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Archives related to: Wigglesworth, Thomas, 1814-1907
| title | Thomas Wigglesworth Jr. Papers, 1823-1864, undated. | repository | Peabody Essex Museum |
| description | The Thomas Wigglesworth Jr. papers document shipping, trade, and financial transactions from 1824-1833. Series I. Shipping Papers include bills of lading, voyage details, and correspondence with supercargoes. Series II. Financial and Trade Papers cover trade correspondence, import/export reports, global market prices, account books, and miscellaneous financial records. |
| extent | 2 linear feet (2 boxes) |
| formats | Business Papers |
| access | This collection is open for research use. |
| record link | https://philcat.pem.org/Record/p45099 |
| record source | https://pem.as.atlas-sys.com/repositories/2/resources/668 |
| finding aid | Finding available online and at repository. |
| acquisition information | Gift of John P. Chase, 1984 |
| updated | 04/15/2025 11:55:54 |
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| title | Wigglesworth family photographs, ca. 1850-1920. | repository | Massachusetts Historical Society |
| description | Portrait photographs of the Wigglesworth family, ca. 1850-1920. One album and one box contain carte de visite, tintype, and cabinet card portraits of the children and grandchildren of Dr. Edward Wigglesworth (1804-1876) and Henrietta May Goddard Wigglesworth. including members of the Grew and Holmes families. Photographers include James Wallace Black, John Adams Whipple, Antoine Sonrel, and Allen & Rowell, all of Boston, Mass. All of the photographs are black and white. Location: In the Massachusetts Historical Society Photo. Archives. Note: Former call number: Dowse Cabinet E, Collection #60. Related Materials The Massachusetts Historical Society (MHS) holds the following collections related to the Wigglesworth family photographs: Wigglesworth family photographs II, ca. 1844-1962; bulk: 1855-1890. Photo. Coll. 92. . Finding aid available at: http://www.masshist.org/findingaids/doc.cfm?fa=fap016. Wigglesworth family papers, 1682-1966. Ms. N-114. Wigglesworth family papers II, 1832-1865. Ms. N-465. |
| extent | 117 photographs in 1 album and 1 box |
| formats | Photographs |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record source | http://www.masshist.org/findingaids/ |
| finding aid | Online and in repository. |
| acquisition information | Donor unknown. |
| updated | 02/14/2025 10:07:41 |
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| title | Papers of the Grew, Andrews, Norton, and Wigglesworth families, 1738-1884 (inclusive). | repository | Houghton Library |
| description | Chiefly family correspondence; also diaries, travel journals, commonplace books, manuscripts of writings, and personal business papers of the related Grew, Andrews, Norton, and Wigglesworth families of Massachusetts. Correspondents include mother, daughter, and granddaughter: Jane (Andrews) Norton (1755-1840), Jane (Norton) Wigglesworth (1774-1856), and Jane (Wigglesworth) Grew (1805-1869). Manuscripts include Edward Wigglesworth's Harvard College themes from the 1820s, Greene and Wigglesworth family genealogy notes, and poems. Business papers include receipts for household expenses and children's education, promissory notes, and memoranda. Also wills and other documents pertaining to estate matters. Organization: Arranged alphabetically by author. Preferred citation: Grew, Andrews, Norton, and Wigglesworth Families Papers (bMS Am 1136). Houghton Library, Harvard University. |
| extent | 2 linear ft |
| formats | Correspondence Diaries Manuscript Business Papers Personal Papers |
| access | There are no restrictions of physical access to this material. |
| record link | http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/deepLink?_collection=oasis&uniqueId=hou00072 |
| record source | http://discovery.lib.harvard.edu/?hreciid=%7clibrary%2fm%2faleph%7c000601734 |
| finding aid | Electronic finding aid available http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.Hough:hou00072 Unpublished print finding aid available in the Houghton Reading Room reference collection or consult the Houghton Accessions Records, 1941-1942, under *41-3044. |
| acquisition information | *41-3044. Gift of Edward Wigglesworth Grew, Mrs. Boylston A. Beal, and Mrs. Stephen V.R. Crosby; received: 1940 Nov. |
| updated | 02/14/2025 10:07:41 |
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| title | Notes taken by Thomas Wigglesworth while a student in Harvard College, 1830-1832. | repository | Harvard University Archives |
| description | These two volumes include notes taken by Thomas Wigglesworth while a student at Harvard College. The earlier volume, 1831, includes notes on lectures given by Edward Channing, Charles Follen, George Ticknor, and John Farrar. The second volume, 1830-1832, includes his notes on William Mitford's History of Greece. History notes: Thomas Wigglesworth (1814-1907), a member of a prominent Boston family, earned his Harvard AB 1833. Channing taught rhetoric and oratory; Follen taught German language and literature, ethics and history; Ticknor taught French and Spanish literature; Farrar held the Hollis Professorship of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy [Physics]. Notes: Houghton Library, Harvard University, holds the papers of the Wigglesworth family. Call Number HUC 8831.383 |
| extent | .2 cubic foot in 1 container. |
| formats | Notes |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record source | http://discovery.lib.harvard.edu/?hreciid=%7clibrary%2fm%2faleph%7c007844375 |
| updated | 02/14/2025 10:07:41 |
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| title | Wigglesworth family Papers, 1682-1966 | repository | Massachusetts Historical Society |
| description | This collection consists of 53 document boxes and 5 oversize boxes of papers of the Wigglesworth family and the related Andrews, Bowditch, Dixwell, Goddard, Hunt, Norton, and Sargent families, as well as papers of Harvard professor Stephen Sewall, who married Rebecca Wigglesworth in 1765. The collection contains correspondence, 1682-1966, scrapbooks, deeds (mostly to lands in Boston), wills, inventories, poetry, school papers and books, sketches, genealogical material, diaries, memoranda and account books, other bound volumes, and family artifacts. Included are papers of regicide John Dixwell; Epes Sargent; lawyer and educator Epes Sargent Dixwell; China trade merchants John J. and George B. Dixwell; India trade merchant Thomas Wigglesworth; Frederick Dabney of the Azores; Rev. John Norton of Hingham; abolitionists Henrietta and Catherine Sargent; George Wigglesworth; and Harvard professors Stephen Sewall, Edward Wigglesworth, and his son Edward Wigglesworth, as well as the diaries of Henrietta May Goddard, Anna Cornelia Wigglesworth, and Mary Catherine Dixwell Wigglesworth. The collection also contains a scrapbook about and some letters of Oliver Wendell Holmes; letters concerning the shipwreck of the Agrigento off Greece, 1876; and a letter of and other material about Nathaniel Bowditch. Correspondents include Charles Eliot, Benjamin Lincoln, Joseph Lovering, Charles E. Norton, Josiah Quincy, George Washington, and others. SEE online finding aid for Biographical Sketches Related Materials The Massachusetts Historical Society (MHS) holds the following collections related to the Wigglesworth family papers: Minot-Rackemann family papers, 1824-1952. Ms. N-380. Finding aid available at: http://www.masshist.org/findingaids/doc.cfm?fa=fa0027. Wigglesworth family letters, 1776-1782. Ms. S-159. Wigglesworth family papers II, 1832-1865. Ms. N-465. Wigglesworth family photographs, ca. 1850-1920. Photo. Coll. 91. Finding aid available at: http://www.masshist.org/findingaids/doc.cfm?fa=fap002. Wigglesworth family photographs II, ca. 1844-1962. Photo. Coll. 92. Finding aid available at: http://www.masshist.org/findingaids/doc.cfm?fa=fap016. |
| extent | 53 document boxes and 5 oversize boxes |
| formats | Correspondence Legal Papers Financial Records Scrapbooks Diaries |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record source | http://www.masshist.org/findingaids/ |
| finding aid | Online and in repository. |
| acquisition information | Gift of the Wigglesworth family, 1986. |
| updated | 02/14/2025 10:07:41 |
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