Sandwich Historical Society
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Center Sandwich, NH 03227
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LIBRARY and RESEARCH

The Society is closed for the season; however, we accept research requests by appointment.  Research hours are scheduled from 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM. Please contact the Society (email preferred) to schedule an appointment:

    [email protected] or [email protected]

Charges for research:
     Members:  First hour is free.  Additional time is $15 per hour.
     Non-member:  $15 per hour

Photocopies:
$0.20 non-member, $0.15 member  
Please note:  certain materials in our  collection are not suitable for copying.
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We are also able to conduct research for you; however, it is restricted to our archives and library resources.  Please provide as many details in your email as possible.  To aid in your research, please refer to our "Sandwich Historical Society Archives Organizational Structure" provided below.  

We are a small museum and will do our best to assist with your research questions.  Thank you! 

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SHS staff can research your question(s) in our archives and library. It may take a few weeks to complete the research. Please email [email protected] the specific research request and please be as detailed as possible. 


One hour of research time is $15.


SANDWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY ARCHIVES ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE

 MS 00 - Records of Sandwich Historical Society                                                    
                Official records of the Society back to its founding in 1917

 MS 1 - Town of Sandwich Records – 5 shelves, 1 wooden chest             
             This collection supplements the official town records held at Town Hall                       

MS 2 - Church Records                                                                                                   
                MS 2.1   Society of Friends (Quakers) – 4 boxes
                MS 2.2   Free Will Baptist Church; North Sandwich Ladies Aid – 2 boxes
                MS 2.3   Methodist-Episcopal Church
                MS 2.4   First Congregational Church
                MS 2.5   Misc. Churches – E. Sandwich Chapel, W. Sandwich  Sunday School,
                                Federated Church, Second Congregational Society, Vision of Joseph Hoag
                MS 2.6   Methodist Episcopal Ladies Aid – 1 box
                MS 2.7   Baptist Church Ladies Aid – 1 box

 MS 3 - School Records
                MS 3.0   District Schools – Misc. 3 boxes
                MS 3.1   Quimby School - 4 boxes
                MS 3.2   Great Rock School Registers               

MS 4 - Business Records
                MS 4.1    Carroll County Bank (1845- ) - 8 boxes, 2 ledgers
                MS 4.2   Sandwich Savings Bank – 1 ledger
                MS 4.3   Carroll County Mutual Fire Ins. Co. – 2 ledgers 

MS 5 - Local Organizations
                MS 5.1     Mt. Israel Grange #158 – 3 boxes
                MS 5.2     Red Mountain Lodge #68, Masonic Order – 4 boxes
                MS 5.3     Cooperative Library – 1 box
                MS 5.4     Samuel H. Wentworth Library (est. 1917)
                MS 5.5     American Legion Post No. 92 (Stokes-Ballentine) Ctr Sandwich – 2 boxes
                MS 5.6     North Sandwich Home Economics Extension – 1box
                MS 5.7    Sandwich Fair Association and Grange Fair – 1 box
                MS 5.8     Sandwich Home Industries  (est. 1927) – 3+ boxes
                MS 5.9     Old Home Week – Jere Burrows Collection - 2 boxes            
                MS 5.10  Sandwich Woman’s Club – 2 boxes
                MS 5.11  Scout Troops (Boy Scouts of America, Girl Scouts of America)
                MS 5.12  Sons of Veterans of the USA (Civil War) – 1 box
                MS 5.13  Sandwich Town Club – 1 box
                MS 5.14  Bearcamp Valley Garden Club – 1 box
                MS 5.15  Red Mountain Division No. 42, Sons of Temperance
                MS 5.16  Mountain View Lodge No. 106, Independent Order of Good Templars
                MS 5.17  Sandwich Volunteer Fire Department
                MS 5.18  Sandwich Community Players 

MS 6 - Personal & Family Manuscripts
                MS 6.1   Smith Family Papers – 2 boxes
                MS 6.2   Daniel G. Beede Family Papers – 2 boxes
                MS 6.3   Beede Family Papers – 2 boxes
                MS 6.4   Isaac Adams Papers – 2 boxes
                MS 6.5    Fellows Family Papers – 1 box
                MS 6.6    Weed Family Papers – Misc. – 1 box
                MS 6.7    William M. Weed Papers  - 3 boxes
                MS 6.8    Hanson Family Papers – 1 box
                MS 6.9    Dorothea Leonard Papers (Quakers) – 2 boxes
                MS 6.10  Robert Bates Collection – 1 box
                MS 6.11  Della Quimby Papers – 1 box
                MS 6.12  Clark Family Papers – 2 boxes
                MS 6.13  Doris Benz Papers – 1 box
                MS 6.14  Wentworth Family Papers – 1 box
                MS 6.15  Hoag Family Papers – 1 box
                MS 6.16  Quimby/Quinby Family Papers – 2 boxes
                MS 6.17  McCrillis Family Papers – 2 boxes
                MS 6.18  John Randolph Coolidge Papers – 1 box
                MS 6.19  Gilman Family Papers – 1 box
                MS 6.20  Jessie Flanagan Diaries – 1 box
                MS 6.21  Hoyt/Sherman Papers – 1 box
                MS 6.22  Hoyt/Dartmouth Papers
                MS 6.23  Lena Thompson Nelson School Papers Collection – 2 boxes
                MS 6.24  Blanchard Family Papers – 1 box
                MS 6.25  Robert Miner Collection – 4 boxes
                MS 6.26  Peaslee Family Papers (David, Kerry) – 6 boxes
                MS 6.27  Walter S. Tappan Family Papers – 1 box
                MS 6.28  Leonard Boyd Chapman Papers – 11 boxes
                MS 6.29  Jack Curtis Collection
                MS 6.30  Heard Family Papers – 1 box
                MS 6.31  Marjory Gaines Harkness Papers –“Fishbasket Papers” Notes – 1 box
                MS 6.32  Dudley Leavitt Papers – 1 2.5 inch box
                MS 6.33  George L. Eaton Diaries – 1892-1902 – 1 box
                MS 6.34  Elisha Marston Papers – 1801-1901 – 1 box
                MS 6.35  Brown Family Papers – 1 box               

MS 7 - Account Books & Ledgers 

MS 8 – Military
                8.1   Revolutionary War                                   Box 1
                8.2   War of 1812 and Militia                           Box 1
                8.3   Civil War                                                     Box 2
                8.4   (TBA)
                8.5   World War I                                               Box 2
                8.6   World War II                                              Box 2
                8.7   Korea                                                            Box 2
                8.8   Vietnam                                                       Box 2                      

MS 9 - Map & Architectural Drawing Collection   
                9.1   Richard Deven’s Architectural Drawings Collection  
                9.2   Other           

MS 10 - Audio-Visual Collection – 2 large boxes               

MS 11 - Book & Periodical Collection
                [local history, genealogy, reference & rare book library]

MS 12 -  Oversize Books and Documents   

MS 13 - Writings of Sandwich Residents - 1 box                      

MS 14 – Newspaper Collection
                MS 14.1 Sandwich Reporter Clippings
                MS 14.2 Various Dates:  Sandwich Reporter, Sandwich News,
                                New Hampshire Patriot and State Gazette, The
                                Independent Democrat, Dover Gazette & Strafford         
                                Advertiser, The New Hampshire Democrat, People and
                                 Patriot, The Winnipesauke Gazette, Burt’s Among the
                                Clouds (Mt. Washington), Carroll County Register,
                                Granite State News, The New York Tribune 


MS 15 – Diaries – 1 box                                                                            

MS 20 – Photographic Collection – 6 file drawers   

MS 100 – Small Collections – 5 boxes  [These are original documents and (sequentially by date of
​                                                                        processing)]

 MS 200 – Genealogy Files by Surname (Non-manuscript)  
           See also Family Papers and Small Collections 
          (Alphabetical by Name)                                                   
Abbott, Adams, Ainger, Ambrose, Atkinson, Atwood, Ayotte, Bailey, Barney, Batchelder, Bean, Beane, Beede, Benedict, Bennett, Bethel, Bickford, Bishop, Blackmer, Blanchard, Blondeau, Boutwell, Boyden, Brown, Bryant, Bryer, Bundy, Burleigh, Burley, Burnham, Burrows, Cain, Campbell, Canney, Cannie, Cannon, Carr, Carter, Cartland, Catlin, Chase, Chilson, Chitick, Christy, Clark, Clarkson, Clay, Cleveland, Cogswell, Colby, Cole, Conley, Conrad, Cook, Coolidge, Corliss, Cotton, Cox, Cram, Cromwell, Cronin, Crosby, Currier, Davis, Dearborn, Denny, Dinsmore, Dockman, Dolan, Donovan, Dorr, Doten, Doughty, Downing, Drew, Duntley, Durgin, Duston, Eastman, Eaton, Edgerly, Eliner, Elliot, Emerson, Emery, English, Evans, Farley, Farnham, Farrar, Felch, Fellows, Fisk, Flanders, Flanigan, Fletcher, Floyd, Fogg, Folch-Pi, Folsom, Forbush, Ford, Forristall, Foss, Foster, Franke, Freeman, Freese, French, Frost, Furber, Furness, Gannett, Garland, Gault, George, Gibbons, Gilman, Glidden, Glines, Goldthwait, Goodwin, Gordon, Gore, Gotshall, Gott, Grant, Graves, Gray, Greene, Hacker, Hackett, Haddock, Hadley, Haines, Hall, Hallett, Ham, Hanson, Hart, Hawkins, Hazard, Heard, Hight, Hill, Hilton, Hinds, Hoag, Hobbs, Hodgdon, Hodge, Hodgson, Hodsdon, Hoit, Holbrook, Hope, Horn, Howard, Howe, Hoyt, Hutchins, Ingles, Irvine, Jackson, Janes, Jewell, Johnson, Jose, Joslyn, Kimball, Knowles, Knox, LaCroix, Ladd, Lane, Lawrence, Lear, Leavitt, Lee, Lester, Lewis, Libbey, Little, Littlefield, Locke, Mack, Magoon, Marston, Martel, Martin, Mason, McCrillis, McDaniel, McGaffey, Meader, Merrill, Mooney, Moorhouse, Morrison, Morse, Moulton, Mudgett, Muncie, Mussey, Nee, Nichols, Nicolay, Nicoll, Nixon, Norris, Nute, O'Brien, Ogden, Packard, Page, Paine, Painton, Palmer, Pascoe, Peaslee, Peasly, Penniman, Perkins, Perry, Pettengill, Philbrick, Pierce, Plumer, Pohl, Porter, Prescott, Purlington, Quimby, Rains (Claude), Randall, Ransom, Reed, Reichert, Remick, Rice, Richardson, Ricker, Rodgers, Rollins, Russell, Sanborn, Sawyer, Scarritt, Scribner, Scriggrins, Seavey, Severance, Shute, Sinclair, Sinkler, Skinner, Slade, Smith, Speers, Spencer, Sprague, Stanton, Stickney, Straw, Sturtevant, Sullivan, Tainter, Talcott, Tappan, Tasker, Tatum, Taylor, Tewksbury, Thompson, Tilton, True, Tuttle, Twombly, Ulman, Varney, Veasey, Vittum, Walker, Wallace, Watson, Webster, Weed, Weeks, Wentworth, Weygandt, Wheeler, White, Whitman, Whittemore, Wiener, Wiggin, Willey, Winship, Winslow, Winton, Woodbury, Worthen, Wright, Wurtz, York, Young

MS 300 - Subject Files (Non-manuscript)  (Alphabetical by Subject)
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