Johnson family papers, 1776-1937.
Collection Number: 4928
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Johnson family papers, 1776-1937.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
4928
Abstract:
The Johnson Family Papers consist of correspondence, wills, diplomas, marriage certificates,
obituaries, photographs, genealogical notes and family histories, land grant certificates,
military documents, a book of autographs, and other papers and documents of the Johnson
and related families, direct descendants of the Presidential Adams family. The family
was located chiefly in Utica, New York.
Creator:
Johnson family.
Quanitities:
1.9 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
The Johnson Family Papers consist of correspondence, wills, diplomas, marriage certificates,
obituaries, photographs, genealogical notes and family histories, land grant certificates,
military documents, a book of autographs, and other papers and documents of the Johnson
and related families, direct descendants of the Adams family.
The earliest correspondence concerns the relations between Abigail Adams and her daughter-in-law
Sarah Adams, and among other members of the family, including John Adams and John
Quincy Adams, Susan B. Adams, Charles Thomas Clark, and various members of the Adams,
Johnson, and Savage families. Other documents refer to George Washington, Aaron Burr,
Martin Van Buren, and James Monroe. The collection contains much material concerning
the genealogy and history of several related families, with reference to their participation
in numerous political and social events. The papers include discussion of family relations
and matrimony, genealogy, domestic arrangements and social life, family properties
and holdings, family political and military history, and other matters. The family
was located chiefly in Utica, New York.
Documents are signed by George Washington and James Monroe; genealogies pertain to
members of the Johnson, Adams, Smith, Bosch, Het, Quincy, Fowle, Boylston, Shepard,
Norton, and Bass families.
Includes letters of daughter-in-law Sarah Adams, John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Charles
Adams, Susan B. Adams, Charles Thomas Clark, Abigail Louisa Smith Johnson, Belinda
Clarkson, Alexander B. Johnson, Arthur B. Johnson, Aaron Burr, John Savage, Daniel
B. Tompkins, Martin Van Buren, Edward Savage, Mary Ann Smith, Louisa C. Smith, Eliza
Thompson, Samuel Nelson, Eliza A. Hunt, Mary Ann Savage Hunt, Ward Hunt, and other
members of the Johnson, Adams, and Savage families.
Genealogy/Family History | Boes 4, 5, 7 |
Photographs | Box 4 |
Miscellaneous Adams, Savage, and Johnson Family Items | Boxes 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12 |
Documents Not Related to the Adams, Savage, and Johnson Families | Box 3 |
Presidential Signatures | Boxes 5, 4, 6, 11 |
Publications Removed From Collection 4928 - To Be Cataloged Separately:
- Bible. Philadelphia: John Thompson and Abraham Small, 1798.
- Cornell, Mary Emily. The Autobiography of M.E. Cornell. Ithaca, New York: The Cayuga Press, 1929.
- Horace. The Works of Horace. 2 volumes. Edinburgh: J. Dickson and C. Elliot, 1783.
- Icones Biblicae. Strassburg: 1625-30.
- Johnson, A. B. Deep Sea Soundings and Explorations of the Bottom. Boston: John Wilson and Son, 1861.
- Miller, Samuel F. The Supreme Court of the United States: A Series of Biographies. Washington, D.C.: W. H. Barnes and Co., 1877.
- Ovid. Metamorphosis. Amsterdam (?): 1675.
- The Salem Book. Salem, New York: Salem Review Press, 1896.
- Wyman, T. B. Genealogy of the Name and Family of Hunt. Boston: John Wilson and Son, 1862-63.
- Zorn, Walter Lewis. The Descendants of the Presidents of the United States of America. Monroe, Michigan: Walter Lewis Zorn, 1954.
Researchers may view one folder at a time.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Johnson family papers, 1776-1937. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell
University Library.
Names:
Adams, John, 1735-1826.
Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848.
Adams, Abigail, 1744-1818.
Washington, George, 1732-1799.
Monroe, James, 1758-1831.
Adams, Sarah, 19th century.
Adams, Charles.
Adams, Susan B., 19th century.
Clark, Charles Thomas.
Johnson, Abigail Louisa Smith.
Clarkson, Belinda.
Johnson, A. B. (Alexander Bryan), 1786-1867.
Johnson, Arthur B.
Burr, Aaron, 1756-1836.
Savage, John.
Savage, Edward.
Tompkins, Daniel D., 1774-1825.
Van Buren, Martin, 1782-1862.
Smith, Mary Ann.
Smith, Louisa C.
Thompson, Eliza.
Nelson, Samuel.
Hunt, Eliza A.
Hunt, Mary Ann Savage.
Hunt, Ward.
Johnson, Alexander Smith, 1817-1878.
Adams family.
Savage family.
Smith family.
Bosch family.
Het family.
Quincy family.
Fowle family.
Boylston family.
Shepard family.
Norton Brothers.
Bass family.
Places:
Quincy (Mass.) -- Social life and customs.
Utica (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs.
Subjects:
Families -- Massachusetts -- Quincy.
Families -- New York (State) -- Utica.
Hair -- Specimens
Form and Genre Terms:
Photographs.
CONTAINER LIST
Container
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Description
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Date
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Series I. Correspondence
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Adams
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Abigail Adams
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Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Abigail Adams to her daughter-in-law Sarah Adams
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4 letters: February 23, 1806; January 20, 1808; July 3, 1814; December 20, 1814
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Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Abigail Adams to Sarah Adams
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3 letters: April 24, 1816; May 20, 1816; July 28, 1816
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Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Abigail Adams to Sarah Adams
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5 letters: March 20, 1817; April 12, 1817; May 5, 1817; May 28, 1817; August 3, 1817
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Box 1 | Folder 4 |
A letter from Sarah Adams to Abigail Adams
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Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Abigail Adams to her granddaughter Abigail Louisa Smith Johnson
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5 letters: July 23, 1811; March 5, 1812; September 9, 1813; October 26, 1814; December
9, 1816
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John Adams
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Box 1 | Folder 6 |
John Adams to his daughter-in-law Sarah Adams
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2 letters: October 26, 1814; October 2, 1820
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Box 1 | Folder 7 |
A letter from John Adams to his granddaughter's husband Alexander B. Johnson
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December 17, 1820
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John Quincy Adams
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Box 1 | Folder 8 |
Miscellaneous letters to and from John Quincy Adams
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3 letters - to Samuel Shaw: September 27, 1824; to and from his niece Abigail Louisa
Smith Johnson: February 22, 1825
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Charles Adams
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Box 1 | Folder 9 |
Charles Adams to his brother Thomas B. Adams
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5 letters: May 23, 1790; May 29, 1790; November 21, 1790; August 30, 1791; September
18, 1791
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Sarah Adams
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Box 1 | Folder 10 |
Susan B. Adams to her mother Sarah Adams
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Box 1 | Folder 11 |
Susan B. Adams to Sarah Adams
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5 letters: July 31, 1816; September 14, 1816; October 3, 1816; March 11, 1817; April
8, 1817
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Box 1 | Folder 12 |
Charles Thomas Clark to his mother-in-law Sarah Adams
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2 letters: May 20, 1816; March 23, 1818
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Box 1 | Folder 13 |
Susan B. Clark to her mother Sarah Adams
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7 letters: July 12, 1826; August 14, 1826; March 10, 1827; March 23, 1827; April 5,
1827; April 30, 1827; May 21, 1827
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Box 1 | Folder 14 |
A letter from Susan M. Clark to her grandmother Sarah Adams
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August 13, 1827
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Box 2 | Folder 1 |
Abigail Louisa Smith Johnson to her mother Sarah Adams
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3 letters: October 10, 1823; October 22, 1826; October 23, 1826
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Box 2 | Folder 2 |
Belinda Clarkson to her sister Sarah Adams
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7 letters: May 14, 1815; April 1, 1818; May 12, 1818; April 28, 1819; February 24,
1820; September 28, n.y.; November 14, n.y.)
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Box 2 | Folder 3 |
Margaret de St. Hilaire to her sister Sarah Adams
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4 letters: August 5, 1815; October 3, 1815; November 16, 1815; February 15, 1822
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Box 2 | Folder 4 |
Miscellaneous letters to Sarah Adams
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4 letters - from G. Le Ray de Chaumont: August 15, 1808; Peter Whitney: June 5, 1813;
her niece Mary Ann Smith: September 4, 1826; her brother William Smith: n.d.)
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Box 2 | Folder 5 |
Miscellaneous letters from Sarah Adams
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4 letters - to her daughter Susan B. Adams: May 10, 1812; her sister Margaret de St.
Hilaire: August 19, 1815; her sister Nancy: June 27, 1816; her brother William Smith:
February 8, 1817
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Box 5 | Folder 1 |
Ann Masters to her sister Sarah Adams
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2 letters: October 13, 1817; December 22, 1819
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Box 5 | Folder 2 |
Margaret Smith to her sister Sarah Adams
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2 letters: n.d.
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Box 5 | Folder 3 |
A letter from James Smith to his aunt Sarah Adams
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January 16, 1827
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Johnson
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Abigail Louisa Smith Johnson
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Box 2 | Folder 6 |
Belinda Clarkson to her niece Abigail Louisa Smith Johnson
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4 letters: December 14, 1818; 1820; August 21, 1828; December 13, 1828
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Box 2 | Folder 7 |
Miscellaneous letters to Abigail Louisa Smith Johnson
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4 letters - from her mother Sarah Adams: July 14, 1811; Elizabeth Peabody: January
20, 1815; her aunt Ann Herrod Adams: September 6, 1815; her cousin Louisa C. Smith:
December 16, 1818
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Box 2 | Folder 8 |
Miscellaneous letters to Abigail Louisa Smith Johnson
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4 letters - from Louisa: March 2, 1819; her cousin James Smith: January, 1821; Eliza
Thompson: October 12, 1821; her aunt Ann Masters: February 18, n.y.)
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Box 5 | Folder 4 |
A letter from Alexander Smith Johnson to his mother Abigail Louisa Smith Johnson
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July 26, 1831
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Alexander B. Johnson
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Box 2 | Folder 9 |
Miscellaneous letters to and from Alexander B. Johnson
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6 letters - from Sarah Adams: September 27, 1825; to Ann Masters: December 4, 1830;
to and from Mrs. Ann Breese: December 11, 1830; to Ed. Crufts: August 17, 1842; to
Ward Hunt: May 27, 1858
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William Clarkson Johnson
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Box 2 | Folder 10 |
Miscellaneous letters to William Clarkson Johnson
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4 letters - from his great aunt Louisa C. Adams: February 22, 1844; Chief Justice
Samuel Nelson: March 4, 1844; Attorney General Caleb Cushing: March 24, 1861; W. Phillips:
July 27, 1876
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Arthur B. Johnson
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Box 2 | Folder 11 |
Miscellaneous letters to Arthur B. Johnson including an enclosed letter from the Duke
of Wellington to Mrs. Robinson
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2 letters - from Alexander B. Johnson: December 1, 1852; Charles Francis Adams: January
27, 1879
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Savage
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John Savage
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Box 3 | Folder 1 |
Correspondence between John Savage and A. Burr
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7 letters: May 12, 1820; June 13, 1820; September 9, 1825; October 16, 1825; January
2, 1827; April 6, 1828; September 28, 1832
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Box 3 | Folder 2 |
Dewitt Clinton to John Savage
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3 letters: July 10, 1816; February 26, 1818; December 31, 1821
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Box 3 | Folder 3 |
Miscellaneous letters to John Savage
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4 letters - from Governor Daniel D. Tompkins: February 21, 1814; Nat. Cutting: March
24, 1817; J. Montefiore: March 13, 1820; A. Haring: May 23, 1820
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Box 3 | Folder 4 |
Miscellaneous letters to John Savage
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5 letters - from Harry White: December 14, 1820; John A. Graham: November 26, 1827;
Governor Nath. C. Picher: April 17, 1828; H. Clay: April 19, 1828: Jacob Van Ness:
April 28, 1828
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Box 3 | Folder 5 |
Miscellaneous letters to John Savage
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5 letters - from his father Edward Savage: April 6, 1829; Governor E. T. Throop: July
4, 1829; Governor W.C. Marcy: December 31, 1832; John A. Dix: November 18, 1835; Martin
Van Buren: July 27, 1837
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Misc.
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Box 12 |
Photocopies of miscellaneous letters
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Series II. Documents
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Edward Savage
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Box 5 | Folder 5 |
Edward Savage Records: Pay Rolls of Captain Joshua Conckey's Company of Rangers (1776-1777)
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4 documents
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Box 5 | Folder 6 |
Edward Savage Records (1776-1786)
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7 documents
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Box 11 | Folder 3 |
. . . the Secretary's Office, Feb. 16 1784
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Box 5 | Folder 7 |
Edward Savage Records (1787-1832)
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7 documents
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Box 6 | Folder 1 |
Edward Savage Records: Pay Roll of Captain Joshua Conckey's Company of Rangers (1776)
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1 document
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Box 6 | Folder 2 |
Edward Savage Records: Appointments (1783-1813)
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2 documents
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Box 11 | Folder 10 |
Edward Savage appointment as surrogate, 1783
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John Savage
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Box 3 | Folder 7 |
Records of John Savage: Union College (1799)
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2 documents
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Box 3 | Folder 8 |
Records of John Savage: Oration (1803)
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Box 3 | Folder 9 |
Records of John Savage (1802-1888)
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7 documents
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Box 11 | Folder 1 |
Admission as Counselor at Law, Supreme Court (1806)
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Box 11 | Folder 2 |
Admission as Solicitor and Councilor at Law, Court of Chancery (1820)
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Box 11 | Folder 9 |
"I do here authorize and license him . . ." fourth line down (n.d.)
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Box 5 | Folder 8 |
Records of John Savage (1804-1863)
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6 documents
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Box 11 | Folder 8 |
Commission for the honorable J. Savage as Chief Justice Jan. 29, 1823
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Box 6 | Folder 3 |
Records of John Savage (1802-1823)
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9 documents
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Box 11 | Folder 7 |
Diploma from Union College: J. Savage 1802
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Savage family
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Box 3 | Folder 10 |
Savage Records: Insurance Deeds (1863-1865)
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4 documents
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Box 3 | Folder 11 |
Savage Records: Financial (1815-1865)
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5 documents
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Box 3 | Folder 12 |
Last Will and Testament of John Savage (1863)
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Box 3 | Folder 13 |
Obituaries of John and Ruth Wheeler Savage (1863-1884)
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2 documents
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Adams family
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Box 4 | Folder 2 |
Poem by Robert Burns to Sally (Sarah) Adams (n.d.)
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Box 4 | Folder 3 |
Examination taken by Abigail Louisa Smith Adams (1814)
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Box 4 | Folder 4 |
Obituary Notices of Abigail Adams (1818)
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2 documents
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Johnson family
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Box 4 | Folder 1 |
Field Book by George Webster of John Johnson's property (1796)
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Box 4 | Folder 5 |
Proxy signed by Bryan Johnson, father of Alexander B. Johnson (1818)
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Box 4 | Folder 6 |
Extract from the Autobiography of Alexander B. Johnson: Lafayette (n.d.)
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Box 4 | Folder 7 |
Obituary Notices of Abigail Louisa Smith Johnson (1836)
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2 documents
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Box 4 | Folder 8 |
Marriage Certificate of Arthur B. Johnson and Eliza S. Hunt (1859)
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Box 4 | Folder 9 |
Last Will and Testament of Alexander B. Johnson (1867)
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Box 4 | Folder 10 |
Obituary Notices of Alexander B. Johnson (1868)
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Box 4 | Folder 11 |
Handwritten obituary notice for Mary Ann Savage Hunt who died in 1846. Believed to
be written by Montgomery Hunt Johnson Sr. (n.d.)
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Box 4 | Folder 12 |
Obituary Notice of Lieutenant John S. Hunt who died in 1864 (n.d.)
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Box 4 | Folder 13 |
Notices from the Colonial Dames to Eliza S. Johnson (1905-1906)
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2 documents
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Box 4 | Folder 14 |
Three stock certificates belonging to Montgomery Hunt Johnson for shares in Utica
Plantations, Inc. and Sconondoa Inn, Inc. (1915-1920)
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Box 5 | Folder 9 |
Johnson Records (1805-1830)
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4 documents
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Box 5 | Folder 10 |
Will and settlements of the estate of Maria T. Hunt, second wife of Ward Hunt (1883-1913)
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Box 5 | Folder 11 |
Wills and settlements of the estate of Eliza S. Johnson (1897-1906)
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3 documents
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Box 5 | Folder 12 |
Documents regarding Ward Hunt Johnson and his trustees Mary S. Johnson and Montgomery
H. Johnson (1909-1937)
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2 documents
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Box 6 | Folder 4 |
Johnson Records: Arthur B. Johnson's commission as Commissioner of Railroads signed
by President Chester A. Arthur (1882)
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Series III. Miscellaneous
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Genealogy/Family History
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Box 4 | Folder 21 |
"Semitic Notes": Johnson Family History (n.d.)
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Box 5 | Folder 16 |
Genealogy of the Johnson, Adams, Smith, Bosch, Het, Quincy, Fowle, Boylston, Shepard,
Norton, and Bass Families (n.d.)
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Box 5 | Folder 17 |
Handwritten Family Record of the Savage, Wheeler, and Hunt Families (n.d.)
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Box 5 | Folder 18 |
Ancestral Tablets (n.d.)(photocopy)
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Box 7 | Folder 3 |
Lyman Family and Wheeler Family Record (n.d.)
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Photographs
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Box 4 | Folder 17 |
Photograph of the Savage House in Salem, N.Y. (n.d.)
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Box 4 | Folder 19 |
Photographs of the Garden at the Old Johnson House at 235 Genesee St., Utica, N.Y.
(n.d.)
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4 pictures
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Box 4 | Folder 20 |
Photograph of Ward Hunt (n.d.)
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Miscellaneous Adams, Savage, and Johnson Family Items
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Box 4 | Folder 16 |
Lock of John Adams' hair (n.d.)
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Box 5 | Folder 15 |
Report from the President and Directors of the Ontario Bank. Believed to be written
by Alexander B. Johnson (n.d.)
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Box 7 | Folder 1 |
Edward Savage's New York Pocket Almanac (1790)
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Box 7 | Folder 2 |
John Savage's "Horse Back Journey" (1817)
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Box 7 | Folder 4 |
Music Book Belonging to John Savage (n.d.)
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Box 7 | Folder 5 |
Autograph Album Belonging to Ward Hunt Johnson
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Includes signatures from R. B. Hayes, Hamilton Fish, M. R. Waite (Chief Justice-U.S.
Supreme Court), Nathan Clifford (Assoc. Justice-U.S. Supreme Court), N. H. Swayne
(Assoc. Justice-U.S. Supreme Court), Sam. J. Miller (Assoc. Justice- U.S. Supreme
Court), David Davis (Assoc. Justice-U.S. Supreme Court), [Stephen Field] (Assoc. Justice-U.S.
Supreme Court), W. S. Strong (Assoc. 7 5 1877 (cont.) Justice-U.S. Supreme Court),
Jos. P. Bradley (Assoc. Justice-U.S. Supreme Court), Ward Hunt (Assoc. Justice-U.S.
Supreme Court), W. A. Wheeler (Vice President), T. W. Henry (President of the Senate
of the U.S.), Francis Kernan, Wm. M. Evarts, (Secretary of State), John Sherman (Secretary
of the Treasury), Geo. W. McCrary (Secretary of War), R. W. Thompson (Secretary of
the Navy), Carl Schurz (Secretary of the Interior ), D. M. Key (Post Master General),
Chas. Davis (Attorney General), W. T. Sherman (General), P. H. Sheridan, Wm. M. Evarts,
Alexander Stephens, Joseph Henry (President of the Smithsonian Institute), illegible,
Wm. Ingraham Kip, John G. Whittier, Th. Nast, William Cullen Bryant, Geo. Bancroft,
piece of manuscript with annotation "Part of original of one of Cooper's novels,"
letter from Alfred B. Street, Henry W. Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Donald G.
Mitchell, Edwin Booth, Henry Ward Beecher, Celia Thaxter.
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Box 8 | Folder 1 |
Scrapbook containing charcoal and color drawings, some of which are signed by Laura
Savage (1838-1856)
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Box 8 | Folder 2 |
Journal with accounts and essays, possibly belonging to Alexander B. Johnson (1806)
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Box 9 |
Alexander Bryan Johnson Autobiography, transcribed by Eliza Stringham Morton (1930)
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Volume I: 1786-1814Volume II: 1814-1828
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Box 10 |
Alexander Bryan Johnson Autobiography, transcribed by Eliza Stringham Morton (1930)
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Volume III: 1828-1839Volume IV: 1839-1867
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Box 12 |
Newspaper clippings (1996)
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Documents Not Related to the Adams, Savage, and Johnson Families
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Box 3 | Folder 6 |
Miscellaneous letters (1796-1852)
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7 letters - from Montgomery Hunt to his sister Lydia Wheeler: May 12, 1796; Ann Smith
to Julia Rush: May 30, 1809; R. W. [Crawmshield] to Dr. J. Mairs: April 4, 1815; M.
Hunt to Ephraim Hart: January 21, 1820; Martin Van Buren to Ward Hunt: September 26,
1846; Mrs. [Rainier] to Mr. Hunt: November 16, 1846; [Nath] Sherman to Geo. Peabody:
May 27, 1852
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Presidential Signatures
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Box 5 | Folder 13 |
Discharge of Abraham McKillip signed by President George Washington (1783)
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Box 5 | Folder 14 |
Land Grant Certificates signed by President James Monroe (1817-1818)
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Grant to Daniel Harrington
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Box 11 | Folder 4 |
Warrant #4120 to Sylvester Rowley Dec. 19, 1817 (Military)
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Box 11 | Folder 5 |
Warrant [121] to Eliphalet Peabody Nov. 29, 1817 (Military)
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Box 11 | Folder 6 |
Warrant #3079 to Benjamin Bailey April 3, 1818
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Box 4 | Folder 15 |
Autographs of John Quincy Adams (n.d.)
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5 envelopes
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Box 4 | Folder 18 |
Autographed engraving of Ulysses S. Grant (n.d.)
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Box 6 | Folder 4 |
Johnson Records: Arthur B. Johnson's commission as Commissioner of Railroads signed
by President Chester A. Arthur (1882)
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Mapcase Folder Map Case II-9 |
Linen copy of the Declaration of Independence
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Series IV. Digital Images
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