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COLLECTIONS OF CORRESPONDENCE AMD -UNU SCRIPT DOCUMENTS

OF COLLECTION: GAY-OTIS Papers

SOURCE: Purchase - July 1, 1953

SUBJECT: Personal and business papers relating to shipping, farming andreal estaTe in New England, the Maritime trovinces, ana some correspondencerelating to these activities in sou-on uaroima, uuoa, &entucicy and Louisiana

DATES COVERED: Ca» 17liO - 1900 NUMBER OF ITEMS:S^I (cataloged)ca .1*,000 (ca .1*,000 (uncataloged)

STATUS: (check appropriate description)Cataloged: x Listed: Arranged: X Not organized:

Correspondence & Maries Mss# & documentsCONDITION: (give number of vols#, boxes, or .shelves)Bound: _^_ Boxed: 66 a I ]/>.-•.v /- Stored:

LOCATION: (Library) Special Collections C4LL-WMPKR Spec Ms CollGay-Otis

RESTRICTIONS OTKUSE

DESCRIPTION: Letters (personal; business; legal), manuscripts (prose,poetry; diaries) and documents (deeds; reciepts; invoices; account books)of two important New England families whose British ancestors settled inMassachusetts during the second quarter of the seventeenth century (John Gay,a founder of Dedham, Mass"., 1635> and John Otis, a founder of HLngham, Mass#,I636). The eighteenth century materials focuses on the personal and businesscorrespondence of Calvin, Jotham and Martin Gay (sons of Rev, Ebenezer Gay,I696-I787) who were engaged in shipping between New England and the MaritimeProvinces• ihere are occasional letters of Jotham and Martin referring tothe American Revolution. The Otis family correspondence of this century,likewise, is of a purely routine and personal nature* For example, thereare only four letters of Col. James Otis (1702-1778) and only two of his son,James, the patriot, (1725-1783). Gay and Otis family interests intertwineduring the nineteenth century due to the marriage of Mary Allyne Otis toEbenezer Gay (1771-l81i2), who are among the chief corresppndents of thiscentury, along with their children including Sidney Howard Gay, the journalistand author, and Winckworth Allan Gay, the landscape painter. The Otiscorrespondence centers around the business, real estate and personal interestsof Mary A. Otis Gay's brothers: John, Joseph and William Otis.

FOR A LIST OF THE BOXES and THEIR CONTENTSFor a list of the Correspondents SEE FOLLpwTWG.PAGES.

No. of boxes 52 Correspondence (cataloged) 1 Diaries (W. A. Gay: European trips; F. M. Gay; Thomas Otis)(cataloged) Notebook. (W. A. Gay: Sketchbook; West Point notebook) (cataloged) Unidentifiable correspondence (arranged alphabetically by recipient)(uncataloged) Genealogical records (Gay; Otis; Walter)(uncataloged) The remainder of the collection is uncataloged 5 Manuscripts &documents (identified and arranged alphabetically by surname) 1 Manuscripts &documents -- Gay fami1y (identified) 1 Manuscripts & documents --Otis familty (identified) 1 Manuscripts &: documents --Otis, Joseph (The United States in acc’t with J. Otis 1803-1801) 1 Documents --Gay family account books (identified) . 1 Documents --Bills & receipt. (unidentified) 1 Documents -- Miscellaneous (unidentified) 1 Documents -- Miscellaneous documents & scraps (mainly 19th cent. Gay family) 1 Gay Family: a) Photographs (mainly 19th century) b) Memorabilia (mainly 19th century) c) Notebooks (mainly 19th century) d) Ms. Book (mainly 19th century) . Otis, James Jr: James Otis to James Otis Jr., Accounts, 1748-1758, is filed in Box 56: "Manuscripts and Documents (identified) O-Q" Cited by Waters in History of Childhood Quarterly I (Summer 1973), p. 146 as “Accounts” 1784-1758, fols. 1-6 Gay, Ebenezer, 1792- The diary of . . . 1792-1810 SEE: Plimpton Ms 1920 1810

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Abbott* Joseph HaleAbraham, NathanielAdams, AnselAdams, John (1735 - 1826)Adams, John QuincyAinslie, ThomasAinsworth, RichardAlden, OliverAllan, GeorgeAllan, John (17L6/7 - 180SAllan, William Jr.Allan, William.•Allan, WinckworthAllen, HomesAllen, JohnAllen, NathanielAllen, WilliamAllsopp, GeorgeAJJ^IV-itenry.-Allyne, SamuelAmes, ThomasAmory, FrancisAnderson, Joseph (Treasury Dept.)Anderson, Thomas D.Art Union of Philadelphia (George

W. Dewey)Atkins, Benjamin E,Atkins, GibbesAtwood, Sears et al.Avery, EdwardAvery, JohnAylwin, ThomasBackus, JoshuaBacon, EbenezerBagnell, EdwardBailey, JohnBaird, RobertBalch, William G,Bangs, BenjaminBangs, John D.Barker, BettyBarker, JoshuaBarker, RobertBarry, John A.Bartlett, W. 0.Bartlett, Z.Bascom, TimothyBass, HenryBaxter, ShubaelBayley, Daniel3aylies, William

Beach, William T.Beale, RobertBeek, John GerbrandBelcher, JosephBelding, G, H.Bell, SamuelBennett, JamesBent, JesseBent, MartinBerry, WatsonBeston, H.Binney, AmosBinney, JonathanBlack, Mary Gay (Mrs. William)'•lack, Rufus S.Black, ThomasBlack, WilliamBlake, Amelia 3.Blake, GeorgeBlake, H. F.Blake, JohnBlake, JosephBlish, Joseph Jr.Bosler & CompanyBoss, John Jr.Botsford, AmosBostwick, ZachariahBourne, BenjaminBourne, Benjamin J r .Bourne, Hannah D.Bourne, RichardBowen, Silvanus J r .Boyle, JohnBrackett, JoshuaBracony, A.Bradfprd, Charles F.Br«Lf «rdy GamalielBradford, SolomonBradhurst, John M.Bradley, J. H#

Bradley, William A.Brent, DanielBrewer, C. & CompanyBrickwood, JohnBridge, BenjaminBronson, SophiaBromley, EdwardBrooke, Jane E.Brooks, Chailes

Brooks, EbenezerBrooks, IsaacBroofcs, ObediahBrooks, P. C.Brooks, ThomasBrown, DanielBrown, JosephBryson, PeterBulkley, HenryBullard, BaalisBullard, Charles B. (and Benjamin Lincoln)Burgby, JohnBurn, Edward & SonsBurn, EdwardBurns, George H.Burr, DavidBurroughs, George Jr.Byles, iMary & CatherineCabot, W.Callbeck, PhillipsCallender, JohnCallender, JosephCanning, E. W.Carter, EraanualCary, A. & Co.Cary, Alpheus, Jr.Cary & DickinsonCazneau, EdwardCebra, JohnChampney, BenjaminChandler, JohnChapin, Elizabeth Margaret Gay (Mrs. Jacob)Chapman, A. W.Chase, BenjaminChase, OliverChild, Everett, & Co.Chipman, JohnChipman, JosephChipman, SamuelClap, ElishaClap, EzraClap, NathanielClapp, E.Clapp, W. W. (The Evening Gazette)Clark, IssacClark, JonasClark, L.Cleveland, CharlesCobb, ElijahCobb, MatthewCobb, ThomasCoffin, JohnCogley, Josephine 0.Colby, Harrison Gray Otis

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Colby, Maria Otis (Mrs. Philip)Colby, PhilipColman, HenryColman, James F.Conway, W. T,Cook, ClarenceCook, Samuel et a l .Cooke, ThomasCottnam, SamuelCranch, WilliamCrawford, William H.Creighton, JohnCroad, ThomasCrocker, DirvtdCrocker, HenryCrocker, John B.Crocker, Joseph, «Jr.Crocker, WilliamCross, AmosCrowell, EzraCrowell, JohnCrowell, SimeonCummens, Anna M.Curtis, George W.Curwin, SamuelCushing, Charles, Jr.Cushing, ElizabethCushing, Thomas, Jr.Cutler, James C•Dalton, Michael & TristramDamen, MaryDana, JamesDana, SamuelDana, WilliamDarby, Sarah (Mrs.Davies, Ann S.Davis, AbnerDavis, DanielDavis, Elisha T.Davis, Job C.Davis, JohnDavis, John W.Davis, WendellDay, JohnDean,(?), J.Dearborn, N. M. and ^elvill, ThomasDelano, JohnDe Le1 Dernier, FrancisDelindemir, FrankDennis, BenjaminDerby, Elias HasketDerby, RichardDeschamps, IsaacDewolf, Benjamin

Dickinson, ThomasDillingham, JohnDiman, DavidDimock, CharlesDixwell, John JamesDoane, ElishaDoane, JosephDobree, P. F.Dodd, TimothyDoll, E. AdamsDolliver, PeterDonnison, WilliamDougherty, JamesDraper, ̂ rgaret (Mrs. Richard)Drew, GeorgeDrown, T.Dugall, williamOunbar, John D.Dunham, ThomasDurando, G. L.Durant, ThomasDyer, EdwardDyson, G. E.Ealle (?), F.Edes, PeterSldridge, JohnS14otMaryFSldridge, JohnS14otA_Mary_F._Eliot, SphraimEliott , Isabella AmandaBlmei?, CorneiliaEtter, PeterFales, William A\Fearing, IsraelFellowes, NathanielFenwick, RobertFernandez, J. M.Fessenden, WilliamField, H. W.Fillis, JohnFinney, EbenezerFiske, Mary AllynFiske, &ary Otis Gay(Mrs. Robert T. P.)Fiske, OliverFiske, Robert Treat PaineFiske, Sarah DuncanFitzgerald, LewisFoster, BenjaminFoster, John,Jr.Foster, JosiahFowle, William B.Francklin, MichaelFreeman, JamesFreeman, Jonathan OtisFreeman, JoshuaFreeman, JosiahFreeman, NathanielFreeman, Russel

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Freeman, ShadrachFrothingham, Abby L.Frothingham, RichardFuller, nenry H^Fuller, TimothyFurnald, Jorothy (Mrs.Furnald, JohnGallatin, AlbertGallop, AntillGannett, CalebGardiner, tfohnGassett, EdwardGassett, F.Gay, Abigail, Jerusha & JoannaGay, Abigail (1729 - 180U)Gay, Arthur OtisGay, Arthur T.Gay, CalvinGay, Charles WilliamGay, Rev. Ebenezer (1696 - 1787)Gay, Ebenezer (1771 - 181*2)Gay, Ebenezer (1818 - 1899)Gay, Ebenezer HowardGay, Eleanor Allen (Mrs^ Martin)Gay, Elizabeth Johns Nejall (Mrs. SidneyHoward) ~

Gay, Elizabeth Young (Mrs. Henry Pinckney)Gay, Ellen Blake Blood (Mrs. Ebenezer)Gay, Frances MariaGay, Henry PinckneyGay, JothamGay, Martin (1760 - 1778)Gay, Martin (1726 - 1809).Gay, Martin (1803 - l8$0)Gay, Mary Allyne Otis (Mrs. Ebenezer)Gay, Ruth Atkins (Mrs. Martin)Gay, Samuel (llSh - 1817)Gay, Sidney HowardGay, WalterGay, WilliamGay, Winckworth AllanGibbons, A. H.Gilbert, Eliza R. Gay (Mrs. Thomas)Gilbert, ThomasGlynn, A• G.Godfrey, GeorgeGoldthwait, ThomasGordon, FrazerGordon, H. GyGore, ChristopherGore, JohnGorham, BenjaminGorham, DanielGorham, Nathaniel (Supervisor, District

of Massachusetts)Gorham, Thomas, Jr. ___

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Gorham, WilliamGould, Lucretia D« G.Gould, RobertGrafton, JosephGrant, (Mrs.Grant, Joseph P.Grants & StoneGray, JosephGray, SamuelGreen, DuffGreen, Isaiah L.Greenleaf, EbenezerGreenough, DavidGresham, S. H. R.Grinnell, Eliza R.Gross, MicahGulliver, SamuelHall, BenjaminHall, C. J.Hall, David A.Hall, JohnHall, JosephHall, SusieHall & HillerHallett, BenjaminHallett, CharlesHamilton, Charles K.Hamilton, M. Draper (MrsHamlin, SethHa mmond, Benj a minHarris, WilliamHarrod, BenjaminHatch, NathanielHawes, BenjaminHawes, JosephHayman, Edward P*Hedge, BarnabyHenley, DavidHenshaw, BenjaminHenshaw, JoshuaHerdey, SarahHesilnye (?), Sarah (?)Hews, Virgil H.Higgins, HannahHiggins, JosephHill, GeorgeHill, ParisHilliard, WilliamHillman, JethroHinckley, ChipmanHickley, IsaacHinckley, JamesHinckley, NathanielHinckley, Samuel

Hirst, ArthurHobart, AaronHofigdon, S. P.Hoffman, AmeliaHolbrook, AnthonyHolbrook, ThomasHolly, SallyHolmes, Benjamin MulbHolmes, Charles J.Holyoke, Gus

Homans, BenjaminHooper, S.Hopkins, BarnabasHopkins, TheophilusHow, JosiahHow, WilliamHoward, George H.Howard, Jerusha Gay (Mrs. Simeon)Howard, SimeonHowes, PrinceHowes, SolomonHowland, JohnHubbell, H. W.Huddark, A. TownsendHughes & BrysonHunt, William MorrisHunt, Mary H.Hunt & BullHurd, JohnHuston, JohnIngham, Joseph & JosiahIngle, John P.Inman, RalphJackson, HallJackson, J,Jackson, Joseph (?)Jacobs, SamuelJames, Thomas & William CfcchranJarvis, LeoJenifer, W. H.Jenkins, SamuelJohnson, LewisJones, George & HannahJoy, JohnKeith, JamesKellogg, D. 0,Kidder, Joseph, Jr.King, DanielKing, WilliamKirkland, John T.Knaut, PhilipKnowles, CalebLadd, S. I.Lamb, James

Lamb, ThomasLane, George

- \, Lane, George BradfordLawrence, JosephLee, FrankLee, Francis L.Lee, JohnLee, SamuelLee, ThomasLeffingwell, LucretiaLeigh, BenjaminLeverett (?), ZacharyLewis, Daniel, Jr.Lewis, Samuel & James HinckleyLewis, ThatcherLincoln, AbnerLincoln, BenjaminLincoln, Benjamin, Jr.Lincoln, E.Lincoln, EnochLincoln^ James 0.Lincoln, Levi, Jr.Lincoln, (Mrs.) L. 3.Lincoln, Mary, Jr.Lincoln, Mary F.Lincoln, MaryLincoln, Otis

_ Lincoln, Theodore) Lindsay & Hill

Livret (?), JamesLloyd, WilliamLombard, BinneyLongfellow, Henry WadsworthLothrop, BarnabasLovell, ThomasLovett, John 0 #Low, JamesLyell, CharlesMcConkey, B. M.McConn, W. T.McCordey, RobertMcCulloch, James H.McDonald, John G.McMaster, JohnMcwaster, PatrickMcMaster, Patrick & Co.McNeill, WilliamMandell, MosesMann, HoraceMannier, CharlesMarrable, ThomasMartyn, SennacheribMaster, Daniel W.

- \ May, Sarah R.Mayo, Charles A*Meigs, E. S.

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Meigs, JosiahMeigs, Robert J.Mellen, P.Milk, JobMiller, Charles, & SonMiller, FrancisMiller, JohnMillldge, StephenMinot, Jonas ClarkeMirick, ConstantMoorfield, A. T.Morrill, Peaslee, Jr.Morton, Daniel W.Munroe, Everett and Ezekiel HaydenMurray, AlexanderMally, E.Nance, John W. and MaryMa nc e, J ohn. WebbNeall, DanielNewton, HenryNichols, A.Nickerson, RichardNorton, JohnNorwood, SamuelNourse, MichaelNoyes, ElizabethNye, SalmonNye, SethF.Nye, ZenasOdin, John0'Kelly, HatchOkile, JohnOnion, DavidOrbanesa, AnthonyOsgood, Eliza (Mrs.Osgood, Joseph 0.Osgood, George 0.Osgood, GeorgeOsgood, IsaacOtis, Ann "Nancy11 Bourne (Mrs. Nathaniel)Otis, ArthurOtis, CharlesOtis, Charles J.Otis, Horatio N.Otis, Harrison Gray (1765 - 1818)Otis, Harrison Gray, Jr.Otis, James (1702 - 1778)Otis, James (1725 - 1783)Otis, Job (1677 - 1758)Otis, Jonathan (1723 - 1795)Otis, John (fl. 19 cent.)Otis, John (1771 - 1851*)Otis, Joseph (1725 - 1810)Otis, Joseph (1771 - 185U)Otis, Joseph, Jr. (son of J. 0. 1771 -18510

Otis, Maria Walter (Mrs. Joseph)Otis, Nathaniel WalterOtis, Richard WilliamOtis, Samuel AllyneOtis, ThomasOtis, Walter M.Otis, WilliamOtis, William F.Otis, William M.Paddock, AdinoPage, S. A.Paine, GeorgePalfrey, John G.Palmer, JosephPark, Thomas B.Parker, A.Parker, BenjaminParker, IsaacParker, Rebecca M. (nee Davis)Parker, RobertParkman, CharlesParkman, DanielParsons, OliverParsons, TheophilusPatriotic BankPearce, JosephPearson, Moses

N Pease, Daniel) Peirce, Ann

Peirce, DanielPeirce, GeorgePeirce, JoshuaPercival, M.Perkins, JohnPhelps, CharlesPhilanderPhilipps, CalebPhillips, Daniel ,,. . . _. ../,„,,.-.-_—ir-i-——-—Pickering, Timothy(1745-Pickman, Benjamin 5> ,oi^\Pitts, James l 8 4 9 )

Pond, EliphaletPorchinger, R. vonPotter, Eliza A.Potter, Mary S.Potter, SimeonPottinger, Thomas B.Pratt, E. W.Pratt, EnochPratt, G. W.Price, JamesPrichard, PaulPrince, JamesProcter, J ^

J Punchard, JohnPurkitt, HenryQuincy, Edmund

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Quincy, John W.Quincy, JosiahQuirk, EdwardF.ankin, RobertReed, B. T.Reed, JohnReynolds, NathanielRichards, Nathaniel, David Lincoln, et al,Richardson, JamesRider, JohnRighly, EdwardRittenhouse, W. B. (Treasury Dept.)Robbins, ElizaRobertson, William H.Robinson, JosephFobinson, M.Rogers, Eliza S.Rogers, JohnRogers, TimothyRogers, William J.Rogers, W. I.Rotch, WilliamRudsdale, M#Rush, RichardRussell, Jeremiah CondyRussell, John LewisRussell, Mercy AnnRussell, N. P. (West Boston Society)Russell, William S.Safford, Joseph & Joseph AllenSaltonstall, Eliza (Stewart)Sampson, JosiahSampson, ZabdielSanford, BenjaminSargent, James 0.Sargent, Kate 0.Savage, ChafclesScollay, JohnScott, WilliamScudder, DanielScudder, DavidScudder, Ebenezer, Jr.Scudder, Elisha G.Scull, Gideon D.Seabury, ThomasSears, JohnSewell, H.Sewell, ThomasShattuck, WilliamShaw, LemuelShaw, William S.Shepherd, J. H.Sherman, A.Shippen, NathanielShurtleff, BenjaminSiddall, Ralph

Silver, Diana Gay (tfrs. William)Silver, HenrySimpson, JohnSlocum, H.Smally, ThomasSmith, GeorgeSmith, Joseph E.Smith, Mary L. Walter (Mr3. Nathaniel)Smith, Nathaniel, Jr.Smith, RichardSmith, Samuel (?)Smith, StephenSmith .& StillmanSnow, Sarah

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Sparkaut, NathanielSpooner, BourneSpooner, EbenezerSpooner, John A.Spooner, SamuelSpooner, WalterSprigg, BenjaminStephens, ThomasSterns, JohnSteward, JamesStewart, HannahStoddard, NoahStone, NathanStone, NathanielStone, SilvanusStone, WilliamStorer, EbenezerStorrow, Ann G,Story, JosephStory, WilliamStover, EbenezerStrettell, JohnStnrgis, JohnSturgis, RussellSturgis, SamuelSturgis, Thomasbuckling, GeorgeSullivan, GeorgeSullivan, RichardSutherland, AlexanderSwift, JonathanThacher, JohnThacher, Peter 0.Thacher, SamuelThacher, ThomasThaxter, Jane Otis (Mrs. Quincy)Thaxter, John, Jr.Thayer, J.Thomas, BononlThomas, John

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Thomas, JoshuaThomas, OrstmusThomson, JohnThorndike, George QuincyTiffany, William S.Tilton (?). JohnTillson (?), PeterTisdales, Antipas & WilliamToland, HenryTonge, WinfckworthTrumbull, JosephTrumbaln, SamuelTucker, JohnTuckerman, AbrahamTuckerman, AbnerTuckerman, W. S.Tudor, DeliaTudor, WilliamTupper, BenjaminTupper, EldadTurner, MaryTyler, CharlesUnderwo©a, NathanUpham, TimothyVarnum, James M.Varnum, Joseph B.Waddington, Samuel T.Wade, CharlotteWait & PierceWales, Abby L.Wales, George W.'/ales, Nathaniel (Estate of TimothyReed)

Wallace, JamesWalley, John, Jr.Walley, ThomasWalsh, RobertWalter, A. M.Walter, ThomasWalter, WilliamWard, JonathanWarham, Potts & SmithWarren, Charles H.Warren, HenryWarren, James, Jr.Warren, James (1726 - 1808)Warren, James, Jr.Warren, Mary (Mrs.Warren, "ary AnnWarren, Mercy Otis (Mrs. James)Warren, P. W.Washington, GeorgeWaterman, SamuelWatkins, W. H.Watson, George

Weightman, R. C,Weir, Robert WalkerWeld, BenjaminWelles, ArnoldWendell, JohnWeston, CarolineWestonj IsaiahV/eston, R. W,Wethered, SamuelWheaton, HenryWheelwright, Edward . - /

White, SamuelWhiting, EbenezerWhiting, GamalielWhiting, William BradfordWhitman, Isaac W.Whitman, JosiahWhitman, KilbournWhitney, William M.

WiihtpD"."p!?§?""Wignenson' Norbert (° f "Jarman Doctor")Wild,'Hamilton GibbsWillard, CalvinWillard, E. C.Willard, SamuelWilliams, Anna AugustaWilliams, E. 0,Williams, Edward H.Williams, ElizabethWilliams, J. Otis

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Williams, Edward H.Williams, ElizabethWilliams, J. OtisWilliams, Lemuel, J

Williams, ElizabethWilliams, J. OtisWilliams, Lemuel, JrWilliams, MariaWilliams, Nathanielyllliams, Sarah S.Wimble, WilliamWing, CorneliusWinslow, Abby Frothingham Gay (Mrs. Isaac)Winslow, AnnWinslow, EdwardWinslow, Edward G,Winslow, Frances Gay (Mrs. Isaac)Winslow, Isaac (1813 - )Winslow, JohnWinslow, JoshuaWinslow, ZenasWood, DavidWood GeorgeWood, DavidWood, GeorgeWright, EbenezerWright, Ferdinand H.Wright, William BundXimenez, Helen Otis (Mrs. Felipe )