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Cogswell's Grant Farm Book #1

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Collection Type

  • Manuscripts

Date

1687-1938

Location Note

HGO-01-001-O-F-403; album # 206A

GUSN

GUSN-272018

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Description

Title inside : "John Cogswell's Grant and some of the Houses Thereon, 1636-1839". Compiled by Nina Fletcher Little. Includes Cogswell family history, property records of Jonathan Cogswell (1687-1752), inventory of William Cogswell, Sr. (1619-1700), and Williams Cogswell (1694-1762), wills, land records, floor plans, tax lists, notes from Some Old Houses of Essex, Essex Echo, July 30, 1909, Correspondence from 1937, lists of changes made to each room, 1938, and photocopies of photographs of interior, the Little family, summer activities and farming. A few wonderful pictures of hay wagons.

Details

Descriptive Terms

property records
wills
deeds
correspondence
historic houses
interior views
leisure
farming
hay wagons
property records
personal papers
black-and-white photographs
ring binders
photograph albums

Additional Identification Number

album number 206 A

Physical Description

1 blue 3-ring binder; 140 pages; 10 x 11 1/2 inches

Collection Code

PC009

Collection Name

Photograph albums collection

Date of Acquisition

1991

Reference Code

PC009.206A

Acquisition Type

Gift

Places

Essex (Essex county, Massachusetts)

Record Details

Originator

Little, Nina Fletcher, 1903-1993 (Compiler)

Material Type

property records
personal papers
black-and-white photographs
ring binders
photograph albums

Other People

Little, Nina Fletcher, 1903-1993
Cogswell, Jonathan, 1687-1752
Cogswell, William, Mr., Sr., 1619-1700
Cogswell, William , Mr., Jr., 1694-1762

Subjects

Historic House

Descriptive Terms

Essex, Mass
Ipswich, Mass
Cogswell's Grant
farms
property records
deeds
wills
estate inventories

Accruals Note

Contans material photocopied from original albums in possession of the Little Family. Permission of the Little Family is required for use of this material.

Description Level

Item

Location Note

HGO-01-001-O-F-403; album # 206A

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