Dockets

Primarily personal and business papers consisting of legal and political correspondence, civil commissions, court docket books, accounts, and legal documents; also included are papers of Peleg and Charles Peleg Chandler, shipping and business papers of John and Augustus Hale, and a diary of Emily Sarah (Chandler) Jones.

Primarily correspondence and legal and financial papers of John Stuart Barrows Sr., including drafts of love letters addressed to Ann Ayer Bradley. Barrow’s day and account books reflect both personal and town financial dealings, and his justice docket details issues heard as Justice of the Peace. Included in the family correspondence are letters to Georgianna Souther Barrows and Samuel Souther, her father, from various correspondents.

The general store, in various periods, was under ownership of Wyman and Bennett, Wyman and Stilson and Lewis W. Frost, Wyman’s nephew. Records include general store daybooks, ledgers, and cashbooks. Also contain Wyman’s Justice docket containing a record of cases heard and marriages performed, and his commissioner’s docket relating primarily to county roads.