LIBRARY and RESEARCH
The Society is now open for the season. Our research library is open by appointment. Please contact the Society (email preferred) to schedule an appointment:
sandwichresearch@gmail.com or sandwichhistory@gmail.com
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.
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!
sandwichresearch@gmail.com or sandwichhistory@gmail.com
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.
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!
Research Time
SHS staff can research your question(s) in our archives and library. It may take a few weeks to complete the research. Please email sandwichresearch@gmail.com 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)
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)