Guide to the Atkins Family Papers, 1796-1909

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Guide to the Atkins Family Papers, 1796-1909

Collection number: BANC MSS C-B 449

The Bancroft Library

University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley, California

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The Bancroft Library.
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California, 94720-6000
Phone: (510) 642-6481
Fax: (510) 642-7589
Email: bancref@library.berkeley.edu
URL: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu

Processed by:: The Bancroft Library staff
Date Completed:: ca. 1948-1967
Encoded by:: Xiuzhi Zhou

Collection Summary

Collection Title: Atkins Family Papers,

Date (inclusive): 1796-1909

Collection Number: BANC MSS C-B 449

Creator: Atkins family

Extent: Number of containers: 5 boxes

Repository: The Bancroft Library

Berkeley, California 94720-6000

Physical Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.

Abstract: Mainly papers of various members of the Atkins family in Ohio, relating to family matters, land holdings and the anti-slavery movement from 1836-1850. A few papers of Mary (Atkins) Lynch, including some pertaining to the Benicia Young Ladies Seminary, and diary of trip to Hawaii and Japan, 1863-1864. Also some genealogical notes relating to the family.

Languages Represented: English

Information for Researchers

Access

Collection is open for research.

Publication Rights

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item,] Atkins Family Papers, BANC MSS C-B 449, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley

Scope and Content

These papers, the gift of Mrs. C. Coldwell, June 15, 1948, contain letters and documents of various members of the Atkins family, principally as early settlers in Ashtabula County, Ohio. They reflect participation in the anti-slavery movement from 1836 through 1950, and land transactions in Ohio. Also included are a few Papers of Mary (Atkins) Lynch who began her teaching career in Ohio and New York, to come to Benicia where she was principal of Benicia' s Young Ladies Seminary from 1854 until 1867. Originally much of the material was pasted in three scrapbooks by Harvey R. Gaylord. These materials were removed from the scrapbooks, and re-arranged, incorporating other items in the collection.

Box 1:

Gaylord, Levi, 1760-1846

Correspondence

Papers:

Commissions, in the New York Militia, 1796-1803

Copies of deeds made to Levi Gaylord, with notes by his son, Harvey R. Gaylord.

Gaylord, Harvey R., 1805-1883

Correspondence, A-C

Box 2:

Gaylord, Harvey R., 1805-1883

Correspondence, D-Z

Box 3:

Gaylord, Harvey R., 1805-1883

Papers:

Documents pertaining to Jonathan Warren, 1826

Abolition petition, 1844.

Additional Note

With 46 signatures, including Harvey R. Gaylord's.

Biographical information

1 volume scrapbook of clippings

Additional Note

Relating mainly to the history of Ashtabula Co., Ohio. Include published letters and articles by Quintus Flaminius Atkins, 1854-1856

Miscellaneous clippings

Wade, Edward, 1802-1866

Correspondence

Papers:

3 poems composed by Edward Wade

Wade, Sarah Louisa (Atkins), 1806-1852

Correspondence

Box 4:

Atkins, Quintus Flaminius, 1782-1859

Correspondence

Papers:

Accounts, 1816-1927

Biographical sketch

Atkins, Josiah

Correspondence

Papers:

Accounts, 1808-1861

Commissions, 1814-1858, in Ohio Militia, as Surveyor, Ashtabula Co., and as justice of the peace.

Box 5:

Lynch, Mary (Atkins), 1820-1882

Correspondence

Papers:

Items relating to Benicia Young Ladies Seminary, including an announcement, 1857; commencement programs, 1880-1884; catalog, 1882/1883; minutes of meetings and other items relating to the Alumnae association, 1878-1883; obituaries.

Teaching certificates, 1842-1851

Accounts, 1866

Passport, 1867

Clippings

Obituaries

v.1: Catalogue of pupils, 1852-1857

v.2: Diary, 1863-1864, of trip to Shanghai, via Hawaii and Japan, on Brig Advance

v.3: Diary, 1866, with accounts at end

Fowler, Marcia Gaylord

Correspondence

Additional Note

(only 2 letters, one tells of Arthur R. Atkins family and descendants)

Papers:

Genealogical notes

Miscellaneous notes relating to items in the collection

Clippings

Miscellaneous letters from various people

American anti-slavery society

box Box 1, A: Miscellany of Harvey R. Gaylord's correspondence.

1 letter, Oct. 12, 1839.

Additional Note

Printed form letter.

Andrews, Sherlock James, 1901-1880

box Box 1, A: Miscellany of Harvey R. Gaylord's correspondence.

1 letter, Jan. 24, 1842.

Atkins, Quintus Flaminius, 1782-1859

box Box 4

321 letters, 1799-1858.

Additional Note

See also printed items in Harvey Gaylord's scrapbook in Box 3, and letters of Mary (Atkins) Lynch in Box 5. Many letters reflect his anti-slavery attitudes.

Atkins, Josiah

box Box 4

10 letters, 1817-1867.

Atkins, Sarah (Wright), d. 1853

box Box 4

12 letters, 1806-1845.

Badger, Joseph, 1757-1846

box Box 3

2 items, 1806,

Scope and Content Note

Agreement and letter.

Brown, George W.

box Box 1

3 letters, 1851-1857.

Carrington, Henry Beebee, 1824-1912

box Box 1

2 letters, 1849-1851.

Chaffee, N. L.

box Box 1, C: Miscellany of Harvey Gaylord's correspondence.

1 letter, Mar. 8, 1849.

Chase, Salmon Portland, 1808-1873

box Box 1

2 letters, 1850-1852.

Cox, Jacob Dolson, 1828-1900

box Box 5

1 letter, Jan. 14, 1867.

Additional Note

Written as Governor of Ohio, recommending Mary Atkins to the consideration of U.S. Ministers abroad.

Finney, Charles Grandison, 1792-1875

box Box 5

1 letter, Jan. 30, 1867.

Additional Note

Recommending Mary Atkins to friends in England and Scotland.

Gaylord, Harvey R., 1805-1883

box Box 1

75 letters, 1823-1877.

Additional Note

See also Stella M. Gaylord's folder for additional letters

Gaylord, Levi, 1760-1846

box Box 1

4 letters, 1817-1824.

Gaylord, Stella M. (Atkins), 1808-1882

box Box 1

33 letters, 1826-1875.

Giddings, Joshua Reed, 1795-1864

box Box 2

8 letters, 1839-1847.

Additional Note

Anti-slavery politics.

Granger, Francis, 1792-1868

box Box 2

2 letters, 1854-1855.

Additional Note

Re land in Ashtabula Co., Ohio.

Littell, Eliakim, 1797-1870

box Box 2, L: Miscellany

1 letter, Mar. 6, 1828.

Longacre, James Barton, 1794-1869

box Box 2, L: Miscellany

1 letter, Mar. 8, 1834.

Lynch, Mary (Atkins), 1820-1882

box Box 5

34 letters, 1836-1867.

Additional Note

Include letters of Stella Gaylord, Q. F. Atkins, Flora Wheeler and other members of the family.

Pease, Calvin, 1776-1839

box Box 2, P: Miscellany

1 letter, Dec. 2, 1834.

Spencer, Platt Rogers, 1800-1864

box Box 2

8 letters, 1830-1848.

Additional Note

Re land in Ohio.

Wade, Benjamin Franklin, 1800-1878

box Box 2, W: Miscellany

1 letter, Oct. 20, 1852.

Wade, Edward, 1802-1866

box Box 3

6 letters, 1839-1859.

Wade, Sarah Louisa (Atkins), 1806-1852

box Box 3

23 letters, 1824-1850.

Wheeler, Flora (Atkins), 1815-1850

box Box 2

10 letters, 1838-1850.

Additional Note

Include letter from Mary Atkins Lynch, Oct. 26, 1845.

Whittlesey, Elisha, 1783-1863

box Box 2

5 letters, 1837-1851.