Manuscripts

William Bunker Gardner papers

Description: The collection consists of letters, a letter book, manuscripts, a journal, a sketch of Fort Ludlow, Washington, a map, and documents. There is one logbook related to the voyage of the Ship Sarah Parker to San Francisco via Cape Horn, from 1852 to 1855, visits to North Pacific ports, and the return trip to Massachusetts. The journal in the collection is by Charlotte Coffin Gardner. The collection also contains a few accounts for the ships Courier, Mary Mitchell, and Flora. There is also correspondence in the collection from 1920 to 1965, most of which is between Grace Brown Gardner, the granddaughter of William B. Gardner and Charlotte Gardner, and Eleanor Jane Graves. This correspondence focuses on the Gardner journal and early Nantucket inhabitants. There are also photographs of William B. Garner and Charlotte Gardiner, dated between 1850 and 1870.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1847-1965
Call number: mssHM 39123-39180

Correspondence, maps

Manuscripts

The collection consists of letters, a letter book, manuscripts, a journal, a sketch of Fort Ludlow, Washington, a map, and documents. There is one logbook related to the voyage of the Ship Sarah Parker to San Francisco via Cape Horn, from 1852 to 1855, visits to North Pacific ports, and the return trip to Massachusetts. The journal in the collection is by Charlotte Coffin Gardner. The collection also contains a few accounts for the ships Courier, Mary Mitchell, and Flora. There is also correspondence in the collection from 1920 to 1965, most of which is between Grace Brown Gardner, the granddaughter of William B. Gardner and Charlotte Gardner, and Eleanor Jane Graves. This correspondence focuses on the Gardner journal and early Nantucket inhabitants. There are also photographs of William B. Garner and Charlotte Gardiner, dated between 1850 and 1870.

mssHM 39123-39177

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Letter book, journal, ships' log, photographs

Manuscripts

mssHM 39178-39180

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Edward Bunker, Jr. Papers

Manuscripts

This collection consists of correspondence and papers regarding Edward Bunker, Jr. (1847-1914) and his duties as a Mormon bishop of Bunkerville, Nevada. People such as H.B. (Hiram B.) Clawson, Henry Eyring (1838-1901), and L. John (Leonard John) Nuttall (1834-1905) are represented in the collection. There are papers regarding the establishment of the United Order in Bunkerville, the duties of a bishop, dispute resolutions, the running of the mail, food and livestock, digging of an irrigation canal, taxes in Nevada, tithing receipts, and other financial records and bills.

mssHM 63428-63492

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Sir William Beeston papers

Manuscripts

This collection contains Sir William Beeston's correspondence and a journal segment from his second tenure as Governor of Jamaica. The correspondence from April 1702 discusses the management of his estate after Beeston was recalled as governor and includes instructions for the management of his enslaved workers. The first four items on an inventory of property he is leaving in Jamaica are property receipts for enslaved workers, one who is identified as Maria. The inventory also includes a line discharging a woman and her child, presumably a manumission of an enslaved woman and child.The journal, dating from September 1698 to June 1699 with the days of the week noted using astrological signs, covers the first expedition of Scottish colonists in the Gulf of Darien who attempted to establish the colony New Caledonia, and the initial English and Spanish response. Beeston includes mention of Richard Long, captain of the ship Rupert Prize as well as Vice-Admiral John Benbow, naval commander of the West Indies. Also in the journal are entries about outfitting vessels against pirates as well as the search for the pirate William Burke. When writing about ships carrying enslaved persons, Beeston uses the term "ye Assiento" to refer to the trade of enslaved persons with the Spanish. There is also correspondence from George Bennett and Mary Rule to Jane Modyford Long, Sir William Beeston's daughter, discussing the estate and a list of items to be sent from England to Jamaica. Lastly, there are receipts from 1721-1724 for the Jamaica estate.

mssBeeston

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William Krauss papers

Manuscripts

Includes letters, 1863 to 1865; journals kept while working in military hospitals in Memphis, Tennessee, 1864 to 1866; journal of a trip to Europe, 1868.

mssHM 42454-42485

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William Bayard papers

Manuscripts

This group of twelve items contains letters and notes regarding William Bayard's proposed stagecoach route from Missouri to California. Seven of the twelve items are by William Bayard; these items include a letter and several notes regarding the cost of the stagecoach route, the supplies that would be needed, and his plans for acquiring the necessary land. There are also three letters by James Haworth, president of the California Stage Company, to Charles M. Hitchcock regarding an alternate stagecoach route and a letter by San Francisco lawyer Joseph Bryant Crockett to Hitchcock about the difficulties he would face in establishing a stagecoach route. Also included is a photostat copy of the Last Will & Testament of Henry Byron Phillips who was president and librarian of the California Genealogical Society. In his will, Phillips leaves his books to the Sutro Library and the California State Library in Sacramento.

mssHM 68072-68083

William Bunker Gardner papers

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