Newspapers, church records & family research

A side view preserves the papers, folds and original string tying the bundle together.

Folded paper labeled “Dearborn & Sanborn.” The contents are not visible in this view.

Handwritten names, parent groupings and seventeenth-century dates. This partial view remains separate from the adjacent wrapper pending confirmation of their association.

Masthead detail and opened newspaper views from the New-Hampshire Gazette and Historical Chronicle, dated Friday, January 29, 1773. Printing, advertisements, folds and paper losses are preserved.

A deed from Abraham Perkins of Hampton to his son Abraham, describing land, meadow and common rights. The supplied photograph includes signatures, acknowledgment and a dark seal.

Side view of a smaller packet with folded covers and string. Related opened papers are shown separately below.

Covers and opened council papers concerning Rev. Ward Cotton at Hampton in October 1765. These records contain historical complaints and the council’s responses. Descriptions identify the records; they do not independently establish the allegations. Both council text and covers are kept together.

Exterior docket and opened church record concerning a town vote and the church’s choice of pastor. The opened text names Deacon Jonathan Dow as moderator.

Docket and opened copy of a presbytery vote postponing further consideration of a petition from Hampton. The record discusses reconciliation and the call to Mr. Brown. No date is assigned from these photographs alone.

Cover and opened lists recording subscriptions toward ordination expenses, with names, amounts and annotations about cash and provisions. The cover date appears to read 1796; further reading is needed.

Address panel and church-society vote inviting L. Edwards of Northampton, Massachusetts, to take pastoral charge. The vote names a committee to communicate with him and arrange terms.

Cover and opened narrative concerning the town’s proceedings in seeking a minister and calling Mr. Pidgin. The cover credits Henry Toppan. The manuscript records the writer’s account of events and disagreements.

Opened agreement concerning the estate of John Moulton, with family signatures or marks and a row of red seals on the reverse. The text bears a 1706 date and a 1707 probate notation; the original wording and dating are preserved in the photographs.

A narrow paper with faint penciled names, death dates and ages. Several entries require closer reading before transcription.

Typed letter from Fort Jervis, New York, discussing Hampton family records, Hunton and Judkins connections, and Mary Sanborn, wife of Sergeant Joseph Dow. Signed George W. Dow.

Printed Treasury form headed “Revolutionary Claims,” completed for a claimant from Saco, Maine, with handwritten military-service and payment entries. The claimant’s surname, date and signature require closer reading.

Research notes naming Matthew Coe, Moulton family members and John Bradbrook, with a small fragment about a church meeting. One photograph documents the folded packet’s thickness. These adjacent views are retained as a supplied sequence without assuming every loose fragment belongs to one document.

Two views show a Portsmouth Journal letter to Myron W. Cole beside a circular for Rambles about Portsmouth. Brewster discusses book prices, a possible exchange and publishing work connected with Miss Dow’s book.