1.   Historical note

2.   Scope and content

3.   Provenance

4.   Processing note

5.   Inventory

6.   Subjects


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Miscellaneous Manuscripts

Small, mostly uncataloged collections arranged by personal name.

Records and personal papers, 1640s - present

Size: 142 linear feet

Catalog number: MSS 9001

Processed by: Rick Stattler, Kristina Piecyk, and Desiree Kenny 1995-1996

Partially restricted

 

 

 

 

 

©Rhode Island Historical Society

Manuscripts Division

Historical Note:

 The earliest system for dealing with miscellaneous manuscripts was pasting them into scrapbooks. Two large series were compiled: Rhode Island Historical Society Manuscripts and Rhode Island Manuscripts, totaling 28 volumes. The creation of scrapbooks ended around 1940. Single items and small collections arriving after 1940 have generally been arranged alphabetically. In addition, some larger collections have been broken up and distributed by name. Until 1994, there was no formal "collection" of these small files; they were shelved individually in loose folders, and interfiled with much larger collections.

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Scope and content:

 The Miscellaneous Manuscripts collection includes these loose files compiled since 1940. The contents vary widely, and could typically include: a single deed; a small collection of family correspondence; an account book; a military commission; a diary; a handful of shipping receipts. None of these small collections contain much more than a hundred items, or a couple of large volumes. The dates span from the seventeenth century to the present, though the bulk are probably from about 1750 to 1900.

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Provenance:

The items comprising this collection are from hundreds, probably thousands, of different accessions. A few general comments can be made. The bulk of these items were probably donated after 1940. Small accessions from before that date tended to be placed in scrapbooks under the heading of Rhode Island Historical Society Manuscripts. However, some of the earlier collections were broken up at a later date and dispersed by name throughout this collection, mostly during the early 1980s. This occurred with many family collections; another example is a collection of Barrington historical papers that were broken up at that time.

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Inventory (Arranged Alphabetically):

A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z

MSS 9001- F Box List
Number of folders/ Volumes Last Name or Title First Name Call Number Dates and further information
1 Fabre Line   MSS 9001-F Loose Volume  
1 Fair American (sloop)   MSS 9001-F Box 1  
1 Fair Oaks Baseball Club   MSS 9001-F Box 1  
2 Fales Edmund W., Family Papers  MSS 9001-F Box 1  
1 Fales James MSS 9001-F Box 1  
1 Fallon John F. MSS 9001-F Box 1  
1 Family Welfare Society   MSS 9001-F Box 1  
1 Farnham Charles H. MSS 9001-F Box 1  
1 Farnham Charles W. MSS 9001-F Box 1  
1 Farnham J.E.C. MSS 9001-F Box 1  
1 Farnham Rufus MSS 9001-F Box 1  
5 Farnum Family Papers    MSS 9001-F Box 1  
1 Farrington P.M. MSS 9001-F Box 1  
1 Farther Lights Society   MSS 9001-F Box 1  
1 Fearney Hester MSS 9001-F Box 2  
1 Fearney John T. MSS 9001-F Box 2  
1 Fearney Joseph MSS 9001-F Box 2  
1 Federal Adelphi   MSS 9001-F Box 2  
1 Feke Robert MSS 9001-F Box 2  
1 Female Beneficent Society   MSS 9001-F Loose Volume  
1 Female Charitable Society   MSS 9001-F Box 2  
1 Fenner A. (Albert or Arthur?)  MSS 9001-F Box 2 Account books, 1828-1833.
1 Fenner Arthur  MSS 9001-F Box 2 (1622-1708).1664 document, undated document, 1743 testimony re: age.
1 Fenner Arthur  MSS 9001-F Box 2 (1699-1788).Shipping book, 1742; other papers 1745-1767.
1 Fenner Arthur  MSS 9001-F Box 2 (1725-1793).Papers, 1757-1794.
1 Fenner Arthur  MSS 9001-F Box 2 (1745-1805), Governor of R.I.Papers, 1789-1795.
1 Fenner Arthur  MSS 9001-F Box 2 (1792-1825).5 items, 1817-1819.
1 Fenner Bessie Maude MSS 9001-F Box 2  
1 Fenner Dinah MSS 9001-F Box 2  
1 Fenner Edward MSS 9001-F Box 2  
1 Fenner Henry MSS 9001-F Box 2A  
1 Fenner Henry S. MSS 9001-F Box 2A  
6 Fenner James MSS 9001-F Box 2A  
1 Fenner John  MSS 9001-F Box 2A  
1 Fenner Joseph MSS 9001-F Box 2A  
2 Fenner Pardon  MSS 9001-F Box 2A  
2 Fenner Phebe  MSS 9001-F Box 2A  
5 Fenner Richard  MSS 9001-F Box 2A  
1 Fenner Samuel MSS 9001-F Box 3  
2 Fenner Thomas  MSS 9001-F Box 3  
2 Fenner William  MSS 9001-F Box 3  
1 Fenton Sarah MSS 9001-F Box 3  
1 Fessenden G.M. MSS 9001-F Box 3  
1 Fidelity Grange No.20   MSS 9001-F Box 3  
1 Fidler Marguerite MSS 9001-F Box 3  
1 Field Daniel MSS 9001-F Box 3  
2 Field John  MSS 9001-F Box 3  
1 Field Joseph  MSS 9001-F Box 3  
1 Field Lizzie MSS 9001-F Box 3  
1 Field Richard MSS 9001-F Box 3  
1 Field Richard M. MSS 9001-F Box 3  
1 Field Simeon MSS 9001-F Box 3  
1 Field William MSS 9001-F Box 3  
1 Field Zachariah MSS 9001-F Box 3  
1 Fifth Ward Republican Club   MSS 9001-F Box 3  
1 Finch Joseph MSS 9001-F Box 3  
1 Finney John MSS 9001-F Box 3  
1 First Free Will Baptist Church of Smithfield   MSS 9001-F Box 3  
1 First Rhode Island U.S. Volunteer Infantry Veteran Association   MSS 9001-F Box 3  
1 First Unitarian Church   MSS 9001-F Box 4  
1 First United Presbyterian Church in Providence   MSS 9001-F Box 4  
1 Firth Lily MSS 9001-F Box 3  
1 Fish Jeremiah Jr. MSS 9001-F Box 4  
1 Fisher Paul A. MSS 9001-F Box 4  
1 Fisher Robert E. MSS 9001-F Box 4  
1 Fisher Samuel MSS 9001-F Box 4  
1 Fisher Susan C. MSS 9001-F Box 4  
1 Fisher Susan Gates MSS 9001-F Box 4  
1 Fisher William MSS 9001-F Box 4  
1 Fishing Ranges in Narragansett Bay   MSS 9001-F Box 4  
1 Fisk Joseph Jr. MSS 9001-F Box 4  
1 Fisk Phillip M. MSS 9001-F Box 4  
1 Fisk Sheldon MSS 9001-F Box 4  
1 Fisk William N. MSS 9001-F Box 4  
1 Fiske Caleb MSS 9001-F Box 4  
1 Fiske Daniel MSS 9001-F Box 4  
1 Fiske Eliza A. MSS 9001-F Box 4  
1 Fiske William MSS 9001-F Box 4  
2 Fiskeville Clothing Co.    MSS 9001-F Loose Volumes  
1 Fitch Edward G. MSS 9001-F Box 4  
1 Fitch Jedediah MSS 9001-F Loose Volume  
1 Fitch Minerva MSS 9001-F Box 4  
1 Fitts Helen L. MSS 9001-F Box 4  
1 Fitzgerald Desmond MSS 9001-F Box 4  
1 Flagg Elizabeth MSS 9001-F Box 4  
1 Flagg Henry MSS 9001-F Box 4  
1 Flagg Mary Magdalen MSS 9001-F Box 4  
1 Flags of Truce   MSS 9001-F Box 4 1759
1 Fleming Arthur and Jean MSS 9001-F Box 4  
1 Fletcher John Walter MSS 9001-F Box 4  
1 Flint Henry Sanborn MSS 9001-F Box 4  
1 Flowers Robert MSS 9001-F Box 4  
1 Fogg Ezra D. MSS 9001-F Box 4  
1 Folsom Nathaniel MSS 9001-F Box 4  
1 Fontaine Philip F. MSS 9001-F Box 4  
1 Foote Joseph MSS 9001-F Box 4  
1 Forand Gertrude MSS 9001-F Box 4  
1 Ford Joseph MSS 9001-F Box 4  
1 Forrest Ruth MSS 9001-F Box 4  
1 Fortnightly Club   MSS 9001-F Box 5  
1 Fosdick  James W. MSS 9001-F Box 5  
1 Foster ___? MSS 9001-F Box 5  
1 Foster Charles K.  MSS 9001-F Box 5  
1 Foster Ebenezer MSS 9001-F Box 5  
1 Foster John MSS 9001-F Box 5  
1 Foster Julia Greene MSS 9001-F Box 5  
1 Foster Peregrine P. MSS 9001-F Box 5  
1 Foster Theodore A. MSS 9001-F Box 5  
1 Foster and Waterman   MSS 9001-F Loose Volume  
1 Foster Manton Library Society   MSS 9001-F Box 5  
1 Fourth Evangelical    MSS 9001-F Loose Volume  
1 Fourth Evangelical Congregational Sabbath School   MSS 9001-F Loose Volume  
2 Fourth Rhode Island Veteran Association   MSS 9001-F Loose Volumes  
1 Fourth Ward Company of Volunteers   MSS 9001-F Box 5  
1 Fourth Ward Drill Corps   MSS 9001-F Oversized  
1 Fourth Ward Republican Club   MSS 9001-F Box 5  
1 Fowler Dr. Isaac MSS 9001-F Loose Volume  
1 Fowler George MSS 9001-F Box 5  
1 Fowler Henry T. MSS 9001-F Box 5  
1 Fox Point Foundry   MSS 9001-F Box 5  
1 Franklin George MSS 9001-F Box 5  
1 Franklin Stephen MSS 9001-F Box 5  
1 Franklin Stephen Jr. MSS 9001-F Box 5  
1 Franklin Cotton Mill   MSS 9001-F Box 5  
1 Franklin Foundry   MSS 9001-F Loose Volume  
1 Fraternal Society   MSS 9001-F Loose Volume  
1 Free Evangelical Congregational Society   MSS 9001-F Loose Volume  
1 Freeborn Elizabeth MSS 9001-F Box 5  
1 Freeborn Gideon MSS 9001-F Box 5  
1 Freeborn Gideon Jr. MSS 9001-F Box 5  
1 Freeborn Noel MSS 9001-F Box 5  
1 Freeborn William Wood MSS 9001-F Box 5  
1 Freeman Edward L. family MSS 9001-F Box 5  
1 Freeman Nathan MSS 9001-F Box 5  
1 French Memorial   MSS 9001-F Box 6  
5 French Worsted Company    MSS 9001-F Box 6  
1 Frey Ada M. (Briggs) MSS 9001-F Box 6  
1 Frost G.F. MSS 9001-F Box 6  
1 Frothingham John MSS 9001-F Box 6  
1 Fry Benjamin MSS 9001-F Box 6  
1 Fry J.H. MSS 9001-F Box 6  
1 Fry Joseph MSS 9001-F Box 6  
1 Fry Pheobe A. MSS 9001-F Box 6  
1 Fry Thomas Jr. MSS 9001-F Box 6  
1 Fuller Henry A. MSS 9001-F Box 6  
1 Fuller Jonathan MSS 9001-F Box 6  
1 Fuller Marcelia B. MSS 9001-F Box 6  
1 Fuller Pliny B. MSS 9001-F Box 6  
1 Fuller Sylvester MSS 9001-F Box 6  
1 Fuller William MSS 9001-F Box 6  
1 Fulton Frank Taylor MSS 9001-F Box 6  
1 Furnace Dam MSS 9001-F Box 6

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