Frost and Sawyer Family Papers, 1714-1957

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
Cochecho 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.