Lloyd Vernon Briggs' collection of Massachusetts family records
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Descriptive Summary
Title: Lloyd Vernon Briggs' collection of Massachusetts family records
Inclusive Dates: 1650-1933
Collection Number: mssThomasFamily
Creator:
Briggs, L. Vernon (Lloyd Vernon), 1863-1941
Extent:
3 boxes
Repository:
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens
Manuscripts Department
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, California 91108
Phone: (626) 405-2191
Fax: (626) 449-5720
Email: reference@huntington.org
URL: http://www.huntington.org
Abstract: Copies of the various family records - muster and pay rolls, bounty receipts, church records, etc. -- collected by Lloyd Vernon
Briggs.
Language of Material: The records are in English.
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Preferred Citation
Lloyd Vernon Briggs' collection of Massachusetts family records, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Acquisition Information
Gift of Lloyd Vernon Briggs, approximately 1940.
Biography
Lloyd Vernon Briggs (1863-1941), American psychiatrist and Massachusetts genealogist. In addition to numerous works on psychiatry,
he was the author of The church and cemetery records of Hanover, Mass. (Boston, Mass., Wallace Spooner, 1895-1904), History
and genealogy of the Cabot family, 1475-1927 (Boston, C.E. Goodspeed & co., 1927), History and genealogy of the Briggs family,
1254-1937 (Boston, C. E. Goodspeed & co., 1938), and other works.
Scope and Content
The Thomas Family collection consists of numerous pages of excerpts copied from the Massachusetts archives, muster and pay
rolls, town rolls, and bounty receipts. Birth, marriage, and death notices from church records are also included.
The families mentioned are: the Thomas family, and the Otis, Stetson (Stedson), Damon, Cushing, and Briggs families. They
were prominent in Plymouth County, New England during the 18th and 19th centuries.
These notes were possibly compiled for genealogical purposes. They have been sorted according to the family primarily treated.
However, it appears that all of the families were inter-related by marriage.
Note: With the exception of a few items, the dates in this collection indicate the date span of the material, not the date of creation.
Indexing Terms
Personal Names
Briggs family
Cushing family
Damon family
Otis family
Stetson family
Thomas family
Briggs, L. Vernon (Lloyd Vernon), 1863-1941
Subjects
Genealogists -- Massachusetts -- Archives
Geographic Areas
Massachusetts -- Genealogy
Genre
Collections (object groupings) -- Massachusetts
Genealogies -- Massachusetts
Family papers -- Massachusetts
Box 1
Briggs, Cushing, Damon, Stetson, and Otis family records
Folder 1
Family papers -- Copies of Briggs family records, [approximately 1721-1850]
Included: The Will of John Briggs; An Inventory of the estate of Mr. John Briggs late of Boston in New England, deceased,
1730; The Account of John Briggs...; Copy of Suffolk Deeds, 1741; and biographical sketch of James Briggs
Folder 2
Family papers -- Letters (correspondence) to L. Vernon (Lloyd Vernon) Briggs, 1863-1941, (1913-1933)
4 letters. Included: Miscellaneous notes
Folder 3
Family papers -- Copies of Briggs family records, [approximately 1696-1923]
Included: Legal documents, letters, and notes related to Joseph, Walter, Lloyd, and Cornelius Briggs
Folder 4
Family papers -- Richmond, Eliza letter to "Mrs. Briggs", (1800, Apr. 25)
Folder 5
Family papers -- Copies of Cushing family records, [approximately 1803]
Included: Biographies and notes
Folder 6
Family papers -- Copy of Cushing, Isaac letter to William Tudor, (1803, Jan. 1)
Included: Notes related to Cushing and Doane family
Folder 7
Family papers -- Copies of Damon family records, [approximately 1731-1798]
Included: Legal documents and notes related to Ichabod, Asa, and Abigail Damon
Folder 8
Family papers -- Copies of Stetson (Stedson) family records, [approximately 1614-1647]
Included: Wills related to John, George, and Henry Stetson
Folder 9
Family papers -- Hammatt, Esther P. and William letter to Abigail C. Otis, (1837, Oct. 29)
Bangor (Me.)
Included: Copies
Folder 10
Family papers -- Hubbard, Frederick Heman "The Opium Habit and Alcoholism"
Folder 11
Family papers -- Miscellaneous fragments and tracts, (1847)
Included: Mankind Utterly Depraved by the Fall of Adam, no. 2; The Ruinous Consequences of Gambling, no. 200; John Robins,
The Sailor, no. 219; and Three Queries to the Rejectors of Christianity, no. 258
Folder 12
Family papers -- Copies of Otis family reocrds, [approximately 1688-1905]
Included: Notes related to Joseph, Job, James, Hannah, Cushing, Abigail, Thomas, and Charlotte Otis
Folder 13
Family papers -- Copies of Otis family records, [approximately 1658-1750]
Included: Notes related to Daniel Cushing, Edward Gilman, John and Stephen Otis, and Martha Wilder
Folder 14
Family papers -- Copies of Otis family records, [approximately 1630-1880]
Included: Boston Births; Boston Marriages; Boston Deaths; Roxbury Births, Marriages, and Deaths; various Charleston records;
and various church records
Folder 15
Family papers -- Copies of Otis family records, [approximately 1700-1800]
Included: Otis family deeds, Plymouth County
Folder 16
Family papers -- Copies of Otis family records, [approximately 1657-1756]
Included: Will and biographical notes related to John Otis; History of Bridgewater; and list of Otis men who served in Revolutionary
War (including dates)
Folder 17
Family papers -- Copies of Otis family records, [approximately 1604-1875]
Included: Extracts from the Parish Register of St. John the Baptist, Glastonbury, Somerset, England and notes
Folder 18
Family papers -- Copies of Otis family records, [approximately 1658-1786]
Related to Otis family in Massachusetts
Folder 19
Family papers -- Copies of Otis family records, [approximately 1657-1793]
Included: Legal documents and notes related to John, James, and Job Otis
Folder 20
Family papers -- Copies of Otis family records, [approximatley 1727-1849]
Included: Information related to General Otis and Captain Baker
Folder 21
Family papers -- Copies of Otis family records, [approximately 1740-1840]
Included: Information related to Charles, James, Ignatius, Stephen, and Abigail Otis; Otis History of Cape Cod
Folder 1
Family papers -- Copies of Thomas family records, [approximately 1749-1779]
Excerpts of military volumes
Folder 2
Family papers -- Copies of Thomas family records, [approximately 1706-1791]
Included: William Thomas line and Plymouth deeds
Folder 3
Family papres -- Copies of Thomas family records, [approximately 1663-1819]
Included: Excerpts from court records and will of James Pitney, 1663
Folder 4
Family papers -- Copies of Thomas family records, [approximately 1734-1798]
Included: Information related to Nathaniel Ray, Joseph, William, Anthony, Daniel, Ephraim, James, Mary, Nathan, Samuel, Edward,
William, and Ruth
Folder 5
Family papers -- Copies of Thomas family records, [approximately 1688-1741]
Included: Information related to Nathan Thomas, John Foster, and Thomas Stetson
Folder 6
Family papers -- Copies of Thomas family records, [approximately 1776-1781]
Excerpts from muster and pay rolls, first names beginning A-I
Folder 7
Family papers -- Copies of Thomas family records, [approximately 1776-1781]
Excerpts from muster and pay rolls, first names beginning J-O
Folder 8
Family papers -- Copies of Thomas family records, [approxiamtely 1776-1781]
Excerpts from muster and pay rolls, first names beginning P-Z
Folder 1
Family papers -- Copies of Thomas family records, [approximately 1635-1787]
Included: Excerpts from Massachusetts General Court; military volumes; and muster and payrolls
Folder 2
Family papers -- Copies of Thomas family records, [approximately 1710-1798]
Excerpts from Plymouth records
Folder 3
Family papers -- Copies of Thomas family records, [approximately 1710-1800]
Excerpts from Plymouth records
