Gross and Snow family papers, 1782-1885.
Collection Number: 882

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library


DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Gross and Snow family papers, 1782-1885.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
882
Abstract:
Papers of the Snow family (1782-1865) of Truro, Massachusetts, include letters, land contracts, and a poem. Papers of the Gross family (1861-1884) include letters pertaining to the Civil War, a water cure, and life in Washington and Oregon.
Creator:
Gross family.
Quanitities:
53 items.
Language:
Collection material in English

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Papers of the Snow family (1782-1865) of Truro, Massachusetts, include letters, land contracts, and a poem. Papers of the Gross family (1861-1884) include letters pertaining to the Civil War, a water cure, and life in Washington and Oregon.

INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:

Gross and Snow family papers, #882. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

SUBJECTS

Names:
Snow family.
Places:
Washington -- Social life and customs.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
Truro (Mass.) -- Social life and customs.
Oregon -- Social life and customs.
Subjects:
Hydrotherapy.
Real property -- Massachusetts -- Truro.
Families -- Massachusetts -- Truro.
Form and Genre Terms:
Poems.

CONTAINER LIST
Container
Description
Date
Scope and Contents
All the material in the collection may not be covered by this guide.
Manuscript Box 79
Additional Gross-Snow Letters
1840-11-04-1850-07-11
Scope and Contents
8 pcs.
Manuscript Box 79
Lemuel Bradford, Jr., Plymouth to Captain Lewis Lombard, Truro, Mass.
1840-11-04
Scope and Contents
Regarding the repair of brig, amount of commission - 5% of the freights.
Manuscript Box 79
Lemuel Bradford, Jr., Plymouth to Captain Lewis Lombard, Truro, Mass.
184-11-21
Scope and Contents
Brig ready.
Manuscript Box 79
Lemuel Bradford, Jr., Plymouth to Captain Lewis Lombard, Brig Silsbee, Boston, Mass.
1840-12-16
Scope and Contents
Answer to Lombard's request for a new stove for ship; suggests another. Advises Lombard to use own judgement as to whether to take ship to Wilmington or to Texas and New Orleans.
Manuscript Box 79
Lemuel Bradford, Jr., Plymouth to Captain Lewis Lombard, at the Philadelphia Packet Pier, Boston
1841-04-21
Scope and Contents
Bradford cannot come to Boston; says it is essential that Lombard come to Plymouth - with all essential papers.
Manuscript Box 79
Lemuel Bradford, Jr., Plymouth to Captain Lewis Lombard, Truro, Mass.
1841-08-18
Scope and Contents
Bradford wishes Lombard to give evidence as to whether certain damage to the ship could rightly be attributed to heavy gales; if so, his case for compensation is clear. wants to know what became of the logbook.
Manuscript Box 79
Lemuel Bradford, Jr., Plymouth to Captain Lewis Lombard, Truro, Mass.
1842-06-25
Scope and Contents
Bradford wishes Lombard to meet him in Boston and bring all papers necessary to settle up the voyage.
Manuscript Box 79
Lemuel Bradford, Jr. to Captain Lewis Lombard, Truro, Mass.
1842-07-16
Scope and Contents
Bradford tells Lombard that the general consensus is that the latter should receive no compensation for his services at Mobile because "no prudent man would undertake to repair a vessel without first knowing how he was to pay the bills."; further criticizes Lombard's judgment is crediting certain items to the owners.
Manuscript Box 79
Josiah Lombard, Griggsville [?] to Captain Lewis Lombard, Truro, Mass.
1850-07-11
Scope and Contents
Josiah Lombard sends a few lines by his clerk, Andrew Wilson, who is on a buying trip in the East.