Title: Frost and Sawyer Family Papers, 1714-1957
Creator: Frost family
Sawyer family
Accession / Call Number: 1986.041
Object ID: 1986.041
Date: 1714-1957
Physical Description: 16 feet
Level of Description: Collection
Scope and Content: The Frost and Sawyer Family Papers, 1714-1957, is a collection of business, personal, and legal papers from the Frost, Sawyer, Rollins, Hale, Bartlett, Thompson, Low, Cowan and other families in the New Hampshire Seacoast area, most notably in the Dover, NH, and Portsmouth, NH, areas. These numerous families were influential and prominent families in their day and count among their ranks governors, patriots, war heroes, a famous poet, and several progressive women, one of whom served in the Civil War as a nurse. See register for details and tracings; some materials have been moved to oversize manuscripts. Map in oversize map collection.
Subjects:
Railroads,
Women,
Correspondence,
Mills and mill-work,
Newspapers,
Physicians,
Medicine,
Sawmills,
Nurses,
Diaries,
Dentistry,
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865,
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Medical care,
New Hampshire--Politics and government,
New Hampshire--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Locations: Dover, NH
Concord, NH
People:
Bartlett, Josiah, 1768-1838,
Sawyer, Charles H., 1840-1909,
Low, Sarah, 1830-1913,
Bartlett, Josiah, 1729-1795
Organizations:
Chadbourne family,
Frost family,
Sawyer family,
Rollins family,
Hale family,
Lowe family,
Bartlett family,
Cowan family,
Cocheco Railroad,
Sawyer Woolen Mills
Credit Line: Gift of Charles H. Sawyer in November 1986.
Location Code: TL/1W
Manuscripts Dept.
Restrictions: Available for research.
Preferred Citation: Frost and Sawyer Family Papers, 1986.041. New Hampshire Historical Society, Concord, NH. Date accessed.