Overview of the Collection
Access
Administrative Information
Biographical Note
Scope and Content
Arrangement
Indexing Terms
Overview of the Collection
Title: Phinehas Adams Papers
Dates (inclusive): 1759-1911
Collection Number: mssHM 79415-79479
Creator:
Adams, Phinehas, 1726-1779.
Extent: 200 pieces in 2 boxes
Repository:
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.
Manuscripts Department
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, California 91108
Phone: (626) 405-2191
Email: reference@huntington.org
URL: http://www.huntington.org
Abstract: This collection contains 200 items of the family and descendants of Phinehas Adams (1726-1779) of Connecticut and Ohio.
The bulk of this collection contains letters, manuscripts, documents including Connecticut and Ohio land deeds,
documents, personal and business affairs of the Adams and their relatives, chiefly concerning land transactions; and everyday
life in Ohio in the middle of the 19th century.
Language: English.
Access
Open to qualified researchers by prior application through the Reader Services
Department. For more information, contact Reader Services.
Administrative Information
Publication Rights
The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to
quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such
activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is
one, and obtaining necessary permissions rests with the researcher.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item]. Phinehas Adams Papers, The Huntington Library, San
Marino, California.
Provenance
Gift of Fannie M. Adams, June 1939.
Biographical Note
Phinehas Adams of Lisbon, New London county, Connecticut, married Lydia Fitch in
1751. His son Phinehas Adams, born about 1762, married Lydia Bishop and was
succeeded in turn by still a third Phinehas Adams, born in 1796. The third
generation moved from Connecticut to Ohio, where in the course of the nineteenth
century they married into the Bennett and Bingham families.
Scope and Content
This collection contains 200 items of the family of Phinehas Adams of Connecticut and Ohio.
The bulk of this collection contains letters, manuscripts, documents including Connecticut and Ohio land deeds,
documents, personal and business affairs of the Adams and their relatives, chiefly concerning land transactions; everyday
life in Ohio in the middle of the 19th century.
There are also genealogy notes relating to the Adams and Bennett family in ephemera; 1 map; and several printed items.
Arrangement
The collection is arranged in the following order:
- Box 1: Documents and manuscripts (arranged chronologically) and followed by correspondence (arranged alphabetically)
- Box 2: Ephemera (arranged by type)
Indexing Terms
Subjects
Adams, Phinehas,
1726-1779.
Real property -- Connecticut.
Real property -- Ohio.
Ohio -- Social life and
customs -- 19th century.
Forms/Genres
Letters (correspondence) -- United
States.
Property records -- United States.
Maps -- United States.
Family papers -- United States.
Additional Contributors
Adams, Phinehas, active 1751.
Adams, Phinehas, 1796-.
Adams family.