Historical note:

            Henry Richmond Chace (1838-1916) was born in Fall River, MA, the son of Phillip H. Chace and Phoebe W. Chace, and came to Providence in his 16th year. He first obtained employment as a bookkeeper for Potter & Denison, furniture dealers, and later for Greene & Cranston, brokers. Shortly thereafter, he entered the employment of the Fourth National Bank, and later became cashier. In 1890 he formed a partnership with a Mr. Butts, establishing Chace & Butts, a banking and brokerage firm. Upon retiring from the firm in 1902, Chace became interested in the study of Rhode Island history, and was considered among the best authorities on maps and charts showing the location of the early dwellers of Providence. His two most notable contributions which demonstrate his skill as an amateur cartographer, as well as an historical researcher, are Owners and Occupants of the Lots, Houses and Shops in the Town of Providence, Rhode Island, 1798 and Maps of Providence, R.I.: 1650, 1765, 1770, both published by the Rhode Island Historical Society in 1914. Chace was a frequent contributor to the Providence Sunday Journal on the history of early Providence, and also presented several papers at the Rhode Island Historical Society. His papers and correspondence also suggest that locally, he was considered an expert in the field of Rhode Island genealogical research.

            Chace was a member of the New York Stock Exchange for a number of years, and at one time, Treasurer of the Rhode Island School of Design. In his day, he was one of only five members of the University Club who were not college-educated. In addition, Chace was a member of the Rhode Island Historical Society, the Audubon Society, and was the founder of the Union for Christian Work.

            At the time of his death in 1916 in Providence, Henry R. Chace was survived by his wife, Maude Dailey Chace, two daughters, Louise P. Chace and Maud Chace, one son, Henry R. Chace, Jr., and a brother, Captain Frank A. Chace -- all of Providence, RI.

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Scope and content:

            This collection is arranged into seven series and contains manuscripts for Chace's papers and book projects relating to early Providence and Rhode Island history, miscellaneous (non-RI subject) manuscripts, research notes, genealogical notes, personal notes, letters to and from Chace, newspaper clippings, as well as several large groups of index cards, which appear to be additional notes and indices for Chace's manuscripts. The collection also included a large collection of maps of various parts of Providence, drawn by Chace, which have been transferred to the Graphics Division. Most of the research for the manuscripts and maps in the collection seems to have been conducted after Chace's retirement in 1902.

            Of particular interest to the researcher, may be Chace's manuscripts dealing with early Providence, in which he details the owners, occupants, and descriptions of Providence buildings and properties, through summaries and maps gathered from various primary sources, for the years 1759, 1770, 1779, and 1798. Chace's sources included, but were not limited to The Rate Streak for a Fire Engine, 1759, The Kingsley Carpenter List of Buildings, 1771, The Assessors Tax List, 1779, The United State Tax List, 1798, and The Early Records of the Town of Providence, 1892-1915.

            It should also be noted that while the manuscripts, Owners and Occupants of the Lots, Houses and Shops in the Town of Providence, Rhode Island, 1798 and Maps of Providence, R.I.: 1650, 1765, 1770, were published by the RIHS in 1914, and thus have been available to the researcher for some time, the manuscripts dealing with Providence in 1759, 1770, and 1779 have never been published and have been made available only recently. These manuscripts may prove to be significant to those conducting research relevant to those dates.

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Provenance:

            These papers arrived in three gifts from the Chace family. In 1912, Henry R. Chace donated "a descriptive card catalog of houses in Providence, as taken by the assessors, copied by Claire Bliven and Henry R. Chace." In 1921, his widow Maude Dailey Chace donated the bulk of the collection, described as "a vast collection of manuscript notes compiled by Henry R. Chace while compiling his volumes of early plats of Providence." In 1936, a Miss Chace donated an unspecified additional quantity of "manuscript notes of Henry R. Chace".

            Chace and his descendants donated other material as well, including papers relating to the 1886 Burnside monument; the Union Bank records (see separate finding aid); and papers of the Dailey family. In 1909, Maude (Dailey) Chace and her sister, Miss Charlotte K. Dailey, donated a collection called the Power-Whitman Papers, relating mostly to poet Sarah Helen Whitman. Henry R. Chace's mother-in-law, Mrs. Charlotte Dailey, had been a close friend of Whitman and served as her literary executor; some notes relating to Whitman can be found here in the Henry R. Chace Papers as well.

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Processing note:

            At the time of processing, the majority of Chace's manuscript notes were found in a condition of disarray. Much of the material was undated, and since many of Chace's historical manuscripts deal with similar subject matters of various dates, it is difficult to ascertain which notes belong with each manuscript. An attempt was made to retain the original order of Chace's work, however many of the loose papers required organization and/or serialization. In addition, the collection contains a large series of batches of index cards which seem to have served as notes for Chace's works. While the function of many of these card batches is clear -- and were labeled accordingly, a group of miscellaneous cards was necessary. Further, while most of the index cards deal with subject matter relating to early Providence and Rhode Island history (Series 1), the difference in their size and format made it necessary for them to be arranged into a separate series (Series 6). Any purely visual materials, such as drawings and maps, were transferred to the Graphics Division. For a specific list of transfer items, please consult the transfer list on the final page.

Series Overview:

Series 1: Manuscripts and Manuscript Notes -- Early Providence and Rhode Island History

Series 2: Manuscripts and Manuscript Notes -- Non-Rhode Island

Series 3: Genealogical Notes

Series 4: Letters

Series 5: Lot Notes

Series 6: Index Cards

Series 7: Miscellaneous

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Inventory:

Series 1: Manuscripts and Manuscript notes -- Early Providence and Rhode Island History

Box 1, folder 1: Notes - List of "Owners of Home Lots, 1638, 1650, 1720" in Providence

Box 1, f. 2:      Tax lists, Providence, 1671, 1680, 1705

Box 1, f. 3:     "A Description of the Four Lists of Early Residents in the Town of Providence Found in the Rhode Island Historical Society," 1906; copy of original in RIHS closed stacks F89 P9 C35

Box 1, f. 4: "First Fire Engine in Providence, [1759]

Box 1, f. 5: Notes - "About the First Fire Engine in Providence, [1759]

Box 1, f. 6: Notes - "Names of Those who had Property at the Risk of Fire in the Compact Part of Providence, 1759"

Box 1, f. 7: Notes - "Tax List, [1759]"

Box 1, f. 8: Notes - Index Draft to "Owners and Occupants ... in 1759, Showing the Location ... on the Map of 1798," 1914

Box 1, f. 9: Notes - Description of Homes, Providence, 1759, #1. Abbott - Cushing

Box 1, f. 10: Notes - Description of Homes, Providence, 1759, #2. Dexter - Sheldon

Box 1, f. 11: Notes - Description of Homes, Providence, 1759, #3. Smith - Young

Box 1, f. 12:    Notes - "Duplicates of 1759 Papers, #1"

Box 1, f. 13: Notes - "Duplicates of 1759 Papers, #2"

Box 1, f. 14: Notes - "Duplicates of 1759 Papers, #3"

Box 1, f. 15: "Highways in the Town of Providence Prior to 1770," 1912

Box 1, f. 16: Notes - tax assessment, Providence, 1770

Box 1, f. 17: Notes - "House Owners, 1770, in Providence"

Box 1, f. 18: "Houses in Providence, 1770, In the Compact Part of the Town with their Location, Occupation, and Taxes Assessed their Owners with a Map Showing Highways in Use," 1905

Box 1, f. 19: "Owners of Houses in the Compact Part of Providence, 1770," 1906

Box 1, f. 20: Index to - "A Descriptive List of All of the Houses in the Compact Part of the Town of Providence, R.I., 1779," 1912

Box 1, f. 21: "A Descriptive List of All the Houses in the Compact Part of the Town of Providence, R.I., 1779," 1912 (bound draft, includes index)

Box 1, f. 22: "A Descriptive List of All the Houses in the Compact Part of the Town of Providence, R.I., 1779," 1912 (unbound draft, with additional notes at back)

Box 1, f. 23: Draft - “Tenants or Occupants of Lots and Houses, 1798 Providence”

Box 1, f. 24: Draft - Owners and Occupants of the Lots, Houses and Shops in the Tow of Providence Rhode Island in 1798, 1914 (with index; no map plates); Includes - “Owners or Occupants of Houses in ... Providence in 1759, Showing the Location and in Whose Names They are to be Found on the Map of 1798"

Box 1, f. 25: Index and notes - “The Town of Providence in 1798," (indexed by first and last names)

Box 1, f. 26: Index draft to - Owners and Occupants ... in Providence in 1798, 1914, (with plate references)

Box 1, f. 27: Indices, partial - unidentified, [1798?], (with plate references)

Box 1, f. 28: Notes - “1798 Lot Owners in Providence,” (listed by street)

Box 2, f. 1: Draft - "Owners of Lots and Houses in Providence, 1798: From US Tax List with Eighteen Maps Showing the Location of Houses and Highways, (In Two Sections: Also Occupants of Lots and Houses in Separate List), " #1, A - Jones

Box 2, f. 2: Draft - "Owners of Lots and Houses in Providence, 1798: From US Tax List...," #2, Keen - Yerrington

Box 2, f. 3: Notes - "Corrected Recapitulation, Providence in 1798"

Box 2, f. 4: Notes - "Alphabetical List of Names of Those Owners of Lots Who Could not be Located on Streets, Made to Aid in Locating the Names of Others on Said Streets," [1798]

Box 2, f. 5: Reviews of "Maps of Providence - 1650, 1765, 1770" and "Owners and Occupants...1798"

Box 2, f. 6: Anniversary of the 150th Issue of the Providence Gazette, 1912

Box 2, f. 7: "Evolution of the Highways of Providence, RI" (several drafts)

Box 2, f. 8: "The Homestead of Jonathan Adams"

Box 2, f. 9: "John Angell and His Account Book," 1910 (with draft)

Box 2, f. 10: "Nicholas Brown, or, The Four Brothers"

Box 2, f. 11: "The Old House at Manton, RI, Built by Thomas Clemence" and "Our Oldest House," 1910

Box 2, f. 12: "Olney's Tavern and Old Providence" (with drafts)

Box 2, f. 13: "Waterman Street: Past, present, Future"

Box 2, f. 14: "In Old Narragansett"

Box 2, f. 15: Clippings by H. R. Chace, published in the Providence Journal:

            "Benjamin Smith"

            "Helpful Invasion"

            "The Story of the First Murder in Providence"

            "How the Snows Helped to Build up the West Side" (Nov. 20, 1908)

            "Life on the West Side Before the Revolution" (Jan. 3, 1909)

            "The Story of Turks Head"

            "The Rise of the Butler Family in Providence" (Aug. 1, 1909)

            "Romances Which Center on Old Town Street" (Jan. 23, 1909)

            "Neighborhood Life in the Town a Century and a Half Ago"

             Letter: "Suggestions for a Banking Law"

 Probably by H. R. Chace:

            "Part of the Whipples in Early City History"

            "Many Changes in History of Waterman Street" (Oct. 26, 1913)

Box 2, f. 16: Misc MSS:

            "Kingsley Carpenter"

            "Silas Downer"

            "Westminster Street, Benefit Street: First Layout"

            "Beginning of the Department Stores"

            ["Newcomers and the Rise of Education in Providence, Early Providence"] (anecdotal             essay)

Box 2, f. 17: Notes - Alexander, Francis (student of Gilbert Stuart)

Box 2, f. 18: Notes - Angell, John and Clemence, Thomas

Box 2, f. 19: Notes - Change in attire in early Providence

Box 2, f. 20: Notes - Biographical miscellaneous

Box 2, f. 21: Notes - Clawson, John and "The First Murder in Providence"

Box 2, f. 22: Notes - Petition for a Congregational Meeting House in Providence in 1785

Box 3, f. 1: Notes - Deeds, sales, transfers of property

Box 3, f. 2: Notes - Division of Providence

Box 3, f. 3: Notes - The Samuel Eddy House

Box 3, f. 4: Notes - The Exchange Coffee House

Box 3, f. 5: Notes - First Congregationalist Church and Meeting House, Providence; and Rowland, D. S. and Snow, Joseph

Box 3, f. 6: Notes - Franklin Lyceum: Lists, 1848-1856 (reference to E. A. Poe, 1848)

Box 3, f. 7: Notes - General Assembly meetings, 1759, 1770

Box 3, f. 8: Notes - Greene, John and the first settlers of Providence

Box 3, f. 9: Notes - Highways and streets in Providence

Box 3, f. 10: Notes - Colonial Narragansett

Box 3, f. 11: Notes - North Kingstown Land Records (undated)

Box 3, f. 12: Notes - Pequot Indians

Box 3, f. 13: Notes - History of Providence Post Office

Box 3, f. 14: Notes - First Presbyterian Meeting House

Box 3, f. 15: Notes - School houses in Providence

Box 3, f. 16: Notes - Smallpox epidemic, 1756-64, and Smith, Benjamin (includes a copy of             letter from John Brown to his brothers, 1764)

Box 3, f. 17: Notes - Stampers Hill

Box 3, f. 18: Notes - Sweeting, Henry (tavern)

Box 3, f. 19: Notes - Town Meetings in Providence, 1729-53 (references to: County Court             House, Bridge Construction, Workhouse, Pest House, etc.)

Box 3, f. 20: Notes - Towns (loose pages): Little Compton, Freetown, Tiverton, Fall River;             Notebook: Freetown, Taunton, Bristol, Duxbury, Pabode [Peabody], Bridgewater, Little             Compton

Box 3, f. 21: Notes - "Trades 1790"

Box 3, f. 22: Notes - Westminster: Origin of the Name (from Sidney Rider Sidney and Timothy Gladding

Box 3, f. 23: Notes - Whipple family's influence on the growth of the town of Providence, with             some Whipple genealogy notes (notebook)

Box 3, f. 24: Notes - Whitman, Sarah Helen (nee Power): "Those who were Intimate with S. H. Whitman, Either by Letter or Visits at Benefit Street, 1840-1850"; Power family house notes; Whitman/Power genealogy notes

Box 3, f. 25: Notes - Roger Williams [and] Rhode Island Baptists

Box 3, f. 26: Notes - Establishment of Brown University

Box 3. f. 27: Notes - "Inhabitants of the Town of Providence," (from Providence Gazette, 1768)

Box 3, f. 28: Notes - From Letters of Anna C. Lynch, 1845, 47, 48 (mention E. A. Poe)

Box 3, f. 29: Notes - RI Misc. (with titles): "Report 1771," "Benevolent Street," "1770 Report,             Town Street," "Providence, September 1650: A Town Rate," "Innkeepers in 1824," hand-            written copy of John Brown letter, June 23, 1764, hand-written copy of correspondence             between Ephraim and Moses Brown, 1764

Box 3, f. 30: Photostat copies of pages from MS: "Houses in Providence, 1779," (RIHS MSS             9001-H)

Box 3, f. 31: Notes - Miscellaneous fragments

Series 2: Manuscripts and Manuscript notes -- Non-Rhode Island

Box 3, f. 32: Eskimos and the Arctic Region

Box 3, f. 33: The Opening of the West by Pioneers of Commerce [1897]

Box 3, f. 34: "The Son of the Widow of Naim"

Box 3, f. 35: Notes - Brett, Silas

Box 3, f. 36: Notes - Caricature in European Architecture

Box 3, f. 37: Notes - Cromwell Hall (with poem)

Box 3, f. 38: Notes - The Deerfield Story: The Bell of St. Regis

Box 3, f. 39: Notes - "Dew: Its Character and Function"

Box 3, f. 40: Notes - History of European Guilds, Corporations, and Colleges

Box 3, f. 41: Notes - Mather, Cotton and Excerpts from his Writings

Box 3, f. 42: Notes - History and manufacturing of Porcelain

Box 3, f. 43: Notes - Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

Box 3, f. 44: Notes - Taunton Town Records and Deeds

Box 3, f. 45: Notes - Non-RI Misccelleanous:

            "Mistress Elliott" (Imprisoned during French Revolution)

            "German Ten Commandments"

Series 3: Genealogical Notes

Note: Many of the genealogical note folders also contain deed notations for the named family.

Box 3, f. 46: Bennett Family

Box 3, f. 47: Black Family

Box 3, f. 48: Brightman Family

Box 3, f. 49: Brown (John) Family

Box 3, f. 50: Carr Family

Box 3, f. 51: Chase/Chace Family

Box 3, f. 52: Chase and Whipple Families (notebook)

Box 3, f. 53: Dailey family

Box 3, f. 54: Durfee Family

Box 3, f. 55: Gardiner Family

Box 3, f. 56: Hathaway/Hatheway Family, #1

Box 3, f. 57: Hathaway/Hatheway Family, #2 (notebook)

Box 4, f. 1: Kinnicut Family

Box 4, f. 2: Lynde Family

Box 4, f. 3: Makepeace Family

Box 4, f. 4: Matteson/Matthewson/Matherson/Madison Family

Box 4, f. 5: Olney Family

Box 4, f. 6: Sherman Family

Box 4, f. 7: Simmons/Symonds/Simonds Family

Box 4, f. 8: Simmons, Thompson, and Kinnicut Families (notebook)

Box 4, f. 9: Smith (John) Family

Box 4, f. 10: Stoddard/Stodder Family

Box 4, f. 11: Stoddard/Stodder, Chase/Chace, Field Families (notebook)

Box 4, f. 12: Thompson (Ebenezer) Family

Box 4, f. 13: Tillinghast Family

Box 4, f. 14: Valentine Family

Box 4, f. 15: Wheelwright Family

Box 4, f. 16: Whipple Family

Box 4, f. 17: Whitman (Jacob) Family

Box 4, f. 18: Wilbur Family

Box 4, f. 19: Williams (Roger) Family

Box 4, f. 20: Wood, Hathaway Families; and "Freetown Births," 1689-1754; and "Among the             First Settlers of Taunton, 1638-39" (notebook)

Box 4, f. 21: Miscellaneous genealogy notes

Series 4: Letters

Box 4, f. 22: Letters from H.R.C., dated 1894-1914, and undated

Box 4, f. 23: Letters to H.R.C. from William W. Chapin, dated 1906-1915

Box 4, f. 24: Letters to H.R.C. from Robert Harris, dated 1906-1910

Box 4, f. 25: Letters to H.R.C. from M. E. [N.] Hathaway, undated

Box 4, f. 26: Letters to H.R.C. from various, undated

Box 4, f. 27: Letters to H.R.C. from various, dated 1892-1899

Box 4, f. 28: Letters to H.R.C. from various, dated 1900-1909

Box 4, f. 29: Letters to H.R.C. from various, dated 1910-1915

Box 4, f. 30: Letters, miscellaneous, undated

Series 5: Lot Notes

Note: A large number of these folder headings correspond to envelopes which contained notes dealing with property lots, and were labeled with owner family name or place-name by Chace himself. At this time, it is unclear as to which manuscript (if any) these notes correspond directly. To simplify matters, the term "lots" has been used to designate the terms "lots", "plats", and "plots", which were, at times, used interchangeably by Chace. Some family deed notes were placed with the lot notes by Chace, and have been left in their original arrangement, included in several folders in this series. The files in this series have been arranged (for the most part) alphabetically by the family name or place-name, in order to facilitate access. Miscellaneous lot folders are filed at the end of this series.

Box 4, f. 31: Camp Hill

Box 4, f. 32: Abbot, Daniel (Abbot Farm)

Box 4, f. 33: Adams, Henry

Box 4, f. 34: Adams, Jonathan

Box 4, f. 35: Angell, Joshua

Box 4, f. 36: Angell, Thomas (James, John)

Box 4, f. 37: Antrim, William

Box 4, f. 38: Aplin, John (Aplin Farm)

Box 4, f. 39: Arcade

Box 4, f. 40: Arnold, Jonathan

Box 4, f. 41: Arnold, Thomas

Box 4, f. 42: Bennett, Joseph

Box 4, f. 43: Bennett, Sam(2)

Box 4, f. 44: Bernon, Gabriel

Box 4, f. 45: Bowen, Jabez and Market Square

Box 4, f. 46: Brown, Allin

Box 4, f. 47: Brown, Elisha ("Brick House")

Box 4, f. 48: Brown, James

Box 4, f. 49: Brown, Nathaniel (Farm)

Box 4, f. 50: Brown, Reuben

Box 4, f. 51: Brown, Richard

Box 4, f. 52: Brown, Samuel

            (Burrs Lane, see: Box 5, f. 8)

Box 4, f. 53: Butler, Samuel

            (Camp Hill, see: Box 4, f.31)

Box 4, f. 54: Carpenter, Kinsley

Box 4, f. 55: Clemence, Thomas (Solitary Hill)

Box 4, f. 56: Cole, John

Box 4, f. 57: College Street

Box 5, f. 1: Comstock, Gideon

Box 5, f. 2: Cory, Isaac

Box 5, f. 3: Cowpen Point

Box 5, f. 4: Crawford, Gideon

Box 5, f. 5: Currie, Robert

Box 5, f. 6: Dailey, A.

            (Darling's Ship Yard, see: Box 6, f.1)

            (Devil's Hole, see: Box 5, f. 31)

Box 5, f. 7: Dexter Assylum

Box 5, f. 8: Dexter Peleg (Burrs Lane)

Box 5, f. 9: Downer, Silas

Box 5, f. 10: Esten, Thomas

Box 5, f. 11: Fenner, Arthur (Town Street)

Box 5, f. 12: Field, William (Town Street)

            (Fox [Hill] Point, see: Box 6, f. 1)

Box 5, f. 13: George Street

Box 5, f. 14: Gibbs, Robert

Box 5, f. 15: Goddard Farm

Box 5, f. 16: Green, James

Box 5, f. 17: Greene, Elisha

Box 5, f. 18: Guild, Richard

Box 5, f. 19: Harris, Andrew (Town Street)

Box 5, f. 20: Harris, David

Box 5, f. 21: Harris, Howlong

Box 5, f. 22: Harris, Job

Box 5, f. 23: Hoyle, John and Presbyterian Meeting House

Box 5, f. 24: Hunt, Benjamin

            (India Point, see: Box 6, f. 1)

Box 5, f. 25: Irons House

Box 5, f. 26: Jones, John

Box 5, f. 27: Killon, Thomas

Box 5, f. 28: Kings Church, King Street, and St. Johns

Box 5, f. 29: Knight, Ebenezer

Box 5, f. 30: Lippitt, Moses

Box 5, f. 31: Manton Avenue (Devil's Hole)

Box 5, f. 32: Manton, John

Box 5, f. 33: Mathewson, Charles

Box 5, f. 34: Mill Street

            (Muddy Cove, see: Box 6, f. 14)

Box 5, f. 35: Nightingale, Samuel

Box 5, f. 36: North End

Box 5, f. 37: Olney, James and Olney, Joseph (Olney Lane)

Box 5, f. 38: Olney, Thomas and Olney, William

            (Paget, Henry, see: Box 6, f. 6)

Box 5, f. 39: Patey, Thomas

Box 5, f. 40: Patt, Jonathan

Box 5, f. 41: Pearce, William (Tavern)

Box 5, f. 42: Potter, Welcome

Box 5, f. 43: Power, Nicholas

Box 5, f. 44: Rockwell, Samuel

Box 5, f. 45: Russell, Jona

Box 5, f. 46: Seamans, Gilbert and Seamans, Thomas

Box 5, f. 47: Shepard, George

Box 5, f. 48: Slow, Thomas and Slow Pond

Box 5, f. 49: Smith, Sarah (sister of Olney, Thomas)

Box 5, f. 50: Society Wharf

            (Solitary Hill, see: Box 4, f. 55)

Box 5, f. 51: Stated Common

Box 5, f. 52: Sterry, Robert

Box 5, f. 53: Stinson, J. J.

Box 5, f. 54: Stoddard, Samuel

Box 5, f. 55: Sweet, John

Box 5, f. 56: Sweets, Philip and Sweets, Parsis and Sweets Farm

Box 5, f. 57: Throop, Amos

Box 5, f. 58: Tift and Wise (Blacksmiths)

Box 5, f. 59: Thurber, James

Box 5, f. 60: Tillinghast, Joseph

Box 6, f. 1: Tockwotton (Fox Hill Point, India Point, Darling's Ship Yard)

Box 6, f. 2: Town Street (see also: Box 6, f. 11)

Box 6, f. 3: Turks Head

Box 6, f. 4: Turpin, William

Box 6, f. 5: Union Bank

Box 6, f. 6: Walker, William and Paget, Henry

Box 6, f. 7: Walton, John

Box 6, f. 8: Wanton, Edward

Box 6, f. 9: Ward, Nehemiah

Box 6, f. 10: Water Lots (13)

Box 6, f. 11: Water Street and Town Street (see also: Box 6, f. 2)

Box 6, f. 12: Waterman Street

Box 6, f. 13: Waterman, Nathaniel

Box 6, f. 14: Waterman's Marsh, Weybossett Neck, Muddy Cove

Box 6, f. 15: West Side

            (Weybossett Neck, see: Box 6, f. 14)

Box 6, f. 16: Whipple, John and Whipple, Joseph and Whipple, Elezear

Box 6, f. 17: Wright, Henry

Box 6, f. 18: Wilkinson, John

Box 6, f. 19: Williams, Roger

Box 6, f. 20: "Missing Houses, 1779"

Box 6, f. 21: "Numbers on 1771 Plats"

Box 6, f. 22: "Owners of Lots on North Side of Weybossett Street, from Orange Lane East:             1798, 1908, 1750(about)"

Box 6, f. 23: "[Moses Brown's] List of 83 Houses to be Cut Off from Providence in the Division             of 1765"

Box 6, f. 24: Hand drawn maps, various streets

Box 6, f. 25: Miscellaneous

Series 6: Index Cards

Box 7, section 1: Lots - Providence place-names

Box 7, sec. 2: Lots - 1798, #1, Aborn - Dorrance, [from "US Tax List, 1798"]

Box 8, sec. 1: Lots - 1798, #2, Draper - Young, [from "US Tax List, 1798"]

Box 9, sec. 1: Notes from from "Assessors Tax List," [1779]

Box 9, sec. 2: "Home/Town Lots, 1-52"

Box 9, sec. 3: Lot owners, A-Z (undated)

Box 9, sec. 4: Lot acquisitions (undated)

Box 9, sec. 5: "Ton[n]age of Vessels, 1783-7, Port of Providence"

Box 9, sec. 6: "Elevations, 1835 Map" (notes from map)

Box 9, sec. 7: "1770 ([Buildings List]"

Box 10, sec. 1: "Weybossett Street, South Side [Lots], 1717-18: From the Great Bridge to Potter Street"

Box 10, sec. 2: "Warehouse Lots, 1746"

Box 10, sec. 3: "Original 1783 Cards, [re: Lots]"

Box 10, sec. 4: "Town Street, West Side [Lots]"

Box 10, sec. 5: "Water Lots and Warehouse Lots, West Side of the Town Street, 1770, 1746,             1771"

Box 10, sec. 6: "A Card Directory of the Houseowners in the Compact Part of the Town of             Providence in 1759, Located by H. R. Chace"

Box 10, sec. 7: "The Compact Part of the Town of Providence in 1770, with the Houses Located and Names of Owners Given by Timothy Gladding," 1905

Box 10, sec. 8: [1779 List of Houses]

Box 10, sec. 9: "Part of 1779 Collection, Have been Used"

Box 10, sec. 10: "Old Houses Before 1800" (list)

Box 10, sec. 11: "John Merrett's Will and Other Notes"

(Box 11: Lots, Field Divisions, and Courses)

Box 11, sec. 1: Benefit Street

Box 11, sec. 2: Broad Street

Box 11, sec. 3: Cowpen Point

Box 11, sec. 4: Cranston Street

Box 11, sec. 5: Eddy Street

Box 11, sec. 6: Fox Point

Box 11, sec. 7: George Street

Box 11, sec. 8: High Street

Box 11, sec. 9: Hope Street

Box 11, sec. 10: Hopkins Street

Box 11, sec. 11: India Point

Box 11, sec. 12: Main Street

Box 11, sec. 13: Market Square

Box 11, sec. 14: Matthewson Street

Box 11, sec. 15: Meeting Street

Box 11, sec. 16: Nash Lane

Box 11, sec. 17: Neck

Box 11, sec. 18: North End

Box 11, sec. 19: North Main

Box 11, sec. 20: Olney Street

Box 11, sec. 21: Power Street

Box 11, sec. 22: Richmond Street

Box 11, sec. 23: Smith Street

Box 11, sec. 24: Smithfield Road

Box 11, sec. 25: South Main

Box 11, sec. 26: Stampers Hill

Box 11, sec. 27: Stow Pond

Box 11, sec. 28: Thomas Street

Box 11, sec. 29: Tockwotton

Box 11, sec. 30: Town Street

Box 11, sec. 31: Water

Box 11, sec. 32: Westminster

Box 11, sec. 33: Weybossett

Box 11, sec. 34: Wickenden

Box 11, sec. 35: Young Orchard

Box 11, sec. 36: Miscellaneous Lot Notes

Box 12, sec. 1: Deed notes - Miscellaneous Providence

Box 12, sec. 2: Genealogy notes - Brown and Sweeting Families

Box 12, sec. 3: Genealogy notes - Scott Family

Box 12, sec. 4: Genealogy notes - Whipple Family

Box 12, sec. 5: Highway, ntreet Notes - Miscellaneous Providence

Box 12, sec. 6: "1650 Tax List"

Box 12, sec. 7: "Index for 1779 List of Houses in the Time of Providence"

Box 12, sec. 8: Notes from: Early Records of the Town of Providence (RIHS: F89 P9 P9)

Box 12, sec. 9: Expense notes [of H. R. Chace]

Box 12, sec. 10: Miscellaneous card collection

Series 7: Miscellaneous

Box 13, f. 1: Invitations, 1913-14

Box 13, f. 2: Clippings - Providence Journal and other newspapers (contains: Misc. Providence             history essays not written by Chace; Map copy: "Fall River in 1811")

Box 13, f. 3: Pamphlets, bulletins

Box 13, f. 4: Receipts and bills

Box 13, f. 5: Stock ledgers and notes

Box 13, f. 6: Dailey and Field family papers, deeds, and wills, 1845-1883

Box 13, f. 7: Personal

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Subjects:

Adams, Jonathan

Angell, John

Chapin, William Waterman (1834-1922)

Clemence-Irons House

Dailey Family

Lynch, Anna C.

Olney's Tavern

Poe, Edgar Allen (1809-1849)

Providence, R.I. - Buildings, structures, etc.

Providence, R.I. - History

Providence, R.I. - Maps, Manuscript

Providence, R.I. - Road Maps

Rhode Island - History

Whitman, Sarah Helen (Power) (1803-1878)

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