New Genedograd Society (NEHGS) 1/15/05 Dorr Collection : Unprocessed Follow box NEHGS content Note: Separate scroll box Includes exc. Dear weatn chat Need to less digital come to film. Yellowed "Darrguology" 7/22/28 Lette to 6 B Dorr (Tucker, Spring + Dorr, N.Y) "Dear Son, I yesterda returned fin xa tuneral of your Dorr "(d July 18) Harried short the before begin Revwar 'My Father was bud a Gentlema but be wa a poor geutleman - his nears even 1. estimate limited to NEH65 Don Gualary fra Richard Hale, Hobel Belmeat, B-H. 8/11/45 2/19/1794 Fough Dorr to Samul Porr, ward ,MA. "Dear Sun" Refer to n sporton Hawley purchas land to sch up clothing works. 1919 Query letter to GBD C. 1898/1903/ re Dorr ancestry F2 Bonangal "Dorr genealogy Carbon ,1938 copied in Dorr's hand. 104pp. in part Pg 89 ri Same A Dorr from DUP F 3 State Legral or success it Han. Saval Dorr by GBD San Dorr sand in llan leg. in 1819, House leater 11 1. " " is 11 1834, .11 11 / seur was the Pres of the New England Bank 11 A " a " : 1835, 11 11 11 " Ll h " 1837, Senate Soffolla h 11 " L. c 1. 1838 ) " Co. Discuss calle aper of SD. 5pp. 11/15/05 2 NEHGS other Serving in State beg Peter Chandon Brooks, Wn. Phillips , Nathan Hale (nephew of patriat), John chepmen gray (Salem merchant & largest ship-ourses in the country in his day?, ad group son Horace Gray because Assoc lester it the Sepreme Court (workyton) and the sa ord S.C.Gray Priof of law at Harvard Samul A. Eliot, father of chale w Eliot Robert w Winthings T H. Perkins; Lemud Shaw, Josiah Quincy. 7pp. Dorr Generalogy Copy (feuritter - 1938) in GBD's ha), In NPS folder. 114 pp typescupt Begin Edward Dorr (1649 - 1734), tombston in old Eustiz St. Burial ground Roxbury, MA. Relocated to Boston in 1677, Ment gen. name Elizabeth Hawley (1656-1719). 1 In 1683 the byth old Hagborne Estati at Roybang Copies 12children I Sindeed in intancy. Survivars R orig. from Edward (1683- ) (1687- ) ( 1690 - ) (1642- ) (1696- ) Liberager Joseph Edmund Hernottee F Origins born Generlogical layour I a C.H. Dorr's handwriting. Blue 6 v g" ndebooks, Birth record "Birth C.B Dorr Signature a Treasurer on Man Soc. forth Peer. of Creaf to Childe invoice Note Dapen list states CHD born - 196 to 202 Congrain St, just adjoses to Athen cours. 6/15/65 3 NEHGS Rev. Togeth Done Thurd SM ,to Edward Dorr" 11 C. [includes map drawn it Joseph Dorr home + locale] Baptismel fecus. forbury First Church tre 1630. Recorded Y 77 Dor, 4/23/52 at City Hall Raxharg 1683 , Hozen Dorr sun of Sam 7. Dorr died at Cabrudge, 6/7/1856 age 18, Extract from letter of James A. [H?] Dear to wife S.E. (?) Darn, N.Y, 2 / 1 / 1858 copies. Box # to Old Note Concery Placesire Conn c Dorr Family Roxbury from llass azetteer, etc. Mendon. Jamaica Placin (2pp.) First Church of Boston 1881. SCRC Fn History with first club in Bobo, Arthur B.Ellis Medfield 'pg File: Notes Cone Town - a. People - in Converti c Dorr Genely - F 6 - Shawto JA Slow 2/6/63 - Notes on Hugh Adox's, Minister. Bastin - Durchester, Enform Pursetshire , Eag. 135 mi . SW Ends on River From E from London 4316 NEHCS 4 Box 5, Places in Connect c Dorr gen palagy. Distopher (4/1/40) on Tidal Bays separating Boston from the Bach Bay mainl and around it. Dury grantation Ward's middle period, when he care to nahe have in Boston, tells ha wite's causing Henry gray of Salem, had gone into venture c other to build dam across Bach R day mansles to obtain power For iron manufactury by holdy hard. tide water they it for power Plan Failled but dan in mg own childhood time sewel a in toll-gate road to the country (will / Dam Rd), canting lim of Beach St. west, f. Notes on John winthrop as Bury Saint Edmonds, or Saint Edmunds bury in suffolkshire, Engled. List of topics GDD wishes to write about in "connectic = his story of Boston!" 11 MIT, New Art Meoa, Tuenty (haver, Metro Perh System, Water Supply John Cottoni home, " f CHD telling 6BD of walking up Court St. (?) & saw Styline after them beesives building has be tain down + whole scene came back to him of how the square use tolook; granory Burial good Fanevil Hall Parade groud on common, etc. NEHGS 5 Mr Dorr urshe to write on Janaica Plain; "Civol War - feeling @ on coming of the War; drill at school," 11 "CHD taking we D, acc. so Henry Banditch, then a young naturalest to Florida, in 1868-69, sorg as for as St. Acgustine") building up of lad in Boston ; Reace Jubilee of 1869. copy. Troud list 3" x 8" lived transcript Matchach, = one side pg stero marks other side transport Fo us on HCTPR formation; Boston; Copy Dictap from, 4/12/1940 Botton @ 30 pp other, topics History of Rixby by C.M Ellis. Jamaica Plain 14 pp. that appear to be personal recollections dript if unitte b GBD Not copied nase. History st Medfield, MA by Tilden. Duplicates of geneles Pp. 110 f is CHDorri date Roxhing. OCRC Natan from "The Ton of Roybing " by Francis S. Drake pridid Oct. 1878 Copied Jane 8, 1938 60pp. vertas 6 NEHGS Box #8 Dorr generology Original in C.H. Dorr's halment, CB B Dorr's nature - some typed copies. teller relaty to Dorr gives depirist onj F1. Samuel Darr 1 "6.6 Dor" 2 forgh Dorr - Samel Dorr 3 T.H Gage - 6 B Dorr 4 Rarrett Waisell - 6 B Dorr. 2letters . Re 4 - 6/22/82 hd tate from Wurell it Sudge GRD app of value on Windell's Dorr ancestors. 3/9/1910 nate, says to GBD "appear that ground -uncle Joseph Dorn had as it's in hes Middle.. Re 3 - 4/4/19 note all Probate feard of Judge Dorr. Re 2 - 2/19/1794 for J. to Sam Dorr Re I - 7/22/1828 to Son re retress fra Fundral of Grandmother Dorr.. Grig) F 2 Lell relady to Dorr Sunnly Capital Same - OB D list of name) forth - Sam Jane A. Dorr- J. De la llata Frah E Bradish - GBD george Lanh - CAD 2 letter 115/05 I NEHGS G D Dore - C.N. Part. T.H Gage - GBD Passett Wordell - 6B2 2 lotes Did Not examine] Lena materials , Copy 1 a letter by James A. Dorr to Dr J.Des. Water of Clevela OH 7/3/66. Generly of th 6pp hd . varrative Dozins of geen letters a 1750-1875 Letter from GBD (not signed) on hapageter NP stationary (4/26/23) to "ur Dorr "re GBD's search of feeming records ne Fox family to grandoan of Samuel Fox Dorr (1804- - ) Samuel Dorr's eldash child. GBD says has descent is tion Samuel Dorr's second wife daughter of Joseph Lazinby Brown Susan Brown, Samuell Dorr's secondurte, married 12/5/1815, dayble of and Susannah Adams. Her father * (9/12/1753) was a goldsmith by trade & the son of Ebenezer Brown (1718- ) who moved (1748) Elizabeth, dayble of Joseph Las in by . Susannal adam wh the 2nd doupte of John Adams, who married Susannah Parher. Her fath John was a necelest. Hi, fathe was Hugh Adam a dergynde in Durtam , N H . 1/15/05 8 NEHGS OCRC : Boston Hotor, Doring Two (where hy Josiah Quincy, 1852. [1630-1830]. Handwritten genery al valevels of GBD. letter tw GBD (3/17/08) for Fronh E. Bradigh, Esg. Dorr list of date Park St. laud out , in " 1789 1660's truel has wife's percents impt " , 9r anary Burial CH Dorr horn 194 to 202 Congress st, correr Congress Place Atheween just behave Deed for land on India Street toon thomastye to 11 11 Central what land tw Samal Dorr (1217/1816) Samuel Dorr 10/27/1810. paid $10,476. Hugh Adam taxy fun NH. Records (3 pp typed). fro Also Single page of Hugh Adan graduated 1697 Hawad college, became a diagene Paulk in Chatham the Ducha ,NH. Treated badgh town. Folder un Box H 8 t, lad John S Clark tw 6BD, May 11, 1909. No 6BD expense Folder in for #8. Descendent of Capta Mathew Dorr, Lyme CT, 1725 Third Son of Edmund Dorre Published booklet Cpp 195.96 of unidelizied publication) re "Hyde generalizing Capt Matthew Dorr ( 6/14/1725- 1801 )m. 1747, Elizaheth Palmer of Stonincton A clotheer. 10 children b 1st wife. Fither has drate 1766 marved hydia Wood t thy moved to Aflens Ohio, where 5 children ever born. 145105 NEHGS a Neat page, Eve Dorr (314/1733- ), second daffer of Edmand Dorr, M. (1762) sk Folders "Organds" " 56 DOR 10 [116] Box 7 Box 7. Elizobeth weld gardiners last request to be husband. 1703. Printed in Word 7am. Papper Wm. Wards letter to he grabsider K. Mem of wm words hash Comm to the SEC. of State 9/25/1819. To John Quincy Adains Last will + Test. of WM Ward. 18121827, Frograt ward genal. 1786, Preger feg "on the 25th day at Aug, 1708. Estate at Samuel gray . $ 265,700.- 11 11 Will. Drager, Mrs. Gray " llade our family proger." 60 lines @ 1000 words Also Copies of above Ohituary of Dr. Thomas wren (Rev.) Boston 2128/1788,due in Partsmonth Egl. Copy 11 Sincerel Gray's Will (1812). Slavery "by Capt. Wine award (1820) 3pp. th eirls of slovey. 11/15/05 10 NEHGS File: better heatry Haward College. C' TW. wands lette it resignati (1/16/1838) de to tw Boring responsibilities. Prer of House refuses to accept Three year later true to resignage (1841) a is asled to dely it (12/25/41) Finalyed 8/11/42. File , Eligibith Gray to her sister, Mrs Nany Chepmi Ward 1. File Danel wibster two T.W. (1824-42) Financial File : Letter Pelot to boston Athenouse 1826, 1833,1839 N Bowditch Subscription Lists, - File: Wm Ward "lost returning for as trading voryage " to the West In has "when 31 year of age. Married Ruth Putnam + seft are son noned after him What follow is letter of son's mother "when had of Death lay bear on ther." 3pp Menu of Wm Ward describe A as by her vater, d 12/7 86 at 46 years. He discubes her duth. Title Dor general Grindal Wilson g(John Catton 7 Rev Thomas Horoes); Rawson @4opp Flie : Dup C. File Edward Darr to is Estate at Ractury 11:5105 NEHGS 11 File , Rev Joseph Dore. File Rebn froph Dorr Notes Minister. Nathan tuchnam, C' File . Samuel Dorr, Son of Hon. frough Dorr C' (1774 - ) ISLAND 7 17 pp Note a Home of Samel Darr, in Boston. C' Han Same Dorr. - Adam - Lagin by - Brown C Hon Singh Dorr (sn of for - Children t Samel Dorr C C Fle Chale Hazan Dorr Son for Sand Dorr 2nd version Not 11 to other version XXXX New England Historic Genealogical Society - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Page 1 of 9 New England Historic Genealogical Society From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS) is the oldest and largest genealogical society in the United States, founded in 1845. [1] Contents 1 Overview 2 History 3 Website 4 Headquarters 5 Collections New England Historic 6 Publications 7 The New England Historical and Genealogical Register Genealogical Society 8 The Great Migration Study Project headquarters at 99-101 9 Education Newbury Street, Boston, 10 Membership Massachusetts, USA. 11 Media coverage 12 See also 13 References 14 Further reading 15 External links Overview A charitable, nonprofit educational institution, NEHGS is located at 99-101 Newbury Street, in Boston, Massachusetts, in an eight-story archive and research center. Today it has over 25,000 members worldwide and a 50-person staff. Its mission is to "collect, preserve, and interpret materials to document and make accessible the histories of families in America. "[citation needed] In 2010, NEHGS announced a broader identity and relaunched its quarterly magazine as American Ancestors: New England, New York, and Beyond to better reflect its national scope and leadership position among genealogical nonprofit organizations. NEHGS maintains a large web site with more than 100 million names in its databases, the largest such online collection of any genealogical society. It includes vital records, compiled genealogies, and a suite of scholarly journals, such as The New England Historical and Genealogical Register and The American Genealogist, the leading independent journal in American genealogy. In addition to American Ancestors (formerly New England Ancestors), NEHGS publishes other periodicals: The Register, the flagship journal of American genealogy, American Ancestors Journal, an annual supplement to The Register, and The Great Migration Newsletter, a quarterly publication of the Great Migration Study Project. NEHGS' library catalog is available online and lists more than 200,000 genealogical books and other resources. The R. Stanton Avery Special Collections features over twenty million manuscript items, with an emphasis on the period of the 17th century to the present, covering New England and other regions. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_England_Historic_Genealogical_Society 1/16/2014 New England Historic Genealogical Society - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Page 2 of 9 History The first genealogical society established in the United States, NEHGS was founded in 1845 by a group of five Bostonians: Charles Ewer (1790-1853), Lemuel Shattuck (1793-1859), Samuel Gardner Drake (1798-1875), John Wingate Thornton (1818-1878), and William Henry Montague (1804-1889). [1][2] Initially, the founders debated the nature of the organization they would establish. Among their decisions was whether to focus on genealogy, heraldry, or history, or some combination of these disciplines. Genealogy and history were favored and plans were made to incorporate as the New England Historical Genealogical Society. Opposition to the use of the word "historical" was brought by Charles Francis Adams of the Massachusetts Historical Society and, as a compromise, the institution's name was altered to the New England Historic Genealogical Society. This change did not please everyone and one or two of the founders regarded the new name as cumbersome. On March 18, 1845 the General Court of Massachusetts approved the Society's petition for incorporation. The impulse to formalize genealogical study in the first half of the 19th century found its earliest roots in the folkways of men and women of the region who, since at least the late 18th century, actively kept private family records to document their families and lineages. These records or registers were often executed in pen-and-ink or in needlework and were more ornate counterparts to similar printed forms found in Bibles. Later, in the mid-19th century, decorative family register prints were made widely available to the public by lithographers such as Nathaniel Currier. The founders of NEHGS also acted to make permanent the systematic work of the first generation of genealogical researchers, especially as led by John Farmer (1789-1838). Before Farmer's efforts, tracing one's ancestry was seen by some as an attempt by colonists to social standing within the British Empire, an aim that was counter to the new republic's egalitarian, future-oriented ethos. As Fourth of July celebrations commemorating the Founding Fathers and heroes of the American Revolutionary War became increasingly popular, however, the pursuit of 'antiquarianism,' which focused on local history, became increasingly a way to honor the achievements of early Americans. Farmer capitalized on the increasing acceptability of antiquarianism to frame genealogy within the early republic's ideological framework of pride in one's American ancestors. In the 1820s, Farmer corresponded with various antiquarians in New England and became a coordinator, booster, and N.E. St. contributor to this burgeoning movement, which gradually gained a devoted American audience. Though Farmer died in 1839, his efforts in NEHGS headquarters, Somerset Street, Boston, ca. part led to the creation of NEGHS. [3] A group of its members founded a similar organization in New York two decades later in 1869. 1881. In the early 20th century, NEHGS undertook the important project of transcribing and publishing the vital records of Massachusetts towns, which provided a valuable contribution to the genealogical field as this series was expanded over the next forty years. Many of these records were saved from destruction. For more than a century, NEHGS was directly administered by its officers and board of trustees. In 1962, NEHGS appointed its first professional director, Edgar Packard Dean, a former editor of Foreign http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_England_Historic_Genealogical_Society 1/16/2014 New England Historic Genealogical Society - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Page 3 of 9 Affairs and past director of the Associated Harvard University Clubs. Dean oversaw the Society's move from Beacon Hill to its present location in the Back Bay and retired in 1972. Dean was succeeded by Richard Donald Pierce, a Unitarian minister, librarian and formerly dean (and for a while acting president) of Emerson College, who died in office six months after his appointment. Pierce was succeeded by James Brugler Bell, who obtained an advanced degree in history from Balliol College, Oxford, and who was a past lecturer at Ohio State University and a former candidate for the United States Congress in Minnesota. After a tenure of nine years, Bell left NEHGS in 1982. The Society's finances and morale were at a low point, and it fell to Bell's successor, Ralph J. Crandall, former editor of The Register and graduate of the University of Southern California where he obtained his doctorate, to rebuild the Society's endowment over the following twenty-three years. Crandall left briefly in 1987 and the directorship was filled by John Winthrop Sears, a former city councilor of Boston and Republican nominee for governor of Massachusetts in 1982. Crandall returned to NEHGS in 1988 and continued to expand the organization. In 2005, Crandall stepped down to became executive director emeritus and concentrate on special projects. He was succeeded by D. Brenton Simons, an author, former Chief Operating Officer and Director of Education at NEHGS, and graduate of Boston University, who joined the staff in 1993 and initiated its magazine, website, and special publications imprint. In 2006 the position of Executive Director was changed to president and CEO and in 2009 Simons announced a gift pledge of $7.5 million from an anonymous donor, the largest charitable gift ever made in the field of American genealogy. Today, NEHGS has a 22-person Board of Trustees that sets governance policies for the organization at quarterly meetings. A larger Council meets annually and, together with the Board, forms the Council of the Corporation, the statutory voting body of the organization. Scholars associated with NEHGS in the 20th century included: George Andrews Moriarty (1883-1968), an expert on Rhode Island and the English origins of early colonists; Walter Goodwin Davis (1885-1966), the preeminent Maine authority; Mary Lovering Holman (1868-1947), author of numerous genealogies; and John Insley Coddington (1902-1991), longtime "dean of American genealogy." Noted scholars currently associated with NEHGS include: Robert Charles Anderson, Director of the Great Migration Study Project and author of its nine volumes; Gary Boyd Roberts, a specialist in presidential ancestry and royal descents; New York and West Indian scholar Henry B. Hoff; David Curtis Dearborn, a northern New England specialist; and Irish-American authority Marie E. Daly. Current staff members include Thomas R. Wilcox, Jr. formerly executive director of the Maine Maritime Museum, and genealogical authors David Allen Lambert, Christopher C. Child, Rhonda M. McClure, and Scott C. Steward. Many notable figures, including numerous presidents, have been elected members of NEHGS. An original member was John Quincy Adams, elected on February 20, 1845, just prior to the Society's incorporation. Others elected, by year, include: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_England_Historic_Genealogical_Society 1/16/2014 New England Historic Genealogical Society - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Page 4 of 9 1845: John Singleton Copley, Baron Lyndhurst of Lyndhurst, Lord Chancellor, and son of the artist, 1846: Boston mayors Harrison Gray Otis and Josiah Quincy, 1847: Lewis Cass, Henry Clay, Albert Gallatin, Hannibal Hamlin, Washington Irving, and Daniel Webster, 1859: John Tyler, 1862: Horatio Alger and Sir John Bernard Burke of Burke's Peerage 1863: Massachusetts governor John Albion Andrew 1869: Ulysses S. Grant 1877: Rutherford B. Hayes 1884: Chester Alan Arthur and British Prime Minister William E. Gladstone 1919: Albert I, King of the Belgians, Warren G. Harding, and Woodrow Wilson 1921: Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, Herbert Hoover, and Elihu Root 1933: industrialist Andrew Mellon 1935: Grace Goodhue Coolidge 1995: Justice Harry A. Blackmun, Rosalyn and Jimmy Carter, Julia Child, Bill Clinton, Betty and Gerald Ford, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Charlton Heston, David McCullough, and Nancy and Ronald Reagan (1995) 2009: Boston mayor Thomas M. Menino Horatio Alger, John Albion Andrew, and Rutherford B. Hayes all served at various times as officers of NEHGS. Website The NEHGS website www.AmericanAncestors.org [4] is one of the most widely used online genealogical resources in the country. [citation needed] More than 15,000 members research on the website every day and an additional 15,000 non-members visit daily. [citation needed] It features nearly 3,000 unique searchable databases containing information on over 113 million people. The extensive NEHGS Library catalog is also fully searchable on the Society's website. Popular databases are Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850, Massachusetts Vital Records 1841-1915, Massachusetts Vital Records 1911- 1915, The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, The American Genealogist, Social Security Death Index, Cemetery Transcriptions, Great Migration Begins: 1620-1633, and Abstracts of Wills in NY State 1787-1835. [5] The Society's website, in addition to searchable record content, also offers a variety of other resources such as online seminars, the Online Genealogist, and online exhibits featuring unique items from the Society's manuscript collection. In addition to the main website, NEHGS supports a number of other websites providing access to the Society's expansive collections and expertise across many different time periods and ethnic groups. Other NEHGS websites include: www.NewYorkAncestors.orgl6 www.AfricanAmericanAncestors.org7 www.GreatMigration.org! www.PlymouthAncestors.org9 www.NotableKin.org http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_England_Historic_Genealogical_Society 1/16/2014 New England Historic Genealogical Society - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Page 5 of 9 NEHGS launched its first website, www.NEHGS.org [11] in 1996; one of the first non-profit genealogical societies to have an online presence. [citation needed] NEHGS' first website consisted of 38 pages with information about NEHGS services and programs. In 1999, with the introduction of a new magazine New England Ancestors, NEHGS changed its URL to www.NewEnglandAncestors.org, [12] adding important genealogical articles to the website for use by members and the public. In 2001, NEHGS redesigned its website to include data rich content, new articles, and member forums. The most popular database was a full name searchable database of The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. [citation needed] Headquarters NEHGS is headquartered at 99-101 Newbury Street in Boston's Back Bay neighborhood. NEHGS moved here in 1964 and this is the seventh location for the organization. Prior headquarters included the City Building, Court Square, Room 9 during the years 1846 and 1847; the Massachusetts Block, Court Square for 1847 to 1851; 5 Tremont Street, 3rd floor for 1851 through 1858; 17 Bromfield Street, 3rd floor from 1858 to 1871; 18 Somerset Street - 1871 to 1913; 9 Ashburton Place from 1913 to 1964. The first three floors of NEHGS' present location were built as a First-floor Treat Rotunda at NEHGS. branch of the New England Trust Company in 1928, designed by Ralph Coolidge Henry and Henry P. Richmond, successors to noted American architect Guy Lowell. (Lowell, a member of a prominent Boston family, designed the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the New York State Supreme Court building in New York and many other educational and residential commissions, including many fine gardens. Henry and Richmond finished many projects begun by Guy Lowell, this building being one; the Grosse Point Yacht Club being another. They completed many commissions on their own, including buildings at Colby College, Pine Manor, and Philips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts.) When NEHGS moved into its new headquarters in 1964, it added five floors on top of the New England Trust Company building. Today, the floors are used as follows: First Floor - Treat Rotunda: reception, public programs and meeting space, book store, and international reference collection. Second Floor - L. Ted and Alice Richardson Sloane Education Center: meetings and public programs. Ruth Chauncey Bishop Reading Room at NEHGS. Third Floor - board Room and administrative offices. Fourth Floor - microtext collection. Fifth Floor - manuscript reading room and local histories as well as the provinces of Canada, including bound volumes of state genealogical society scholarly journals. Sixth Floor - The R. Stanton Avery Special Collections - archives and manuscript collections. Seventh Floor - Ruth Chauncey Bishop Reading Room: reference collections and compiled htp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_England_Historic_Genealogical_Society 1/16/2014 New England Historic Genealogical Society - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Page 6 of 9 genealogies. Eighth Floor - rare books and conservation laboratory. Collections The NEHGS research library collections are national in scope and contain significant materials for the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Canada. The library is open five days a week, Tuesday through Saturday, and its stacks and microtext are "open" except for rare books and manuscripts. NEHGS collections include 200,000 bound volumes; 5,000+ linear feet of original manuscripts; and 100,000 rolls of microfilm. NEHGS has an extensive fine arts collection including noted works on canvas or paper by Joseph Badger, John Singleton Copley, Pierre Charles L'Enfant, Jonathan Mason, Jr., Rembandt Peale, and John Ritto Penniman. Items from its collection of American furniture were featured in Antiques Magazine. Publications George Washington "porthole" portrait painted In line with the Society's mission, NEHGS publishes books on families, by Rembrandt Peale, 1853. genealogists, and historians, including authoritative guides, source record compilations, compiled genealogies, and family histories - all with an aim to preserve, interpret, and communicate reliable genealogical data. The Newbury Street Press imprint is America's leading publisher of privately sponsored family histories. Working in direct consultation with NEHGS members, professional researchers, and quality printers, the goal of Newbury Street Press is to publish books of lasting value to families, genealogists, and historians. Among the Society's recent additions to the genealogical canon are Genealogical Writing in the 21st Century, New Englanders in the 1600s, A Guide to Massachusetts Cemeteries, Ancestors of American Presidents: 2009 edition, The Descendants of Henry Sewall, and Twenty Families of Color in Massachusetts. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register Published quarterly since 1847, The New England Historical and Genealogical Register is the flagship journal of American genealogy and the oldest in the field. A wide variety of genealogies and source material have been published in the Register for over 160 years, with an emphasis on New England. Authoritative compiled genealogies have always been a primary focus of the Register. Thousands of New England families have been treated in the pages of the journal, and many more are referred to incidentally. Typically, these articles solve a genealogical problem, identify immigrant origins, or present a full-scale treatment of multiple generations. Henry B. Hoff was appointed editor of the Register in 2001. In October 2009, an annual supplement to the Register, American Ancestors Journal, was introduced. The Great Migration Study Project http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_England_Historic_Genealogical_Society 1/16/2014 New England Historic Genealogical Society - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Page 7 of 9 The aim of the Great Migration Study Project is to compile comprehensive genealogical and biographical accounts of every person who settled in New England between 1620 and 1640. Between these years about twenty thousand English men, women, and children crossed the Atlantic to settle New England. (the Puritan great migration). Initiated in 1988 and directed by Robert Charles Anderson, the project is an ongoing initiative of the New England Historic Genealogical Society. Publications of the Great Migration Study Project: The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, [first series], 3 vols. (NEHGS, 1995) The first phase of the Great Migration Study Project identifies and describes all those Europeans who settled in New England prior to the end of 1633 - over 900 early New England families. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, [second series], 6 vols. to date:. (NEHGS, 1999-) During this time period, approximately 1,300 families (or unattached men and women) arrived in New England. Each volume contains about 200 individual sketches. The Pilgrim Migration: Immigrants to Plymouth Colony (NEHGS, 2007) This volume contains over 200 sketches on every family or individual known to have resided in Plymouth Colony from the arrival of the Mayflower in 1620 until 1633. The Great Migration Newsletter. Available in print or online, this publication complements the individual Great Migration sketches, and examines the broad issues in understanding the lives and times of New England's first immigrants. Article topics include the settlement of early New England towns, migration patterns, 17th-century passenger lists, church records, land records, and more. Education NEHGS provides various educational opportunities relating to genealogy and family history. Most of educational programs are led and/or taught by members of the NEHGS staff, though some include invited guests. NEHGS offers a series of research tours, lectures, seminars, and other events throughout the year. For over thirty years, NEHGS has conducted a week-long tour to the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah and frequently offers opportunities to research and visit in Ireland, Scotland, Washington D.C., England, Quebec, and other areas of the world. For more than twenty years, NEHGS has sponsored a week-long summer "Come Home to New England" program in Boston. The Society has also developed online seminars many of which are taught by their staff genealogists on a wide variety of topics such as Internet searching, beginning genealogical research, organizing, preparing lineage society applications, and others. Membership NEHGS offers annual and lifetime membership options, several Premium membership levels, and a membership designed specifically for families. The most popular level of membership is the Research level. Membership includes subscriptions to two NEHGS publications, American Ancestors magazine and The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Members enjoy full access to the Society's website, www.NewEnglandAncestors.org, as well as unlimited use of the Society's research library in Boston. 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[manuscript] Rating Permanent link to this record SHARE 80 Location Call No. Status Manuscripts SG DOR 10 [116] - AVAILABLE Description 1 ctn., 1 flat storage box. Summary 1 & 1A. Genealogical notes on the Edward Dorr family of Roxbury, Mass. 2. State legislative service of the Hon. Samuel Dorr including notes on men serving with him. 3a. Genealogical notes on the Edward Dorr family and his estate at Roxbury, Mass., 3b. the Rev'd Joseph Dorr, 3c. Hon Joseph Dorr and notes on Nathan Bucknam, minister, 3d. Hon. Samuel Dorr-Adams, Lazinby, Brown, house of Samuel Dorr in Boston, children of Samuel Dorr by his first marriage + Susan, daughter by second marriage, 3e. Notes on places in connection with Dorr genealogy. 4. Letters relating to Dorr genealogy. 5&6. Notes on places. 7a. Elizabeth Weld Gardner's last request to her husband, 7b. William Ward's letter to his grandchildren, 7c. Memo of William Ward's last communication to the Sec. of State, Sept 25, 1819, 7d. 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New England Historic Genealogical Society 101 Newbury Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02116 USA (617) 536-5740. http://library.nehgs.org/search~S0?/YGeorge+B.+Dorr&SORT=D/YGeorge+B.+Dorr&SO... 2/22/2010 NEW ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY Permissions Agreement Permission is hereby granted to use the following intellectual property for the purpose requested. Attention is drawn to the attached Permissions Policy dated May, 2010 for terms and conditions of this approval. Description of intellectual property: George B. Dorr Collection, SG DOR 10 [116] Person/entity requesting permission: Ronald H. Epp, Ph.D. 532 Sassafras Dr. Lebanon, PA 17042 Purpose: Quotes from the collection will appear in Creating Acadia National Park: The Biography of George B. Dorr to be published by the not-for-profit Friends of Acadia Approved: limothy the R. 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May, 2010 Epp, Ronald From: Lucey, Judy [JLucey@nehgs.org] Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 11:13 AM To: Epp, Ronald Subject: Copies of Dorr manuscript Dear Dr. Epp: I wanted to let you know that I am putting in the mail today the copies you had requested from the Dorr collection. These are the copies we did not have time to finish from your visit of January 15th. You will find a total of 88 copies. I have enclosed a bill in the amount of $22.00 owed (88 @ 0.25) . If you send a check, please make it payable to NEHGS. I hope that you found your research at the Society helpful and please do not hesitate to contact me should you have any questions regarding the collection. Regards, Judy Lucey Assistant Archivist New England Historic Genealogical Society Tel. (617) 536-5740, ext. 223 jlucey@nehgs.org 1 10/13/2015 XFINITY Connect XFINITY Connect eppster2@comcast.net + Font Size = RE: Dorr Collection (SG DOR 10 [116]) From : Tim Salls Tue, Oct 13, 2015 09:02 AM Subject : RE: Dorr Collection (SG DOR 10 [116]) 1 attachment To : Ronald Epp Hello Ronald, NEHGS does ask for a letter to request permission to quote from manuscripts - it is very helpful for our Society to have specific examples of scholars using our resources for grant applications. The e-mail below is sufficient. I will work on this form and send you a PDF copy. Tim Timothy Salls Manager of Manuscript Collections New England Historic Genealogical Society 99-101 Newbury Street Boston MA 02116-3007 AmericanAncestors.org Tel. 617-226-1232 Fax 617-536-7307 NEHGS celebrating 170 years! To advance the study of family history in America and beyond, NEHGS educates, inspires, and connects people through our scholarship, collections, and expertise. From: Ronald Epp [mailto:eppster2@comcast.net] Sent: Monday, October 12, 2015 3:28 PM To: Salls, Tim Subject: Re: Dorr Collection (SG DOR 10 [116]) Dear Tim, Please see below for our earlier communication regarding the NEHGS George B. Dorr collection. Is it necessary to secure permission to quote and paraphrase non-consecutive https://web.mail.comcast.net/zimbra/h/printmessage?id=328086&tz=America/New_York&xim= 1/4 6/14/2015 XFINITY Connect XFINITY Connect eppster2@comcast.net + Font Size - Dorr Collection (SG DOR 10 [116]) From Ronald Epp Sun, Jun 14, 2015 01:18 PM Subject Dorr Collection (SG DOR 10 [116]) To : Tim@nehgs.org Cc manuscripts@nehgs.org Dear Mr. Salls: As I read your article on the Edward Wheeler Family Collection this morning, your name struck me as familiar and so I pulled my NEHGS file. On 25 August 2007 you responded to my e-mail that your catalog record for the George Bucknam Dorr Papers was inaccurate. You described Dorr as "a fascinating man" and wished me good luck with my research which involved time at 99 Newbury Street in January 2005. I encourage you to consider a focused article on Mr. Dorr's family. In 2016 the National Park Service will celebrate its centennial as will Acadia National Park. G.B. Dorr (Harvard, class of 1874) was the park founder, allied with Harvard president Charles W. Eliot and later John D. Rockefeller Jr. Dorr's family in America tracks back to Edward Dorr (1649-1734) and the family of his mother (Mary Gray Ward Dorr) also has deep American roots though most know her father best, financier Thomas Wren Ward of #3 Park Street. Actually, the Dorr's were NEHGS neighbors, residing at #18 Commonwealth Avenue from 1861 to roughly 1918. Finally, after fifteen years of archival research my biography of Mr. Dorr (Creating Acadia National Park) will be published in April 2016 by the non-profit Friends of Acadia. I'm confident that I still have much to learn from the Dorr Collection and hope that you might provide me and American Ancestor readers with indications of the treasures contained therein. Most cordially, Ronald H. Epp, Ph.D. 532 Sassafras Dr. Lebanon, PA 17042 717-272-0801 eppster2@comcast.net https://web.mail.comcast.net/zimbra/h/printmessage?id=298626&tz=America/New_York&xim= 1/1 6/14/2015 XFINITY Connect XFINITY Connect eppster2@comcast.net + Font Size - Dorr Collection (SG DOR 10 [116]) From : Ronald Epp Sun, Jun 14, 2015 01:18 PM Subject : Dorr Collection (SG DOR 10 [116]) To : Tim@nehgs.org Cc manuscripts@nehgs.org Dear Mr. Salls: As I read your article on the Edward Wheeler Family Collection this morning, your name struck me as familiar and so I pulled my NEHGS file. On 25 August 2007 you responded to my e-mail that your catalog record for the George Bucknam Dorr Papers was inaccurate. You described Dorr as "a fascinating man" and wished me good luck with my research which involved time at 99 Newbury Street in January 2005. I encourage you to consider a focused article on Mr. Dorr's family. In 2016 the National Park Service will celebrate its centennial as will Acadia National Park. G.B. Dorr (Harvard, class of 1874) was the park founder, allied with Harvard president Charles W. Eliot and later John D. Rockefeller Jr. Dorr's family in America tracks back to Edward Dorr (1649-1734) and the family of his mother (Mary Gray Ward Dorr) also has deep American roots though most know her father best, financier Thomas Wren Ward of #3 Park Street. Actually, the Dorr's were NEHGS neighbors, residing at #18 Commonwealth Avenue from 1861 to roughly 1918. Finally, after fifteen years of archival research my biography of Mr. Dorr (Creating Acadia National Park) will be published in April 2016 by the non-profit Friends of Acadia. I'm confident that I still have much to learn from the Dorr Collection and hope that you might provide me and American Ancestor readers with indications of the treasures contained therein. Most cordially, Ronald H. Epp, Ph.D. 532 Sassafras Dr. Lebanon, PA 17042 717-272-0801 eppster2@comcast.net https://web.mail.comcast.net/zimbra/h/printmessage?id=298626&tz=America/New_York&xim= 1/1 6/26/2015 XFINITY Connect XFINITY Connect eppster2@comcast.net + Font Size - RE: Dorr Collection (SG DOR 10 [116]) From : Tim Salls Thu, Jun 25, 2015 09:31 PM Subject : RE: Dorr Collection (SG DOR 10 [116]) To : Ronald Epp Hello Ronald, Sorry for the delay in responding. I appreciate the article idea. The Dorr Papers are currently in off-site storage. I will have the collection brought back to NEHGS so I can review the material for a potential article or blog post. PS. Congratulations on your book! Tim Timothy Salls Manager of Manuscript Collections New England Historic Genealogical Society 99-101 Newbury Street Boston MA 02116-3007 617-226-1232 From: Ronald Epp [eppster2@comcast.net] Sent: Sunday, June 14, 2015 1:18 PM To: Salls, Tim Cc: manuscripts@nehgs.org Subject: Dorr Collection (SG DOR 10 [116]) Dear Mr. Salls: As I read your article on the Edward Wheeler Family Collection this morning, your name struck me as familiar and so I pulled my NEHGS file. On 25 August 2007 you responded to my e-mail that your catalog record for the George Bucknam Dorr Papers was inaccurate. You described Dorr as "a fascinating man" and wished me good luck with my research which involved time at 99 Newbury Street in January 2005. I encourage you to consider a focused article on Mr. Dorr's family. In 2016 the National Park Service will celebrate its centennial as will Acadia National Park. G.B. Dorr (Harvard, class of 1874) was the park founder, allied with Harvard president Charles W. Eliot and later John D. Rockefeller Jr. Dorr's family in America tracks back to Edward Dorr (1649-1734) and the family of his mother (Mary Gray Ward Dorr) also has deep American roots though most know her father best, financier Thomas Wren Ward of #3 Park Street. Actually, the Dorr's were NEHGS neighbors, residing at # 18 Commonwealth Avenue from 1861 to roughly 1918. Finally, after fifteen years of archival research my biography of Mr. Dorr (Creating Acadia National Park) will be published in April 2016 by the non-profit Friends of Acadia. I'm confident that I still have much to learn from the Dorr Collection and hope that you might provide me and American Ancestor readers with indications of the treasures contained therein. Most cordially, Ronald H. Epp, Ph.D. 532 Sassafras Dr. Lebanon, PA 17042 https://web.mail.comcast.net/zimbra/h/printmessage?id=301901&tz=America/New_York&xim=: 1/2 6/26/2015 XFINITY Connect Dorr's family in America tracks back to Edward Dorr (1649-1734) and the family of his mother (Mary Gray Ward Dorr) also has deep American roots though most know her father best, financier Thomas Wren Ward of #3 Park Street. Actually, the Dorr's were NEHGS neighbors, residing at # 18 Commonwealth Avenue from 1861 to roughly 1918. Finally, after fifteen years of archival research my biography of Mr. Dorr (Creating Acadia National Park) will be published in April 2016 by the non-profit Friends of Acadia. I'm confident that I still have much to learn from the Dorr Collection and hope that you might provide me and American Ancestor readers with indications of the treasures contained therein. Most cordially, Ronald H. 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Thank you. https://web.mail.comcast.net/zimbra/h/printmessage?id=302012&tz=America/New_York&xim= 2/2 6/14/2015 XFINITY Connect XFINITY Connect eppster2@comcast.net + Font Size - Dorr Collection (SG DOR 10 [116]) From Ronald Epp Sun, Jun 14, 2015 01:18 PM Subject: Dorr Collection (SG DOR 10 [116]) To : Tim@nehgs.org Cc : manuscripts@nehgs.org Dear Mr. Salls: As I read your article on the Edward Wheeler Family Collection this morning, your name struck me as familiar and so I pulled my NEHGS file. On 25 August 2007 you responded to my e-mail that your catalog record for the George Bucknam Dorr Papers was inaccurate. You described Dorr as "a fascinating man" and wished me good luck with my research which involved time at 99 Newbury Street in January 2005. I encourage you to consider a focused article on Mr. Dorr's family. In 2016 the National Park Service will celebrate its centennial as will Acadia National Park. G.B. Dorr (Harvard, class of 1874) was the park founder, allied with Harvard president Charles W. Eliot and later John D. Rockefeller Jr. Dorr's family in America tracks back to Edward Dorr (1649-1734) and the family of his mother (Mary Gray Ward Dorr) also has deep American roots though most know her father best, financier Thomas Wren Ward of #3 Park Street. Actually, the Dorr's were NEHGS neighbors, residing at # 18 Commonwealth Avenue from 1861 to roughly 1918. Finally, after fifteen years of archival research my biography of Mr. Dorr (Creating Acadia National Park) will be published in April 2016 by the non-profit Friends of Acadia. I'm confident that I still have much to learn from the Dorr Collection and hope that you might provide me and American Ancestor readers with indications of the treasures contained therein. Most cordially, Ronald H. Epp, Ph.D. 532 Sassafras Dr. Lebanon, PA 17042 717-272-0801 eppster2@comcast.net https://web.mail.comcast.net/zimbra/h/printmessage?id=298626&tz=America/New_York&xim=1 1/1