Hill family

Consisting of about 800 letters and manuscript documents, concerning legal and financial transactions in Kittery, Berwick and York, Maine. Personal names include: Hill, Hobbs, Langdon, Shapleigh, Chadbourne, Lord, Leighton, Gerrish, and Frost.

Family documents and papers dating from early eighteenth century Colonial America to the twentieth century. The correspondence is predominantly between family members, although other significant national figures and personal friends are represented. Documents also include legal papers regarding wills and estates, property and the homestead in Baldwin, Me., personal journals and diaries, and other records of local and state history.

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