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Guide to the John Farmer Papers GUIDE TO THE JOHN FARMER PAPERS AT THE NEW ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY Abstract: This collection relates to John Farmer (1789-1834) of Concord, New Hampshire. Farmer is often described as the father or founder of American genealogy. The collection consists primarily of correspondence, compiled genealogy on the Farmer family, and statistical, biographical, and historical notes relating to New Hampshire. The correspondence often contains data from abstracted records, compiled genealogies, biographical sketches, and/or local history notes. Collection dates: 1810-1834. Volume: 0.83 linear ft. (2 boxes) Repository: R. Stanton Avery Special Collections Call Number: Mss 971 Copyright ©2010 by New England Historic Genealogical Society. All rights reserved. Reproductions are not to be used for any purpose other than private study, scholarship, or research. John Farmer Papers Mss 971 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE John Farmer, son of John and Lydia (Richardson) Farmer, was born on 12 June 1789 at Chelmsford, Massachusetts and he died on 13 August 1838 at Concord, New Hampshire. Farmer served as corresponding secretary for the New Hampshire Historical Society, from its establishment in 1823 to his death, and he also served on their publishing committee. His numerous published works include A Sketch of Amherst New Hampshire (1814), An Historical Memoir of Billerica Massachusetts (1816), A Gazetteer of the State of New Hampshire (1823), Papers in the Second and Third Series of the Massachusetts Historical Collections, and Papers in the five published volumes of Collections of the New Hampshire Historical Society. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register described Farmer's multiple volume A Genealogical Register of the First Settlers of New England (1860-1862) as his "great work". Farmer was described in the first issue of the New England Historical and Genealogical Register as "the most distinguished genealogist and antiquary of this country"1. Recent scholarship offers similar evaluations with descriptions as "the founder of systematic genealogy in America"2 and as the "father of American genealogy" who's "importance is signaled by the fact that the first article in the first issue of the first genealogical journal in the United States, published nine years after his death, was a twelve page memoir celebrating "the most distinguished genealogist and antiquary of this country"'3. 1. "Memoir of John Farmer, M.A., late corresponding secretary of the New Hampshire Historical Society" New England Historical and Genealogical Register 1[1847]:9. 2. Taylor, Nathaniel Lane. "Genealogist John Farmer Discovers his Ancestry" New England Historical and Genealogical Register 160[2006]: 261 3. Weil, Francois. "John Farmer and the Making of American Genealogy" The New England Quarterly 80[2007]: 418-419. 2 John Farmer Papers Mss 971 SCOPE AND CONTENT First item is a letter book (cover title: Genealogical & Miscellaneous collections 1833) with letters from Hon Jedidiah P. Buckingham, Rev. John Kelly, Rev. Walter Harris, D.D., and Rev. Jonathan Ward containing biographical sketches of Dartmouth College graduates; there are letters, 1810-1833 (bulk: 1822-1830), with genealogies for the families of Harris, Abbot, Tufts, Farrar, Kittredge, Shattuck, Farmer, Blunt, Davis, Shed, Gerrish, Slade, Webster, Parsons, Hilton, Parris, Pickering, Stevens, Cotton Robinson, Coffin, Willard, Sheafe, Woodbury, Spalding, Epes, and May; and there are biographical sketches for Thomas Jackson, Richard Gerrish, Fred H. Sumner, Rev. Jonathan Searle, Gen. Joseph Badger, Gen. Joseph Badger, Jr.; Josiah Fletcher, Dr Luther Fletcher, Capt Wm Gerrish, John Gerrish, Rev Joseph Gerrish, Edward Hilton, Samuel Haven, John A Harper, Joshua Wingate Weeks, Samuel Brooks, Rev Dudley Leavitt, Rev Nicholas Gilman, Benjamin Gambling, Richard Gerrish, Ephraim Dennet, Robert Wadleigh, John Wentworth, John Cotton, John Robinson, John Pike. Item two: Sketches of history and biography relating to New Hampshire; Item three: A list of the Congregational & Presbyterian Ministers in the State of New Hampshire from the first settlement of the state to the year 1834 (65 p.); Record of deaths & ages in Concord, New Hampshire from 1800 with an imperfect list of those who died in said town 1792- 1799 Item four: Manuscript C. Statistical and Historical Papers and Notes relating principally to New Hampshire (169 p.) Item five: A genealogy of the Farmers of Billerica, Mass. (36 p.). RELATED COLLECTION(S) NEHGS An alphabetical genealogy of those bearing the name of Farmer (Mss A 6857). Genealogical record of the family of J. Farmer of Ansley, Warwickshire in England (Mss A 6856). New Hampshire Historical Society John Farmer Papers, 1807-1839 3 John Farmer Papers Mss 971 ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION Restrictions: R. Stanton Avery Special Collections material is non- circulating, requires staff retrieval, and is available to NEHGS members (Research level and above) during normal library hours. Provenance: Gift; 1938 January 26; Coddington, John I., Cambridge, Mass. Processing Information: 2007 October; Timothy Salls Preferred Citation: John Farmer Papers, Mss 971, R. Stanton Avery Special Collections, New England Historic Genealogical Society. 4 John Farmer Papers Mss 971 FOLDER LIST Note to Researchers: To request materials, please note the collection name and call number along with the box and folder numbers shown below on a manuscript request form. Folder Description Document Physdesc Folder Box Date(s) # # Sub-group I. Genealogical & Miscellaneous collections, 1833 Cover [with provenance] 1 1 Title page and contents [4] p. 2 1 Pages 1-4: Letter by Hon. Jedidiah Parker 1831 July 1 ALS, 4 p. 3 1 Buckingham dated Thetford, VT July 28, 1831 28 with birth data, 1747-1759, for the graduates of Dartmouth College class of 1779 and Buckingham genealogical data 1690-1758 Pages 5-8: Letter by Hon. Abel Parker dated 1828 March 1 ALS, 4 p. 3 1 Jaffrey March 6, 1828 concerning Parker family 6 genealogy, 1645-1655, 1753 Pages 9-12: Letter by Rev. William Buell Sprague 1829 1 ALS, 4 p. 3 1 dated West Springfield Feb 13, 1829 with a list of February 13 his publications, 1820-1828 Pages 13-16: Letter by William Plumer dated 1828 April 1 ALS, 4 p. 4 1 Epping April 5, 1828 with a list of New 5 Hampshire writers, 1758-1824 Pages 17-20: Letter by William Plumer dated 1832 1 ALS, 4 p. 4 1 Epping October 31, 1832 with John Wentworth October 31 biographical data, 1771-1788, and John Cotton (1658-1710) biography Pages 21-24: Letter by A Holmes dated 1816 1 ALS, 4 p. 5 1 Cambridge December 2, 1816 concerning the December 2 history of Cambridge (and Billerica), 1651-1656 Pages 25-28: Letter by Thaddeus Mason Harris 1828 1 ALS, 4 p. 6 1 dated Dorchester February 23, 1828 concerning February 23 Harris genealogy, 1634-1813 Pages 29-32: Letter by Abiel Abbott dated 1825 June 7 1 ALS, 4 p. 7 1 Chelmsford June 7, 1825 concerning Abbott genealogy, 1647-1825 Pages 33-36: Letter by Asa A. Tufts dated Dover 1833 April 1 ALS, 4 p. 8 1 NH April 10, 1833 concerning Tufts and Cotton 10 family genealogy, 1617-1833 Pages 37-40: Account of the Tufts family by 4 p. 8 1 Joseph Tufts Pages 41-75: Memoranda in Judge Sewall’s 1811 [35] p. 9 1 Journals &c of deaths &c of members of Harvard College 5 John Farmer Papers Mss 971 Folder Description Document Physdesc Folder Box Date(s) # # Pages 75-76: Extracts from Ordination & 1804 March [2] p. 9 1 Obituary Notices, 1700-1771, furnished by Revd Wm Clark, formerly Episcopal Minister of Quincy or Dedham (a son of Revd Peter Clark of Danvers) to Wm Winthrop Esqr of Cambridge March 1804 copied by S.S. Pages 77-80: Letter from Lemuel Shattuck dated 1827 1 ALS, 4 p. 10 Concord, MS December 18, 1827 with December genealogical data on Farrar, Bulkley, Jones and 18 allied families, 1640-1803 Pages 81-84: Genealogy of the Kittredge Family 4 p. 10 Pages 85-88: Letter from Lemuel Shattuck dated 1828 March 1 ALS, 4 p. 11 Concord, MS March 11, 1828 concerning 11 Shattuck genealogy, 1636-1799 Pages 89-92: Letter from Lemuel Shattuck dated 1830 1 ALS, 4 p. 12 Concord December 9, 1830 concerning Jones, December 9 Bulkley, Whiting, Sewall’s journals, etc., 1668- 1737 Pages 93-100: Record of Baptisms in the First 8 p. 13 Church in Boston, 1632-1730 Pages 101-104: Memoir of Capt. Thomas 4 p. 14 Jackson, 1747-1790 Pages 105-108: Genealogy of the Farmers 1600 to 4 p. 15 1 1830 Pages 109-110: Blunt genealogy by John Blunt, 2 p. 16 1 1589-1823 Pages 111-114: Letter from Caleb Butler dated 1825 March 1 ALS, 4 p. 16 1 Groton March 6, 1825 concerning an account of 6 the Groton Farmers, 1734-1813 Page 113: Includes Notice of persons early in [4] p. 16 1 N[ew] England of the name of Davis by Samuel Davis, Esq. of Plymouth, 1607-1827 Pages 115-118: Letter from John M. Hunt dated 1823 May 1 ALS, 4 p. 17 1 Dunstable May 23, 1823 concerning Lovewell 23 family Pages 119-122: Letter from Hill dated Townsend 1827 April 1 ALS, 4 p. 18 1 April 18, 1827 concerning Rev. Jonathan Searle 18 biography 1764-1812, list of Rev. Ebenezer Hill’s publications, etc., 1738-1827 Pages 123-132: Notes relating to Dunstable, NH, [10] p. 19 1 1673-1733, from J. B. Hill, Esq. 6 John Farmer Papers Mss 971 Folder Description Document Physdesc Folder Box Date(s) # # Pages 133-136: Letter from Hon. William Badger 1830 June 1 ALS, 4 p. 20 1 dated Gilmanton 21 June 1830 concerning an 21 account of the two Hon. Joseph Badgers, 1721- 1809 Pages 137-140: Letter from Rev. John Kelly dated 1830 April 1 ALS, 4 p. 21 1 Hampstead April 5, 1830 with sketches of the 5 graduates of Dartmouth College class of 1791.
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