Little family papers

Item Information

Title:
Little family papers
Description:
Background: The Little family papers (1764-1984) were originally processed in December 2002 by Elisabeth Doucett. The papers came to the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, now Historic New England, Library and Archives in 1986 as part of Agnes and Amelia W. Little bequest of the Spencer-Peirce-Little farmhouse in Newbury, Massachusetts. All of the papers in this collection come from the descendants of George Little, the founder of the Newbury family of this name, through his son Moses. The papers were arranged in series in chronological order by family member and represent the lives of multiple generations of the family. The papers of the wives of Little family members follow those of their husbands (e.g., the papers of Catherine Adams Little follow immediately after those of Edward Henry Little). Each series was further divided into subseries according to record type: correspondence, diaries, financial, inventory, legal, literary, miscellaneous and printed matter. The intern processor wrote brief biographical notes for each family member. The materials were organized in acid-free folders and stored in twenty-four legal-size document boxes. Update: 2013-2014 In 2013-2014, through a National Historical Publications and Records Commission grant (Award Number: NAR13-RH-50051-13: "Family Manuscript Collections: Expanding Online Access to New England Heritage Project"), twenty-six Historic New England manuscript collections of family papers were re-evaluated and processed/reprocessed to meet current archival standards and "best practices;" corresponding finding aids were created/updated to be DACS-compliant and converted into electronic Microsoft Word document form; and the finding aids were made accessible/searchable online through the use of the Minisis M2A archival database of the Minisis Collections Management System. The Little family papers (MS016) were part of the grant project. The collection was already well-organized and properly housed at the start of the grant period, so very few changes were made in terms of physical storage, but some minor changes to box and folder labels. The original processor had numbered the boxes in tens, thus Box 1 was originally Box 10, Box 2 was Box 20, and so on. It was determined that this numbering system would be misleading to outside researchers in cases where a person's papers spanned multiple boxes, so the boxes were renumbered simply, 1 through 24. The folders were originally numbered consecutively but the numbers 130-139 were used twice; therefore, folders were renumbered but the original order created by the processor was maintained (which is the reason behind the non-consecutive numbering present in Box 7). NOTE: Processing/updating the collection and making the finding aid accessible online were made possible through grants from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (Award Number: NAR13-RH-50051-13), the Bedford Family Foundation, and an anonymous donor.
Date:
1764–1984
Format:
Manuscripts
Genre:
family papers
Location:
Historic New England
Collection (local):
MS016: Little family papers
Subjects:
agriculture (discipline)
correspondence
deeds
diaries
education
estates (aggregate property)
farms
financial records
historical archaeology
legal documents
livestock
military personnel
motion pictures (visual works)
photographs
real estate
wills
world's fairs (exhibitions)
United States. History. Civil War, 1861-1865
United States. History. Revolution, 1775-1783
Cook, Mary
Little, Abigail (Noyes), 1767-1842
Little, Agnes Lawrence, 1896-1982
Little, Albert Noyes, 1894-1976
Little, Amelia (Bradley), 1863-1903
Little, Amelia Worth, 1892-1986
Little, Catherine Adams, 1823-1923
Little, Daniel Noyes, 1858-1912
Little, David, 1760-1825
Little, Ebenezer, 1801-1887
Little, Edward Francis, 1853-1935
Little, Edward Henry, 1819-1877
Little, Eliza (Adams), 1803-1900
Little, Eliza Adams, 1861-1959
Little, Frances Eliza, 1890-1917
Little, Hector
Little, Henry, 1790-1848
Little, Henry Bailey, 1851-1957
Little, Isaac
Little, Josiah, 1747-1830
Little, Judith (Bailey), 1724-1764
Little, Katherine Rebecca, 1886-1907
Little, Margaret Bradley, 1888-1967
Little, Moses S.
Little, Nathaniel, b. 1818
Little, Phebe, 1798-1862
Little, Sarah (Adams), 1854-1921
Little, Sarah (Toppan), 1748-1823
Little, Stephen, 1719-1793
Little, Tristram, 1784-1872
Phister, Lispenard
Stekionis, Dorothy, 1900-1994
Stekionis, Jacob, 1891-1984
Willson, Mary Little
Catholic Apostolic Church
Essex Agricultural Society (Mass.)
First Church of Newbury (Newbury, Mass.)
First Religious Society (Newburyport, Mass.)
Newburyport Choral Society
Newburyport High School
Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
Places:
Massachusetts > Essex (county) > Haverhill
Iowa
Massachusetts > Essex (county) > Newbury
Massachusetts > Essex (county) > Newburyport
Spencer-Peirce-Little Farm (Newbury, Mass.)
Extent:
10.01 linear ft. (24 file boxes)
Link to Item:
http://gusn.us/175483
Terms of Use:
Rights status not evaluated.
Contact host institution for more information.
Notes:
Gift of Amelia Worth Little and Agnes Lawrence Little
Identifier:
175483
Call #:
MS016