and Lucy Brown, Jan. 1753
List of stock of Isaac Smith on hand, 1 May 1753
Boston tax bill of Isaac Smith, 1754
Account of Abigail Fowle Smith Edwards with Ebenezer Storer and Son for 1739-1754, 12 Apr. 1754
Boston tax bill of Isaac Smith, 1755
Province tax bill of Isaac Smith for property at Boston, with special assessment for the Crown Point expedition, 1755
List of debts owed to Isaac Smith, 1 May 1755
List of stock of Isaac Smith on hand, 1 May 1755
Will of Abigail [Fowle Smith] Edwards, 11 June 1755 [2 copies]
Boston tax bill of Isaac Smith, 1756
Boston tax bill of Isaac Smith, 1757
Memorandum book of Isaac Smith, with record of the formation and members of a "company for promoting good order (and religion)" in Nov. 1761, 1757-1763
Members include Andrew Eliot, Thomas Cushing, Joseph Jackson, Joshua Henshaw, Thomas Hubbard, John Phillips, Samuel Cooper, John Barrell, Benjamin Austin, Joseph Sewall, Ebenezer Storer, and Isaac Walker.
Directions from John Ruddock to Isaac Smith to discharge his Boston tax bill by payment to his son, 3 June 1757
Boston tax bill of Isaac Smith, 1758
Boston tax bill of Isaac Smith for the province, town, and county rate, 1758
Commonplace book kept by Isaac Smith, Jr., 1758-1763
Account of Abigail Fowle Smith Edwards with Ebenezer Storer and Son for bond interest payments, 28 Jan. 1758
Letter from Hezekiah Ward (Upton) to Richard Dana about lands at Charlemont, Mass., 15 Dec. 1758
Deed from Thomas Stearns to Isaac Smith, 19 Dec. 1758
Boston tax bill of Isaac Smith, 1759
Letter from Edward Pynchon (Springfield) to Isaac Smith about recording his deed for lands at Charlemont, Mass., bought from Thomas Stearns, 28 Feb. 1759
School exercise: Copy of verse by Isaac Smith, Jr., 20 June 1759
Account of Abigail Fowle Smith Edwards with Ebenezer Storer and Son, 28 July 1759
Articles of faith by Isaac Smith, Jr., 11 Nov. 1759
Deed from Thomas Flucker to Isaac Smith for land at Boston, with plot map and description, 8 Dec. 1759
Signed by Lydia Francis.
Harvard declamation by Thomas Abbot, [176-]
Deposition written by Samuel C. Trumbull for Abigail Fowle Smith Edwards regarding the distribution of her estate, [1760]
Funeral list of Abigail Fowle Smith Edwards, 1760
Boston tax bill of Isaac Smith, 1760
Executor's receipt book kept by Samuel Edwards and Isaac Smith containing records related to Abigail Fowle Smith Edwards's estate, 1760-1761
Bill from James Clark to Samuel Edwards and Isaac Smith for services related to the burial of Abigail Fowle Smith Edwards, 15 Jan. 1760
Court order regarding the distribution of real estate in the estate of Capt. William Smith, 25 Aug. 1760
Account of Rev. William Smith as administrator of the estate of Capt. William Smith, 10 Oct. 1760
Receipt from [Rev. William Smith] to the administrators of Abigail Fowle Smith Edwards's estate for articles distributed to him and members of his family, including Abigail Adams, [1761] [on reverse side, account of a trading voyage, 20 Oct. 1676]
Boston tax bill of Isaac Smith, with special assessment for streets, 1761
Inventory and appraisal by William Fairfield of Joshua Thornton's estate, 3 June 1761 [copy]
Articles of faith of Isaac Smith, Jr., 17 July 1761
Accounts and records of the distribution of Abigail Fowle Smith Edwards's estate, 13 Sep. 1761
Account of the estate of Abigail Fowle Smith Edwards with Isaac Smith, 18 Sep. 1761
Deed from James Pitts to Samuel Edwards, 6 Oct. 1761
Signed by William Pitts and James Pitts, Jr.
Receipt from Samuel Edwards (Boston) to Anna Smith Kent for payment equalizing her inheritance from Abigail Fowle Smith Edwards's estate, 9 Nov. 1761
Boston tax bill of Isaac Smith, 1762
Account of Ebenezer Storer related to the settlement of his estate, 1762-1771
Letter from Abigail [Adams] (Weymouth) to Isaac Smith, Jr. about gaining knowledge and writing letters, 7 Feb. 1762
Letter from Thomas Smith (Charleston) to Isaac Smith about retiring from business and family news, 17 Apr. 1762
Inventory and accounts related to the estate of Samuel Edwards, goldsmith, June 1762-1778
Survey by Gershom Flagg and William Crafts of the property of Isaac Smith, [1763]
Record by [Ebenezer Storer, Jr.] of accounts related to the estate of Ebenezer Storer, [1763]
Boston tax bill of Isaac Smith, 1763
Letter from Thomas Smith (Charleston) to Isaac Smith about market prices at Charleston, trade with New England, and family news, 31 Jan. 1763
Report from Gershom Flagg and William Crafts (Boston), on behalf of William Hislop, to Isaac Smith about the amount of Smith land to be conveyed, 10 Sep. 1763
Letter from Elizabeth Storer Smith (Boston) to Isaac Smith, Jr. with parental advice, 18 Nov. 1763
Boston tax bill of Isaac Smith, 1764
Letter from Benjamin Smith (Charleston) to Isaac Smith about South Carolina markets, 21 Jan. 1764
Notes on sermons by Rev. [Samuel] Cooper, Rev. Elliot, and Rev. Chauncy, 12 Apr.-17 June 1764
Letter from Thomas Smith (Charleston) to Isaac Smith about his family, with the ages of his children, 17 May 1764
Letter from Benjamin Smith (Charleston) to Isaac Smith about news from England and inviting his son to visit, 24 May 1764
Letter from Thomas Smith (Charleston) to Isaac Smith introducing Benjamin Elliott, 31 May 1764
Letter from Benjamin Smith (Charleston) to Isaac Smith introducing Adam Daniel, 20 July 1764
Notice of Prof. John Winthrop's remission of Isaac Smith, Jr.'s punishment for failing to attend class, [Sep.-Dec.] 1764
Harvard College steward's bill from Jonathan Hastings to Isaac Smith, Jr., 14 Sep. 1764
Bill from Nathaniel Appleton for Isaac Smith, Jr.'s board, etc., 20 Oct. 1764
Account of Abigail Fowle Smith Edwards with Ebenezer Kent in the settlement of her estate, 28 Nov. 1764
Harvard College steward's bill from Jonathan Hastings to Isaac Smith, Jr., 14 Dec. 1764
Account of the estate of Samuel Edwards with Isaac Smith, 1765
Boston tax bill of Isaac Smith, 1765
Account of Samuel Edwards with Isaac Smith submitted to his estate for settlement, 1765
Letter from Benjamin Smith (Charleston) to Isaac Smith introducing Robert Quash, 3 June 1765
Letter from Thomas Smith (Charleston) to Isaac Smith introducing Rev. Sergeant, 5 June 1765
Letter from Nathaniel Walker Appleton, Benning Wentworth, and William Smith (Boston) about the "S. G. School," 18 Aug. [1765]
Copied by Isaac Smith, Jr.
Memorandum by Isaac Smith of cash in his hands belonging to the estate of Samuel Edwards, 20 Sep. 1765
School composition book of William Smith, [1766]
Catalog by Isaac Smith, Jr. of books in different languages, arts, and sciences, 1766
School exercise writing book of William Smith, 1766
Boston tax bill of Isaac Smith, 1766
Letter from Thomas Smith (Charleston) to William Smith about receiving a plantation by a bequest of Peter Taylor, 20 Feb. 1766
Deed from Charlestown, Mass., committee to Nathaniel Austin for town land, 24 Feb. 1766
Signed by John Soley, Samuel Kent, Richard Devens, David Cheever, Peter Tufts, Jr., and Edward Sheaffe.
Letter from Benjamin Smith (Charleston) to William Smith about the repeal of the Stamp Act and family news, 16 May 1766
Harvard College steward's bill from Jonathan Hastings to Isaac Smith, Jr., 12 Sep. 1766
Letter from Isaac Smith, Jr. (Cambridge) to Betty [likely sister Elizabeth Smith Hale] about writing letters, 20 Sep. [1766]
Boston tax bill of Isaac Smith, 1767
School exercise writing book of William Smith, 1767-1768
Letter from Isaac Smith, Jr. (Cambridge) to Isaac Smith about his career, 13 Jan. 1767
Deed from Nathaniel Austin to Mary Smith Austin, 1 May 1767
Signed by Isaac Rand and Jane Rand.
Bill from William Turner to Isaac Smith for Boston school tuition, 14 Dec. 1767
Boston tax bill of Isaac Smith, 1768
Bill from John Proctor to Isaac Smith for Boston school tuition, 1 Sep. 1768
Bill from John Singleton Copley to Isaac Smith for his and Elizabeth Storer Smith's portraits, 1769
Boston tax bill of Isaac Smith, 1769
Bill from John Proctor to Isaac Smith for Boston school tuition, 10 Apr. 1769
Letter from Simon Tufts, Jr. (Gloucester) to Isaac Smith, Jr. about a voyage with Capt. Kent on the Elizabeth to improve his health, 19 June 1769
Bill from Mary Nicolson to Isaac Smith, 19 Aug. 1769
Letter from Benjamin Smith (Charleston) to Isaac Smith about market prices in Charleston, 12 Dec. 1769
Letter from Isaac Smith (Boston) to Isaac Smith, Jr. about arrangements for his trip to England, 30 Dec. 1769
Account of receipts by [Isaac Smith] for a subscription for [Peter] Thacher, [177-]
Excerpts from The Boston Gazette, 1 Jan. 1770
Copied by [William Smith].
Letter from Mary [Storer] Green (Boston) to Isaac Smith, Jr. with advice for his conduct while in South Carolina, 3 Jan. 1770
Letter from Isaac Smith (Boston) to Messrs. Champion and Dickason introducing Isaac Smith, Jr., 6 Jan. 1770
Letter from Isaac Smith (Boston) to Isaac Smith, Jr. with instructions and advice for his trip to England, 23 Jan. 1770
Letter from [Samuel Barrett] (Boston) to Isaac Smith, Jr. about things to see in England, 23 Jan. 1770
Letter from Isaac Smith, Jr. (Charleston) to Isaac Smith about his trip to Charleston, 3 Feb. 1770
Letter from Josiah Smith (Charleston) to Rev. William Smith, 3 Mar. 1770
Bill from Stephen Deblois (Boston) to Isaac Smith for Mary Smith Gray Otis's spinet lessons, 22 May 1770
Letter from Charles Bardin (Newport) about Col. Benjamin Smith's illness, 13 July 1770
Letter from John Mackenzie (Charleston) about the controversy with Britain and about Gov. Bernard leaving Massachusetts, 27 July 1770
Letter from Thomas Smith (Charleston) to Isaac Smith, Jr. about his activities at Charleston, 1 Aug. 1770
Letter from Thomas Smith (Charleston) to Isaac Smith about family news, 2 Aug. 1770
Bill from Stephen Deblois (Boston) to Isaac Smith for Mary Smith Gray Otis's spinet lessons, 14 Aug. 1770
Letter from Thomas Smith (Charleston) to Isaac Smith about his brother Benjamin's death, 20 Aug. 1770
Letter from Nathaniel W. Appleton (Cambridge) to William Smith about the advantages of correspondence, 24 Sep. 1770
Letter from Isaac Smith (Boston) to Isaac Smith, Jr. advising him of the best contacts in London and Spain should he need them, 16 Nov. 1770
Letter from Nathaniel W. Appleton (Cambridge) to William Smith about choosing friends, 17 Nov. 1770
Letter from Arthur Hesilrige (Easton Lodge) to William Smith describing his tour of London, 27 Dec. 1770
Letter from Isaac Smith, Jr. (London) to Isaac Smith about London's interest in the Boston Massacre, 31 Dec. 1770
Letter from Thomas Bernard to Isaac Smith, Jr. about plans for their trip to the continent, [1771]
Latin translation by William Smith of Aesop's fable of the raven and the fox, 1771
Boston tax bill of Isaac Smith, 1771
Letter from Isaac Smith (Boston) to Isaac Smith, Jr. with advice about going to France and Holland, 18 Jan. 1771
Letter from Elizabeth Storer Smith (Boston) to Isaac Smith, Jr. urging him to write news of his trip to England, 23 Jan. 1771
Letter from Isaac Smith, Jr. (London) to Elizabeth Storer Smith about his living arrangements and activities in London, 6 Feb. 1771
Letter from Isaac Smith, Jr. (London) to William Smith describing the English cities he has visited, 7 Feb. 1771
Letter from Isaac Smith, Jr. (London) to Mary Smith Gray Otis describing his activities at London, 14 Feb. 1771
Letter from Isaac Smith, Jr. (London) to Isaac Smith about British foreign affairs and his activities at London, 20 Feb. 1771
Letter from Peter Stevenson (Charleston) to Isaac Smith, Jr. about his difficult voyage to Charleston and plans for the future, 22 Feb. 1771
Letter from Thomas Bernard (Hampstead) to Isaac Smith, Jr. about plans for their trip to Paris, 28 Feb. 1771
Letter from Isaac Smith (Boston) to Isaac Smith, Jr. with family news, 28 Feb. 1771
Letter from Isaac Smith, Jr. (London) to Isaac Smith listing gifts he has sent home, 4 Mar. 1771
Letter from Isaac Smith, Jr. (London) to Mary Smith Gray Otis describing an assembly given by Mrs. Cornelys, 27 Mar. 1771
Letter from Isaac Smith, Jr. (Bristol) to William Smith [which? brother?] about an oratorio at the British Museum in London, 4 Apr. 1771
Letter from Nathaniel W. Appleton (Cambridge) to William Smith describing Harvard exercises and the aftermath of a rowdy party, 4 Apr. 1771
Letter from John Adams (Boston) to Isaac Smith, Jr. about a permanent contract with a London bookseller to buy law books, etc., with postscript about the trial of Capt. Preston, 11 Apr. 1771
Letter from Cotton Tufts (Weymouth) to Isaac Smith, Jr. about the prospect of British troops in Boston, Dr. Hersey's bequest to Harvard, and family news, 19 Apr. 1771
Deed of sale from Archelas Adams (Salisbury) to Nathaniel Carter for land at Newburyport, 30 Apr. 1771
Letter from Isaac Smith, Jr. (London) to Isaac Smith about his trip to Exeter and Plymouth and naval refitting there, 2 May 1771
Letter from Isaac Smith, Jr. (London) to Elizabeth Storer Smith describing a trip to Bath, 13 May 1771
Letter from Elizabeth Storer Smith (Boston) to Isaac Smith, Jr. with parental advice and requesting him to buy a china tea service for her in London, 18 May 1771
Letter from Sampson S. Blowers (Boston) to Isaac Smith, Jr. with news of Boston, 23 May 1771
Letter from Isaac Smith (Boston) to Isaac Smith, Jr. with family news and parental advice, 14 June 1771
Letter from Isaac Smith, Jr. (Lisle) to William Smith describing his trip to France, 6 July 1771
Letter from Arthur Hesilrige (Chiswick) to William Smith, 7 July 1771
Letter from Isaac Smith, Jr. (Paris) to Isaac Smith describing his tour of Paris, 15 July 1771
Letter from Isaac Smith, Jr. (Paris) to his sister about the appearance of the Parisians, 4 Aug. [1771]
Letter from Isaac Smith (Boston) to Isaac Smith, Jr. about ending his visit to London, 9 Aug. 1771
Letter from Isaac Smith, Jr. (Paris) to Isaac Smith about his visit to Paris and the prospect of returning home, 12 Aug. [1771]
Account book of William Smith kept while he was an undergraduate at Harvard, 1771-1773, 13 Aug. 1771
Letter from Isaac Smith, Jr. (London) to Isaac Smith about his return trip from Paris and plans for his return home, 29 Aug. 1771
Letter from John Boylston (London) to Isaac Smith, 29 Sep. 1771
Letter from Isaac Smith (Boston) to Isaac Smith, Jr. with parental advice, 1 Nov. 1771
Boston tax bill of Isaac Smith, 1772
Account of Isaac Smith with Ebenezer Storer for books and household items, 10 Jan. 1772
Letter from Katharine Forbes (London) to Isaac Smith, Jr. with news about his boarding house in London, 13 Jan. 1772
Account of Isaac Smith with Ebenezer Storer for books and household items, 13 Jan. 1772
Letter from John Boylston (London) to Isaac Smith, Jr. with his opinion on the British reason for maintaining troops at Boston, 3 Apr. 1772
Letter from Thomas Smith (Charleston) to Isaac Smith, Jr. about his nephew Thomas Smith's inheritance, 11 Apr. 1772
Letter from Thomas Smith (Charleston) to Isaac Smith about his son Thomas Loughton Smith's visit to Boston, 11 Apr. 1772
Letter from Thomas Smith (Charleston) to Isaac Smith on business matters and family news, 11 Apr. 1772
Bill from hairdresser John Piemont to Isaac Smith, May 1772
Receipt from John Hancock to Isaac Smith for his subscription for building the new Brattle Street Church, 29 July 1772
Letter from Thomas Amory (London) to Isaac Smith, Jr. on ecclesiastical matters, 18 Sep. 1772
Promissory note from Philemon Prescott (Kingston) to John Noyes, 30 Oct. 1772
Bill from John Harris (Boston) to Isaac Smith for a spinet, 31 Oct. 1772
1773-1786
Boston tax bill of Isaac Smith, 1773
Bill from Eleanor Druitt to Isaac Smith for teaching Miss Smith needlework and drawing, 8 Mar. 1773
Bill from Theodore Dehon (Boston) to Isaac Smith for hairdressing, 19 Mar. 1773
Letter from Thomas Smith (Charleston) to Isaac Smith about the market price of hemp and enslaved people and about Mr. Quincy's visit, 29 Mar. 1773
Bill from Isaac Foster, Jr. to Isaac Smith, 8 July 1773
Deed of sale from Timothy Newell (Boston) to Isaac Smith for a pew in Brattle Street Church, 24 July 1773
Bill from Samuel Hastings (Cambridge) to Isaac Smith, Jr. for transportation hire, 1 Jan. 1774
Harvard College steward's bill from Jonathan Hastings to Isaac Smith, Jr., 5 Jan. 1774
Letter from Thomas Bernard (London) to Isaac Smith, Jr. about literary rights and British indignation over American defiance, 12 Feb. 1774
Letter from Nathaniel W. Appleton (Salem) to William Smith about the British incident at Salem, 4 Mar. 1774
Letter from Nathaniel P. Sargeant (Ipswich) to Isaac Smith, Jr. about the church at Ipswich, 23 June 1774
Letter from Thomas Smith (Charleston) to Isaac Smith on business matters, 28 Sep. 1774
Letter from Thomas Smith (Charleston) to Isaac Smith about settling finances between them, 26 Nov. 1774
Account of Mary Storer's estate by Ebenezer Storer, administrator, submitted for probate, 28 Dec. 1774
Salem, Mass., tax bills of Isaac Smith, 1775-1777
Receipt from Sarah Smith Edwards (Boston) to Isaac Smith for money due in the settlement of Samuel Edwards's estate, 16 Jan. 1775
Letter from Nathaniel W. Appleton (Salem) to William Smith about friction at Marblehead, Mass., between the townspeople and British naval authorities, 7 Feb. 1775
Inventory of sundries of the Samuel Edwards estate delivered to executors, 13 Feb. 1775
Inventory of the Sarah Smith Edwards estate, 16 Feb. 1775
Letter from Nathaniel W. Appleton (Salem) to William Smith chiding him for coming to Marblehead without seeing him, with notation by [William Smith] on the publication of Pickering's book on exercises for the militia, 17 Feb. 1775
Receipts by members of the Smith family for disbursements of Samuel Edwards's estate by his executors Joseph Edwards and Isaac Smith, Mar.-Apr. 1775
Letter from Thomas Smith (Charleston) to Isaac Smith on business matters, 8 Mar. 1775
Letter from Peter Stevenson (Charleston) to Isaac Smith, Jr. about enforcement of the non-importation agreement and episodes at Charleston, 8 Mar. 1775
Receipt from Harrison Gray for a share of Samuel Edwards's estate, 29 Mar. 1775
Receipt from Elizabeth Cheever to Joseph Edwards and Isaac Smith as executors of the estate of Samuel Edwards, 29 Mar. 1775
Receipt from Ebenezer Storer, Jr. to Joseph Edwards and Isaac Smith as executors of the estate of Samuel Edwards, 1 Apr. 1775
Receipt from Cotton Tufts for Abigail Smith Tufts's share of the estate of Samuel Edwards, 4 Apr. 1775
Inventory of household goods in the Boston house of [Isaac Smith] on his removal to Salem during the occupation of Boston, May 1775
Account of William Browne with Isaac Smith, 12 May 1775
Letter from William Browne [Boston] to [Isaac Smith] about his wine purchase and the disappearance of "Nanny," 26 May 1775
Letter from Andrew Eliot (Boston) to Isaac Smith, Jr. (London) describing events of the battle of Bunker Hill, 19 June 1775 [typescript]
Printed in Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, vol. 16, p. 287.
Letter from Isaac Smith, Jr. (London) to Isaac Smith about his voyage to England and British sympathy for America, 26 June [1775]
Letter from Isaac Smith (Salem) to Isaac Smith, Jr. describing the destruction of Charlestown and the battle of Bunker Hill, 30 June 1775
Letter from Isaac Smith, Jr. (London) to Isaac Smith about British opinion on the American crisis, 27 July 1775
Letter from Isaac Smith, Jr. (London) to Elizabeth Storer Smith expressing his anxiety over the situation in America, 31 July 1775
Letter from Isaac Smith, Jr. (London) to William Smith about the lack of effect of American events on British life, 2 Aug. 1775
Draft of letter from Isaac Smith (Salem) to Alexander Champion accepting the nomination as treasurer of the New England Company, 27 Aug. 1775
Draft of letter from Isaac Smith (Salem) to William Bowden accepting the nomination as treasurer of the New England Company, 27 Aug. 1775
Draft of letter from Isaac Smith (Salem) to Isaac Smith, Jr. about the siege of Boston, etc., with drafts of letters to Alexander Champion and William Bowden, 28 Aug. 1775
Commission of Isaac Smith as justice of the peace, 6 Sep. 1775
Letter from Isaac Smith, Jr. (London) to Isaac Smith about English opinion on the American crisis, 26 Sep. [1775]
Letter from Thomas Bernard (Lincoln, England) to Isaac Smith, Jr. about the American crisis, 27 Sep. 1775
Letter from John Bretland, Jr. (Exeter) to Isaac Smith, Jr. about an opening as minister near Exeter, 29 Sep. 1775
Address of the Massachusetts Council to Gen. Thomas Gage on his departure for Great Britain, with 6 Oct. 1775 address, [Oct. 1775] [copy]
Reply by Thomas Gage to the address of the inhabitants of Boston on his departure for Great Britain, with 6 Oct. 1775 address, [Oct. 1775] [copy]
Letter from [Isaac Smith, Jr.] about the American crisis, 2 Oct. 1775
Letterbook of Isaac Smith, Jr., 2 Oct. 1775-23 June 1787
Address of the inhabitants of Boston to Gen. Gage on his departure for Great Britain, 6 Oct. 1775 [copy]
Letter from Isaac Smith, Jr. to Isaac Smith about the alleged Sayre plot to kidnap the king and efforts to supply the British troops in America, 25 Oct. [1775]
Draft of letter from Elizabeth Storer Smith (Salem) to Isaac Smith, Jr. with family news, 28 Oct. 1775
Letter from Elizabeth Storer Smith (Salem) to Isaac Smith, Jr., 28 Oct. 1775
Letter from Alexander Champion to Isaac Smith about the New England Company's resolves related to the payment of missionaries' salaries, enclosed with 8 Apr. 1777 letter from Alexander Champion to Isaac Smith, 23 Nov. 1775 [copy]
Letter from [Thomas Bernard] to [Isaac Smith, Jr.] about his marriage, [1776]
Letter from Isaac Smith, Jr. (London) to Isaac Smith about British measures to handle the American rebellion, 14 Feb. 1776
Letter from John Bretland, Jr. (Exeter) to Isaac Smith, Jr. about the congregation at Sidmouth, 6 Mar. 1776
Letter from John Bretland, Jr. (Exeter) to Isaac Smith, Jr. about the pros and cons of the ministry at Sidmouth, 16 Mar. 1776
Letter from Isaac Smith, Jr. (London) to Isaac Smith about permission to go to France, 26 Mar. 1776
Account by William Browne of things taken and used while residing at Isaac Smith's house in Boston, Apr. 1776
Letter from Andrew Eliot (Boston) to Isaac Smith, Jr. about the siege of Boston, Harvard College affairs, and burial services for Dr. Joseph Warren, 9 Apr. 1776
Journal of Isaac Smith, Jr. of a trip to Manchester and York, 20 Apr.-1 July 1776
Request to Isaac Smith, Jr. to minister at Sidmouth, 12 May 1776
Letter from Isaac Smith, Jr. (Sidmouth) to Isaac Smith about ministering to a dissenting society at Sidmouth, 10 Sep. 1776
List by Isaac Smith of articles received from the Salem Committee of Safety taken from William Browne's house, replacing those taken from Smith's Boston house at the evacuation of Boston, 8 Oct. 1776
Letter from Nathaniel W. Appleton (Salem) to William Smith about the advantages of travel, 31 Oct. 1776
Account of executors in the settlement of Samuel Edwards's estate, 1777
Letter from Elizabeth [Storer] Smith [Weymouth] to William Smith thanking him for his gift of scarce linen, 1777
Letter from Isaac Smith (Boston) to Isaac Smith, Jr. with war news, 17 Jan. 1777
Letter from Isaac Smith (Boston) to Isaac Smith, Jr. about ships carrying loyalists returning to England, 28 Jan. 1777
Letter from Samuel Cooper (Boston) to Isaac Smith, Jr. about activities and friends at Boston, 5 Feb. 1777
Letter from Nathaniel W. Appleton (Salem) to William Smith about the loyalist minister Rev. William McGilchrist closing his church at Salem, 9 Feb. 1777
Letter from Alexander Champion to Isaac Smith about the payment of missionaries' salaries by the New England Company, enclosing copy of 23 Nov. 1775 letter from Alexander Champion to Isaac Smith about resolves related to payments, 8 Apr. 1777
Bill from William Payne (Boston) to Isaac Smith for his daughter's tuition, 10 Apr. 1777
Letter from Isaac Smith, Jr. (Sidmouth) to Isaac Smith, 28 Apr. 1777
Account of Abigail Fowle Smith Edwards with Samuel Edwards's estate in the settlement of her estate, May 1777
Receipt by Isaac Smith, as executor of the estate of Samuel Edwards, for division of the property to heirs, 6 May 1777
Receipt from Abigail Smith Tufts and others to Isaac Smith, executor of Abigail Fowle Smith Edwards's estate, for disbursement of Samuel Edwards's estate, 21 May 1777
Letter from Abraham Watson (Salem) to Isaac Smith about Col. William Browne's possessions, 16 Sep. 1777
Letter from Isaac Smith (Boston) to Isaac Smith, Jr. with war news and about members of his family, 23 Oct. 1777
Receipt from John Gray (Boston) to Ebenezer Parsons, 30 Oct. 1777
Receipt from Richard Ward (Salem) to Isaac Smith for payment of Salem taxes for 1776, 24 Nov. 1777
Letter from Isaac Smith (Boston) to Isaac Smith, Jr. with family news, 20 Dec. 1777
Office of Baptism and Communion of Isaac Smith, Jr. used in the dissenting church at Sidmouth, [1778]
Boston tax bill of William Smith for the state and county rate, 1778
Account by Isaac Smith of household furniture bought for Mary Smith Gray Otis, 1778
Boston tax bill of Isaac Smith for state and county assessment, 1778
Letter from Isaac Smith, Jr. (Sidmouth) to Isaac Smith about assisting American prisoners in England, 7 Jan. 1778
Letter from Isaac Smith (Boston) to Isaac Smith, Jr. about the Massachusetts Banishment Act, incidents with British troops at Cambridge, the New England Company, and the method of paying missionaries' salaries, 10 Feb. 1778
Letter from John Adams (Passy) to Isaac Smith introducing Sir James Jay and George Digges of the British conciliatory commission and about the state of the American cause in Europe, 19 Apr. 1778
Letter from Jonathan Sewall (Bristol) to Isaac Check Smith, Jr. about the Massachusetts Banishment Act, 9 May 1778
Letter from Samuel Quincy (London) to Isaac Smith, Jr. about the Massachusetts Banishment Act, 19 May 1778
Letter from Thomas Wright (Bristol) to Isaac Smith, Jr. about Smith's ordination, 2 June 1778
Letter from Isaac Smith, Jr. (Sidmouth) to Isaac Smith about his decision to remain in England during the war, 8 June 1778
Certificate of the ordination of Isaac Smith, Jr., 24 June 1778
Letter from Isaac Smith, Jr. (Sidmouth) to Isaac Smith, with copy of 8 June 1778 letter, 29 June 1778
Letter from Thomas Smith (Charleston) to Isaac Smith on business matters, 8 July 1778, with postscript, 6 Mar. 1779
Boston tax bill of William Smith, Aug. 1778
Boston tax bill of Isaac Smith for state and town assessment, Aug. 1778
Warrant from John Lee (Manchester) for the search and detention of the enslaved man Scipio, suspected of stealing goods from Isaac Smith at Gloucester, 9 Oct. 1778
Receipt from Alexander Thomas (Boston) to Humphrey Bray for payment for flour purchased from Giles Alexander, 21 Oct. 1778
Account of Isaac Smith with Mary Wheelwright for food and drink, 21 Oct. 1778
Receipt from James Boyd (Boston) to Isaac Smith for payment of Elizabeth Smith Hale's tuition, 23 Oct. 1778
Bill for tuition at James Boyd's school in Boston, 27 Oct. 1778
Letter from Elizabeth Storer Smith (Boston) to Isaac Smith, Jr., 13 Nov. 1778
Boston tax bill of Isaac Smith, 1779
Receipts for the salary of Samuel Cooper as minister of Brattle Street Church, 1779-1784
Letter from Elizabeth Storer Smith (Boston) to Isaac Smith, Jr., with copy of 13 Nov. 1778 letter from Elizabeth Storer Smith to Isaac Smith, Jr., 2 Jan. 1779
Letter from Isaac Smith (Boston) to Isaac Smith, Jr. about routes for sending letters to England and with news of Boston, 4 Jan. 1779
Account by Isaac Smith of the estate of Samuel Edwards, Mar. 1779
Letter from Isaac Smith, Jr. (Sidmouth) to Isaac Smith about his ordination as a dissenting minister at Sidmouth, 10 Mar. 1779
Letter from Isaac Smith, Jr. (Sidmouth) to Elizabeth Storer Smith about his decision to remain in England until the end of the war, 11 Mar. 1779
Bill of exchange from Moses Gill and Isaac Smith (Boston) on John Boylston in favor of Isaac Smith, Jr., 15 Mar. 1779
Letter from Isaac Smith, Jr. (Sidmouth) to William Smith, 29 Mar. 1779
Agreement of Isaac Smith with his enslaved man Scipio Dalton regarding his freedom, 20 June 1779
Letter from Jonathan Sewall (Bristol) to Isaac Smith, Jr. about the course of the war, 22 June 1779
Letter from Isaac Smith (Boston) to Isaac Smith, Jr. about William Smith's serious illness, 28 July 1779
Bill from James Carter to Isaac Smith for his daughter's tuition, 3 Aug. 1779
Bill from James Carter to Isaac Smith for his daughter's tuition, 5 Aug. 1779
Letter from Isaac Smith (Boston) to Isaac Smith, Jr. about persons to whom he has consigned letters, 9 Aug. 1779
Letter from Mary [Storer] Green (Boston) to her nephew William Smith expressing gratitude for his recovery, 27 Aug. 1779
Letter from Isaac Smith (Boston) to Isaac Smith, Jr. relaying information about the illness of a British prisoner of war from Sidmouth held at Boston, 4 Sep. 1779
Letter from Elizabeth Storer Smith (Boston) to Isaac Smith, Jr., 7 Nov. 1779
Address from Benjamin Edes and the tradesmen, etc., of Boston to merchants about rising prices, 8 Nov. 1779
Reply of John Rowe and Boston merchants to the address of the tradesmen, etc., about rising prices, 16 Nov. 1779
Letter from Isaac Smith, Jr. (Sidmouth) to Isaac Smith, 19 Nov. 1779
Certificate of William Smith as master in the Masonic Order, 14 Dec. 1779
Letter from Daniel Little to Isaac Smith about his trip through Maine distributing religious material and about his missionary work, [178-]
Letter from Samuel A. Otis to Isaac Smith about the sale of his property at Barnstable, [178-]
Letter from Isaac Smith, Jr. (Sidmouth) to Elizabeth Storer Smith about his uncertain future, [1780]
Letter from John Boylston (Bath) to Isaac Smith, Jr. asking him to visit and with news of a vacancy in the pulpit at Bath, 17 Jan. 1780
Letter from Isaac Smith to Isaac Smith, Jr. about John Adams's trip to Europe as peace minister and about family affairs, 18 Jan. 1780
Receipts from members of the Smith and Edwards families to Isaac Smith for disbursement of the residue of Samuel Edwards's estate, 19 Jan.-1 Feb. 1780
Receipt from William D. Cheever to Isaac Smith for disbursement of a portion of Samuel Edwards's estate, 29 Jan. 1780
Notation related to John Edwards's share of the estate of Samuel Edwards, 11 Feb. 1780
Receipts from members of the Smith family related to the settlement of Samuel Edwards's estate by his executor Isaac Smith, 18 Feb. 1780
Letter from Isaac Smith, Jr. (Sidmouth) to Isaac Smith about his visit to John Boylston and his activities in England, 15 Mar. 1780
Letter from John Adams (Paris) to Isaac Smith about communications to him from America, 16 Mar. 1780
Letter from William Gorham (Gorham) to Isaac Smith about selling Eastern lands to John Boylston, 24 Mar. 1780
Draft of letter from Elizabeth Storer Smith to Isaac Smith, Jr. about Edward Gray's death and asking him to send her his miniature, 12 Apr. 1780
Letter from William Gorham (Gorham) to Isaac Smith about arrangements for the sale of Nova Scotia lands to John Boylston, 24 Apr. 1780
Boston tax bill of Isaac Smith, 27 Apr. 1780
Bill from James Carter to Isaac Smith for his daughter's tuition, 22 May 1780
Letter from Thomas Bee (Philadelphia) to Isaac Smith forwarding items from Thomas Smith of Charleston, 14 June 1780
Draft of letter from Isaac Smith (Boston) to Thomas Bee expressing concern for the Thomas Smith family at Charleston, [26 June 1780]
Letter from Thomas Bee (Philadelphia) to Isaac Smith about the whereabouts of his cousin Thomas Smith during the siege of Charleston and with news of his success in getting Congress to redress the injustice done to Capt. Duart, 10 July 1780
Boston tax bill of Isaac Smith, 18 July 1780
Letter from Isaac Smith (Boston) to Isaac Smith, Jr. about sending him money to supplement his income, with 24 July 1780 letter from Isaac Smith to Isaac Smith, Jr., 18 July 1780 [copy]
Letter from Isaac Smith (Boston) to Isaac Smith, Jr. about supplementing his income, with copy of 18 July 1780 letter from Isaac Smith to Isaac Smith, Jr., 24 July 1780
Letter from Jonathan Sewall (Bristol) to Isaac Smith, Jr. about news from America, Robert Temple, and the dark days in May, 25 Aug. 1780
Letter from Thomas Bee (Philadelphia) to Isaac Smith about the Loan Office not being able to pay on its certificates, 26 Sep. 1780
Letter from Elizabeth Storer Smith (Boston) to Isaac Smith, Jr. about the undependability of sending letters and with family news, 17 Oct. 1780
Deed from William Gorham to John Boylston, 2 Nov. 1780 [2 copies]
Letter from Isaac Smith, Jr. (Sidmouth) to Isaac Smith about his ill health and news from England, 21 Nov. 1780
Boston tax bill of Isaac Smith, 21 Nov. 1780
Letter of condolence from Isaac Smith, Jr. (Sidmouth) to Mary Smith Gray Otis on the death of Edward Gray, 1 Jan. 1781
Letter from Isaac Smith, Jr. (Sidmouth) to William Smith, 1 Jan. 1781
Letter from Elizabeth Storer Smith (Boston) to Isaac Smith, Jr. chiding him for not writing, 17 Jan. 1781
Letter from Isaac Smith (Boston) to William Bowden protesting the refusal of the New England Company to pay missionaries' salaries until the end of the war, 18 Jan. 1781
Letter from Isaac Smith (Boston) to Isaac Smith, Jr. about the affairs of the New England Company, 3 Feb. 1781
Boston tax bill of Isaac Smith, 7 Feb. 1781
Draft of 25 May 1781 letter from Elizabeth Storer Smith to Isaac Smith, Jr. about the prevalence of sickness and with news of friends traveling to England, 23 May 1781
Letter from Elizabeth Storer Smith (Boston) to Isaac Smith, Jr. about the prevalence of sickness and with news of friends traveling to England, 25 May 1781
Letter from Isaac Smith, Jr. (Sidmouth) to Isaac Smith about the New England Company's payment of missionaries and his financial condition, 25 May 1781
Letter from Charles Storer (Helly Sound, Norway) to Isaac Smith, Jr. about his proposed travels in Europe, 19 July 1781
Boston tax bill of Isaac Smith, Aug. 1781
Draft of letter from Elizabeth Storer Smith to Isaac Smith, Jr. about family news and separations caused by the war, 7 Aug. 1781
Letter from Isaac Smith, Jr. (Sidmouth) to Isaac Smith about the difficulty in sending letters, 19 Sep. 1781
Draft of 19 Dec. 1781 letter from Elizabeth Storer Smith to Isaac Smith, Jr. expressing her concern for his health and about Cornwallis's defeat, 7 Nov. 1781
Letter from Elizabeth Storer Smith (Boston) to Isaac Smith, Jr. expressing her concern for his health and about Mary Smith Gray Otis's engagement to Samuel A. Otis, 19 Dec. 1781
Boston tax bill of Isaac Smith, 7 Feb. 1782
Extracts of letters from [John Adams] (Hague) about peace negotiations, 17 June-2 July 1782
Copied by [Richard Cranch].
Deed of sale from Lucy Hodgetts, as administrator of her father John Proctor's estate, to Isaac Smith for property on Queen St., Boston, 3 July 1782
Deed of sale from Margaret Elliot to John Boit for Boston property, 8 July 1782
Letter from Elizabeth Storer Smith (Boston) to Isaac Smith, Jr. about Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Rogers's visit to England, 8 July 1782
Boston tax bill of William Smith, 15 July 1782
Boston tax bill of Isaac Smith, 15 July 1782
Deed of sale from Perez Morton to John Boit for Boston land, 13 Aug. 1782
Power of attorney from John Boylston (Bristol) to Isaac Smith, 16 Aug. 1782
Witness certification by John Collard and approved by Henry Cruger, mayor of Bristol.
Draft of letter from Elizabeth Storer Smith to Isaac Smith, Jr. about her distress over his modest circumstances at Sidmouth, 9 Oct. 1782
Letter from Elizabeth Storer Smith (Boston) to Isaac Smith, Jr. about her distress over his modest circumstances at Sidmouth, 9 Oct. 1782
Letter from Isaac Smith, Jr. (Sidmouth) to Elizabeth Storer Smith about his discouragement with his lengthy absence from home, 14 Oct. 1782
Letter from Isaac Smith, Jr. (Sidmouth) to Isaac Smith about the difficulties of the dissenting ministers due to church apathy in England, 14 Oct. 1782
List by William Smith of articles to be obtained for friends and members of his family at Boston, [1783]
Bill from the Red Lion Inn (Rotherham, Yorkshire) to [William Smith] for food during his trip to England, [1783]
Draft of letter from [Elizabeth Storer Smith] to William Smith about the death of Rev. William Smith of Quincy, [1783]
Bill from the Rams-Head Inn (Dishley) to [William Smith] for dinner during his trip to England, [1783]
Collection of calling cards acquired by William Smith while on a trip to London and the continent, [1783-1784]
Letter from Isaac Smith, Jr. (Sidmouth) to Elizabeth Storer Smith about the return of peace and his eagerness to return home, 7 Feb. 1783
Letter from Isaac Smith, Jr. (Sidmouth) to Isaac Smith about his poor financial condition and the difficulty of repatriation, 7 Feb. 1783
Petition from Margaret Scott to the Massachusetts General Court related to the estate of her husband Daniel Scott, 17 Feb. 1783
Resolve of the General Court granting Margaret Scott permission to sell land belonging to the estate of her husband Daniel Scott, 17 Feb. 1783
Signed by John Hancock.
Deed of sale from Margaret Scott, as administrator of Daniel Scott's estate, to William Smith for property on Sudbury St., Boston, with copy of 17 Feb. 1783 resolve of the Massachusetts General Court granting her permission for the sale, 22 Feb. 1783
Deed of sale from Margaret Scott, as administrator of Daniel Scott's estate, to William Smith for land on Sudbury St., Boston, 24 Feb. 1783
Boston tax bill of Isaac Smith, 10 Mar. 1783
Memoranda by [Charles Storer] (St. Quentin) on feats of ingenuity and automatons exhibited at Paris, 11 Mar. 1783
Letter from Isaac Smith, Jr. (Exeter) to Isaac Smith about the prospect of his returning to America, 18 Mar. 1783
Letter from Isaac Smith, Jr. to William Smith about his situation in England and the prospect of William Smith's trip to Holland, 16 Apr. 1783
Letter from Isaac Smith, Jr. (Bristol) to Isaac Smith about the instability of affairs in England, 16 Apr. 1783
Letter from Isaac Smith, Jr. (London) to Isaac Smith about Bostonians he has met in London, 28 Apr. 1783
Letter from Isaac Smith, Jr. (London) to William Smith offering to stay in England during William Smith's trip to Europe, 28 Apr. 1783
Letter from Isaac Smith, Jr. (London) to Mary Smith Gray Otis about obtaining books and a locket for her, 2 May 1783
Letter from Elizabeth Storer Smith (Boston) to Isaac Smith, Jr. about American animosity toward loyalists delaying his return home, 6 May 1783
Bill from Ebenezer Parsons for barrels of oil, 27 May 1783
Draft of letter from Elizabeth Storer Smith [Boston] to Isaac Smith, Jr. about the decline of religion in America, June [1783]
Letter from A. Winslow (Boston) to William Smith about a commission in London, 21 June 1783
Account of Ebenezer Parsons with William Smith, 22 June 1783
Letter from Isaac Smith (Boston) to Isaac Smith, Jr. about American resolves pertaining to loyalists and about William Smith's trip to Europe, 30 June 1783
Boston tax bill of Isaac Smith, July 1783
Note from Mercy Otis Warren (Milton) to [William] Smith about choosing and purchasing wallpaper for her room, 3 July 1783
Letter from Elizabeth Smith Hale (Boston) to William Smith about the activities of the Harvard College commencement, 25 July 1783
Boston tax bill of Isaac Smith, 25 July 1783
Letter from Elizabeth Storer Smith (Boston) to William Smith with parental advice, 25 July 1783
Letter from William Smith (London) to Isaac Smith about his voyage to England and news of relatives and friends there, 11 Aug. 1783
Deed of sale from John Boit to Perez Morton for property at Boston, 14 Aug. 1783
Bill to [William Smith] for laundry during his trip to England, 15 Aug. [1783]
Account of William Smith with Cox and Watson [London] for cash exchange during his trip to England, 16 Aug. [1783]
Letter from Thomas Smith (Charleston) to Isaac Smith about his family and the state of affairs at the close of the war, 19 Aug. 1783
Bill of exchange from Isaac Smith (Boston) on John Boylston in favor of Capt. Joseph Cordis for a donation for building a meeting house at Charlestown, 20 Aug. 1783
Note from Benjamin Franklin to Mr. Thaxter returning his bill of exchange, 30 Aug. 1783
Bill from Williams Tavern (Worcester, England) to [William Smith] for dinner during his trip to England, Sep. 1783
Bill from Oxford Inn (Exeter, England) to [William Smith] for lodging and food during his trip to England, 2-4 Sep. 1783
Bill from Birmingham (England) inn to [William Smith] for lodging and food during his trip to England, 12-13 Sep. 1783
Bill from Joseph Allanson (London) to William Smith for silk materials, 16 Sep. 1783 [2 copies]
Bill from Thomas and Alexander Longman (London) to William Smith for books, 19 Sep. 1783
Letters from [William Smith] (London) to Elizabeth Storer Smith and Elizabeth Smith Hale about his visit to Isaac Smith, Jr. at Sidmouth and the congregation there, 22 Sep. 1783
Letter from Isaac Smith (Boston) to Isaac Smith, Jr. about the death of Rev. William Smith, 23 Sep. 1783
Letter from Isaac Smith (Boston) to William Smith about business matters and the death of Rev. William Smith, 23 Sep. 1783
Letter from Isaac Smith, Jr. (Sidmouth) to Elizabeth Storer Smith about William Smith's visit and his plan to return home in the spring, 24 Sep. 1783
Letter from Isaac Smith, Jr. (Sidmouth) to Mary Smith Gray Otis about William Smith's visit to England, 30 Sep. 1783
Draft of letter from Elizabeth Storer Smith to Isaac Smith, Jr. about family news, 9 Oct. 1783
Letter from Elizabeth Storer Smith (Boston) to Isaac Smith, Jr. about family news, 9 Oct. 1783
Letter from Elizabeth Storer Smith (Boston) to William Smith about the death of Rev. William Smith, 9 Oct. 1783
Letter from Elizabeth Smith Hale (Boston) to William Smith describing the wedding of Phebe Jack to Mr. Dalton, 9 Oct. 1783
Receipted bill from Paris tailor M. Angenend to William Smith, 14 Oct. 1783
Letter from Isaac Smith, Jr. (Sidmouth) to Rev. Samuel Cooper about literary matters and a suspended legacy for the benefit of Harvard College, 16 Oct. 1783
Letter from Isaac Smith, Jr. (Sidmouth) to Isaac Smith with news of friends in England, 18 Oct. 1783
Account of William Smith with Duncan Ingraham, Jr. of Amsterdam, with enclosed bill of exchange, 29 Oct. [1783]
Letter from [John Adams] (London) to William Smith about receipt of his packets and his regret at the death of Rev. William Smith, 12 Nov. 1783
Letter from [Charles Storer] (St. Quentin) to William Smith with advice for his visit to Paris and what to wear on a visit to Benjamin Franklin and John Jay, 15 Nov. 1783
Letter from Elizabeth Smith Hale (Boston) to William Smith with news of sickness at Boston, 18 Nov. 1783
Letter from Isaac Smith (Boston) to William Smith about shipping matters and the prevalence of sickness at Boston, 18 Nov. 1783
Letter from Isaac Smith, Jr. (Sidmouth) to William Smith advising him what to see in France and on personal financial matters, 19 Nov. 1783
Letter from Isaac Smith, Jr. (Sidmouth) to Isaac Smith about his plans to leave Sidmouth, 19 Nov. 1783
Letter from Charles Storer (St. Quentin) to William Smith about his visit to Paris, 20-22 Nov. 1783
Bill from Debeche and Graff Co. (Paris) to William Smith for articles of clothing, 21 Nov. 1783
Letter from [Benjamin Franklin] (Passy) to William Smith about furnishing tickets for the first balloon ascension at Paris, 26 Nov. 1783
Record of the expenses of [William Smith] at London and Sidmouth on his trip to England, Dec. 1783-Mar. 1784
Letter from Charles Storer (St. Quentin) to William Smith about his visit to Paris and asking him to send a block of the aeronautical stamps, 8 Dec. 1783
Bill from Fitch and Angenend (Paris) to William Smith for tailoring, 14 Dec. 1783
Draft of letter from Elizabeth Storer Smith to Isaac Smith, Jr. about the decline of religion and Rev. Samuel Cooper's illness, 24 Dec. 1783
Letter from Isaac Smith, Jr. (Sidmouth) to William Smith with travel directions for his visit, 27 Dec. 1783
Draft of message from [Isaac Smith] to members of the committee of Brattle Street Church about his position on Rev. Peter Thacher, [1784]
Record by Mark H. Wentworth of prices of masts, yards, and bowsprits, [1784]
Poem: "An Elegy Sacred to the Memory of the Rev. Samuel Cooper D.D.," by Phillis Wheatley, [1784] [copy]
Account of Isaac Smith with William Smith, 1784-1787
Draft of letter from [Elizabeth Storer Smith] to William Smith describing Rev. Samuel Cooper's funeral, 2 Jan. 1784
Letter from Isaac Smith, Jr. (Sidmouth) to William Smith about his plans to leave England, 4 Jan. 1784
Receipt from John Carnes (Boston) to Timothy Newell for payment for filling the Brattle Street Church pulpit, 6 Jan. 1784
Receipt from John Arch [London] to William Smith for payment for The New London Price Current, published by George Harrison and Co., 12 Jan. 1784
Receipt from Judith Cooper to Isaac Smith for payment of Dr. Samuel Cooper's salary due prior to his death, in Samuel Cooper book of receipts to Isaac Smith for 1779-1784, 2-12 Feb. 1784
Drafts of letters from Elizabeth Storer Smith to Isaac Smith, Jr. and William Smith about the altered American attitude toward loyalists' return and personal articles sent to her from Europe, 9 Feb. [1784]
Receipt from Samuel Shuttlesworth (Boston) to Timothy Newell for payment for filling the pulpit at Brattle Street Church, with Newell's receipt to Isaac Smith for reimbursement, 9 Feb. 1784
Receipts from Timothy Newell to Isaac Smith for reimbursement of the minister fee to Samuel Shuttlesworth, 9 Feb.-1 Mar. 1784
Receipt from Samuel Shuttlesworth (Boston) to Timothy Newell for payment for filling the pulpit at Brattle Street Church, with Newell's receipt to Isaac Smith for reimbursement, 1 Mar. 1784
Letter from Isaac Smith, Jr. (London) to Isaac Smith about plans for his voyage home, 9 Mar. 1784
Letter from Isaac Smith, Jr. (London) to Elizabeth Storer Smith about resigning the ministry at Sidmouth and the plan for his voyage home, 9 Mar. 1784
Account of Isaac Smith, Jr. and William Smith with Joseph Waldo and Co. of London, 12 Mar. 1784
Bill from Francis Aberdein [London] to Isaac Smith for tailoring, 21 Mar. 1784
Record of the expenses of [William Smith] during his trip to England, Apr.-May 1784
Bill from William Wood [London] to [William Smith] for hairdressing, 2 Apr. 1784
Bill from William Keater [London] to [William] Smith for board, 8 Apr. 1784
Invitation from Escott (London) to William Smith to dine with him, 15 Apr. 1784
Receipt from Aaron Bancroft (Boston) to Timothy Newell for payment for filling the pulpit at Brattle Street Church, 16 Apr. 1784
Receipt from Judith Cooper (Boston) to Isaac Smith for payment of a grant from Brattle Street Church, 17 Apr. 1784
Letter from William Smith (London) to Isaac Smith, Jr. about political matters and meeting the Duchess of Devonshire soliciting votes, 17 Apr. 1784
Receipt from Mary Turell to Timothy Newell for payment for carpentry work for Samuel Bancroft, 17 Apr. 1784
Bill from William Wood [London] to [William Smith] for hairdressing, 5 May 1784
Letter from John Boylston (London) to Isaac Smith about Boylston family legacies and distributing his gift of books to those in frontier towns, 12 May 1784
Bill to [William Smith] for mending, 14 May 1784
Account of William Smith's expenses during his visit to London, 14-28 May [1784]
Receipt from Bezaliel Howard to Brattle Street Church for filling their pulpit, 25 May 1784
Bill from William Keater [London] to William Smith for board, 26 May 1784
Letter from Harrison Gray (London) to Isaac Smith about the depreciation of Massachusetts paper money, 28 May 1784
Typescript copy of letter in the Harrison Gray Otis papers (Ms. N-617; P-228).
Account of William Smith's expenses during his travels in England, 28 May-1 July [1784]
Bill from Holyhead (Wales) inn to William Smith during his trip to England, June 1784
Letter from Thomas Smith (Charleston) to Isaac Smith, 8 June 1784
Bill from Liverpool (England) inn to William Smith during his trip to England, 13-15 June 1784
Bill from General Totenham and Co. (Dublin) to William Smith for lodging and food during his trip to Ireland, 19-21 June 1784
Receipt from Judith Cooper (Boston) to Isaac Smith for payment of a Brattle Street Church grant, 7 July 1784
Bill from Robert Thompson (London) to William Smith for hosiery, 17 July 1784
Bill from William Tutin [London] to William Smith for tailoring, 20 July 1784
Receipt from Thomas Thompson to Isaac Smith, 22 July 1784
Bill from John Wallis (London) to William Smith for maps, 23 July 1784
Bill from William and Joseph Robarts [London] to William Smith for bedding, 23 July 1784
Letter from James Otis (London) to William Smith about his wasted opportunities, 24 July 1784
Letter from Benjamin Hallowell (London) to Isaac Smith about the disposition of his affairs at Boston, 27 July 1784
Bill from Peck and Co. [London] to William Smith for millinery, 28 July 1784
Bill from William Keater [London] to William Smith for lodging, 30 July 1784
Sketch map by Francis Tufts of Kennebec River property for Willis Hall of Milford, Aug. [1784]
Bill from Caleb Bingham (Boston) to Isaac Smith for tuition, 24 Aug. 1784
Receipt from Judith Cooper (Boston) to Isaac Smith for payment of a grant made by Brattle Street Church, 28 Aug. 1784
Boston tax bill of William Smith, 31 Aug. 1784
Letter from Charles Storer (London) to William Smith with news of his friends and activities at London, 31 Aug. 1784
Letter from Thomas Smith (Charleston) to Isaac Smith about the loss of shipments destined for Charleston, 6 Sep. 1784
Deed from Christopher Hodgkins to Isaac Smith, 13 Sep. 1784
Receipt from John Gray (Boston) to Isaac Smith for money belonging to Harrison Gray, 14 Sep. 1784
Letter from Charles Storer (London) to Isaac Smith relaying messages from John Adams and about the balloon ascension by Mr. Lunardi, 15 Sep. 1784
Receipt from Judith Cooper (Boston) to Isaac Smith for payment of a grant from Brattle Street Church, 4 Oct. 1784
Boston tax bill of William Smith, 31 Dec. 1784
Boston tax bill of Isaac Smith, 31 Dec. 1784
Letter from William Smith to Isaac Smith on business matters, [1785] [incomplete] [on reverse side: draft of letter from Isaac Smith about Abigail Adams]
Notice of William Smith's pew assessment by First Church, Boston, 9 Feb. 1785
Letter from Samuel Webster (Salisbury) to Samuel Tufts about medicinal properties of the bark of the male elm, 10 Mar. 1785
Letter from John Adams (Auteuil) to William Smith introducing Mr. Le Rey de Chaumont, 14 Apr. 1785
Letter from John Adams (Auteuil) to Isaac Smith about his appointment as minister to England, 6 May 1785
Letter from Abigail Adams (Auteuil) to Isaac Smith about the expense of being a diplomat, 8 May 1785
Letter from Abigail Adams (London) to Isaac Smith about the British attitude toward the United States, 30 June 1785
Deed of sale from John Codman, Jr. to William Smith for Boston property, July 1785
Extract from a journal describing a visit to "Indian Old Town" and a trip up the Penobscot River, with sketch plan of the river from the sea to the height of land, 18 July 1785
Copy in Photostat Collection.
Letter from Elizabeth Smith Hale (Haverhill) to Hannah Carter Smith about friends and activities at Haverhill, 18 Aug. [1785]
Letter from Abigail Adams (London) to Elizabeth Storer Smith about the bad manners of the English and about American refugees, 29 Aug. 1785
Boston tax bill of William Smith, 31 Aug. 1785
Boston tax bill of Isaac Smith, 31 Aug. 1785
Letter from John Adams to Isaac Smith about the whaling industry, 2 Sep. 1785
Letter from Elizabeth Smith Hale to Mary Smith Gray Otis about her visit to the Shaw family, 9 Sep. 1785
Letter from James Otis (Boston) to William Smith about his embarrassment at missing the sailing of his ship with his clothing aboard, 23 Dec. 1785
Draft of letter from [Isaac Smith] about the death of Elizabeth Storer Smith, [1786] [fragment]
Release from Isaac Smith (Boston) to Samuel A. Otis of James Otis's Barnstable property conveyed to him on 25 Aug. 1785, 1786 [copy]
Letter from Thomas Smith (Charleston) to Isaac Smith about family news, 8 Feb. 1786
Letter from John Boylston (Bath) to Isaac Smith directing him to settle some of his financial affairs, 15 Feb. 1786
Certificate of William Smith's membership in the Humane Society, 27 Feb. 1786
Letter from John Adams (London) to Isaac Smith about American policy toward the Barbary pirates, 12 Mar. 1786
Resolves of the Massachusetts General Court related to the garrison at Castle Island and the duties of the chaplain, 14-21 Mar. 1786 [copy]
Letter from Abigail Adams (London) to [Isaac Smith] about American negotiations with the Barbary pirates, 8 Apr. 1786
Letter from Abigail Adams (London) to [Isaac Smith] about histories by William Gordon and David Ramsey, 27 May 1786
Invitation from Thomas Russell to Isaac Smith, Jr. to attend the dinner at Bunker Hill to celebrate the opening of the Charlestown Bridge, 17 June 1786
Signed by A. Dexter.
Letter from Catharine L. Smith (Lincoln) to Isaac Smith about his prospective visit, 19 June 1786
Letter from John Adams (London) to Isaac Smith about economic conditions in Boston, 20 June 1786
Sermon by Peter Thacher on the death of Elizabeth Storer Smith, 2 July 1786
Letter from John Adams (London) to William Smith about the sugar trade and currency depreciation, 4 July 1786
Letter of condolence from Gideon Hawley (Mashpee) to Isaac Smith on the death of Elizabeth Storer Smith with news of emigrations from Nantucket, 6 July 1786
Letter of condolence from Stephen Codman (Falmouth) to Isaac Smith on the death of Elizabeth Storer Smith, 19 July 1786
Letter of condolence from Abigail Adams (London) to Isaac Smith, 31 July 1786
Boston tax bill of William Smith, 22 Aug. 1786
Prospectus by [William Smith] for the issuance of state bank bills, 8 Sep. 1786
Letter from William Smith (1746-1787) (Halifax, Vt.) to Isaac Smith asking for goods on credit, 28 Sep. 1786
Letter of condolence from Abigail Adams (London) to Isaac Smith, 16 Oct. 1786
Note from Peter Thacher to Elizabeth Smith Hale presenting her with a copy of his sermon preached at Elizabeth Storer Smith's 2 July 1786 funeral at Brattle Street Church, with manuscript copy of sermon, 23 Dec. 1786
Letter from William Smith (Boston) to Hannah Carter Smith about the announcement of their engagement, 24 Dec. 1786
Letter of condolence from Abigail Adams (London) to Isaac Smith, Jr., 30 Dec. 1786
1787-1797
Letter from an English friend to Isaac Smith, Jr. about Lindsey George Wallis's return to England to claim a bequest, [1787]
Memorandum from Elizabeth Smith Hale to William Smith about her approval of his choice of Hannah Carter Smith as his wife, [1787]
Draft of petition from Isaac Smith, Jr. to the Massachusetts General Court for restoration of citizenship, 1787
Letterbook of William Smith, 1787-1790
Book of accounts and inventories kept by William Smith as administrator of the estate of Isaac Smith, 1787-1791
Letter from Mary Smith Gray Otis (Boston) to Hannah Carter Smith about her engagement to William Smith, 3 Jan. 1787
Letter from Elizabeth Smith Hale (Boston) to Hannah Carter Smith about her engagement to William Smith, 3 Jan. 1787
Letter from John Hancock to the committee of Brattle Street Church resigning his membership, 17 Jan. 1787, with draft of reply from Isaac Smith to John Hancock about his allegations of being slighted by the committee, 18 Jan. 1787
Letter from William Smith (Boston) to Hannah Carter Smith about buying linens and materials for her, 18 Jan. 1787
Letter from William Smith (Boston) to Hannah Carter Smith about sending her linens and material for her approval, 24 Jan. 1787
Letter from William Smith (Boston) to Hannah Carter Smith about visiting her at Newburyport, 29 Jan. 1787
Letter from William Smith (Boston) to Hannah Carter Smith about obtaining drapery and chair-covering material at Boston, 18 Feb. 1787
Letter from Abigail Adams (London) to Isaac Smith about Shays' Rebellion and English attitudes toward America, 12 Mar. 1787
Letter from William Smith (Boston) to Hannah Carter Smith with prices for silver articles obtainable from Boston silversmith Nathaniel Austin, 14 Mar. 1787
Memorandum by the Massachusetts treasurer of a warrant lodged by a member of the Smith family on 10 Feb. 1786, 17 Mar. 1787
Letter from William Smith (Boston) to Hannah Carter Smith offering to procure silver for her at Boston, 18 Mar. 1787
Letter from John Hancock (Boston) to Isaac Smith about selling his pew in Brattle Street Church, 19 Mar. 1787, with draft of reply from Isaac Smith to John Hancock, 20 Mar. 1787
Account of Isaac Smith with William Smith for 1784-1787, 12 Apr. 1787
Letter from William Smith (Boston) to Hannah Carter Smith about the Boston fire, 22 Apr. 1787
Letter from John Boylston (Bath) to Isaac Smith about the conduct of his financial affairs, 18 May 1787
Letter from William Smith (Boston) to Hannah Carter Smith about their forthcoming wedding, 27 May 1787
Letter from William Lane (London) to Isaac Smith about the decision of the New England Company to cease its activities within American territory, 5 June 1787
Letter from William Smith (Boston) to Hannah Carter Smith about the Smith family plans to attend their wedding, 8 June 1787
Letter from Gideon Hawley (Mashpee) to Isaac Smith about his missionary work with the Native Americans, 11 June 1787
Letter from William Smith (Boston) to Hannah Carter Smith about his trip to Boston from Newburyport, 24 June 1787
Deed from Nathaniel Tracy to Isaac Smith, 26 June 1787
Deed of sale from Nathaniel Tracy (Newburyport) to William Smith for property at Pownalborough, 26 June 1787
Letter from William Smith (Boston) to Hannah Carter Smith about setting up in their own house, 27 June 1787
Bill from Nathaniel Austin (Boston) to William Smith for silver, 28 June 1787
Letter from John Boylston (Biddeford) to Isaac Smith about a ship engaged in the lumber trade, 5 July 1787
Letter from William Smith (Boston) to Hannah Carter Smith about plans to move into Mr. Gore's house, 5 July 1787
Receipt from Mary Minot (Boston) to Isaac Smith for payment of John Boylston's gift, 20 July 1787
Receipt from Benjamin Edes and Son (Boston) to William Thompson for payment for lottery tickets benefiting Dortmund Orphanage, 2 Aug. 1787
Letter from Gideon Hawley (Mashpee) to Isaac Smith submitting his account for services as missionary to the Native Americans, 6 Aug. 1787
Account from Gideon Hawley to the New England Company commissioners in London for services as missionary to the Native Americans for 1775-1786, with 6 Aug. 1787 letter from Gideon Hawley to Isaac Smith, 6 Aug. 1787 [2 copies]
Letter from Gideon Hawley (Mashpee) to Isaac Smith about emigration from Nantucket becoming stabilized, 15 Aug. 1787
Letter from Gideon Hawley (Mashpee) to Isaac Smith about Samuel Gilbert, 15 Aug. 1787
Letter from William Smith (Boston) to Hannah Carter Smith about his father's illness, 2 Oct. 1787
Will of Isaac Smith, 6 Oct. 1787 [3 copies]
Death notice of Isaac Smith, 20 Oct. 1787 [copy]
Inventory of the household goods and books in Isaac Smith's estate, [Nov. 1787] [with one copy]
Inventory of Isaac Smith's estate, 4 Dec. 1787
Account by Russell and Clap of the 15 Nov. 1787 auction of household goods in the estate of Isaac Smith, 20 Dec. 1787
Record by [William Smith] of his share of household goods in the division of Isaac Smith's estate, with memorandum of Mary Smith Gray Otis's list of goods, [1788]
Account by [William Smith] of the division of Isaac Smith's silver plate in the settlement of his estate, [1788]
Account by [William Smith] related to the settlement of Isaac Smith's estate, [1788]
Record of taxes paid on real estate at Buckland in the settlement of Isaac Smith's estate, with deed from Thomas Stearns, 1788-1793
Letter from Joshua Carter (Newburyport) to William Smith and Hannah Carter Smith about the arrival of their son, 28 Apr. 1788
Memorandum by [William Smith] related to the conveyance of Isaac Smith's land, [13 May 1788]
Release from Samuel A. Otis to William Smith for the settlement of Isaac Smith's estate, with Mary Smith Gray Otis, Isaac Smith, Jr., and Elizabeth Smith Hale, 13 May 1788
Agreement of [William Smith] with Samuel A. Otis related to the settlement of Isaac Smith's estate, 3 June 1788
Letter from Abigail Adams Smith (New York) to William Smith thanking him for his kindness to her and her parents, 22 June 1788
Letter from William Smith (Boston) to Hannah Carter Smith about friends at Boston, 3 July 1788
Letter from Thomas Carter (Newburyport) to William Smith with family news, 15 Dec. 1788
Letter from [Mary Carter] to her sister Hannah Carter Smith with family news, 20 Apr. 1789
Letter from Thomas Carter (Newburyport) to William Smith about buying a ship, 29 May 1789
Letter from William Smith (Boston) to Nathaniel Carter announcing the birth of his daughter, 19 July 1789
Letter from Abigail Adams Smith to Hannah Carter Smith, 19 July 1789
Letter from George Storer (New York) to William Smith asking about opportunities to go into business in Boston, 25 Aug. 1789
Draft of letter from [William Smith] (Boston) to Daniel Dickson on a business matter, enclosed with 27 Aug. 1789 draft of letter from William Smith to Francis Green, 26 Aug. 1789
Draft of letter from William Smith (Boston) to Francis Green about settling Daniel Dickson's account, enclosing 26 Aug. 1789 letter from [William Smith] to Daniel Dickson, 27 Aug. 1789
Letter from Ebenezer Austin to William Smith about a loan on his mother's note, 29 Oct. 1789
Letter from Samuel Dana (Groton) to William Smith about paying a debt owed by his father for serving a writ, 30 Oct. 1789
Letter from Alexander Hamilton (New York) to William Smith, secretary of the Marine Society, 30 Nov. 1789
Letter from Thomas Carter (Newburyport) to William Smith about settling a matter with John Standford, with added note from Joshua Carter (Newburyport) to William Smith about the prices of state notes and indentures quoted at Boston, 21 Dec. 1789
Memorandum by [William Smith] on prices of state notes, etc., [25 Dec. 1789]
Letter from Silas Ewers (Pownalborough) to William Smith about loading his ship with timber, 26 Dec. 1789
Letter from Abigail Beck (Newburyport) to Hannah Carter Smith about her daughter's activities while visiting, [179-]
Letter from Abigail Beck to Hannah Carter Smith about the prevalence of sickness at Newburyport, [179-]
Letter from Hannah Carter Smith to [Abigail Adams Smith], [179-]
Letter from Samuel A. Otis (New York) to William Smith about the prospects of a funding proposal and speculation on it, 27 Feb. 1790
Survey by Asa Redington (Winslow, Me.) of land in Winslow for William Smith at the direction of Capt. Samuel Grant, 1 Apr. 1790
Instructions from David Bradlee (Boston) to Moses Barnard about a shipment of Madeira, 13 May 1790
Letter from Joshua Carter (Newburyport) to William Smith about Smith's ship under construction, 14 May 1790
Receipt to the estate of Isaac Smith for payment of Buckland, Mass., taxes for 1788-1789, 28 June 1790
Receipt from Samuel Taylor (Boston) to William Smith for Buckland, Mass., taxes owed by the estate of Isaac Smith, 28 June 1790
Letter from Joshua Carter (Newburyport) to William Smith about leasing his store and wharf at Wiscasset Point, 16 Aug. 1790
Description and survey of land in Winslow, Me., for William Smith, with surveyor's bill and receipt from Samuel Grant (Pittston) to William Smith, 2 Sep. 1790
Account of William Smith for the settlement of Isaac Smith's estate, 30 Sep. 1790
Letter from Mary Smith Gray Otis (Rye, N.Y.) to Hannah Carter Smith describing their trip from Boston, 9 Oct. 1790
Letter from Hannah Carter Smith (Boston) to Mary Smith Gray Otis on family news, 6 Nov. 1790
Letter from William Cowell (Essequibo, British Guiana) to Stephen Gorham and William Smith, owners of the Romulus, about his trading voyage to Essequibo with a cargo of fish, 4 Jan. 1791
Dinner invitation from William and Hannah Carter Smith to the Codman family, 11 Jan. 1791
Letter from William Cowell (Essequibo, British Guiana) to Stephen Gorham and William Smith about the condition of his cargo of fish and beef on arrival in British Guiana, 21 Jan. 1791
Letter from William Cowell (Essequibo, British Guiana) to Stephen Gorham and William Smith, 25 Jan. 1791
Letter from William Cowell (Essequibo, British Guiana) to Stephen Gorham and William Smith about trading excursions to the plantations, 27 Jan. 1791
Invitation from William Smith to Dr. Warren to dine with him, 29 Jan. 1791
Letter from William Cowell (Essequibo, British Guiana) to Stephen Gorham and William Smith about competition from Capt. Loring in selling his cargo of fish, 31 Jan. 1791
Letter from Elizabeth Smith Hale (Boston) to Hannah Carter Smith with sympathy on the death of her mother Mrs. Nathaniel Carter, 19 Feb. 1791
Letter from William Cowell (Essequibo River) to Stephen Gorham and William Smith about the sale of cargo from their ship Sukey, 21 Feb. 1791
Letter from [Mary Carter] to her sister Hannah Carter Smith about her ill health, 27 Feb.-1 Mar. 1791
Letter from Hannah Carter Smith (Boston) to Mary Smith Gray Otis asking her to price mourning lockets at Philadelphia, 2 Mar. 1791
Letter from Nathaniel Carter (Newburyport) to William Smith on financial matters, 7 Mar. 1791
Letter from Peckham Howland (Martinique) to Stephen Gorham and William Smith about the voyage of the Sukey and disposal of her cargo of fish and beef, 7 Mar. 1791
Letter from Mary Smith Gray Otis (Philadelphia) to Hannah Carter Smith about the design and execution of mourning pins by Anthony at Philadelphia, 15 Mar. 1791
Letter from John Thaxter (Haverhill) to William Smith proposing James Duncan, Jr. for the post of inspector under the supervisor of excise and import, 23 Mar. 1791
Letter from Nathaniel Carter (Newburyport) to Nathaniel Appleton about funding state notes, 30 Mar. 1791
Letter from Hannah Carter Smith (Boston) to Mary Smith Gray Otis about the design for her mourning pins, 17 Apr. 1791
Deed from John Hay to William Smith, 7 May 1791
Letter from James Freeman (Boston), 9 May 1791
Letter from Mary Smith Gray Otis (Philadelphia) to Hannah Carter Smith about Abigail Adams's popularity at Philadelphia and the difficulty in getting good servants, 10 May 1791
Deed from Samuel Cobb, Arnold Welles, Jr., and Abijah and Elizabeth Scott Cheever to William Smith for property at Boston conveyed by the heirs of Daniel Scott, 17 May 1791
Letter from Ebenezer Kent (Watertown) to William Smith asking him to use his influence to help Kent receive the appointment of inspector under the supervisor of excise and import, 17 May 1791
Letter from Nathaniel Carter (Newburyport) to William Smith about a financial transaction, 1 June 1791
Letter from Joshua Carter (Newburyport) to William Smith about buying a ship, 10 June 1791
Letter from Nathaniel Carter (Newburyport) to William Smith about an investment, 16 June 1791
Letter from Nathaniel Carter (Newburyport) to William Smith about a financial matter, 23-24 June 1791
Letter from Joshua Carter (Newburyport) to William Smith about collecting money owed to him by T. K. Jones, 25 June 1791
Letter from Joshua Carter (Newburyport) to William Smith about a sale of tar to the Board of War, 27 June 1791
Letter from William Smith to Nathaniel Carter announcing the birth of his daughter, [29 June] 1791
Release from Elizabeth Smith Hale to William Smith for settlement of Isaac Smith's estate, 3 Aug. 1791
Letter from Isaac Smith, Jr. (Byfield) to William Smith about pupils in his school, 30 Aug. 1791
Letter from Samuel Cutts (Portsmouth) to William Smith about a trading venture to Bordeaux, 5 Sep. 1791
Letter from Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody (Haverhill) to Hannah Carter Smith accompanying a gift of yarn, 26 Sep. 1791
Letter from Elizabeth Smith Hale (New York) to Hannah Carter Smith describing her trip to New York, 26 Sep. 1791
Letter from Joshua Carter (Newburyport) to William Smith about orders governing the arrival of his ship, 12 Oct. 1791
Letter from Elizabeth Smith Hale (Philadelphia) to Hannah Carter Smith about buying materials for her, 20 Oct. 1791
Letter from Elizabeth Smith Hale (Philadelphia) to Hannah Carter Smith describing her visit to Philadelphia and her impression of George and Martha Washington, 26 Oct. 1791
Letter from Roby and Cruft (Pownalborough) to William Smith about securing a cargo of timber for his ship Diana, 31 Oct. 1791
Letter from [Elizabeth Smith Hale] (Philadelphia) to Hannah Carter Smith about her activities during a visit to Philadelphia, 3 Nov. 1791
Letter from Joshua Carter (Newburyport) to William Smith about the purchase of oak plank, 25 Nov. 1791
Letter from Elizabeth Smith Hale (Philadelphia) to Hannah Carter Smith about friends and relatives at Philadelphia and the current dress fashions, 4 Dec. 1791
Letter from Nathaniel Carter, Jr. (Newburyport) to William Smith, 10 Dec. 1791
Letter from Elizabeth Smith Hale (Philadelphia) to Hannah Carter Smith describing her activities at Philadelphia, the Adams' party, and their plan to move into a house, 18 Dec. 1791
Letter from Thomas Carter (Charleston) to William Smith on business matters, 23 Dec. 1791
Letter from Nathaniel Carter (Newburyport) to William Smith about a financial matter, 24 Dec. 1791
Memorandum from Nathaniel Carter, Jr. to William Smith about Capt. Prescott's freight bill, 30 Dec. 1791
Letter from Elizabeth Smith Hale (Philadelphia) to Hannah Carter Smith describing social activities at Philadelphia and relaying John Adams's message about Morocco, 4 Feb. 1792
Deed of sale from James Taylor (Liverpool) to John Dawson for the ship Abby, 6 Feb. 1792
Receipt from Samuel Taylor (Boston) to William Smith for payment of Buckland, Mass., taxes, 6 Feb. 1792
Letter from Nathaniel Carter, Jr. (Newburyport) to William Smith about a financial matter, 10 Feb. 1792
Letter from Isaac Smith, Jr. (Byfield) to Hannah Carter Smith describing his trip from Boston and activities at his school, 15 Feb. 1792
Letter from E. Apthorp (Boston) to Elizabeth Smith [Hale], 17 Feb. 1792
Letter from Elizabeth Smith Hale (Philadelphia) to Hannah Carter Smith describing the Washington birthday celebrations, 23 Feb. 1792
Letter from Samuel A. Otis (Philadelphia) to William Smith about the restrictive Boston tax and Abigail Adams's illness, 1 Mar. 1792
Letter from Silas Lee (Wiscasset) to William Smith about the proposed sale of his land and the death of their client John Bishop, 2 Mar. 1792
Letter from John Dean (New York) to William Smith introducing Francis Coppinger, buyer of masts and spars for shipment to France, 3 Mar. 1792
Letter from Elizabeth Smith Hale (Philadelphia) to Hannah Carter Smith about Abigail Adams's recovery and news of social matters, 29 Mar. 1792
Letter from Elizabeth Smith Hale (Philadelphia) to Hannah Carter Smith with family news, 23 Apr. 1792, with postscript from William Smith to Hannah Carter Smith about the arrival at Boston of John and Abigail Adams, 15 May 1792
Letter from William Smith (Boston) to Hannah Carter Smith with Boston gossip, 17 May 1792
Letter from William Smith (Boston) to Hannah Carter Smith about news of the Adams family and his visit to Braintree, 20 May 1792
Letter from Elizabeth Smith Hale (Philadelphia) to Hannah Carter Smith about the cessation of social life in Philadelphia and her friendship with Martha Washington, 23 May 1792
Letter from William Smith (Boston) to Hannah Carter Smith, 25 May 1792
Letter from Elizabeth Smith Hale (Philadelphia) to Hannah Carter Smith about plans to return to Boston, 27 May 1792
Letter from Silas Lee (Wiscasset) to William Smith about the suit against John Winthrop's estate, 2 July 1792
Letter from Silas Lee (Wiscasset) to William Smith about disposition of his lands at Pownalborough, 3 Aug. 1792
Letter from Mary Carter (Newburyport) to Hannah Carter Smith about her trip to Portland, 12 Sep. 1792
Letter from Joseph Wales (Boston) to William Smith about the unsatisfactory care of his ward William Smith, Jr., Nov. 1792
Letter from William Smith, Jr. (Boston) to William Smith asking his pardon in a misunderstanding, 14 Nov. 1792
Draft of letter from William Smith to William Smith, Jr. dismissing him from his care, 14 Nov. 1792
Letter from John Dawson (Liverpool) to John Montgomery and Co. about shipping enslaved people and rum, enclosed with 3 June 1793 letter from John Ashley to John Montgomery and Co., 24 Nov. 1792
Letter from Mary Smith Gray Otis (Philadelphia) to Hannah Carter Smith about the birth of her son and other family matters, 25 Nov. 1792
Bill of exchange from [William Smith] on Peter Berthon of London in favor of Nathan Frazier and Son, 7 Dec. 1792
Plot sketches by William Smith showing his property at Buckland, Mass., [1793]
Letter from Silas Lee (Wiscasset) to William Smith about his suit against the estate of John Bishop coming before the court at Hallowell, 1 Jan. 1793
Letter from Theophilus Parsons (Newburyport) to William Smith about a case illustrating the status of poor laws, 31 Jan. 1793
Receipt to the estate of Isaac Smith for payment of Buckland, Mass., taxes for 1791, 31 Jan. 1793
Receipt to the estate of Isaac Smith for payment of Buckland, Mass., taxes for 1792, 31 Jan. 1793
Letter from Elizabeth Smith Hale (Quincy) to Mary Smith Gray Otis during her visit to Abigail Adams, 1 Feb. [1793]
Receipt to the estate of Isaac Smith for payment of Buckland, Mass., taxes for 1790, 28 Feb. 1793
Letter from Mary Carter to Hannah Carter Smith with news of friends at Newburyport, 12 May 1793
Draft of letter from John Ashley (Badagry, Gold Coast) to John Dawson of Liverpool about sending his ship Abby to Boston for a cargo of rum and plans for loading the American Hero, 2 June 1793
Letter from John Ashley (Badagry, Gold Coast) to John Montgomery and Co. about sending the Abby to pick up a cargo of rum, enclosed with 24 Nov. 1792 letter from John Dawson to John Montgomery and Co., 3 June 1793
Protest of William Smith's 7 Dec. 1792 bill of exchange on Peter Berthon for the order of Nathan Frazier and Son, 3 June 1793
Letter from Lemuel Taylor (Buckland) to William Smith agreeing to buy his land, 19 Aug. 1793
Account of William Smith with Nathan Frazier and Son, 4-10 Sep. 1793
Letter from John Montgomery (Cadiz) to William Smith on business matters, enclosing bill of exchange, 8 Sep. 1793
Letter from Joseph W. Winter (Portland) to John Montgomery and Co. about the seizure of his ship Abby at Portland, 18 Sep. 1793
Instrument of protest by Capt. Joseph W. Winter against the seizure of his ship, the brigantine Abby, by the collector of customs at Portland, with specifications of the ship's masts and spars, 19 Sep. 1793
Bill from R. Thorn (London) to William Smith for making cloaks, 19 Sep. 1793
Register of ownership of the ship Abby for 1789-1793, 28 Sep. 1793 [copy]
Opinion by John Quincy Adams related to payment of the seamen of the seized ship Abby, addressed to William Smith, [Oct. 1793]
Letter from Joseph W. Winter (Portland) to [William Smith] asking him to get a legal opinion from John Quincy Adams related to payment of the seamen of the seized ship Abby, 2 Oct. 1793
Letter from Ebenezer Preble (Portland) to William Smith about the disposition of the seized ship Abby, 3 Oct. 1793
Letter from Abigail Adams Smith (New York) to Hannah Carter Smith about the smallpox epidemic at Philadelphia, 12 Oct. 1793
Account of Isaac Smith, Jr. with William Smith, 15 Oct. 1793
Letter from Joseph W. Winter (Portland) to George Hammond about difficulties with United States authorities over the brigantine Abby, 10 Dec. 1793
Deed of sale from Joseph W. Winter (Portland) to William Smith for the brigantine Abby, 11 Dec. 1793
Receipt to William Smith for payment of Buckland, Mass., property tax, 18 Dec. 1793
Articles of agreement of [John Bishop] and William Smith to underwrite Samuel Snelling's sugar refinery at Boston, 1794 [2 copies]
Instrument of protest by John Frothingham against the Portland customs collector for refusing to deliver the register of the ship Abby to Joseph Winter, 4 Jan. 1794
Notary's deposition signed by Joseph W. Winter.
Receipt from George Burroughs (Boston) to William Smith for the purchase of shares of stock, 13 Jan. 1794
Sailing orders from William Smith (Boston) to Capt. William M. McNeill for a voyage to Anamaboa as master of the brigantine Abby, 7 Feb. 1794
Drafts of letter from [William Smith] (Boston) to John Ashley about a trading expedition to the Gold Coast by the brigantine Abby, 7 Feb. 1794
Letter from William Smith (Boston) to Joseph Winter authorizing him to act as his agent on a trading expedition to the Gold Coast aboard the brigantine Abby, 7 Feb. 1794
Invoice by William Smith of the cargo of the brigantine Abby, 7 Feb. 1794
Bill of lading from William M. McNeill for cargo shipped aboard the Abby by William Smith, 8 Feb. 1794
Account of William Smith with John Dawson, owner of the brigantine Abby, 15 Feb. 1794
Agreement by Joseph W. Winter to act as agent for William Smith in the sale of rum shipped to Africa aboard the ship Abby, 15 Feb. 1794 [draft and original copy]
Letter from Mary Smith Gray Otis (Philadelphia) to Hannah Carter Smith about having jewelry made at Anthony's workshop, 20 Feb. 1794
Letter from William Smith (Boston) to Hannah Carter Smith about family news, 6 May 1794
Letter from William Smith (Boston) to Hannah Carter Smith about the treatment of Americans detained in Europe, 8 May 1794
Letter from William Smith (Boston) to Hannah Carter Smith with instructions for her trip home from Newburyport, 11 May 1794
Letter from Mary Smith Gray Otis (Philadelphia) to Hannah Carter Smith about the possibility of returning to Boston, 14 May 1794
Letter from William Smith (Boston) to John Dawson about the affairs of the brigantine Abby, 11 June 1794
Letter from Robert Emery (New York) to William Smith about trading with French ports, July 1794
Bond from John Dawson (Trinidada) indemnifying William Smith and Capt. William M. McNeill in actions related to the brigantine Abby, 20 Aug. 1794
Letter from Samuel Walker (Haverhill) to William Smith about paying his assessment on the Haverhill Bridge, enclosed with receipt for payment of the assessment, 9 Sep. 1794
Letter from Elizabeth Smith Hale to Hannah Carter Smith describing her trip to New York, 5 Oct. 1794
Receipt from Susanna Brooks (Medford) to William Smith for board for Isaac Smith III, 7 Nov. 1794
Letter from Elizabeth Smith Hale (Philadelphia) to Hannah Carter Smith about President Washington's address and her activities at Philadelphia, 4 Dec. 1794
Drafts of letters from William Smith to Joseph Winter and William McNeill about trading ventures, 23 Dec. 1794
Letter from Mary Smith Gray Otis (Philadelphia) to Hannah Carter Smith about her health, 25 Dec. 1794
Letter from Elizabeth Smith Hale (Philadelphia) to Hannah Carter Smith describing her activities at Philadelphia, 26 Dec. 1794
Letter from Elizabeth Smith Hale (Philadelphia) to Hannah Carter Smith about the birth of a daughter to Samuel A. Otis and Mary Smith Gray Otis, 27 Dec. 1794
Receipt for subscription in the Merrimack River Proprietors of Locks and Canals, [1795]
Bill from Leonard's Tavern, Palmer, Mass., 1795
Bill from Hadley, Mass., tavern, 1795
Bill from Hitchcock's Stage Tavern, Brookfield, Mass., receipted by D. Hitchcock, 1795
Letter from Fulwar Skipwith (Paris) to Capt. Ebenezer Hoyt about regulations related to payment for delivery of the cargo of the ship Friendship, 8 Jan. 1795
Receipt to the estate of Isaac Smith for payment of Buckland, Mass., property taxes, 9 Jan. 1795
Letter from Elizabeth Smith Hale (Philadelphia) to Hannah Carter Smith about the christening of Samuel Otis's daughter Mary, 12 Jan. 1795
Letter from Elizabeth Smith Hale (Philadelphia) to Hannah Carter Smith about her activities at Philadelphia and family news, 24 Jan. 1795
Account of William Smith with Martha Babcock for Adam Babcock's losses of cargo on the ships Enterprise and Dispatch, with receipt by Benjamin Greene, Jr., 30 Jan. 1795
Letter from Elizabeth Smith Hale (Philadelphia) to Hannah Carter Smith with news of the social activities at Philadelphia, 7 Feb. 1795
Extract of letter from G. Charrier (Paris) to the Agency of Commerce at Rochefort regarding payment for freight and demurrage for flour delivered by the ship Friendship, Ebenezer Hoyt, master, 20 Feb. 1795
Letter from Fulwar Skipwith (Paris) to Ebenezer Hoyt about the complexities of the French system of payment for a cargo of flour delivered by the Friendship, 26 Feb. 1795
Letter from Elizabeth Smith Hale (Philadelphia) to Hannah Carter Smith describing social activities at Philadelphia and a reception for Gen. Washington, 26 Feb. 1795
Letter from Fulwar Skipwith (Paris) to Ebenezer Hoyt about his help in expediting his payment by the French government, 9 Mar. 1795
Letter from George Combe (Paris) to Ebenezer Hoyt about French payment for flour delivered by the ship Friendship, 15 Mar. 1795 [translation]
Letter from Elizabeth Smith Hale (Philadelphia) to Hannah Carter Smith with news of friends at Philadelphia, 25 Mar. 1795
Letter from Elizabeth Smith Hale (Philadelphia) to William Smith about John Adams's activities at Philadelphia, 30 Mar. 1795
Authorization by the French Supply Commission for payment to Ebenezer Hoyt for a cargo of flour delivered by the Friendship, 3 Apr. 1795
Letter from Fulwar Skipwith (Paris) to Ebenezer Hoyt excusing the inefficiencies of the French bureaucracy, 3 Apr. 1795
Letter from Ebenezer Hoyt (Rochefort) to Thomas Dickason and Co. on business matters, 20 Apr. 1795
Letter from Thomas Carter (Charleston) to William Smith about markets at Charleston during a trading voyage to the West Indies, enclosed with 27 Apr. 1795 bill of exchange from Crocker and Sturgis, 27 Apr. 1795
Bill of exchange from Crocker and Sturgis (Charleston) on Russell Sturgis in favor of Thomas Carter, enclosed with 27 Apr. 1795 letter from Thomas Carter to William Smith, 27 Apr. 1795
Letter from Elizabeth Smith Hale (Philadelphia) to Hannah Carter Smith speculating on the marriage prospects of Isaac Smith [III], 16 May 1795
Letter from George Meade (Philadelphia) to William Smith about accepting Henry Knox's drafts, 27 May 1795
Letter from Fulwar Skipwith (Paris) to Ebenezer Hoyt about options for reimbursement by the French government and rates of exchange, 30 May 1795
Receipt to William Smith for payment of the proprietors' assessment of the Middlesex Canal, June 1795
Letter from Ebenezer Hoyt (Rochefort) to Fulwar Skipwith on business matters, 6 June 1795
Letter from William Smith (Boston) to Hannah Carter Smith about his activities at Boston, 7 June 1795
Letter from William Smith (Boston) to Hannah Carter Smith describing repairs to their Boston house, 11 June 1795
Letter from William Smith (Boston) to Hannah Carter Smith about arrangements for her return to Boston by stage and about Jonathan Freeman's possible loss at sea, 14 June 1795
Letter from William Smith (Boston) to Hannah Carter Smith about plans for her return to Boston, 16 June 1795
Letter from George Meade (Philadelphia) to William Smith refusing to reimburse him for Henry Knox's drafts and canceling his deal, 29 June 1795
Receipt from Thomas Fobes (Boston) for assessment of the Middlesex Canal, 2 July 1795
Letter from George Meade (Philadelphia) to William Smith about informing Henry Knox that his drafts may not be drawn on them, 13 July 1795
Receipt from William P. Blake (Boston) to William Smith for payment for an encyclopedia, 30 July 1795
Bill from Ziphion Thayer (Boston) to William Smith, 4 Aug. 1795
Record by William Smith of real estate purchased at Boston, Oct. 1795
"Note of goods exported to America in 1796," 1796
Receipt to William Smith for payment of the proprietors' assessment of Middlesex Canal, Mar. 1796
Receipt from Lydia Clarke to William Smith for payment of John Wise's tuition, 14 Mar. 1796
Letter from William Smith to Hannah Carter Smith about the progress of the work on their house and family news, [Apr. 1796]
Letter from Abigail Adams (Quincy) to William Smith about cashing her note and about Smith's business misfortune at New York, 13 Apr. 1796
Letter from William Smith (Boston) to Hannah Carter Smith about redecorating their house, 27 Apr. 1796
Letter from Elizabeth Smith Hale (Portsmouth) to Hannah Carter Smith about her activities and friends at Portsmouth, 16 May 1796
Letter from William Smith (Boston) to Nathaniel Carter announcing the birth of a son, 14 July 1796
Account of William Smith with Thomas Dickason and Co. of London for a shipment on board the Galen, 25 July 1796
Receipt from Abigail Saltmarsh (Boston) to William Smith for payment of the interest on his note, 14 Sep. 1796
Ticket of admission of Hannah Carter Smith to the Federal Street Assemblies, Oct. 1796
Release from Samuel A. Otis (Boston) to William Smith for settlement of Isaac Smith's estate in the interest of Mary Smith Gray Otis, 20 Oct. 1796
Season ticket of Elizabeth Smith Hale to the Federal Street Assemblies, 20 Oct. 1796
Invoice of Thomas Carter Smith for merchandise shipped to Buenos Aires on board the brigantine Romp, [1797]
Account of William Smith with Isaac Smith, Jr. for interest on notes, 21 Jan. 1797
Letter from Joshua Carter (Newburyport) to William Smith about shipping matters, 7 Feb. 1797
Deed of sale from John Boit to John Duballet for property at Boston, 16 Feb. 1797
Bond from John Boit (Boston) to John Duballet, 16 Feb. 1797, with discharge from John Duballet to Henry Boit as administrator of his estate, 2 June 1801, and reassignment of bond from Henry Boit to Tristram Barnard, 3 June 1801
Letter from Joshua Carter (Newburyport) to his sister Hannah Carter Smith announcing the birth of a son, 28 Mar. 1797
Receipt and plan of land in Charlestown sold to William Smith by the administrators of Isaac Mallet's estate, 12 Apr. 1797
Deed of sale of property at Charlestown sold to William Smith by the administrators of Isaac Mallet's estate, 12 Apr. 1797
Letter from Thomas Carter (Charleston) to William Smith about his unsuccessful trading voyage, 21 Apr. 1797
Letter from Abigail Adams (Quincy) to William Smith about changing her plans because of the death of her mother, 21 Apr. 1797
Letter from Mary Smith Cranch (Quincy) to William Smith asking for money on her account, 22 Apr. 1797
Deposition of Edward Cruft related to the transfer of a land deed from George Tyler to William Smith, 22 Apr. 1797
Letter from Hannah Carter Smith (Boston) to William Smith on personal matters, with added letter from William Smith, Jr. to William Smith and draft of William Smith's reply, 17 May 1797
Letter from Joshua Carter (Newburyport) to William Smith on shipping matters and requesting a quantity of live poplar trees, 1 June 1797
Letter from Joshua Carter (Newburyport) to William Smith on money matters, 5 June 1797
Letter from Joshua Carter (Newburyport) to William Smith about cashing his bill of exchange, 7 June 1797
Letter from Abigail Adams (Philadelphia) to William Smith about politics, 10 June 1797
Letter from Joshua Carter (Newbury) to William Smith about ships' arrivals and French privateer activity, 17 June 1797
Letter from Henry Baynham (Willsboro, N.Y.) to Isaac Smith [Jr.] about his moving to the United States, 20 June 1797
Letter from Samuel A. Otis (Philadelphia) to William Smith about politics, 24 June 1797
Letter from Joshua Carter (Newburyport) to William Smith about shipping activity, 26 June 1797
Letter from Abigail Adams (Philadelphia) to William Smith about foreign affairs, 1 July 1797
Letter from Edward Cutts (Portsmouth) to William Smith about the birth of his son, 7 July 1797
Letter from Abigail Adams (Philadelphia) to William Smith about the many responsibilities of the presidency preventing their trip to Quincy and about her appraisal of Elbridge Gerry, 9 July 1797
Letter from Abigail Adams (Philadelphia) to William Smith about foreign affairs and a personal financial transaction with Gen. Lincoln, 11 July 1797
Letter from Abigail Adams (Philadelphia) to William Smith about arming the merchant fleet and plans for a trip to Massachusetts, 19 July 1797
Letter from Abigail Adams (East Chester) to William Smith about returning to Quincy, 29 July 1797
Letter from Joshua Carter (Newburyport) to William Smith about their shipping accounts, 2 Aug. 1797
Letter from Joshua Carter (Newburyport) to William Smith about shipping schedules, 13 Aug. 1797
Letter from Henry Baynham (Willsboro, N.Y.) to Isaac Smith [Jr.] describing the town and his attempt to start a ministry there, 30 Aug. 1797
Bill from Nathaniel Austin (Boston) to William Smith for silver, 30 Aug. 1797
Letter from Joshua Carter (Newburyport) to William Smith questioning Capt. Pierson's accounts for a voyage from Lisbon to Boston in the American Eagle, 5 Sep. 1797
Letter from Samuel A. Otis to William Smith about the epidemic in Philadelphia, 12 Sep. 1797
Letter from Joshua Carter (Newburyport) to William Smith about activities at Newburyport and family news, 14 Sep. 1797
Letter from Abigail Adams (East Chester) to William Smith about her daughter Abigail Adams Smith's depression and the New York reception for the president, 23 Oct. 1797
Deed of sale from Tristram Barnard to Moses Barnard for land at Boston, 23 Oct. 1797
Letter from Abigail Beck (Newburyport) to Hannah Carter Smith about dressmaking, 24 Oct. [1797]
Letter from Joshua Carter (Newburyport) to William Smith on shipping matters, 24 Oct. 1797
Letter from Samuel A. Otis (Philadelphia) to William Smith about a convening of Congress and the abatement of the yellow fever epidemic, 12 Nov. 1797
Bill from Ebenezer Moulton to William Smith for silver, 15 Nov. 1797
Agreement of Marston Watson with David Sears and Tristram Barnard, owners of the ship Charles, related to a trading voyage to the Far East, 18 Nov. 1797 [copy]
Letter from Samuel A. Otis (Philadelphia) to William Smith about foreign affairs and about supplying him with fruits and vegetables from New England, 19 Nov. 1797
Letter from Joshua Carter (Newburyport) to William Smith about the proposed destination of the ship American Eagle and approved flags for their ships, 21 Nov. 1797
Agreement of Capt. Moses Barnard with David Sears and Tristram Barnard, owners of the ship Charles, on the terms of a trading voyage to the Far East, 21 Nov. 1797
Instructions from Tristram Barnard and David Sears to Capt. Moses Barnard, with letter, 21 Nov. 1797
1798-1818
Letter from Abigail Adams to William Smith about Adams family business affairs, [ante 12 June 1798]
NOTE: This item was previously mis-identified as a letter from Abigail Adams to William Smith, [1798], and microfilmed under that date.
Invoice by Moses Barnard of the brigantine Lydia for cargo purchased at Batavia, [1798]
List by Moses Barnard of disbursements of the brigantine Lydia at Batavia, [1798]
Letter from Abigail Beck to Hannah Carter Smith about making a quilt, [1798]
Letter from Abigail Adams (Philadelphia) to [William Smith] about reports from France, Jan. 1798
Letter from Joshua Carter (Newburyport) to William Smith about a joint venture on the American Eagle and other shipping matters, 2 Jan. 1798
Letter from Joshua Carter (Newburyport) to William Smith about the favorable prospect of a trading voyage to Naples, 9 Jan. 1798
Letter from Thomas Carter (Newburyport) to William Smith on business matters, 19 Jan. 1798
Letter from Abigail Beck (Newburyport) to Hannah Carter Smith about family news, 23 Jan. [1798]
Letter from Abigail Beck (Newburyport) to Hannah Carter Smith about completing her quilt, 24 Jan. 1798
Mortgage deed from John Boit (Boston) to John Boit, Jr. for property at Boston, 26 Jan. 1798, with assignment from John Boit, Jr. (Newport) to Henrietta Jones, 17 Mar. 1800
Letter from Abigail Beck (Newburyport) to Hannah Carter Smith with Carter family news, 4 Feb. 1798
Letter from Joshua Carter (Newburyport) to William Smith about the advantages of allowing his ship's master to trade at his own discretion in Spain, 4 Feb. 1798
Letter from Joshua Carter (Newburyport) to William Smith about shipping matters, 6 Feb. 1798
Letter from Abigail Adams (Philadelphia) to William Smith about political appointments and domestic and foreign politics, 6 Feb. 1798
Deed of sale from Thomas Welsh (Boston) to William Smith for property on Hanover St., Boston, 10 Feb. 1798
Deed of sale from Thomas Welsh (Boston) to William Smith for land in Charlestown, 12 Feb. 1798
Letter from Abigail Adams (Philadelphia) to William Smith about foreign affairs and requesting a shipment of New England fish, 22 Feb. 1798
Letter from John Quincy Adams (Berlin) to Abigail Adams about Randolph, Monroe, etc., 22 Feb. 1798
Ticket for dinner at Boston to celebrate Washington's birthday, 22 Feb. 1798
Letter from Abigail Adams (Philadelphia) to [William Smith] about the president's refusal to attend Washington's birthday celebration, 28 Feb. 1798
Letter from Abigail Adams (Philadelphia) to [William Smith] about foreign relations, 5 Mar. 1798
Letter from Samuel A. Otis (Philadelphia) to William Smith about the international situation, 11 Mar. 1798
Letter from Joshua Carter (Newburyport) to William Smith about insurance coverage for one of his ships, 20 Mar. 1798
Letter from Abigail Adams (Philadelphia) to William Smith about Franco-American relations, 20 Mar. 1798
Letter from Hannah Carter Smith (Boston) to Mary Smith Gray Otis with family news, 22 Mar. 1798
Letter from Abigail Adams (Philadelphia) to William Smith about Franco-American relations, 24 Mar. 1798
Letter from Mary Smith Gray Otis (Philadelphia) to Hannah Carter Smith about the unsettled state of affairs with France and Abigail Adams's popularity, 30 Mar. 1798
Letter from Abigail Adams (Philadelphia) to William Smith about Franco-American relations, 30 Mar. 1798
Bill from Elizabeth Bonynge to William Smith for tuition for his daughters, 2 Apr. 1798
Letter from Samuel A. Otis (Philadelphia) to William Smith about the international situation, 3 Apr. 1798
Letter from Abigail Adams (Philadelphia) to William Smith about Franco-American relations, 6 Apr. 1798
Letter from Elizabeth Smith Hale (Portsmouth) to Hannah Carter Smith about the death of Rev. Clarke, 7 Apr. 1798
Letter from Hannah Carter Smith (Boston) to Mary Smith Gray Otis describing Rev. Clarke's death, 12 Apr. 1798
Letter from Abigail Adams (Philadelphia) to William Smith about support for the president's position, John Quincy Adams and his wife in Europe, and John Quincy Adams's illness in a remote town there, 15 Apr. 1798
Letter from Mary Smith Gray Otis (Philadelphia) to Hannah Carter Smith with sympathy on the deaths of Hannah Carter Smith's father Nicholas Carter and Rev. Clarke, 22 Apr. 1798
Letter of condolence from Abigail Adams (Philadelphia) to Hannah Carter Smith, 22 Apr. 1798
Letter from Samuel A. Otis (Philadelphia) to William Smith about the deaths of Nathaniel Carter and Rev. Clarke and his plans for returning to Boston, 24 Apr. 1798
Letter from Isaac Smith, Jr. (Boston) to Mary Smith Gray Otis about the deaths in the family, 27 Apr. 1798
Letter from William Smith (Boston) to Mary Smith Gray Otis about the deaths in the family, 29 Apr. 1798
Letter of condolence from F. Beck to Hannah Carter Smith, May [1798]
Letter of condolence from Abigail Adams (Philadelphia) to William Smith and Hannah Carter Smith, 3 May 1798
Letter of condolence from Mary Smith Gray Otis (Philadelphia) to William Smith and describing a group of volunteers organized to support the president's position, 5-7 May 1798
Letter of condolence from Elizabeth Epes Carter to Mary Smith Gray Otis on the death of her daughter, 6 May [1798]
Letter from Elizabeth Smith Hale (Byfield) describing a visit at Byfield, 10 May 1798
Letter from Elizabeth Smith Hale (Boston) to Harriet Otis about the death of her cousin Mary Smith, 13 May 1798
Letter from Abigail Adams (Philadelphia) to William Smith about Franco-American relations, 21 May 1798
Conveyance of right of dower from Thomas and Abigail Welsh (Boston) to William Smith related to the sale of lands at Boston and Charlestown, 22 May 1798
Record by Thomas Welsh of land transactions at Charlestown from 1785 to 1798, 25 May 1798
Letter from Abigail Adams (Philadelphia) to William Smith about Franco-American relations and the possibility of Thomas Welsh's employment by John Quincy Adams at Berlin, 4 June 1798
Letter from Abigail Adams (Philadelphia) to William Smith about the arrival of dispatches from France, 6 June 1798
Letter from Abigail Adams (Philadelphia) to William Smith about Franco-American relations, 9 June 1798
Letter from Samuel A. Otis (Philadelphia) to William Smith about the expense of obtaining a plan of the Philadelphia Poorhouse, 11 June 1798
Letter from Abigail Adams to William Smith about Adams family business affairs, [ante 12 June 1798]
See [1798].
Letter from Samuel A. Otis (Philadelphia) to William Smith about trying to adjust the bill for a draft of the plan of the Philadelphia Poorhouse, 12 June 1798
Letter from John Quincy Adams (Berlin) to William Smith on business matters, 14 June 1798 [manuscript, typescript, and manuscript copy]
Bill from James Morrill (Boston) to [Hannah Carter] Smith for linen goods, 15 June 1798
Letter from Abigail Adams (Philadelphia) to William Smith on Franco-American relations, 19 June 1798
Letter from Abigail Adams (Philadelphia) to William Smith about domestic and foreign politics and the president's philosophy on appointments, 29 June 1798
Letter from Samuel A. Otis (Philadelphia) to William Smith about Congressional matters, 5 July 1798
Letter from Joshua Carter (Newburyport) to William Smith about a shipment of cordage and shipbuilding at Newburyport, 5 July 1798
Letter from Abigail Adams (Philadelphia) to [William Smith] about Massachusetts legislators' patriotism in the Franco-American issue, seditious writing in the press, and the preference in nominating Washington over Hamilton as commander-in-chief, 7 July 1798
Invitation from Increase Sumner (Roxbury) to William Smith for breakfast, 11 July 1798
Letter from Mary Smith Gray Otis (Philadelphia) to Hannah Carter Smith, 16 July 1798
Letter from Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody (Atkinson) to Hannah Carter Smith about the comfort of Elizabeth Quincy's visit during her child's serious illness, 16 July 1798
Letter from Samuel A. Otis (Philadelphia) to William Smith about the Senate's refusal to confirm Col. Smith's nomination as adjutant general, 21 July 1798
Letter from Thomas Welsh, Jr. (Newburyport) to William Smith about financial arrangements for his voyage to Europe, Aug. 1798
Letter from Samuel A. Otis (Shrewsbury) to William Smith about the epidemics in Boston and Philadelphia, 15 Aug. 1798
Letter from Joshua Carter (Newburyport) to William Smith on business matters, 11 Sep. 1798
Receipt from Nathaniel Austin (Boston) to William Smith for payment for a coffee pot, 22 Oct. 1798
Letter from Samuel A. Otis (Philadelphia) to William Smith about the effect of the epidemic on Philadelphia, 23 Nov. 1798
Letter from Joshua Carter (Newburyport) to William Smith about plans for a trading voyage to Trinidad, with list of lumber market prices in the West Indies, 23 Nov. 1798
Inventory of real estate holdings in papers related to the settlement of Nathaniel Carter's estate, [1799] [copy]
Letter from Abigail Adams [Quincy] to William Smith about plans for his trip to Quincy and an invitation to join them at the Castle, [July 1799]
NOTE: This item was previously mis-identified as a letter from Abigail Adams to William Smith, [1799], and microfilmed under that date.
Letter from Oliver Wolcott (Philadelphia) to William Smith about his offer to cover Robert Montgomery's accounts, 1 Jan. 1799
Letter from Abigail Adams (Quincy) to William Smith about politics, 2 Jan. 1799
Letter from Thomas Cary (Newburyport) to William Smith about a financial matter, 2 Feb. 1799
Draft of letter from John Quincy Adams (Berlin) to John Adams about European affairs, 10 Feb. 1799
Letter from William Savage and Co. (Kingston, Jamaica) to William Smith about the recapture of his schooner Nancy, 22 Feb. 1799
Letter from William Ward (Kingston, Jamaica) to William Smith about the capture of his schooner Nancy by the French and recapture by French royalists, 24 Feb. 1799
Memorandum by [Thomas Marshall] about land belonging to Tristram Barnard at Nantucket, 26 Feb. 1799
Deed from Thomas Marshall to Tristram Barnard, 26 Feb. 1799
Letter from William Savage and Co. (Kingston, Jamaica) to William Smith about disposal of the cargo of his recaptured schooner Nancy, with copy of 22 Feb. 1799 letter from William Savage and Co. to William Smith, enclosed with 5 Apr. 1799 letter from William Savage and Co. to William Smith, 7 Mar. 1799
Letter from William Ward (Kingston, Jamaica) to William Smith about the libeling of the schooner Nancy and her cargo, 9 Mar. 1799
Bill from Jonas Green (Boston) to the owners of the ship Charles, 11 Mar. 1799
Letter from William Ward (Kingston, Jamaica) to William Smith about the sale of the schooner Nancy's libeled cargo and terms for her repossession, 4 Apr. 1799
Letter from William Savage and Co. (Kingston, Jamaica) to William Smith about the sale of the schooner Nancy's cargo, libeled at Kingston, with current market price list, enclosed with 7 Mar. 1799 letter from William Savage and Co. to William Smith, 5 Apr. 1799
Receipt from George Cutts (Boston) to William Smith for interest due Edward Cutts of Portsmouth, 8 Apr. 1799
Letter from Thomas Dickason and Co. (London) to William Smith about the detention of Capt. Brooks's ship at Paris and other shipping matters, 9 Apr. 1799, with copy of letter from Thomas Dickason and Co. to William Smith on shipping matters, 13-16 Mar. 1799
Letter from Thomas Dickason and Co. (London) to William Smith with news of the arrival at Falmouth of one of his ships commanded by Capt. Emery, 10 Apr. 1799
Letter from William Ward (Kingston, Jamaica) to William Smith about plans for returning his schooner Nancy to Boston, 13 Apr. 1799
Indenture of partition related to the division of land in Newburyport in the settlement of Nathaniel Carter's estate, 26 Apr. 1799
Deed from Benjamin Frothingham to William Smith, 11 May 1799
Letter from William Savage and Co. (Kingston, Jamaica) to William Smith about the capture and detention at Nassau of the schooner Freeport carrying William Cruft to Boston, with copy, 13 June 1799
Letter from Joshua Carter (Newburyport) to William Smith on business matters, 2 July 1799
Letter from Joshua Carter (Newburyport) to William Smith on shipping matters, 7 July 1799
Letter from Abigail Adams [Quincy] to William Smith about plans for his trip to Quincy and an invitation to join them at the Castle, [July 1799]
See [1799].
Letter from William Smith (Boston) to William Smith, Jr. with family news, 20 Aug. 1799
Letter from Elizabeth Epes Carter (Newburyport) to her sister-in-law Hannah Carter Smith about family matters, 29 Aug. 1799
Letter from Abigail Beck (Newburyport) to Hannah Carter Smith about family news, 30 Aug. 1799
Letter from William Smith, Jr. (Atkinson) to William Smith about his lack of correspondence, 31 Aug. 1799
Letter from Elizabeth Epes Carter to Hannah Carter Smith with family news, 21 Sep. 1799
Letter from William Smith (Boston) to William Smith, Jr. about family activities, 25 Sep. 1799
Letter from William Smith (Boston) to William Smith, Jr. about plans for his school vacation, 10 Oct. 1799
Letter from Joshua Carter (Newburyport) to William Smith on business matters, 14 Oct. 1799
Letter from William Smith (Boston) to William Smith, Jr. about collecting him from school, 17 Oct. 1799
Letter from Henry Baynham (Willsboro, N.Y.) to Isaac Smith, Jr. about activities of Baptist and Methodist congregations, 21 Oct. 1799
Letter from David Sears (Boston) to Thomas Dickason and Co. on business matters related to the brigantine Lydia and commerce in the Far East, 21 Oct. 1799
Letter from F. Beck (Newburyport) to Hannah Carter Smith about the death of her niece, Nov. [1799]
Deed of sale from Benjamin Joy (Boston) to Harrison Gray Otis for property on Court St., Boston, with notation of assignment to William Smith, [18--] [incomplete]
Letter from Joshua Carter (Newburyport) to William Smith about Capt. Brooks's arrival with a cargo of salt, 8 Jan. 1800
Letter from Abigail Adams (Philadelphia) to Hannah Carter Smith about her responsibilities as first lady and the virtues of Martha Washington, 17 Jan. 1800
Letter from Mary Smith Gray Otis (Philadelphia) to Hannah Carter Smith, 26 Jan. 1800
Letter from Thomas Carter (Newburyport) to William Smith on shipping matters, 2 Feb. 1800
Letter from William Savage and Co. (Kingston, Jamaica) to William Smith about the disposition of the Nancy's cargo, with market price list, 10 Feb. 1800
Letter from John Nicholson to David Sears describing the characteristics and selection of indigo, 14 Feb. [1800]
Letter from Thomas Carter (Newburyport) to William Smith on financial matters, 4 Mar. 1800
Letter from Joshua Carter (Newburyport) to William Smith on business matters, 18 Mar. 1800
Letter from Joshua Carter (Newburyport) to William Smith on shipping matters, 25 Mar. 1800
Letter from Joshua Carter (Newburyport) to William Smith about an agreement on the selling price of a ship, 27 Mar. 1800
Letter from Stephen Peabody (Atkinson) to William Smith about a financial matter, 31 Mar. 1800
Letter from Joshua Carter (Newburyport) to William Smith about their sale of the American Eagle, 2 Apr. 1800
Letter from Joshua Carter (Newburyport) to William Smith about having medals made in the Perkins shop, 8 Apr. 1800
Letter from Joshua Carter (Newburyport) to William Smith about terms for the sale of their ship and shipping matters, 14 Apr. 1800
Letter from William Smith (Boston) to Hannah Carter Smith with family news, 24 Apr. 1800
Letter from Abigail Adams to Hannah Carter Smith and Elizabeth Smith Hale welcoming them to Philadelphia, [27 Apr. 1800]
Letter from William Smith, Jr. (Boston) to Hannah Carter Smith about his activities during her absence, 27 Apr. 1800
Letter from William Smith (Boston) to Hannah Carter Smith with news of family and friends at Boston, 27 Apr. 1800
Letter from Hannah Carter Smith (Philadelphia) to William Smith about her trip from New York and activities on her arrival at Philadelphia, 27 Apr. 1800
Letter from Hannah Carter Smith (Philadelphia) to William Smith about dining with the Adams family and viewing the new president's house, 30 Apr. 1800
Letter from Hannah Storer (New York) to Hannah Carter Smith about family news, 1 May 1800
Letter from William Smith (Boston) to Hannah Carter Smith about plans for her return from Philadelphia and family news, 2 May 1800
Letter from William Smith (Boston) to Hannah Carter Smith about plans for her trip home, 4 May 1800
Letter from Hannah Carter Smith (Philadelphia) to William Smith about John Randolph's appearance at a session of Congress and her plans to return to Boston, 5 May 1800
Letter from William Smith (Boston) to Hannah Carter Smith about meeting her in New York, 6 May 1800
Account of William Smith with Nathaniel Kent of Hallowell, 14 Aug. 1800
Letter from Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody (Atkinson) to William Smith about family news, 15 Nov. 1800
Letter from Jane T. Hallett (Boston) to Mary Caldwell about Mrs. Davis's dancing exhibition and her social activities, 30 Jan. 1801
Letter from Thomas Brewer (Boston) to Moses Barnard about goods shipped to the Far East on the barque Lydia, enclosed with 10 Feb. 1801 bill of lading, 10 Feb. 1801, with acknowledgment by Moses Barnard and owners' agreement of Tristram Barnard and David Sears, 26 Feb. 1801
Bill of lading from Moses Barnard (Boston) to Thomas Brewer for goods shipped to the Far East on the barque Lydia under his command, enclosed with 10 Feb. 1801 letter from Thomas Brewer to Moses Barnard, 10 Feb. 1801
Instructions from Tristram Barnard and David Sears to Capt. Moses Barnard about a trading voyage to the Far East, 10 Feb. 1801
Letter from Thomas Brewer (Boston) to Capt. Moses Barnard with additional instructions about disposition of the cargo of the Lydia on a trading voyage to the Far East, 15 Feb. 1801
Invoice from Thomas Capen (Boston) for merchandise shipped to the Far East on the barque Lydia under the command of Moses Barnard, 18 Feb. 1801, with letter from Thomas Capen to Capt. Moses Barnard giving instructions for disposal of the merchandise, 21 Feb. 1801
Bill of lading for a voyage to the Far East, enclosed with 26 Feb. 1801 letter from Thomas Brewer to Moses Barnard, 24 Feb. 1801
Letter from Thomas Brewer (Boston) to Capt. Moses Barnard with instructions for the additional shipment of merchandise on board the barque Lydia during a trading voyage to the Far East, enclosing 24 Feb. 1801 bill of lading, 26 Feb. 1801
Invoice of articles shipped by Ozias Goodwin on the barque Lydia, 27 Feb. 1801
Bill of lading from Moses Barnard (Boston) for articles shipped by Ozias Goodwin on board the barque Lydia during a voyage to the Far East, 27 Feb. 1801
Bill of lading from Moses Barnard (Boston) for goods shipped by David Sears and Tristram Barnard, owners of the barque Lydia, on a voyage to the Far East, 4 Mar. 1801
Letter from Tristram Barnard (Boston) to his brother Moses Barnard about shipping matters, 23 Mar. 1801
Power of attorney from John and Ellen Boit (Newport, R.I.) to Henry Boit, 25 May 1801
Deed of sale from John Boit, Jr. and others to Tristram Barnard for property at Boston, 1 June 1801
Reassignment of mortgage deed from Henry Boit (Boston) to Tristram Barnard for property at Boston formerly owned by John Boit, 3 June 1801
Letter from Elizabeth Smith Hale (Portsmouth) to [Hannah Carter Smith] with family news, 2 July 1801
Deed of sale from Nathaniel Carter, Jr. and other members of the Carter family to William and Hannah Carter Smith for pews in the First Church, Newburyport, Mass., 11 July 1801
Excerpt of deed from [William Smith] to John Quincy Adams for property at Boston occupied by Col. Samuel Bradford, 7 Oct. 1801
Bill of exchange from Moses Barnard (Manila) on David Sears and Tristram Barnard in favor of Ozias Goodwin, 10 Oct. 1801
Letter from Moses Barnard (Manila) to William Smith about the markets at Manila and Guam, 23 Oct. 1801
Letter from Abigail Beck (Newburyport) to Hannah Carter Smith about news of the Carter family, 23 Nov. 1801
Letter from Abigail Beck (Newburyport) to Hannah Carter Smith about the price of sable furs, 3 Dec. 1801
Letter from Mary Carter Cutts (Portsmouth) to Hannah Carter Smith about family news, with postscript by Edward Cutts to William Smith about his accounts, 14 Jan. 1802
Ship's manifest and papers related to a trading voyage of the barque Lydia to the Far East under the command of Capt. Moses Barnard, issued at Manila, 8 Feb. 1802
Letter from Henry Baynham (Willsboro, N.Y.) to Isaac Smith [Jr.] about his appointment as postmaster and the popularity of the Methodist and Baptist churches, 2 Mar. 1802
Bill of exchange from Moses Barnard (Manila) on David Sears and Tristram Barnard in favor of Thomas Brewer, 10 Mar. 1802
Bills of exchange from Moses Barnard (Manila) on David Sears and Tristram Barnard in favor of Thomas Capen, 10 Mar. 1802 [3 bills]
Bill of lading from Moses Barnard (Manila) for shipment by Samuel Balch on board the barque Lydia, 17 Mar. 1802
Letter from Thomas Carter (Newburyport) to [William Smith] about the death of James Duncan Carter, 30 Sep. 1802
Letter from Elizabeth Smith Hale (Wendell) to [William and Hannah Carter Smith] about her trip to Wendell and family news, 2 Oct. 1802
Bills of exchange from Moses Barnard (Manila) on David Sears and Tristram Barnard in favor of Thomas Brewer, 14 Oct. 1802 [2 bills]
Letter from William Smith (Boston) to Hannah Carter Smith about his activities and family news, 21 June 1803
Letter from Henry Baynham (Willsboro, N.Y.) to Isaac Smith [Jr.] asking him to take on the care and schooling of his grandson at Byfield, 28 June 1803
Memorandum of the agreement of Samuel A. Otis with William Smith, 1 Oct. 1803
Letter from William Smith (Boston) to Hannah Carter Smith with family news, 1 Nov. 1803
Letter from Abigail Adams Smith (New York) to Hannah Carter Smith, 6 Nov. 1803
Accounts by William Smith of the estate of Nathaniel Carter for 1797-1804, 11 Jan. 1804 [copy]
Letter from Elizabeth Epes Carter (Newburyport) to Hannah Carter Smith on personal matters, 30 Jan. 1804
Letter from Elizabeth Epes Carter (Newburyport) to [Hannah Carter Smith] about family news, 17 Mar. 1804
Letter from Thomas Wilson (London) to William Smith about shipping matters and the monopoly in wine importations, 10 May 1804, with copies of letters from Thomas Wilson to William Smith about shipping matters, 16 Apr. 1804 and 21 Apr. 1804
Letter from Jane Hallett Caldwell (Boston) to her sister Mary Caldwell about family news, [June 1804]
Letter from William Smith (Boston) to Hannah Carter Smith about family news, 19 June 1804
Letter from William Smith (Boston) to Hannah Carter Smith with news of some of his ships' masters at Cadiz, 22 June 1804
Release from Thomas Welsh (Boston) to William Smith of land in Boston deeded by his father, 29 Sep. 1804
Letter from Jane Hallett Caldwell (Billerica) to Mary Caldwell about family news, 10 Dec. 1804
Account of William Smith with Thomas Wilson of London, 31 Dec. 1804
Draft of letter from [William Smith] on a financial matter related to the receipts from a shipment on the ship Levant, [1805]
Essay on excellence, by William Smith, Jr., 1805
Letter from Thomas Wilson (London) to William Smith about the trading voyage of the Levant and his accounts, 4 Jan. 1805, with copy of letter from Thomas Wilson to William Smith on shipping matters, 29 Nov. 1804
Deed of sale from William Smith (Boston) to Isaac Smith [Jr.] for land at Charlestown, 17 Jan. 1805
Letter from Elizabeth Epes Carter (Newburyport) to Hannah Carter Smith about her financial troubles, 22 Jan. 1805
Letter from Abigail Adams (Quincy) to Hannah Carter Smith offering to help in her adversity of fortune, 22 Jan. 1805
Letter from Abigail Adams (Quincy) to Hannah Carter Smith with advice about dealing with her financial reverses, 26 Jan. 1805
Letter from Thomas Wilson (London) to William Smith about the favorable business aspects of the war with Spain and insurance matters related to the cargo of the Levant, 28 Jan. 1805, with copy of letter from Capt. John Day (Holland) to Thomas Wilson about the voyage of the Columbia to Holland and an accident causing a delay in sailing, 21 Dec. 1804
Letter from Thomas Wilson (London) to William Smith on business matters, 27 Feb. 1805 [copy]
Bill from J. A. Cummings to William Smith for tuition and board of his son and daughter, 1 Apr. 1805
Letter from Elizabeth Epes Carter (Portsmouth) to Hannah Carter Smith with advice on her financial reverses, 14 Apr. 1805
Letter from Thomas Wilson (London) to William Smith about the voyage of the Levant to Leghorn and Malaga and Capt. Appleton's accounts, 18 Apr. 1805, with copy of letter from Thomas Wilson to William Smith about his account and the trading voyage of the Levant, 2 Apr. 1805
Letter from Jane Hallett Caldwell (Boston) to Mary Caldwell about the theater at Boston and family matters, 22 Apr. 1805
Memorandum on Maine lands by John Jones of Augusta, 20 May 1805 [copy]
Letter from Elizabeth Smith Hale (Winslow) to Hannah Carter Smith describing her visit to Winslow, 11 July 1805
Deed of sale from Samuel A. Otis and Mary Smith Gray Otis to Hannah Carter Smith for land at Boston, 9 Oct. 1805 [copy]
Letter from Elizabeth Hall (Byfield) to Hannah Carter Smith about family news, 16 Nov. 1805
School exercise book of Isaac Smith III, 1806
Letter of condolence from Abigail Adams (Quincy) to Hannah Carter Smith, 14 Feb. 1806
Letter of condolence from Elizabeth Epes Carter (Newburyport) to Hannah Carter Smith on the death of her daughter Mary, 18 Feb. 1806
Letter of condolence from Elizabeth Epes Carter (Newburyport) to Hannah Carter Smith on the death of her daughter Mary, 21 Feb. 1806
Letter of condolence from Abigail Adams Smith (New York) to Hannah Carter Smith, 12 Mar. 1806
Letter from Frances Caldwell Barnard (Boston) to her mother Frances Caldwell about her return trip from Billerica, 13 Apr. 1806
Notice to William Smith of his election to the General Court, 15 May 1806
Letter from William Smith (Boston) to Hannah Carter Smith describing Allyne Otis's drowning, 28 July 1806
Commission to William Smith as justice of the peace, 26 Aug. 1806
Letter from Elizabeth Epes Carter to Hannah Carter Smith with sympathy on the death of her son, 2 Nov. 1806
Testimonial from the Boston Marine Society to William Smith for his services as treasurer, enclosed with 25 Nov. 1806 letter, 4 Nov. 1806
Letter from the Boston Marine Society to William Smith forwarding the society's testimonial for his service, enclosing copy of 4 Nov. 1806 vote, 25 Nov. 1806
Signed by Tristram Barnard and Ozias Goodwin.
Letter from William Smith (Boston) to Isaac Smith, Jr. about the death of their uncle Storer, 6 Jan. 1807
Draft of letter from William Smith (Boston) to the officers of the Boston Marine Society acknowledging their testimonial, 30 Jan. 1807
Will of Hepribah Edwards, 2 Feb. 1807 [copy]
Letter from Elizabeth Epes Carter (Newburyport) to Hannah Carter Smith about her theories of child rearing, 28 Mar. 1807
Letter from Elizabeth Smith Hale to Isaac Smith [Jr.] about Dr. Stillman's funeral and news of the Smith and Adams families, 31 Mar. 1807
Letter from Thomas Jervis (Holborn) to Isaac Smith, Jr. about his former church at Sidmouth and friends in England, 18 July 1807
Letter from Frances Caldwell Barnard (Boston) to Mary Caldwell with family news, 15 Sep. 1807
Letter from John B. Morand (Lisbon) to Rev. Isaac Smith [Jr.] about his arrival in Portugal, 1 Nov. 1807
Letter from Frances Caldwell Barnard (Billerica) to her mother Frances Caldwell with family news, 22 Dec. 1807
Account of Frances Caldwell Barnard with Tristram Barnard, 15 Jan. 1808
Letter from Frances Caldwell Barnard (Boston) to her mother Frances Caldwell about her social activities, 25 Jan. 1808
Letter from Henry Baynham (Essex, N.Y.) to Isaac Smith [Jr.] about his conversion to Unitarianism, 25 Mar. 1808
Account of Frances Caldwell Barnard with Tristram Barnard, 17 May 1808
Letter from Frances Caldwell Barnard (Nantucket) to her sister Mary Caldwell describing New Bedford and her trip to Nantucket, 18 June 1808
Letter from William Smith (Boston) to Hannah Carter Smith about events at Boston, 15 Aug. 1808
Resignation of Isaac Smith, Jr. as preceptor at Dummer Academy, 12 Apr. 1809
Notice to William Smith of his election to the General Court, 17 May 1809
Letter from William Smith, Jr. (Northampton) to William Smith about his introductions there and in New York, 17 May 1809
Letter from William Smith, Jr. (Rutland, N.Y.) to William Smith about his itinerary, 24 May 1809
Letter from Hannah Carter Smith (Boston) to William Smith, Jr. about events at Boston and family news, 6 June 1809
Discharge by Jonathan Amory for William Smith's indebtedness to the estate of Nathaniel Fellowes, 16 June 1809
Letter from Hannah Carter Smith (Newbury, Vt.) to Hannah Smith Pickman on family matters, 17 Aug. 1809
Letter from William Smith (Boston) to Hannah Carter Smith speculating on the outcome of the brigantine Calisto's capture by the British, 18 Aug. 1809
Letter from William Smith (Boston) to Hannah Carter Smith about the capture of his brigantine Calisto by the British, 22 Aug. 1809
Letter from Henry Baynham (Essex, N.Y.) to Isaac Smith [Jr.] about his conduct of the post office there, 16 Dec. 1809
Letter from Ruth Caldwell (Billerica) to Mary Caldwell about friends at Billerica, 181-
Clipping from the Centinel with verses on the death of Sarah Thomas, 1810
Letter from Frances Caldwell Barnard (Portsmouth) to Mary Caldwell about her activities during a visit to Portsmouth, 7 May 1810
Letter from William Smith (Boston) to Thomas Carter Smith about the Fourth of July celebration at Faneuil Hall, 8 July 1810
Letter from Edmund Wright, Jr. (Boston) to Thomas Carter Smith describing the exhibits at Faneuil Hall on the occasion of the Fourth of July celebration, 10 July 1810
Letter from Elizabeth Smith Hale (Newbury, Vt.) to William Smith describing her trip to Vermont, 15 July 1810
Letter from Henry Baynham (Essex, N.Y.) to Isaac Smith [Jr.] with his views on politics and religious matters, 21 July 1810
Letter from Frances Caldwell Barnard (Boston) to Mary Caldwell, 8 Aug. 1810
Letter from William Smith (Boston) to Thomas Carter Smith about plans for his return from Portsmouth, 21 Aug. 1810
Letter from Hannah Carter Smith (Boston) to Thomas Carter Smith about his wardrobe, Sep. 1810
Letter from William Smith (Boston) to Thomas Carter Smith about buying clothing and family news, 24 Oct. 1810
Letter from Hannah Smith Pickman (Boston) to Thomas Carter Smith about her trip to Newburyport and family news, 7 Nov. 1810
Letter from Frances Caldwell Barnard (Billerica) to Mary Caldwell about her activities at Billerica, 30 Nov. 1810
Letter from Frances Caldwell Barnard (Billerica) to Mary Caldwell about friends at Billerica, 25 Dec. 1810
Letter from Hannah Carter Smith (Boston) to Hannah Smith Pickman about William Smith, Jr.'s illness, [1811]
School exercise and commonplace book of Thomas Carter Smith, 5 Apr. 1811
Account of Frances Caldwell Barnard with Tristram Barnard, 8 May 1811
Letter from Frances Caldwell Barnard (Portsmouth) to her mother Frances Caldwell about her visit to Portsmouth and social activities, 14 May 1811
Letter from Thomas Carter (Newbury) to William Smith about the sale of his guns, 16 May 1811
School exercise book of Thomas Carter Smith, 19 June 1811
Letter from Frances Caldwell Barnard (Billerica) to Mary Caldwell about her activities, 15 Aug. 1811
Letter of condolence from Elizabeth Epes Carter to Hannah Carter Smith, 12 Sep. [1811]
Letter of condolence from Abigail Adams (Quincy) to William and Hannah Carter Smith, 12 Sep. 1811
Account of Frances Caldwell Barnard with Tristram Barnard, 9 Oct. 1811
Letter from Mary Smith Gray Otis (Washington) to Hannah Carter Smith about her dislike of Washington social activities, 21 Nov. 1811
Letter from Frances Caldwell Barnard (Billerica) to Mary Caldwell about her friends and activities at Billerica, 25 Nov. 1811
Copy of tribute of the Massachusetts chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society to deceased members, given at Cambridge, 1812
Letter from Tristram Barnard to Frances Caldwell Barnard about a financial transaction on her account, Jan. [1812]
Letter from Isaac Smith III (Dublin) to William Smith about a trading voyage, 24 Mar. 1812
Account of Frances Caldwell Barnard with Tristram Barnard, 20 May 1812
Inscription on the monument of Joseph Buckminster, June 1812
Letter from William Smith (Bellows Falls) to Hannah Smith Pickman describing his trip to Vermont, 6 July 1812
Letter from William Smith (Burlington, Vt.) to Hannah Smith Pickman describing his trip from Bellows Falls, 11 July 1812
Letter from William Smith (Saratoga Springs, N.Y.) to Hannah Smith Pickman describing his trip from Burlington, Vt., 14 July [1812]
Letter from Hannah Carter Smith (Boston) to Hannah Smith Pickman about family news, 4 Sep. 1812
Account of Frances Caldwell Barnard with Tristram Barnard, 1 Jan. 1813
Deed of sale from Thomas L. Winthrop (Boston) to William Smith for land at Winslow, executed as administrator of the estate of John Nelson, 13 Jan. 1813
Letter from Tristram Barnard (Boston) to Frances Caldwell Barnard enclosing a memorandum of her financial account, 15 [May] 1813
Letter from Frances Caldwell Barnard (Billerica) to Mary Caldwell with family news, 22 May 1813
Commission to William Smith as justice of the peace, with 1 Feb. 1814 receipt from John Winslow to William Smith, 8 June 1813
Letter from Isaac Smith III (Pernambuco) to William Smith on a financial matter, 21 July 1813
Letter from John Bennett (Hartford) to William Smith about Isaac Smith III's death, 13 Sep. 1813
Letter from Frances Caldwell Barnard (Boston) to Mary Caldwell with family news, 13 Sep. 1813
Letter from W. Sparhawk (Hartford) to William Smith about Isaac Smith III's death, 14 Sep. 1813
Letter of condolence from Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody (Atkinson) to William and Hannah Carter Smith, 24 Sep. 1813
Letter from William M. Caldwell (Portsmouth) to his family about his activities aboard the frigate U.S.S. Congress and Portsmouth news, 5 Jan. 1814
Account of Frances Caldwell Barnard with Tristram Barnard, 8 Jan. 1814
Letter from Mary Smith Gray Otis to Hannah Carter Smith about a benefit to aid victims of the Portsmouth disaster, 16 Jan. 1814
Receipt from John Winslow (Boston) to William Smith for payment for tax on his appointment as justice of the peace, with 8 June 1813 commission, 1 Feb. 1814
Letter from Frances Caldwell Barnard to her mother Frances Caldwell about family news, 9 Mar. 1814
Letter from Samuel Eliot to Rev. Isaac Smith, Jr. acknowledging receipt of one of his sermons, 13 July 1814
Letter from Hannah Carter Smith to Hannah Smith Pickman with family news, 1 Aug. [1814]
Letter from Hannah Carter Smith (Boston) to Hannah Smith Pickman with family news, 30 Sep. 1814
Letter from Hannah Carter Smith (Boston) to Hannah Smith Pickman with news of friends at Boston, 7 Oct. 1814
Accounts book kept by Thomas Carter Smith while serving as clerk on board the ship William on a trading voyage to the Far East, 1815-1817
Letter from Frances Caldwell Barnard (Billerica) to Mary Caldwell with family news, 16 Mar. 1815
Account of Frances Caldwell Barnard with Tristram Barnard, 15 Apr. 1815
Letter from William Smith (Boston) to Hannah Carter Smith with family news, 28 July 1815
Letter from John Quincy Adams (London) to William Smith about the return of peace, 24 Aug. 1815
Journal kept by Thomas Carter Smith during a voyage to the Far East on board the ship William, Nov. 1815-Feb. 1816
Letter from Elizabeth Hall (Boston) to her nephew Thomas Carter Smith wishing him a good voyage to the Far East, 2 Nov. 1815
Seaman's certificate from Henry A. S. Dearborn (Boston) to Thomas Carter Smith, 2 Nov. 1815
Passport of Thomas Carter Smith, issued by the governor of Massachusetts, 3 Nov. 1815
Letter from Ropes, Pickman and Co. to [Thomas Carter Smith] about the terms of his position as clerk on the ship William on a voyage to the Far East, in accounts book kept by Thomas Carter Smith for 1815-1817, 4 Nov. 1815 [copy]
Letter from Mary Smith Cranch (Quincy) to Hannah Carter Smith about her husband's illness, [1816]
Letter from Lucy Tarbell (Manchester, England) to Hannah Carter Smith describing her voyage to England, 8 Jan. 1816
Letter of condolence from Abigail Adams (Quincy) to Hannah Carter Smith, 7 Apr. 1816
Letter from Mary Carter Cutts (Portsmouth) to Hannah Carter Smith with sympathy on the death of William Smith, 11 Apr. 1816
Letter of condolence from M. L. Hayden (Hartford) to Hannah Carter Smith, 23 Apr. 1816
Letter from Elizabeth Epes Carter (Newbury) to Hannah Carter Smith with sympathy on the death of William Smith, 27 Apr. 1816
Letter from Nathaniel Carter, Jr. (Newburyport) to Hannah Carter Smith consoling her on the death of William Smith, 11 May 1816
Letter from Hannah Smith Pickman (Newbury) to Hannah Carter Smith describing her surroundings and activities, 14 Aug. 1816
Letter from Thomas Carter Smith (Lisbon) to Edward Cruft about his trading voyage to the Far East, 1 Oct. 1816
Letter from Frances Caldwell Barnard (Billerica) to Mary Caldwell on family matters, 30 Nov. 1816
Letter from Thomas Carter Smith (Gibraltar) to Hannah Carter Smith about the next leg of his voyage to Calcutta, 5 Feb. 1817
Letter from Frances Caldwell Barnard (Billerica) to her daughter Frances Barnard Smith about a visit to Boston, 30 Mar. 1817
Receipt for payment of duty for entrance of the ship William into the River Hooghly (India), 6 June 1817
Letter from Frances Caldwell Barnard (Billerica) to her daughter Frances Barnard Smith with parental advice about her schooling, 1 July 1817
Letter from Frances Caldwell Barnard (Billerica) to Mary Caldwell on personal matters, 1 July 1817
Letter from Frances Caldwell Barnard (Billerica) to her daughter Frances Barnard Smith about buying a hat at Boston, 2 Aug. 1817
Poem: Verses by Frances Barnard Smith, 1818 [in French and English]
Letter from William Hammatt to Rev. Isaac Smith [Jr.] about the committee of Brattle Street Church voting to pay him an honorarium for preaching Mrs. Edwards's funeral sermon, 6 Jan. 1818
Letter from Elizabeth Epes Carter (Newbury) to Hannah Carter Smith on religious matters, 3 Apr. 1818
Letter from Hannah Carter Smith (Portsmouth) to her daughter about friends at Portsmouth, 6 Aug. 1818
Dinner invitation from Hyde de Neuville to Barnard, 21 Oct. 1818
1819-1880
Letter from Isaac Smith, Jr. to the Overseers of the Poor at Boston resigning as chaplain of the almshouse, [1819]
Account book of Hannah Carter Smith, Jan.-May 1819
Letter from William Mackay to Frances Caldwell Barnard about her account, May 1819
List by Tristram Barnard of silverware deposited in the bank, May 1819, with notation related to its disposition, July 1819
Lease from Hannah Carter Smith to Gennaro Del Noce for property in Court St., Boston, 26 June 1819
Letter from Frances Barnard Smith (Boston) to her mother Frances Caldwell Barnard about her social activities at Boston and family news, 27 June 1819
Letter from Henry Codman (Boston) to Tristram Barnard conveying the regrets of the board of the Massachusetts General Hospital on his resignation, 6 July 1819
Letter from William Eustis (Portsmouth) to Tristram Barnard, 7 July 1819
Letter from William Eustis (Boston) to Tristram Barnard about buying the Magee property at Roxbury, 25 July 1819
Letter from William Eustis (Roxbury) to Tristram Barnard about a fever outbreak at Boston brought from Africa, 5 Sep. 1819
Journal kept by Thomas Carter Smith during a voyage to New York by packet ship and a voyage to the West Indies and St. Helena, 14 Sep. 1819-25 Nov. 1820
Letter from Thomas Carter Smith (New York) describing his voyage to New York by packet boat and preparations for his voyage to the West Indies, 25 Oct. 1819
Letter from Hannah Carter Smith (Boston) to Thomas Carter Smith about Everett's sermon at Brattle Church and family news, 30 Oct. 1819
Letter from William Eustis (Roxbury) to Tristram Barnard about activities and friends at Boston and his restored health, 31 Oct. 1819
Receipt from William Cochran to William Mackay for the purchase of stock, 24 Nov. 1819
Letter from William Eustis (Roxbury) to Tristram Barnard describing his household, 5 Dec. 1819
Song: Stanzas for "Giles Scroggins Ghost," [1820]
Letter from Henrietta Sargent to Hannah Carter Smith about visiting her, [1820]
Copy of the will of Frances Caldwell Barnard, 25 Feb. 1820, with memorandum from William Mackay (Boston) to Judge James Prescott declining to act as administrator of her estate, 4 Sep. 1820
Letter from William Eustis (Roxbury) to Tristram Barnard about William Mackay's business failure and his proposed visit, 20 May 1820
Allowance by James Prescott of the will of Frances Caldwell Barnard, 29 Aug. 1820
Appointment by James Prescott of Tristram Barnard as executor of the estate of Frances Caldwell Barnard, 5 Sep. 1820
Appointment by James Prescott of appraisers of the estate of Frances Caldwell Barnard, 5 Sep. 1820
Journal of [Ruth Caldwell], Nov. [1820] [incomplete]
Appraisal of the estate of Frances Caldwell Barnard, with 9 Jan. 1821 allowance by James Prescott, 8 Dec. 1820
Allowance by James Prescott of the inventory of the estate of Frances Caldwell Barnard, with 8 Dec. 1820 inventory, 9 Jan. 1821 [copy]
Letter from William Eustis (Washington) to Tristram Barnard about a financial matter, 30 Jan. 1821
Letter from William Eustis (Washington) to Tristram Barnard about the adjournment of Congress, 5 Mar. 1821
Letter from William Eustis (New York) to Tristram Barnard on personal business matters, 13 Nov. 1821
Letter from William Eustis (Washington) to Tristram Barnard about a personal financial matter and news from Col. Eustis at St. Augustine, 8 Dec. 1821
Letter from William Eustis (Washington) to Tristram Barnard on legislative matters, 17 Jan. 1822
Letter from Elizabeth Epes Carter (Andover) to her aunt about personal matters, 12 July 1822
Letter from William Eustis (Washington) to Tristram Barnard about Congressional matters, 3 Dec. 1822
Invoice by Thomas Carter Smith of merchandise shipped on board the brigantine Romp on a trading venture to Buenos Aires, [1823]
Letter from Hannah Carter Smith (Boston) to Thomas Carter Smith about family news, 4 Jan. 1823
Letter from Hannah Carter Smith (Boston) to Thomas Carter Smith about Edward Cruft's illness and articles to purchase for her at Leghorn, 28 Feb. 1823
Letter from Hannah Smith Pickman (Boston) to Thomas Carter Smith with family news, 28 Feb. 1823
Letter from Thomas Carter Smith (Leghorn) to Benjamin T. Pickman about his travels in Italy and plans for his return voyage to Boston, 8 Mar. 1823
Letter from Elizabeth Epes Carter (Andover) to Hannah Carter Smith about plans to send her son Hampden to Franklin College for theological training, 10 Mar. 1823
Letter from Thomas Carter Smith (Leghorn) to Benjamin T. Pickman about shipping matters and his living arrangements at Leghorn, 10 Apr. 1823
Letter from William Barns (Leghorn) to Thomas Carter Smith about commodity prices at Leghorn and the shipment of his portrait to Boston, 14 Aug. 1823
Letter from Hannah Carter Smith (Boston) to Thomas Carter Smith with family news, 16 Sep. 1823
Letter from Hannah Carter Smith (Boston) to Thomas Carter Smith about choosing an adequate sized vessel to ensure a profit in his trading ventures, 2 Oct. 1823
Letter from Mary Carter Cutts (Portsmouth) to Hannah Carter Smith about family illness, 14 Nov. 1824
Letter from Thomas Carter (Newburyport) to Hannah Carter Smith about her accounts, 4 Dec. 1824
Letter from Elizabeth Epes Carter (Andover) to [Hannah Carter Smith] with family news, 31 May 1825
Boston tax bill of Hannah Carter Smith for real estate tax, 17 Dec. 1825
Receipt to Hannah Carter Smith for payment of Boston tax, 16 Feb. 1826
Letter from Ruth Caldwell (Billerica) to her sister Mary about her activities at Billerica, 6 Mar. 1826
Letter from Hannah Carter Smith (Boston) to Thomas Carter Smith about her health, with 27 Mar. 1827 letter from Hannah Smith Pickman to Thomas Carter Smith, 26 Mar. 1827
Letter from Hannah Smith Pickman (Boston) to Thomas Carter Smith with news of Charles Francis Adams's engagement and about Boston friends, with 26 Mar. 1827 letter from Hannah Carter Smith to Thomas Carter Smith, 27 Mar. 1827
Receipt from Charles Barrell to Thomas Carter Smith for payment for die and mold for stamping, 24 Nov. 1827
Accounts kept by Thomas Carter Smith for a trading voyage originating in Boston, [1828]
Account of Thomas Carter Smith with James Hunt for stationer's supplies, 15 Jan. 1828
Account of Thomas Carter Smith with Joseph L. Brown, 15 Jan. 1828
Account of Thomas Carter Smith with Joseph L. Brown, Apr.-July [1828]
Requisition order from Joseph L. Brown to Thomas Carter Smith for spars, 9 June 1828
Account of Joseph L. Brown with Thomas Carter Smith at Rio Grande, 10 July 1828
Letter from Hannah Carter Smith (Westborough) to Hannah Smith Pickman on personal matters, 14 July 1828
Letter from Hannah Carter Smith (Westborough) to Hannah Smith Pickman describing her activities while boarding at Westborough, 19 July 1828
Will of Frances Caldwell, with 6 Mar. 1839 letter from Albert Locke to T. B. Mackay, 23 Sep. 1828 [copy]
Letter from John Udny (Leghorn) to Thomas Carter Smith about finding employment in the United States, 29 Sep. 1828
Account of Joseph L. Brown with Thomas Carter Smith showing sales of hides shipped on the brigantine Sarah, Oct. 1828
Price quotations for commodities at Leghorn, Italy, enclosed with 29 Oct. 1828 letter from John Udny to Thomas Carter Smith, 28 Oct. 1828
Letter from John Udny (Leghorn) to Thomas Carter Smith on business matters, enclosing 28 Oct. 1828 price quotations for commodities at Leghorn, 29 Oct. 1828
Draft of letter from [Thomas Carter Smith] to [John Udny] about the scarcity of employment in the mercantile houses at Boston, [Nov. 1828]
Bill from Oliver Greigg to Thomas Carter Smith for chaise hire, 1829
Account book of Thomas Carter Smith related to the administration of Isaac Smith, Jr.'s estate, with biographical notations, 1829-1830
Certificate of United States citizenship from Henry A. S. Dearborn (Boston) to Robert Mason, seaman, 21 Mar. 1829
Letter from Barry Gower and Co. (Leghorn) to Thomas Carter Smith about prevailing prices, with printed price list, 5 May 1829
Price sheet by Barry Gower and Co. of commodity quotations at Leghorn, 15 June 1829
Letter from Hannah Carter Smith (Westborough) to Hannah Smith Pickman about her activities while vacationing at Westborough, 26 June 1829
Papers related to the division of silver plate and appraisal by the administrator of Isaac Smith, Jr.'s estate, [1830]
Invoice by [Thomas Carter Smith] of the cargo of the brigantine Cedric bound for Rio Grande, Mar. 1830
Receipt from H. A. McCloskey (Boston) to Thomas Carter Smith for payment for pump repair, 20 Mar. 1830
Receipt from Nathaniel Messer and Co. (Boston) to Thomas Carter Smith, 21 Apr. 1830
Letter from Frederick Barker (Genoa) to Thomas Carter Smith introducing Sidney Hayes, commission agent from Smyrna, 26 Apr. 1830
Letter from Frances Barnard Smith (Lake George) to Tristram Barnard about her travels through New York state, 22 Aug. 1830
Certificate of membership in the Boston Marine Society to Thomas Carter Smith, 2 Nov. 1830
Bill from Laban Beecher (Boston) to Thomas Carter Smith for making a book stand, 7 Apr. 1831
Bill from C. Weatherwar (Boston) to Thomas Carter Smith for laundry, 1 July 1831
Letter from Hannah Smith Pickman (Boston) to Hannah Carter Smith about family news, 7 Aug. [1831]
Letter from Hannah Smith Pickman (Boston) to Hannah Carter Smith with Boston news, 19 Aug. [1831]
Letter from Hannah Smith Pickman (Boston) to Frances Barnard Smith about the gift of a pitcher, 27 Sep. 1831
Letter from Frances Barnard Smith (New Bedford) to Thomas Carter Smith about plans for return from her trip, 1833
Letter from Frances Barnard Smith (Billerica) to Thomas Carter Smith about their daughter's activities, 13 May 1833
Letter from Frances Barnard Smith (Billerica) to Thomas Carter Smith about her visit to Billerica, 15 May 1833
Letter from Frances Barnard Smith (Billerica) to Thomas Carter Smith about daily occurrences at Billerica, 20 May 1833
Letter from Frances Barnard Smith (Billerica) to Thomas Carter Smith about her activities during her visit to Billerica, 27 Aug. 1833
Letter from Frances Barnard Smith (Boston) to Thomas Carter Smith about securing her house from intruders, 10 Oct. 1834
Memorandum from Hannah Carter Smith to Thomas Carter Smith about her gift of family furniture for his house, 13 July 1835
Letter from Hannah Carter Smith (Boston) to Thomas Carter Smith with instructions for the administration of her estate, 25 Feb. 1836
Letter from Tristram Coffin, Jr. (Newburyport) to Hannah Carter Smith about the care of her fields at Newburyport, 31 Mar. 1836
Deed of sale from Samuel Plant, president of Lancaster Cotton Manufacturing Co., to Thomas Carter Smith and Nathaniel Francis, 1 July 1836
Memorandum of the death of Hannah Carter Smith, 25 Dec. 1836
Letter from Hannah Smith Pickman (Portsmouth) to Frances Barnard Smith about the boarding house accommodations at Portsmouth and their stopover at Providence, [1837]
Receipt from Joseph G. Cole (Boston) to Thomas Carter Smith for payment for copying a portrait, 16 Feb. 1837
Letter from Frances Barnard Smith (New Bedford) to Thomas Carter Smith about her visit to New Bedford and Capt. Coffin's poor health, Mar. 1837
Letter from Frances Barnard Smith (New Bedford) to Thomas Carter Smith asking him to send her a bottle of rum for Capt. Coffin, 31 Mar. 1837
Letter from Frances Barnard Smith (New Bedford) to Thomas Carter Smith about sending food delicacies for Capt. Coffin, 3 Apr. 1837
Letter from Hannah Smith Pickman (Cedar Grove) to Thomas Carter Smith describing a visit to Andrew Downing's house at Newburgh, 27 June [1837]
Deed of sale from Moses Barnard to Thomas Carter Smith for a pew in Brattle Street Church, Boston, 7 Aug. 1837
Deed of sale from Moses Barnard, Owen Bunker, Frederick J. Barnard, and other members of the Barnard family to Frances Barnard Smith for a house at Nantucket, 21 Sep. 1837
Letter from Sarah Barnard (Nantucket) to Frances Barnard Smith with news of relatives at New Bedford, 27 Apr. 1838
Plot map by Thomas Carter Smith of his property at Newburyport, Sep. 1838, with memoranda related to leasing and street rights, 1838-1840 [2 copies]
Deed of sale from Charlestown Wharf Co. to Thomas Carter Smith for land at Charlestown, 3 Oct. 1838
Letter from Charles P. Curtis to Thomas Carter Smith accompanying a gift of Scott's works in gratitude for Smith's administration of the Pickman estate, 18 Oct. 1838
Letter from Frances Barnard Smith (Billerica) to Thomas Carter Smith about their daughter's illness, [1839]
Notation from Albert Locke (Lowell) to T. B. Mackay forwarding a copy of Frances Caldwell's will, 6 Mar. 1839
Letter from Frances Barnard Smith (Billerica) to Thomas Carter Smith about her visit to Billerica, 14 May 1839
Letter from Frances Barnard Smith (Boston) to Thomas Carter Smith about her activities during his absence on a hunting trip to Maine, 21 June 1839
Letter from Frances Barnard Smith (New Bedford) to Thomas Carter Smith about her plans to visit relatives on Martha's Vineyard, 8 July 1839
Survey by William Mitchell of the land and house of Abisha Barnard at Nantucket, Mass., Nov. 1839
Letter from Frances Barnard Smith (New Bedford) to Thomas Carter Smith about plans to go to Cape Cod, 10 July 1840
Letter from Hannah Smith Pickman (Gloucester) to Thomas Carter Smith describing Cape Ann and the boarding houses available for vacationers, [14 July 1840]
Letter from Frances Barnard Smith (New Bedford) to Thomas Carter Smith describing a trip through Cape Cod by carriage, [18 July 1840]
Letter from Frances Barnard Smith (Billerica) to Thomas Carter Smith describing her visit to Billerica, 24 Aug. 1840
Letter from Elizabeth B. Hallett (Concord) to Frances Barnard Smith about her pleasure in visiting her, 29 May 1842
Letter from Frances Barnard Smith (Portsmouth) to Thomas Carter Smith describing her experience boarding at the Vars farm at Bristol Ferry, June 1842
Letter from Frances Barnard Smith (Portsmouth) to Thomas Carter Smith, June 1842
Mortgage deed from Thomas Carter Smith and Frances Barnard Smith to Charles P. Curtis for property at Boston, 1 June 1842
Letter from Frances Barnard Smith (New Bedford) to Thomas Carter Smith describing her visit to the Coffins at New Bedford, 13 June 1842
Letter from Thomas Carter Smith (Boston) to Frances Barnard Smith about attending services at Mt. Auburn and family news, 14 June 1842
Mortgage deed from Thomas Carter Smith and Frances Barnard Smith to Neptune Insurance Co. for property at Boston, with promissory note, 17 Nov. 1854 assignment of mortgage to William Foster Otis, 9 June 1857 reassignment to William Sohier and Harrison Ritchie, and 31 Dec. 1857 reassignment to Samuel Hooper, 31 Aug. 1842
Mortgage deed from Thomas Carter Smith and Frances Barnard Smith to Charles P. Curtis for land at Boston, with promissory note and memorandum of transaction, 21 Sep. 1842
Bill from George Howarth (Boston) to Thomas Carter Smith for restoring John Singleton Copley's portraits of Isaac and Elizabeth Storer Smith, 20 June 1843
Letter from Frances Barnard Smith (Boston) to Mary Caldwell announcing the birth of her daughter, 26 Sep. 1843
Letter from Henry Bond (Philadelphia) to Thomas Carter Smith about the genealogy of the Bright family, 23-25 Nov. 1843
Letter from Frances Barnard Smith (Boston) to Mary Caldwell with news of her family, 16 June 1844
Draft of letter from Thomas Carter Smith (Boston) to Henry Bond about the Bright family, 2 Dec. 1844
Letter from Henry Bond (Philadelphia) to Thomas Carter Smith on genealogical matters, 18 Dec. 1846
Mortgage deed from Thomas Carter Smith and Frances Barnard Smith (Boston) to Massachusetts Hospital Life Insurance Co., with promissory note, 30 June 1847
Will of Elizabeth Hall, 18 Apr. 1848 [copy]
Letter from Hannah Smith Pickman (Niagara Falls) to Thomas Carter Smith describing her trip from Boston to New York and sightseeing at the falls, 22 June 1848
Letter from Joshua Green (Groton) to Thomas Carter Smith enclosing a manuscript copy of the sermon preached by Rev. Peter Thacher at the funeral of Elizabeth Storer Smith, 12 July 1849
Possibly filmed with sermon, 2 July 1786.
Letter from Catherine G. Prescott (Boston) to Hannah Smith Pickman about affairs of the asylum and describing the appearance of the Revere House, 22 Aug. 1849
Letter from Catherine G. Prescott (Boston) to Hannah Smith Pickman about John Webster's confession and petition to the governor and about Boston's preparation for the Fourth of July celebration, 2 July 1850
Draft of letter from Frances Barnard Smith to her aunt Mrs. Cromwell Barnard about disposition of her house at Nantucket, 18 Oct. 1853
Copied by Thomas Carter Smith.
Assignment of mortgage of Boston property from Neptune Insurance Co. to William Foster Otis, with 31 Aug. 1842 mortgage deed from Thomas Carter Smith and Frances Barnard Smith to Neptune Insurance Co., 17 Nov. 1854
Letter from Cromwell Barnard (Nantucket) to Frances Barnard Smith on personal matters, 15 Dec. 1856
Reassignment of mortgage deed for property at Boston from William Foster Otis to William Sohier and Harrison Ritchie, with 31 Aug. 1842 mortgage deed from Thomas Carter Smith and Frances Barnard Smith to Neptune Insurance Co., 9 June 1857
Reassignment of mortgage deed for property at Boston from William Sohier and Harrison Ritchie to Samuel Hooper, with 31 Aug. 1842 mortgage deed from Thomas Carter Smith and Frances Barnard Smith to Neptune Insurance Co., 31 Dec. 1857
Promissory note from Thomas Carter Smith (Boston) to Samuel Hooper, 31 Dec. 1857
Letter from Cromwell Barnard (Nantucket) to Thomas Carter Smith about his living arrangements, 21 May 1858
Renewal of promissory note from Thomas Carter Smith (Boston) to Samuel Hooper, 30 June 1858
Mortgage deed from Thomas Carter Smith and Frances Barnard Smith to Charles P. Curtis for land at Boston, with promissory note, 1 May 1859
Letter from Thomas D. Townsend to his mother with family news, 24 Aug. 1859
Letter from William V. Smith (Iver, Russia) to his father Thomas Carter Smith describing his surroundings and activities in Russia, 15 Aug. 1860
Testamentary letter of appointment to Thomas Carter Smith as executor of Hannah Smith Pickman's estate, 9 Feb. 1863
Memorandum of Mary Smith Gray Otis related to the distribution of silver plate in her estate, 3 May 1864 [copy]
Letter from William V. Smith (Jacksonville, Fla.) to his mother Frances Barnard Smith about a skirmish with Confederate troops near the North Edisto River while serving with Birney's brigade, 16 July 1864
Letter from William V. Smith (Jacksonville, Fla.) to his mother Frances Barnard Smith about his army activities while stationed in the Jacksonville area, 21 July 1864
Letter from William V. Smith (Monroe, Va.) to his father Thomas Carter Smith about being hospitalized for wounds, 8 Oct. 1864
Explanation by [Dr.] Rush at the [Chesapeake Hospital, Va.] of the surgical procedure performed on William V. Smith after he was wounded in battle, 6 Dec. 1864
Letter from Joseph H. Prince (Barnstead, N.H.) to Thomas Carter Smith about his son William V. Smith's return home from an army hospital, 30 Dec. 1864
Letter from William V. Smith (City Point, Va.) to his mother Frances Barnard Smith about his return to army headquarters, with 19 May 1865 letter from M. B. Dulley to Frances Barnard Smith forwarding letters, 15 May 1865
Letter from William V. Smith (City Point, Va.) to his mother Frances Barnard Smith about his military duties, with 19 May 1865 letter from M. B. Dulley to Frances Barnard Smith forwarding letters, 17 May 1865
Letter from M. B. Dulley (Monroe, Va.) to Frances Barnard Smith about war matters, enclosing 15 May 1865 and 17 May 1865 letters from William V. Smith, 19 May 1865
Letter from William V. Smith (Camp Lincoln, Va.) to his mother Frances Barnard Smith about army orders moving his corps to Texas, 20 May 1865
Letter from William V. Smith (Monroe, Va.) to his mother Frances Barnard Smith about his return to the army hospital, 24 May 1865
Letter from William V. Smith (Monroe, Va.) to his mother Frances Barnard Smith about his hospitalization, 27 May 1865
Letter from William V. Smith (Indianola, Tex.) to his father Thomas Carter Smith about his activities, 25 July 1865
Letter from William V. Smith (Indianola, Tex.) to his father Thomas Carter Smith about the difficulties of receiving mail through army channels, 31 Aug. 1865
Articles of agreement for the sale of William W. Morland's land to Thomas Carter Smith, 8 Oct. 1868
Agreement of William W. Morland with Thomas Carter Smith for the sale of land at Boston, 15 Oct. 1868
Bank draft of Thomas Carter Smith in favor of William W. Morland, 15 Oct. 1868
Short message from Eliza Henderson Boardman Otis (Boston) to Smith asking for assistance in a private business matter, 16 Aug. 1869
Memorandum by Thomas Carter Smith about his watch, 1870
Directions by Thomas Carter Smith for the disposition of his personal property, 14 Dec. 1873
Genealogical notes on the Robert Thompson family, 19 Apr. 1875
Directions by Thomas Carter Smith for the disposition of his personal property to his children after his death, 24 Dec. 1877
Memorandum regarding the notice in the Boston Daily Advertiser of Thomas Carter Smith's death, 28 Sep. 1880
Undated
Poem: "To the Great God at Last," by Charles Hopkins [copy]
Poems by T. B. Mackay
Essay: "The Wonderful Prophet," by William Mackay
Verses dedicated to Col. Benjamin Pollard
Survey map of settlers' lots in Ossipee by a surveyor from Parsonsfield, with poem entitled "An Essay on Great Ossipee's Northern Prospect"
Poem: "Answer to Mr. Byles"
Poem: Verses on moral issues, with essay on Ireland
Poem: Verse on the power of money
Poem: Verse on misery changed to joy
Poem: "On the death of a fine boy of 7 years old"
Poem: "On the Death of Miss M. B. F."
Poem: "Stephen and Laura: A Tale"
Poem: "A Hymn on Peace"
Letters from Elizabeth Smith Hale to Hannah Carter Smith
Song: "The Disappointed Cooper" to the tune of "Old Latimer preaching did fairly describe"
Song: "Dumb Betty: A New York Song"
Genealogical tables and notes related to the descendants of Thomas Smith and Sarah Boylston Smith, compiled by Thomas Carter Smith
List of articles to be obtained for Lydia Bishop by Mr. Smith
Record of the family of Capt. William Smith and Abigail Fowle Smith Edwards
Survey by William Crafts and G. Flagg of property of Isaac Smith sold to William Hislop
Fragment of message from George Gordon Noel Byron to Mr. Webb about an omission in a delivery to him
Letter from Thomas Cary to his aunt Hannah Carter Smith about Rev. Frothingham's death and a copy of his discourse [incomplete]
Smith family religious essays
Song: "When the Bright God of Day"
Sermon of [Isaac Smith, Jr.] [copy]
Chronology of the Smith family taken from letters from Thomas Smith (Charleston) to his uncle William Smith of Charlestown
Memorandum by Thomas Carter Smith of a war deed
Lists by Thomas Carter Smith of early Smith family documents
Prayer by William Smith, Jr. [copy]
Essay on conduct and draft of a prayer by William Smith, Jr.
Memorandum by William Smith of early family records
Memorandum by William Smith of land on the west side of the Kennebec River
Memoranda by William Smith on land plots adjacent to him at Charlestown [2 pieces]
Plot map of land owned by William Smith at Boston showing the segment for the proposed sale to John Codman
Draft of bill of sale and plot map by William Smith showing property in Boston to be sold to John Codman, Jr.
Oath by Joseph Banafield of Falmouth, England, related to "An act for the further increase and encouragement of shipping and navigation" [incomplete]
Letter from D. Storer to William Smith accompanying a gift in memory of his brother
Scheme for enforcing the more strict observation of the Sabbath in the great town of B. N.E. [copy]
Suggested itinerary for a trip from Belchertown through Vermont
Preferred Citation
Smith-Carter family papers, Massachusetts Historical Society.
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