Box 2

SCOPE AND CONTENT: The Swanton family papers contain commonplace books, diaries, correspondence, etc., of the Gay, Worcester, Swanton, and Byram families. The majority of the material documents the home, family, and religious lives of several generations of Swedenborgians (members of the General Church of the New Jerusalem, or the "New Church"), primarily in Gardiner, Maine, during the course of the 19th century. It also includes phrenological readings for two young children, documentation of a school for...

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"Pocket diary 1873" filled with clippings, mostly poetry (some handwritten); also 1798 declaration of intention of marriage between Dr. James Parker and Dorcas Marble

SCOPE AND CONTENT: The Swanton family papers contain commonplace books, diaries, correspondence, etc., of the Gay, Worcester, Swanton, and Byram families. The majority of the material documents the home, family, and religious lives of several generations of Swedenborgians (members of the General Church of the New Jerusalem, or the "New Church"), primarily in Gardiner, Maine, during the course of the 19th century. It also includes phrenological readings for two young children, documentation of a school for...

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Visit to the opera, political troubles between Spain and Portugal

SCOPE AND CONTENT: The Swanton family papers contain commonplace books, diaries, correspondence, etc., of the Gay, Worcester, Swanton, and Byram families. The majority of the material documents the home, family, and religious lives of several generations of Swedenborgians (members of the General Church of the New Jerusalem, or the "New Church"), primarily in Gardiner, Maine, during the course of the 19th century. It also includes phrenological readings for two young children, documentation of a school for...

SCOPE AND CONTENT: The Swanton family papers contain commonplace books, diaries, correspondence, etc., of the Gay, Worcester, Swanton, and Byram families. The majority of the material documents the home, family, and religious lives of several generations of Swedenborgians (members of the General Church of the New Jerusalem, or the "New Church"), primarily in Gardiner, Maine, during the course of the 19th century. It also includes phrenological readings for two young children, documentation of a school for...

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Includes note from Mrs. Oxnard, 1856 letter from nephew Henry Parker Worcester

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Includes re: slavery pamphlet by a Rev. Dr. Peabody

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Written by Margaret Lewis before marriage to William Gay in May 1759; includes explanatory note on text by granddaughter Dorcas Parker Gay

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Describes an anti-monarchy "counter Revolution," types of fruit eaten, her feelings about the Portuguese people

SCOPE AND CONTENT: The Swanton family papers contain commonplace books, diaries, correspondence, etc., of the Gay, Worcester, Swanton, and Byram families. The majority of the material documents the home, family, and religious lives of several generations of Swedenborgians (members of the General Church of the New Jerusalem, or the "New Church"), primarily in Gardiner, Maine, during the course of the 19th century. It also includes phrenological readings for two young children, documentation of a school for...

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Typed transcript by Dorothy Swanton Brown, 1991 (original at Gardiner Public Library, Gardiner, Maine)

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Includes re: birth of John and Laura Davis's son

SCOPE AND CONTENT: The Swanton family papers contain commonplace books, diaries, correspondence, etc., of the Gay, Worcester, Swanton, and Byram families. The majority of the material documents the home, family, and religious lives of several generations of Swedenborgians (members of the General Church of the New Jerusalem, or the "New Church"), primarily in Gardiner, Maine, during the course of the 19th century. It also includes phrenological readings for two young children, documentation of a school for...

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Includes almost all letters by Byram family members

SCOPE AND CONTENT: The Swanton family papers contain commonplace books, diaries, correspondence, etc., of the Gay, Worcester, Swanton, and Byram families. The majority of the material documents the home, family, and religious lives of several generations of Swedenborgians (members of the General Church of the New Jerusalem, or the "New Church"), primarily in Gardiner, Maine, during the course of the 19th century. It also includes phrenological readings for two young children, documentation of a school for...