Field-Osgood Family
A Register of Its Papers in the Library of Congress
Prepared by Karen Linn Femia
Manuscript Division,
Library of Congress
Washington, D.C.
2007
Contact information:
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Finding aid encoded by Library of Congress Manuscript Division,
2007
Finding aid URL: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms007044
Title: Field-Osgood Family
Papers
Span Dates: 1702-1938
Bulk Dates: (bulk 1780-1930)
ID No.: MSS83744
Creator:
Field
family
Creator:
Osgood
family
Extent: 1,600
items;
7 containers plus 3 oversize;
7 linear feet
Language: Collection material in
English
Repository:
Manuscript Division, Library of
Congress,
Washington, D.C.
Abstract: Correspondence,
speeches and writings, household financial accounts, legal papers, genealogical
material, printed matter, photographs, lithographs, and engravings pertaining
to the families of Samuel Osgood (1748-1813) and his daughter, Susan Osgood
Field, of Massachusetts and New York.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this
collection in the Library's online catalog. They are grouped by name of person
or organization, by subject or location, and by occupation and listed
alphabetically therein.
Personal Names
Bradhurst
family.
Browning,
Robert, 1812-1889--Correspondence.
Field
family.
Field,
Chloe.
Field,
Hickson W. (Hickson Woolman), b. 1823--Correspondence.
Field,
William B. Osgood.
Osgood
family.
Osgood,
David, 1747-1822.
Organizations
United
States. Army.
Signal Corps.
United
States. Board of Treasury.
United
States. Continental Congress.
United
States. Postmaster General.
United
States. War Dept.
Military Intelligence Division.
Subjects
Sermons, American--18th
century.
Slaves--Emancipation--New
York (State)
World War,
1914-1918--Photography.
World War,
1914-1918.
Young women--United
States--19th century.
Locations
Andover
(Mass.)--Social life and customs.
Charleston
(S.C,)--Social life and customs.
New York
(State)--Politics and government--1775-1865.
Troy
(N.Y.)--Social life and customs.
Related Names
Field, Susan K. Osgood.
Papers of Susan K. Osgood Field.
Osgood, Maria Bowne
Franklin. Papers of Maria Bowne Franklin Osgood.
Osgood, Samuel,
1748-1813. Papers of Samuel Osgood.
Provenance:The Field-Osgood Family Papers were given to the Library of Congress
by Diana Field from 1996 to 1998. The material was received jointly by the
Manuscript Division and the Prints and Photographs Division. A group of
Field-Osgood family pictorial material remains in the Prints and Photographs
Division.
Processing History:The papers of the Field-Osgood family were arranged and described in
1987. This finding aid was revised in 2007.
Copyright Status:The status of copyright in the unpublished writings of the
Field-Osgood family is governed by the Copyright Law of the United States
(Title 17, U.S.C.).
Preferred Citation:Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the
following information: Container number, Field-Osgood Family Papers, Manuscript
Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
The Field-Osgood Family Papers span the years 1702-1938, with the bulk
of the material dating from about 1780 to 1930. The papers pertain to three
ancestral families of the donor and are arranged in three sections: the
Bradhurst family, the Field family, and the Osgood family, with the Field and
Osgood papers forming the bulk of the collection. Many of the items were
removed from deteriorating scrapbooks. With the exception of occasional items
of a general nature concerning the family, the material is arranged
alphabetically by individual family member. The papers include correspondence,
financial material, legal documents, genealogical material, speeches and
writings, printed matter, photographs, lithographs, and engravings.
Because so many individuals are represented in this collection, the
topics touched upon are disparate and numerous. Of major importance are the
papers of Samuel Osgood (1748-1813), member of the Continental Congress, one of
the three members of the United States Board of Treasury (1785-1789), first
postmaster general, and naval officer of the port of New York. A small amount
of correspondence, writings, and Board of Treasury and port of New York
documents are in the collection. Most of the Samuel Osgood material, however,
relates to household financial matters. Additional household financial matter
is found under his wife's name, Maria, including items concerning her financial
obligations to Chloe Field, an African-American woman. Also in the collection
are four sermons of David Osgood (1747-1822), three printed and one holograph.
One printed sermon of Joseph Lathrop (1731-1820) can be found in the folder for
Thaddeus Osgood.
Samuel Osgood's daughter, Susan, maintained a lively correspondence
with her sisters, Martha, married and living near Troy, New York, and Juliana,
married and living in or near Andover, Massachusetts. She also corresponded
with Mary (a cousin?) living in Charleston, South Carolina. Nearly all of the
letters date from 1814 to 1821, the year she married Moses Field. The letters
from her sisters are full of descriptions and details of the everyday life of
these young women. Susan Osgood Field's correspondence is filed with the Field
family material.
Three items in the Field family papers merit notice: two eighteenth
century manumission documents from New York state and a letter of 1845 from
Robert Browning to Hickson Woolman Field. Also in the Field family papers are a
collection of materials from the United States Signal Corps on aerial
photography dating from 1917 to 1918 and a group of intelligence reports (ca.
1918-1919) from the Military Intelligence Division of the War Department. Both
groups of papers relate to William B. Osgood Field.
This collection is arranged alphabetically by name of family and
alphabetically thereunder by name of person, topic, or type of material.
| Container |
Contents |
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Bradhurst family |
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| BOX 1
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Bradhurst, Samuel, appointment as
ensign, eighty-second regiment, New York Infantry,
1828
See Oversize |
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| BOX 1
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Miscellany,
1750-1782, 1790, 1808, 1828, 1847, 1873, 1916,
n.d.
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| BOX 1
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Photographs,
1907-1910, n.d.
See also Oversize |
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| BOX 1
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Poster, sale of Bradhurst estate
as building lots, New York, N.Y.,
n.d.
See Oversize |
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Field family |
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| BOX 1
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Family trees,
n.d.
See also Oversize |
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| BOX 1
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Field, Anne, manumission papers
for Pothena,
1777
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| BOX 1
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Field, Augusta,
1887-1892
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| BOX 1
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Field, Cyrus W.,
n.d.
See also Oversize |
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Field, David Dudley,
1892, n.d.
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| BOX 1
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Field, Eugene,
1892, n.d.
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| BOX 1
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Field, Hickson
Woolman
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| BOX 1
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Browning, Robert, letter,
1845
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| BOX 1
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Miscellany,
1853, n.d.
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| BOX 1
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Field, Lila Sloane,
1921, n.d.
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Field, Maunsell B.,
1850, 1869, 1874
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Field, May,
1910
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Field, Moses,
1817-1818
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| BOX 1
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Field, Osgood,
1848, 1876, 1914, n.d.
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| BOX 1
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Field, Rodman, manumission papers
for Elizabeth,
1782
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| BOX 1
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Field, Stephen J.,
1890, n.d.
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| BOX 1
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Field, Susan
Osgood
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| BOX 1
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Correspondence |
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1814-1821, 1830-1834
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(4 folders)
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| BOX 2
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Undated
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(2
folders)
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Notebook, "Notes on the history
of Rome," by Susan K. Osgood, and financial material and arithmetic notes by
Walter F. Osgood,
1802-1821
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Field, William B.
Osgood
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| BOX 2
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Financial matter,
1929-1931
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| BOX 2
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Military appointments, orders,
and notes,
1918-1924, n.d.
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| BOX 2
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Miscellany,
1902-1903, 1914-1928, n.d.
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"Pedigree of William Bradhurst
Osgood Field,"
1909
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(2
folders)
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| BOX 2
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Poetry notebook,
1897-1898
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| BOX 3
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Printed matter re World War I,
1914-1918
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| BOX 3
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Travel journal,
1901
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| BOX 3
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U.S. Army Signal
Corps
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| BOX 3
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Aerial photography,
1917-1918, n.d.
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(4
folders)
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| BOX 3
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Lists of
photographs
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| BOX 3
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1918
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(2
folders)
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| BOX 4
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1919
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War Department |
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| BOX 4
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Military Intelligence
Division
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| BOX 4
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Country reports,
ca. 1918
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(7
folders)
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| BOX 4
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General information,
ca. 1918, 1924, n.d.
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Intelligence summaries,
1919
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| BOX 4
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News bureau,
1919
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| BOX 5
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Field, William H. |
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| BOX 5
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Journal of travel in Great
Britain,
1850-1852
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| BOX 5
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Miscellany,
1857-1863, 1870-1883, 1891, 1915,
n.d.
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| BOX 5
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Field, William Osgood |
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| BOX 5
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Correspondence,
1922-1931, n.d.
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(2
folders)
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| BOX 5
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Harvard University, Cambridge,
Mass.
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| BOX 5
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Harvard Lampoon,
1924-1926, n.d.
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Instrumental music clubs,
1923-1931, n.d.
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| BOX 5
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Miscellany,
1922-1930, n.d.
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(2
folders)
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| BOX 6
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Genealogical writings,
1868-1878
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Miscellaneous family members,
1702, 1796, 1806, 1832-1833, 1846, 1865, 1881, 1896-1916,
1924-1926, 1938, n.d.
See also Oversize |
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(2
folders)
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Osgood family |
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| BOX 6
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Osgood, David |
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Correspondence,
1814
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| BOX 6
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Speeches and
writings
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"Dr. Osgood's sermon on the
national fast, May 9, 1798,"
1798
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Holograph sermon on I John,
chapter 3, verse 2,
1816, 1821
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"Mr. Osgood's Thanksgiving
sermon, December 11th 1783,"
1783
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"A solemn protest against the
late declaration of war,"
1812
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| BOX 6
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Osgood, "Maria, "Miss," and
"Mrs.,"
1803-1814, n.d.
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Osgood, Maria, to Chloe Field,
1810-1812
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| BOX 6
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Osgood, Samuel
(1748-1813)
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| BOX 6
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Biographical and pictorial
material,
1931, n.d.
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| BOX 6
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Board of Treasury,
1785-1789
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| BOX 6
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Correspondence,
1775-1798, 1804-1808
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| BOX 6
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Financial matter,
1780-1781, 1800-1813, n.d.
See also Oversize |
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(4 folders)
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| BOX 6
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Port of New York custom house,
1808-1809
See also Oversize |
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Speeches and
writings
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"A letter upon the subject of
episcopacy" and response by "Philalethes,"
1807
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Speech to the New York state
assembly,
1801
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| BOX 6
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Osgood, Samuel (1784-1862), "The
real and ideal in New England,"
n.d.
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| BOX 6
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Osgood, Susan K.
See Containers 1-2, Field, Susan Osgood
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| BOX 7
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Osgood, Thaddeus, "Damnable
heresies defined and described, in a sermon, preached in North Wilbraham; June
15, 1808, at the ordination of Rev. Thaddeus Osgood," by Joseph Lathrop,
1821
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| BOX 7
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Miscellaneous family members,
1731-1803, 1880, n.d.
See also Oversize |
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| BOX 7
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Sloane, William Douglas, death
of,
1915
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| BOX 7
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News clippings |
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Correspondence |
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(2
folders)
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| BOX OV 1
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Oversize |
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| BOX OV 1
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Bradhurst family |
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| BOX OV 1
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Bradhurst, Samuel,
appointment as ensign, eighty-second regiment, New York Infantry,
1828 (Container 1)
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Photographs,
n.d. (Container 1)
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| BOX OV 2
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Poster, sale of
Bradhurst estate as building lots, New York, N.Y.,
n.d. (Container 1)
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Field family |
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Family trees,
n.d. (Container 1)
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| BOX OV 3
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Field, Cyrus,
"Ocean Telegraph March," sheet music, cover only, with lithographic portrait,
n.d. (Container 1)
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| BOX OV 3
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Miscellaneous
family members, document re land ownership,
1702 (Container 6)
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| BOX OV 3
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Osgood family |
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| BOX OV 3
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Osgood, Samuel
(1748-1813)
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| BOX OV 3
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Financial matter,
1784-1805 (Container 6)
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| BOX OV 3
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Port of New York
custom house, certificate of ownership,
1809 (Container 6)
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| BOX OV 3
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Miscellaneous
family members, Isaac Osgood, Bunker Hill Memorial Association,
n.d. (Container 7)
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