Box 1

Mainly family news.

With a.l.s. from Henry, February 28, about wreck of U.S. frigate Congress, and April 1 mutiny.

Mainly of family and farm, with one Feb. 13 to Charles (?) from Peleg in Washington opposing incorporation of Hiram, Maine, into a town and about the Jefferson-Burr balloting; March 22nd letter from John to Charles about the election and sale of navy ships; several letters about Eliza’s illness and others about hired men. (Peleg’s letters from Washington City give more advice on farm management than on politics.)

Mainly Peleg’s February 2nd ff. about a bill to repeal the Judiciary Law and about Henry on his way to the Mediterranean under Commodore Truxton; several to Charles about logging at the farm; March 18th and 27th comments on politics; August 1st Eliza’s death; November 29th letter from Henry in Malta, received in Washington February 11, 1803.

Farm and business affairs; November 28th, December 6th and 27th, 1803, mention Preble in Tripoli.

Marriage intentions in Hiram, 1808-1811; agreements; Hiram soldiers, 1812; Peleg Jr.’s letter, September 23, 1814, on being drafted; bills and receipts, tax assessments; John’s letter, December 28, 1819, to Charles urging him not to move to Ohio; military papers of Captain Charles Wadsworth, 1823, and his discharge as lieutenant-colonel in 1830.

Death of their father, Charles L., September 29, 1848; 1855-1856 letters from nephew Henry W. Butterfield in Nevada to Samuel; November 27th, 1864, ancestry of the Wadsworths; 1874-1879 letter from Josiah Hooper to Samuel; 1905-1921 correspondence of Llewellyn A. Wadsworth.

Letters, mainly to Charles Wadsworth, a farmer in Hiram, Maine, from various members of the family concerning family matters, management of the farm, and selling and procuring of livestock and products. Some letters are from Peleg Wadsworth, U.S. representative from Massachusetts, and founder of the family country estate in Hiram. Other correspondents include John Wadsworth and Zilpah Wadsworth.

Accounts, bills, invoices of goods from the West Indies, 1805-1812.

Postcard of Wadsworth Hall in Hiram to James Wadsworth in Boston; record of sickness & death of Gen. Peleg Wadsworth, 1829.