Hibbard Collection, 1695-1875

Title:

Hibbard Collection, 1695-1875

Creator:

Hibbard, Sarah King Hale

Creator Role:

Collector

Accession / Call Number:

1957.011

Object ID:

1957.011

Date:

1695-1875

Physical Description:

4 boxes

Level of Description:

Collection

Abstract:

The Hibbard Collection was amassed by a nineteenth century collector of autographs and other historical documents. It contains an assortment of account book pages, autographs, deeds, letters, military commissions and orders, prints, receipts, town charters and other items related mostly to New Hampshire. It also includes materials from people of national importance, most notably letters written by Abigail Adams, John Hancock and Thomas Jefferson. There are account book pages with expenditures by the Province of New Hampshire in the late 1600s, depositions about James Johnson and his family's captivity by the Indians in 1754, trials of suspected loyalists in 1776, and activities of John W. Weeks and Moody Bedel during the War of 1812.

Scope and Content:

The Hibbard Collection consists of unrelated items accumulated by a nineteenth-century collector, Sarah King Hale Hibbard. The collection includes account book pages, autographs, bills, correspondence, invitations, legal documents, military orders and commissions, receipts, petitions, prints, town documents (charters, accounts, lists of grantees). Although Mrs. Hibbard's focus was on New Hampshire people and events, she also collected items written by people of national importance. Most notable among these are: Abigail Adams to Mrs. Cranch, John Hancock to his wife, and Thomas Jefferson to Salma Hale. In addition to acquiring this sort of material written by famous people, Mrs. Hibbard seems to have been interested in and collected materials about: town charters and accounts, the captivity of James Johnson and his family by Native Americans in 1754, and military documents especially pertaining to the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812.

Arrangement:

Materials are arranged as they came to the New Hampshire Historical Society except that they have been removed from bound volumes and placed in folders. Each box corresponds to the volume of the same number. For Volumes 1-3 (Boxes 1-3), each folder contains a five page increment but the order within each 5 page sequence has been lost. Therefore, in Boxes 1-3, items in each folder are in alphabetical order by author. When Volume 4 was disassembled, whoever did it labeled each item with information about which specific page it was on. In Box 4, therefore, materials are in the order in which they were found in the bound volumes.

Subjects:

United States-- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 , United States-- History-- War of 1812 , American loyalists , Captivity narratives , Autographs

Locations:

Bath, NH
Haverhill, NH
Hollis, NH
Lancaster, NH
Northumberland, NH
Portsmouth, NH

People:

Adams, Abigail, 1744-1818 , Adams, John, 1795-1826 , Audubon, John James, 1785-1851 , Bartlett, Ichabod, 1786-1853 , Bayley, Jacob , Bedel, Moody , Bedel, Timothy , Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878 , Clay, Henry, 1777-1852 , Clinton, DeWitt, 1769-1828 , Dana, Richard Henry, Jr., 1815-1882 , Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 , Gallaudet, T.H., 1787-1851 , Jefferson, Thomas , Hale, Salma, 1787-1866 , Hancock, John, 1787-1793 , Hibbard, Harry, 1816-1872 , Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894 , Livermore, Samuel , Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882 , Penhallow, Samuel, 1665-1726 , Pierce, Franklin, 1804-1869 , Plumer, William, 1759-1850 , Prescott, William Hickling, 1796-1859 , Sparks, Jared, 1789-1866 , Stark, John, 1728-1822 , Stevens, Phineas, 1706-1756 , Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874 , Upham, Timothy, 1783-1855 , Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852 , Weeks, John Wingate , Wentworth, Benning, 1696-1770 , Wheelock, John , Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892 , Woodbury, Levi, 1787-1851

Credit Line:

Gift of Sarah King Hale Hibbard.

Location Code:

TL/2V

Restrictions:

Available for research.

Preferred Citation:

Hibbard Collection, 1957.011. New Hampshire Historical Society, Concord, NH. Date accessed.