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1782-1976, undated
HGO-02-105-A-H-403 (boxes 1 and 2), HGO-02-105-A-H-404 (boxes 3, 4, 9), and HGO-02-105-A-H-405 (boxes 5 through 8), HGO-02-105-A-H-402 (boxes 10 and 11).
GUSN-187797
Materials in this collection illustrate and document the life the Appleton family and Weld family, pivoting around Dorothy Everard (Appleton) Weld and her husband George Francis Weld, Sr. The collection documents these two individuals as well as their ancestors, siblings, and children.
This collection includes photograph albums and loose photographs of many family members. The albums and photographs document Holbrook Hall (the Appletons' estate in West Newton, Massachusetts); members of the Appleton and Weld families; vacations at the Putnam-Bowditch Camp in Keene, New York; Dorothy Appleton and George Francis Weld's honeymoon; members of the Standen, Winterbottom, and Huntingdon families (associated by marriage); Dorothy Everard Appleton's 1903 European trip; the Appleton House in New Ipswich, New Hampshire; and family portraits. The collection also includes correspondence among the Appletons, Curtises, Welds, and others; birth and marriage certificates; written works by family members; and other personal papers. The collection also includes sketchbooks, most of which were compiled by Dorothy Everard Appleton Weld.
Processing/updating the collection and making the finding aid accessible online were made possible through grants from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (Award Number: NAR13-RH-50051-13), the Bedford Family Foundation, and an anonymous donor.
birth certificates
children (people by age group)
deeds
family papers
marriage certificates
photographs
travel
vacations
family papers
13.26 linear feet (7 record cartons, 4 flat boxes, 1 tube)
An electronic finding aid is available through Historic New Englands Collections Access Portal. A paper finding aid is available in the Library & Archives.
The materials were in the possession of the family until they were donated to Historic New England. An additional gift was made from the Edric A. Weld Revocable Trust in 2010, accession number 2010.87
MS005
Weld-Appleton family papers
MS005
This collection documents the Weld and Appleton families, and it includes photographs and photograph albums, correspondence, sketchbooks, and personal papers.
Gift
Gift, Weld Coxe, May 12, 1995, and Edric A. Weld Revocable Trust, 2010.
Beacon Hill (Boston, Suffolk county, Massachusetts) [neighborhood]
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
Keene (Essex county, New York state)
New Ipswich (Hillsborough county, New Hampshire)
Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara county, California)
Newton (Middlesex county, Massachusetts)
Appleton family
Weld family
family papers
Appleton , Caroline Frances, 1853-1857
Appleton, Edith Stuart, 1849-1892
Appleton, Georgiana Louisa Frances Gillis (Armistead)
Appleton, Harriot Coffin (Sumner), 1802-1867
Appleton, Marjorie Crane, 1875-1913
Appleton, Nathan, 1779-1861
Appleton, Nathan, 1843-1906
Appleton, Samuel, 1766-1853
Appleton, Thomas Gold, 1812-1884
Appleton , William Stuart, d. 1891
Appleton, William S. (William Sumner), 1840-1903
Appleton, William Sumner, 1874-1947
Barton, Alma Letitia (Taylor)
Barton , Theodore Darwin , 1808-1863
Coxe, Dorothea (Weld), 1906-
Curtis, Greely "Steen" Stevenson, 1830-1897
Curtis, Harriot Sumner (Appleton), 1841-1923
de Mier, Alma (Barton)
Huntington, Violet (Weld)
Niemeyer, Helmine (Stüven)
Standen, Eleanor Armistead (Appleton), 1872-1940
Weld, Dorothy Everard (Appleton), 1878-1965
Weld, Franklin, 1841-
Weld , George Francis, 1866-1933
Weld , George Francis, 1911-1969
Weld, Loretta Maria (Barton)
Weld, Lydia (Gould), 1805-1881
Weld , Rose
Weld, Samuel M., 1848-
Weld, Stanley Barton
Winterbottom, Gladys H. (Appleton)
American School Institute
Appleton family
Armistead family
Barton family
Curtis family
Historic New England (Organization)
Huntington family
Putnam-Bowditch Camp (Keene, N.Y.)
Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities
Standen family
Weld family
Winterbottom family
Processing/updating the collection and making the finding aid accessible online were made possible through grants from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (Award Number: NAR13-RH-50051-13), the Bedford Family Foundation, and an anonymous donor.
This collection is available for research.
There are no physical restrictions on this collection. There are no technical restrictions on this collection.
Collection
HGO-02-105-A-H-403 (boxes 1 and 2), HGO-02-105-A-H-404 (boxes 3, 4, 9), and HGO-02-105-A-H-405 (boxes 5 through 8), HGO-02-105-A-H-402 (boxes 10 and 11).
Accruals are not expected.
Materials are entirely in English.
Item identification. Box #, folder #. Weld-Appleton family papers (MS005). Historic New England, Library & Archives.
This collection was originally processed and the finding aid written by Susan H. Johnson, volunteer, in May, 2005. The finding aid was updated by Susan H. Johnson and Sarah R. Hinkle, library and archives assistant, in May, 2006. In 2014, the collection was updated and the finding aid was made available online by Susan H. Johnson and Abigail Cramer, librarian/archivist, with grant funding provided by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (Award Number: NAR13-RH-50051-13), the Bedford family foundation, and an anonymous foundation. Finding aid updated in 2016. Accrual added in 2018; accession number 2010.87.
This finding aid is DACS-compliant.
Portrait of Eleanor Armistead Appleton, William Sumner Appleton, and Marjorie Crane Appleton
This collection illustrates and documents the lives of Appleton family members living in West Newton and Beacon Hill (Boston), Massachusetts, and Santa Barbara, California. Around 1630, Samuel Appleton moved from England to New Ipswich, New Hampshire, where he started a farm. The family farm was continued through at least 1750 by Deacon Isaac Appleton. In the early 1800s, Nathan Appleton moved from New Ipswich to Boston, Massachusetts. Nathan was a successful merchant, and he became wealthy as a result of his business in cotton manufacturing. In 1806, he married Maria Theresa Gold. The details of this marriage are not known, but they had at least one child together: Thomas Gold Appleton. With his second wife, Harriott Coffin Sumner (d. 1867), Nathan Appleton had three children: William Sumner (1840-1903), Harriott (1841-1923), and Nathan (1843-1906). William Sumner Appleton married a cousin, Edith Stuart Appleton, with whom he had five children: William Sumner, Jr. (1874-1947), Dorothy, Eleanor, Gladys, and Marjorie. William Sumner Appleton, Jr., became the founder of the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities (now Historic New England). Of his sisters, Dorothy married George Francis Weld in 1904, Eleanor married Robert Standen, and Gladys married first Dunlap Penhallow and second Archibald Dickson Winterbottom around 1900. There is less information about Marjorie; she seems to have been unmarried. The bulk of this collection is from Dorothy Everard Appleton Weld and her husband, George Francis Weld, Sr.
Material in the collection.
The collection is arranged in two series as follows: Series I. Family papers, 1825-1964, undated; Series II. Photograph albums, 1856-1912, undated; Series III. Photographs, 1851-1939, undated; and Series IV. Additional material, 1976, undated. Series V: Edric A. Weld Revocable Trust family papers, 1782-1973
The original extent before reprocessing in 2014 was 9.34 linear feet (eight records cartons and two oversized boxes), and the collection was arranged as follows: Subgroup I: Photographs; Series A: Photograph Albums; Series B: Photographs not in albums; Subgroup II: Written Material; Series A: Letters; Series B: Written Material; and Series C: Sketchbooks.
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