Summary Information

Title: Caroline Chamberlain Family Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1749-1954

Creator:

• Chamberlain, Caroline

Call Number: Mss 618; Micro 887; PH 6668; PH 4195

Quantity: 0.4 c.f. (1 archives box), 1 reel of microfilm (35 mm), and 4 photographs (1 folder and 1 box)

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Papers preserved by Caroline Chamberlain and her sisters, Mable Adams and Claudia Chamberlain, documenting their ancestors in the Adams, Norton, Cranch, and Smith families. Daughters of Wisconsin Congressman Henry Cullen Adams, the women were connected through both parents to relatives of President John Adams. The collection consists of family correspondence, a 1749 book of music, sermons, genealogy charts, and diaries kept by Elizabeth Cranch Norton while living in Massachusetts, by Jacob Porter Norton during service in the War of 1812 and while living in Georgia, and by Richard Greenleaf Norton while sailing from Boston to California in 1849. Included are photostats of a letter from John Adams to William Custis, July 15, 1812, and a letter from his daughter to her cousin Elizabeth Cranch, 1788. Also included are images of Richard Greenleaf Norton and Jacob Porter Norton.

Note:

Portions of this collection are available only on microfilm.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-mss00618

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