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Ann Lake correspondence and documents

Description: A collection of 53 items which consists of letters and documents related to Ann Lake and her family. Many of the letters discuss family life in Pennsylvania and Ohio as well as various family members. There are also some letters about the Civil War (including one by John Shaw Billings) and one letter each from Benjamin Franklin Shumard and George G. Shumard regarding explorations in the West. Other correspondents in the collection include Dr. Jacob Newton Brown and Ann Lake's second husband, Andrew Leech.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1820-1872
Call number: mssLakea
Creator: Lake, Ann (approximately 1800-)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Edwin Grabhorn, January 1945.

Ann Lake papers

Manuscripts

A collection of 53 items which consists of letters and documents related to Ann Lake and her family. Many of the letters discuss family life in Pennsylvania and Ohio as well as various family members. There are also some letters about the Civil War (including one by John Shaw Billings) and one letter each from Benjamin Franklin Shumard and George G. Shumard regarding explorations in the West. Other correspondents in the collection include Dr. Jacob Newton Brown and Ann Lake's second husband, Andrew Leech.

mssLakea

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Diary and autobiography of George Lake [microform] :

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Microfilm of the diary and autobiography of George Lake, beginning with diary entries of his mission trip to England from October 1870 to August 1871. Lake appears to have been living at Workington in Cumberland, although he frequently traveled to Newcastle and surrounding areas. The mission entries focus on Lake's attendance of Church conferences and his interactions with local Mormons, including notes on births, marriages, and deaths. The remainder of the volume is a mixture of autobiography and diary entries, and recalls Lake's move to Oxford in Round Valley, Utah, following his return from England in 1871; his flight to avoid polygamy charges in 1874; his being placed in charge of the northern division of Arizona missionaries in 1876, including a list of names of fellow missionaries; and his involvement in creating the United Order at Yavapai, Arizona, in 1877. The volume includes the text of the "last address by Gen. Joseph Smith the Prophet to the Nauvoo Legion in June 1844," followed by a brief summary of Lake's life in 1879. The final pages, in another hand, include a family record with genealogy up through about 1938 and the texts of patriarchal blessings on the Lake family in 1913.

MSS MFilm 00047

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Ann Moore journals, (bulk 1756-1760)

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Journals kept by Ann Moore during her two voyages in Maryland, Pennsylvania and New York (Aug. 1756 - Jan. 1757, and Dec. 1757 - Apr. 1758), and her voyage to England (Sept. 1760-June 1763). The manuscripts also contain Anne Moore's poetry, a copy of a letter to her from her "dear friend and tender companion" Alice Jackson (1778) and "A short testimony of Ann Moore concerning her friend and companion, Alice Jackson, deceased," family records, a copy of a letter from Elizabeth Prosser to her son (1798), and "a copy of a Prophecy for Ann More" (1783)

mssHM 66134-66136

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Delos W. Lake papers

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Letters from Delos W. Lake to his mother and brother Calvin H. Lake, posted from Dowagiac, Michigan, various camps in Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, Georgia, the Carolinas, and Washington, D.C. One letter of September 1863 is written in verse. The collection also contains a letter to Calvin H. Lake from John A. Dunham of Co. G of the 19th Michigan Regiment, muster roll of Co. E of the 19th Regiment, 1863, August, and farewell addresses to the 2nd Brigade by Col. John Coburn and Daniel Huston. Lake's letters discuss military operations, including Battle of Thompsons Station and subsequent imprisonment by Bragg's Cavalry forces, operations at Cassville and Golgotha Church, siege and occupation of Atlanta, occupation of Goldsboro, North Carolina, advance on and occupation of Raleigh, and grand review in Washington, D.C.; commanding officers, including John Coburn, William Starke Rosecrans, and William Tecumseh Sherman; morale of the troops, war news; camp life (drills, payments, firearms, diseases, and hospitals, etc.).

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Mary Ann Hafen reminiscences

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This small group consists of three letters Mary wrote to her children and relatives as well as two versions of reminiscences of her family's voyage from Switzerland to New York City and then on to Utah in a handcart company. In these accounts she describes the harsh conditions of their journey to Utah and the struggles of frontier and pioneer life. With the help of her son, Le Roy Reuben Hafen (1893-), his wife Ann W. (Ann Woodbury) Hafen (1893-1970), and granddaughter, Juanita Brooks (1898-), Mary was able to publish her life story, "Recollections of a handcart pioneer of 1860: with some account of frontier life in Utah and Nevada" in 1938.

mssHM 66379-66383

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Elisha Turner and Mary Ann Turner documents

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Five documents related to Elisha Turner and his wife Mary Ann Turner. Includes a shipping document for a case of wine on the Brig Pearl, 1841 June 11, the will of Elisha Turner, 1842 January 4, two documents pertaining to pews in the Episcopal Church of Dedham, 1846 and 1858, and a certificate for a share in the Dedham Library Association, 1855 January 15, owned by Mary Ann Turner.

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