Overview
Manuscript notebooks and genealogy from the Foxcroft family of Massachusetts, especially of Rev. Samuel Foxcroft (1735?-1807; Harvard College AB 1754).
Dates
- 1745-1842 and undated
Language of Materials
Collection materials are in English.
Conditions Governing Access
There are no restrictions on physical access to this material. Collection is open for research.
Extent
.25 linear feet (1 box)Includes autograph manuscript notebooks of Samuel Foxcroft ((1735?-1807; Harvard College AB 1754) including transcript extracts from newspapers, transcript extracts and notes on scripture, and sermons. Also with miscellaneous manuscript fragments, a manuscript Foxcroft family genealogy, and a 1745 letter from Elisabeth Foxcroft to her sister Martha Foxcroft.
Biographical / Historical
Concerns the Foxcroft family of Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts, descended from Francis Foxcroft Sr. (1656-1727) and his wife Elizabeth Danforth Foxcroft (1665-1721). Samuel Foxcroft (1735?-1807) was the 10th child of Rev. Thomas Foxcroft (Harvard AB 1714) and Anna Coney Foxcroft of Boston. He was the first minister of the First Congregational Church of New Gloucester, Maine, having received his AB from Harvard College in 1754. Samuel married Lucy Ellery Foxcroft in 1770 and they had six children.
Arrangement
Arranged into the following series:
- I. Samuel Foxcroft (1735?-1807) manuscripts
- II. Other Foxcroft manuscripts
Items have been left in order as established in original list. See curatorial file for original list.
Physical Location
b
Immediate Source of Acquisition
2001M-71. Gift of William Zachs; received: 2002 May 13.
Processing Information
Processed by: Bonnie B. Salt
- Title
- Foxcroft family. Foxcroft family papers, 1745-1842: Guide.
- Author
- Houghton Library, Harvard College Library
- Description rules
- dacs
- Language of description
- und
- EAD ID
- hou02599
Repository Details
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