Vaughan Family

Title:

Vaughan Family

Accession / Call Number:

M 1923-007

Object ID:

M 1923-007

Date:

1676-1913

Physical Description:

1 box

Scope and Content:

Merchant, town official, judge, and officer in the militia. Papers kept by Vaughan as a member of the committee to divide common lands in Portsmouth, N.H., including an authorization to proceed with the division and determine controversies, copy of the tax list of 1698 and list of persons who were not to receive land, copies of early land titles, notes of committee meetings, petitions, certificates, lists of certificates, and accounts. Most of the division was made 1711-13. Family papers. Commission: Original of George Vaughn as Lieut. Gov. of N.H., 1715 (located in vault drawer). Mostly transcripts of English colonial documents concerning Chief Justice William Vaughan (1640-1719) and Lt. Gov. George Vaughan (1676-1724); also includes R.C. Shannon's notes from secondary sources and some correspondence. George Vaughan: papers relating to the division of common lands in Portsmouth, N.H., 1699-1719. 202 items.

Subjects:

Vaughn, William.

Locations:

Portsmouth (N.H.) History 1600-1775, Colonial period.

Organizations:

Vaughan family

Level Description:

Item