PELHAM FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY
HISTORY ROOM ARCHIVES COLLECTION:
PELHAM TOPICS
AND PELHAM GENEALOGY—
A GUIDE TO THE COLLECTION
ROBERT LORD KEYES
March 8, 2000
Revised, 2004
COLLECTION/SERIES: TOPICS
Sub-series: Community Profiles
Folder Descriptions:
--Community Profiles
--Community Profiles
--Community Profiles: “A Guide to the Town of Pelham, Massachusetts,”
[Booklet, 2000]
--Community Profiles: “A Guide to the Town of Pelham, Massachusetts,”
[Booklet, 2nd Edition, 2003]]
--Keyes, Robert Lord, “Thirty Books About the Town of Pelham: A Bibliography,”
[2002]
--Lisburn Propriety Petition for Incorporation As a Town, May 26, 1742,
[photocopies]
--Massachusetts Historical Commission, “Reconnaissance Survey Report:
Pelham,” [Oct. 1982]
--“Pelham” Chapter: “A Few Interesting Historical Facts About Pelham,”
“Historic Hampshire,” [Northampton, MA: Wade and Warner, 1890],
[photocopied excerpts]
--“Pelham” Chapter, W.B. Gay, Ed., “Gazetteer of Hampshire County,” 1888,
[photocopied excerpts]
--“A Town that is Tired of Its Existence,” Boston Sunday Herald, Sept. 24, 1905,
[photocopy]
--“A Bay State Town with a History,” Springfield Sunday Union, Aug. 19, 1906,
[photocopy]
--“A Hampshire County Town Meeting in its Pristine Glory,” Springfield
newspaper, March 17, 1912, [photocopy]
--“A Typical Town Meeting,” Springfield Sunday Republican, March 22, 1914,
[photocopy]
--Chaffee, William Sumner [1885-1971], “Pelham” Chapter from “The
Hampshire History,” [1964]
--Riccelli, Carlene, “Place Names of Pelham, Massachusetts,” [Ms., 1970,
photocopy]
--“The Town Next Door,” by Kay J. Moran, Hampshire Life, [in Daily Hampshire
Gazette], Sept. 9, 1978, [photocopy]
--Sister Cities Committee of Pelham [Pelham-Soviet Union]: Excerpts from
Pelham Oral History Project, 1984
--“Uncle Dudley’s Real People,” n.a., “The Patriot,” Sept. 19, 1990
--Brace, Gerald Warner, “I Travelled a Good Deal in Amherst,” [1963], [Pelham
and Area, ca. 1918]
--Keyes, Robert Lord, “Amherst College and the Town of Pelham,
Massachusetts,” [Ms., 1997]
--Mitchell, Edwin Valentine, “Yankee Folk,” [1948], [Excerpts, photocopies]
--“A Defense of the Hill Towns” by Charles Oscar Parmenter [1833-1913] and
Other Articles on Hill Towns in Hampshire County Journal, 1887
--Gladys Olds Reed [1899-1988], “Pelham” Articles in “Amherst Journal
Record,” 1950s
--Wendy Larson [b. 1936], “Pelham” Articles in “Amherst Record,” 1970s
--Lehrer, Phyllis, “Around Pelham,” Articles in Amherst Bulletin, 2002--Federal, State and County Vote Returns for Pelham
--Pelham Demographics
--Pelham Demographics: Census Records [Excerpts]
--Pelham Demographics: Federal Census, Pelham, 2000
--Pelham Demographics: 1880 Census Listing of Residents Aged 70 and Over
--Pelham Area [Size]
--Pelham Town Boundaries
Sub-series: Pelham Maps
Folder Descriptions:
--Miscellaneous Pelham Maps, [photocopies]
--Map of Pelham, 1795, [Photocopy of 1897 Tracing of 1795 Map]
--Map of Pelham and Prescott, 1873, F.W. Beers and Co., New York, 1873,
[photocopies]
--Keyes, Robert Lord, Maps of Pelham’s Political Borders in 1738, 1788-1822,
1822-1938, and 1938 to Date,” [1989]
--“Shutesbury, Mass.,” U.S.G.S. Topographical Map, 1943, [includes northern
Pelham]
--“Current Water Quality Hotspots: Connecticut River Watershed,” [1997]
Sub-series: Scotch-Irish
Folder Descriptions:
--Scotch-Irish
--James G. Leyburn, “The Scotch-Irish: A Social History,” 1962, [photocopied
excerpts]
Sub-series: Equivalent Lands
Folder Descriptions:
--Equivalent Lands
Sub-series: Pelham Proprietors
Folder Descriptions:
--Pelham Proprietors
--Alfred Sherwood Romer [1894-1973], Maps of Original Pelham Home Lots and
Second and Third Divisions [ca. 1738]
Sub-series: Pelham Town Hall Complex
Folder Descriptions:
--Town Hall
--Town Hall
--Town Hall
--Town Hall Complex, [Town Hall, Pelham Historical Society Museum, and
Pelham Hill Cemetery]
--Town Hall Complex, [Town Hall, Pelham Historical Society Museum, and
Pelham Hill Cemetery]
--Pelham Hill Congregational Church [building] [becomes Pelham Historical
Society Museum]
--Pelham Historical Society Museum [previously Pelham Hill Congregational
Church (building)]
--Pelham Historical Society Museum, Exhibit Items
--Pelham Historical Society Museum, Floor Plans, by Joseph S. Larson, 2001
--Pelham Historical Society Museum, United Church of Pelham, Women’s Guild,
Quilt, Recollections by John Walker, [1998, photocopy]
--Pelham Hill Congregational Church/Pelham Historical Society Museum, Bell
--Pelham Hill Cemetery
--Town Hall, Pelham Hill Congregational Church and Parish House [377
Amherst Road], Subscribers to the Painting Fund, [n.d., ca. 1918-1922]
--U.S. Department of the Interior, National Register of Historic Places, Inventory
of Town Hall Complex and Nomination Form, 1971, [photocopy]
--Pelham Town Hall Complex
--Pelham Town Hall Complex, Massachusetts Historical Commission,
“Massachusetts Historic Landmarks,” 1970, [booklet]
--Pelham Town Hall Complex, Edmund W. Sinnott, “Meetinghouse and Church
in Early New England,” [1968, photocopied excerpts]
--Pelham Town Hall Complex, “Meetinghouse and Church,” Pelham Historical
Society Meeting, 1990, [poster]
--Town Hall, Daniel Henry Allen [1904-1989], Reminiscences of the Pelham
Town Hall, n.d.
--Town Hall Repairs, Massachusetts Historical Commission, Project Completion
Report, 1977
--Pelham Historical Society Meeting, Massachusetts Historical Commission,
Project Completion Report on painting on Outside of Museum, 1976
--Pelham Historical Society Museum, Town of Pelham and Massachusetts
Historical Commission, Declaration of Covenants, 1972
--Pelham Historical Society Museum, Town of Pelham and Massachusetts
Historical Commission, Preservation Restrictions, 1976
--Pelham Historical Society Museum, William Conkey [1717-1788], Conkey’s
Tavern, Tavern Entrance Stone
--Pelham Town Hall Complex, Town of Pelham and Massachusetts Historical
Commission, Concent to Certification as a Massachusetts Historic Landmark,
1967
--Pelham Hill Congregational Church, Church to Town of Pelham, Hampshire
County Deed 1292-211, Aug. 22, 1968
--Pelham Town Hall Complex, Peter Benes and Anne Grady, “Pelham’s Historic
Town Center Buildings,” 1990, [report]
--Pelham Town Hall Complex, Peter Benes and Anne Grady, “Pelham’s Historic
Town Center Buildings,”
1990, [report]
--Pelham Town Hall Complex, Peter Benes and Anne Grady, “Pelham’s Historic
Town Center Buildings,” 1990, [report]
--Pelham Town Hall Complex, Thomas Paske, “Pelham’s Historic Town Center
Buildings,” 1990, [report]
--Pelham Town Hall Complex, Thomas Paske, “Pelham’s Historic Town Center
Buildings,” 1990, [report]
--Pelham Town Hall Complex, John Brennan, “Pelham, Massachusetts Meeting
House and Church,” l99l, [report]
--Pelham Town Hall Complex, Pelham Historical Society, Post Cards, n.d., ca.
1970
Sub-series: Pelham Anniversaries
Folder Descriptions:
--Pelham Centennial, 1843
--Pelham Bicentennial and Old Home Day Meeting, Sept. 14, 1946
--Pelham Bicentennial, l946, Elinor Genung Allen [b. ca. 1893], “Pelham
Bicentennial Celebration, 1743-1946,” 1946, [booklet]
--Pelham 225th Anniversary, 1968
--Pelham 250th Anniversary, 1993
--Pelham 250th Anniversary, Daniel Lombardo, “Pelham Meeting House:
Witness to Heroes and Humbugs,” l993, [speech, typescript]
Sub-series: Shays’ Rebellion [1786-1787]
Folder Descriptions:
--Shays’ Rebellion
--Shays’ Rebellion
--Daniel Shays [1747-1825]
--Shays’ Rebellion Bicentennial, 1986-1987
--Shays’ Rebellion 150th Anniversary at Pelham Town Hall, 1936
--Shays’ Rebellion and the Constitution: A Bicentennial Conference, Nov. 13-15,
1986, [Historic Deerfield brochure]
--Shays’ Rebellion and the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution, 1987
--Daniel Shays [1747-1825], House Site, East Pelham [later Town of Prescott,
later Prescott Peninsula]
--“The Ballad of Daniel Shays,” n.a., ca. 1886, [song, photocopies]
--Pfarrer, Steve, “Pelham’s Daniel Shays Led the Country’s First Big Rebellion,”
Hampshire Life, May 4, 2001
--Colliope Films: “Shays’ Rebellion (1786-87) and the Constitution,” [Web Ste
Text, August 8, 2002]
--Shays’ Rebellion at Hinds Tavern [aka Felton Tavern], East Pelham, in
Hampshire Gazette and Northampton Courier, 1861
--Dickinson--Baggs Tavern and Clapp’s Tavern, East Amherst, MA
--Dickinson--Baggs Tavern: May Bliss Dickinson Kimball, Amherst Record, Nov.
21, 1973
--“Daniel Shays: Committed Revolutionary or Reluctant Rebel? Three Interviews
with Shays, Jan. 8-20, 1787”
--Daniel Shays [1747-1825], Burial Site, Union Cemetery, Conesus, Livingston
County, N.Y.
--Kermit Hunter, “Daniel Shays’ Rebellion,” [Play at Look Park, Florence, MA],
1976, [newsclippings]
--“Shays and His Rebellion,” Springfield Republican, May 30, 1909
--Springfield Armory
--Gen. Ebenezer Mattoon [1755-1843]
--Dr. Robert Cutler [1748-1835]
--Day, Luke, Jr. and Day Family of West Springfield, [Shaysites]
--Gen. Benjamin Lincoln [1733-1810]
--Henry McCulloch [b. 1751]
--Henry McCulloch [b. 1751], Gregory Nobles, “The Politics of Patriarchy in
Shays’s Rebellion: The Case of Henry McCulloch,” “The Dublin Seminar for New
England Folklife, Annual Proceedings, 1985: Families and Children,” 1987
--Henry McCulloch [b. 1751], Sarah Peebles McCulloch [1719-1804], and Gen.
Ebenezer Mattoon [1755-1843], Petitions in the Case of Henry McCulloch,
1787, [typescript copies]
--Job Shattuck, [Groton, MA Shaysite]
--Maj. Gen. William Shepard [1737-1817] Statue, Plaque and House in
Westfield, Mass.
--Jabez Spicer [d. 1787], [Killed at Springfield Armory]
--Jacob Walker [ca. 1755-1787], [Hatfield Anti-Shaysite]
--Dea. John Billings [1725-1813], Amherst, Mass. Shaysite
--Shays’ Rebellion and Amherst, Mass.
--Shays’ Rebellion and Belchertown, Mass.
--Shays’ Rebellion and Berkshire County, Mass.
--Shays’ Rebellion in Concord, Mass., Rev. Grindall Reynolds, “Concord During
the Shays Rebellion,” from “A Collection of Historical and Other Papers,” 1896,
[photocopied excerpts]
--Shays’ Rebellion and Eastern Massachusetts
--Shays’ Rebellion and Easthampton, Mass.
--Shays’ Rebellion and Franklin County, Mass.
--Shays’ Rebellion and Greenfield, Mass.
--Shays’ Rebellion in Greenfield, MA: Excerpts from Francis M. Thompson,
“History of Greenfield,” [1904], [Photocopies]
--Shays’ Rebellion and Hadley, Mass.
--Shays’ Rebellion and Hampden County, Mass.
--Shays’ Rebellion and Hampshire County, Mass.
--Shays’ Rebellion and Hardwick, Mass.
--Shays’ Rebellion and Hatfield, Mass.
--Shays’ Rebellion and Hatfield Third Meetinghouse
--Shays’ Rebellion and New Salem, Mass.
--Shays’ Rebellion and Northampton, Mass.
--Shays’ Rebellion and Sheffield, Mass.
--Shays’ Rebellion and South Hadley, Mass.
--Shays’ Rebellion and Springfield, Mass.
--Shays’ Rebellion in Warwick, Mass.: Rev. John Goldsbury, “Shays’ Rebellion,”
“Worcester West Chronicle,” 1883, [handwritten transcriptions, photocopied]
--Shays’ Rebellion in Warwick, Mass.: Excerpts from Charles A. Morse,
“Warwick, Massachusetts: Biography of A Town,” [1963], [Photocopies]
--Shays Rebellion and West Springfield, Mass.
--Shays’ Rebellion and Whately, Mass.
--Shays’ Rebellion and Williamsburg, Mass.
--Shays’ Rebellion and Worcester, Mass.
--Shays’ Rebellion and Worcester County, Mass.
--Harrington Putnam, Address on Shays’ Rebellion, n.d., [address, photocopy]
--Articles in “The Massachusetts [Boston] Gazette,” 1787
--Articles in “The Massachusetts Centinel,” 1786-1787
--Articles in Hampshire Gazette, 1787
--Articles in “The Salem Mercury, 1786-1787
--Samuel Adams [b. ca. 1759], [Prisoner During Shays’ Rebellion]
--Daniel Shays [1747-1825], Robert Morris, “Saint or Sinner?,” “Trowel”, 1997
--Marion L. Starkey, “A Little Rebellion,” 1955, [photocopied excerpts]
--Daniel Shays [1747-1825], Hugh P. Graham, “Captain Daniel Shays,”
“Yesteryears,” 1958
--Charles M. Davenport, “Daniel Shays Highway: Who Was Daniel Shays?,”
1935, [ms.]
--Robert Lord Keyes, “Abutments Under the Water: Pelham, Massachusetts and
a Legacy of Shays’ Rebellion,” 1986, [poem]
--Robert Lord Keyes, “Who Were the Pelham Shaysites?,” “Historical Journal of
Massachusetts,” 2000, [1 of 2]
--Robert Lord Keyes, “Who Were the Pelham Shaysites?,” “Historical Journal of
Massachusetts,” 2000, [2 of 2]
--Noble, John, “A Few Notes on the Shays Rebellion,” [Booklet, 1903]
--Noble, John, “A Few Notes on the Shays Rebellion,” [Booklet, 1903],
[photocopy]
--Shays Rebellion [chapter], W. B. Gay, ed., “Gazetteer of Hampshire County,”
1888, [photocopied excerpts]
--Shays’ Rebellion Bicentennial, “A Guide to Sites in the Connecticut Valley,”
Division of Continuing Education, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 1986,
[booklet]
--Henry McCulloch [b. 1751], Gregory H. Nobles, “Leniency and Legitimacy in
Shays’s Rebellion: The Case of Henry McCulloch,” l985, [ms., photocopy]
--Gregory H. Nobles, “Shays’s Neighbors: The Context and Consequences of
Rebellion in Pelham, Massachusetts, 1780-1815,” n.d., ca. 1986, [ms.,
photocopy]
--Daniel Penfield [1759-1840], “Penfield [N.Y.] Heritage Day,” Oct. 25, 1987,
[program]
--Leonard L. Richards, [Historian and Author of “Shays’s Rebellion: The
American Revolution’s Final Battle,” (2002)]
--Harvey Wasserman, “The Secret Life of Daniel Shays,” “Valley Advocate,”
1987, [fiction, photocopy]
--Shays’ Rebellion, Donald W. Howe, “Quabbin: The Lost Valley,” 1951,
[photocopied excerpts]
--Walter Alden Dyer [1878-1943], Shays’ Rebellion Newspaper Articles,
“Amherst Record,” 1935-1936, [photocopies]
--Massachusetts Bicentennial Commission, “Massachusetts in Contention: A
Chronological Survey, 1775-1783,” 1975, [booklet]
--Keith Family of New York State, Keith Family Descendants of Daniel Shays
Residing in New York State
--Review of “The Insurgents,” [historical fiction, n.a.], in “New England
Magazine,” Vol. 8 [1835], pp. 407-409]
--“Reminiscences of the Past,” [article series, n.a.], Hampshire Gazette, July 15Oct. 7, 1845
--William L. Smith, “History of Shays’ Rebellion,” Springfield Daily Republican,
Oct. 2 and 4, 1877
--John Fiske, “The Paper Money Craze of 1786 and the Shays Rebellion,”
Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 58, Sept. 1886
--“Perspectives,” [Greenfield Community College], March 27, 1987: Shays’
Rebellion and the American Spirit
Sub-series: Pelham and American Wars
Folder Descriptions:
--Pelham and The French and Indian War
--Pelham and the Revolutionary War
--Pelham and the War of 1812
--Pelham and the Civil War
--Pelham and the Civil War: Letter Regarding George W. Allen [d. 1864] and
Erastus S. Southwick [b. 1821] by Pelham Selectman Alfred Taylor [1804-1877],
June 25, 1866
--Pelham and the Civil War: William Schouler, “A History of Massachusetts in
the Civil War,” [1871], [“Pelham” chapter]
--Pelham Rifle Range, 1889: Laser Copy Photograph of Company K,
Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, 2nd Regiment
--Pelham and World War I
--Pelham and World War II
--Pelham and World War II, Notes About Pelham World War II Soldiers, n.a.,
n.d., ca. 1991?
--Pelham World War II Memorial Remnants: Wooden Slats with Soldiers’ Names,
[List]
--Pelham and the Persian Gulf War
--Pelham and War with Iraq, 2003Sub-series: Conkey’s Tavern, Owned by William Conkey [1717-1788]
Folder Descriptions:
--Conkey’s Tavern
--Conkey’s Tavern Exhibit at the American Museum in Britain, Bath, England,
in “The Magazine Antiques,” March, 1993
Sub-series: Kingman Tavern and Ziba Cook Tavern
Folder Descriptions:
--Kingman Tavern
--Kingman Tavern, Alfred Sherwood Romer [1894-1973], Correspondence About
the Removal of Kingman Tavern by M.D.C., 1943, [photocopies]
--Ziba Cook [1791-1868] Tavern, 49 Enfield Road
Sub-series: Hotel Pelham
Folder Descriptions:
--Hotel Pelham
Sub-series: Pelham Churches
Folder Descriptions:
--Religious Activities in Pelham
--Religious Activities: Dwight Lyman Moody [1837-1899], [American Evangelist]
--Pelham Calvinist Church
--Dwight Chapel, Belchertown, MA
--Federated Church of Pelham [becomes United Church of Pelham]
--Federated Church of Pelham, News Articles, 1936-1939
--Federated Church of Pelham, News Articles, 1940-1949
--Federated Church of Pelham, News Articles, 1950-1959
--Federated Church of Pelham, Articles of Agreement, [n.d., ca. 1936]
--Federated Church of Pelham, Women’s Guild
--Gospel Tent
--Methodist Camp Meeting, 1841
--Packardville Church
--Pelham Hill Congregational Church [organization], ca. 1810-1899
--Pelham Hill Congregational Church [organization], 1900-1936
--Pelham Hollow Chapel
--Pelham Presbyterian Church
--Pelham Second Presbyterian Church, East Pelham
--Quaker Meeting
--Santivana Cambodian Buddhist Temple
--United Church of Pelham [previously Federated Church of Pelham]
--United Church of Pelham. Annual Report, 1989
--United Church of Pelham. Annual Report, 1999
--United Church of Pelham. Annual Report, 2001
--United Church of Pelham, Women’s Guild
--United Church of Pelham, Women’s Guild: “Country Cookin’,” Favorite
Recipies from the Women’s Guild, [Cook book, 1989]
--West Pelham Methodist Church [becomes Federated Church of Pelham]
--West Pelham Methodist Church, Activities of 1833-1869
--West Pelham Methodist Church, Activities of 1870-1879
--West Pelham Methodist Church, Activities of 1880-1889
--West Pelham Methodist Church, Activities of 1890-1899
--West Pelham Methodist Church, Activities of 1900-1909
--West Pelham Methodist Church, Activities of 1910-1919
--West Pelham Methodist Church, Activities of 1920-1929
--West Pelham Methodist Church, Activities of 1930-1936
--West Pelham Methodist Church: Inventory of Archives at Boston University
Sub-series: Pelham Cemeteries
Folder Descriptions:
--“Pelham, Massachusetts Cemeteries,” Robert Lord Keyes, 1999, [information
sheet]
--Pelham Cemeteries
--“Pelham, MA Cemeteries: Gravestone Recordings,” Robert Lord Keyes, 1991,
[gravestone recordings]
--Arnold Cemetery, Kelvin Kindahl, “The Arnold Cemetery,” 1979, [gravestone
recordings]
--Arnold Cemetery
--Cook-Johnson Cemetery [a.k.a. “West Burial Ground,” etc.]
--Cook-Johnson Cemetery, Kelvin Kindahl, “The Cook-Johnson Cemetery,”
1979, [gravestone recordings]
--Harkness Cemetery [a.k.a. “West Pelham Burying Ground”]
--Harkness Cemetery, Kelvin Kindahl, “West Pelham Burial Grounds,” l980,
[gravestone recordings]
--Johnson Family Burial Place [a.k.a. “Reuben Allen Cemetery”]
--Johnson Family Burial Place, Kelvin Kindahl, “Johnson Family Burial Place,
Also Known as Reuben Allen Cemetery,” 1980, [gravestone recordings]
--Knight’s Corner Cemetery [a.k.a. “Knight’s Burial Ground”]
--Knight’s Corner Cemetery, Kelvin Kindahl, “Knight’s Burial Ground,” 1980,
[gravestone recordings]
--Packardville Cemetery, Enfield, MA, M.D.W.S.C., “Gravestone Recordings,
Packardville Cemetery, Enfield, MA,” 1934, [photocopies]
--Packardville Cemetery and Packardville Church Cemetery: Maps by Jessica
Emily Ballou Chaffee [1878-1968], 1929, [photocopies]
--Packardville Church Cemetery, Enfield, MA
--Packardville Church Cemetery, M.D.W.S.C., “Gravestone Recordings,
Packardville Church Cemetery, Enfield, MA,” 193[?], [photocopies]
--Pelham Hill Cemetery, Kelvin Kindahl, “Pelham Hill Cemetery,” 1978,
[gravestone recordings]
--Pelham Hollow Cemetery [East Pelham, later Prescott, MA], [a.k.a. “East
Burying Ground”]
--Pelham Hollow Cemetery, M.D.W.S.C., “Gravestone Recordings, Pelham
Hollow Cemetery, Prescott, MA,” 1927, [photocopies]
--Quaker Cemetery
--Stevens Cemetery [a.k.a., “Smith Family Private Burial Ground”]
--Stevens Cemetery, Kelvin Kindahl, “Stevens Cemetery, Also Known as Smith
Private Burial Ground,” 1980, [gravestone recordings]
--Stevens Cemetery, E.E. Davis, “Plan of Smith, Lyman, Holbrook and Randall
Cemetery,” 1918, [site plan]
--Valley Cemetery
--Valley Cemetery, Kelvin Kindahl, “The Valley Cemetery,” n.d., ca. 1979,
[gravestone recordings]
Sub-series: Pelham Roads and Neighborhoods
Folder Descriptions:
--Pelham Roads and Bridges
--County Roads in Pelham: Status of County Roads in Pelham. [Photocopies
from Hampshire County Commissioners Office.]
--Amherst Road
--18 Amherst Road
--24 Amherst Road
--51 Amherst Road: History of, by Paul J. Bigelow [Ms., ca. 1984], with
Additions by Tom Strickland [2003]
--76 Amherst Road
--93 Amherst Road
--108 Amherst Road, M. Virginia Servos, Documents on the History of 108
Amherst Road, [photocopies]
--141 Amherst Road
--212 Amherst Road
--225 Amherst Road [aka “Utter Road,” “Alphonse Bittell Road”]
--290 Amherst Road
--339 Amherst Road
--377 Amherst Road
--Arnold Road
--37 Arnold Road
--37 Arnold Road: Photograph of 37 Arnold Road and Arnold-Harris
Genealogical Notes
--37 Arnold Road: Hampshire County Deed 17-6, May 19, 1800: Adam Johnson
[1753-1823] to Samuel Arnold [ca. 1760-1838], [Photocopy]
--40 Arnold Road
--98 Arnold Road [a.k.a. “Gray Rocks,” “The Morse Estate,” and “The Castle”]
--98 Arnold Road: “Grey Rocks” Summit Designation, 2003
--Arnold Road: O. Russell Snow, “Information Relative to the Town Way Passing
Through the Langlois Property and the Former Morse Property in Pelham,” [Ms.,
n.d.]
--Belchertown Road
--Boyden Road
--Bray Court
--2 Bray Court
--10 Bray Court
--Brewer Road
--Buffum Road
--57 Buffum Road
--Butter Hill Road, Butter Hill [area]
--Butter Hill Road, Butter Hill [area]: Carpenter Family of Amherst Camping on
Butter Hill, 1905-1907
--Butter Hill Road: George Brinton Burnett, Jr., Feb. 14, 1968 Letter to Paul R.
Langlois, [photocopy]
--Butter Hill Road: Rachel Smith, Feb. 9, 1968 Letter to Paul R. Langlois,
[photocopy]
--Butter Hill Road, “Proposal to Amend Official Town Map,” Special Town
Meeting, Oct. 29, 1984
--Church Road [Gate 8]
--24 Cook Road
--Country Lane
--Daniel Shays Highway [U.S. Route 202], [Section previously known as “Bailey
Road”]
--96 Daniel Shays Highway
--350 Daniel Shays Highway
--Enfield Road
--Enfield and Packardville Roads Stop Sign/School Bus Shelter, Fire and
Controversy, 2000
--Gate 8 Road
--Gulf Road
--Harkness Road
--1 Harkness Road
--58 Harkness Road
--Jones Road
--King Street
--“King Street—Cadwell Forest—Mt. Lincoln Cellar Holes,” by Robert Lord
Keyes, 1996, [ms., photocopy]
--Knight’s Corner
--Meetinghouse Road [Previously: “Gates Road”]
--59 Meetinghouse Road [Previously “59 Gates Road”]
--North Valley Road [a.k.a. “The Valley Road”]
--North Valley Road and Brewer Road: M. Louise Brewer, “The Valley Road and
Silver Street,” [Ms., 1929, photocopy], [1 of 3]
--North Valley Road and Brewer Road: M. Louise Brewer, “The Valley Road and
Silver Street,” [Ms., 1929, photocopy], [2 of 3]
--North Valley Road and Brewer Road: M. Louise Brewer, “The Valley Road and
Silver Street,” [Ms., 1929, photocopy], [3 of 3]
--68 North Valley Road
--90 North Valley Road
--118 North Valley Road
--124 North Valley Road
--237 North Valley Road
--Packardville Road
--Pelham Hollow Road [Present Quabbin Reservoir, Gate 11]
--Pelham Hills
--Pratt’s Corner Road: Status as a County Road and Property of Ann J. Hastings
--6 Quarry Road
--Robinson Road
--Robinson Road: James Avery Smith, “The Public Status of Robinson Road in
Pelham, Massachusetts,” 1999, [report, photocopy]
--Shutesbury Road
--69 Shutesbury Road
--Sixth Massachusetts Turnpike
--South Valley Road
--4 South Valley Road, [Demolished May 14, 2000]
--19 South Valley Road
--59 South Valley Road
--Pelham Houses: Real Estate Advertisements
--Pelham Barns
Sub-series: Property Transfers
Folder Descriptions:
--Property Transfers
--Property Transfers, 1800s
--Property Transfers, 1900-1904
--Property Transfers, 1905-1909
--Property Transfers, 1910s
--Property Transfers, 1920s
--Property Transfers, 1930s
--Property Transfers, 1940-1999
--Property Transfers, 2000
--Property Transfers, 2001
--Property Transfers, 2002
--Property Transfers, 2003
--Property Transfers, 2004
--Early Hampshire County Deed 26-115, Sarah [Gray] Nutt [1726-1808], et al,
to Obadiah Dickinson [Sr. (1704-1788)], April 9, 1768, [Abstract]
--Original Deed: Archibald Crossett [b. ca. 1715], Grantor, to Thomas Gray
[1761-1825], Grantee, 62 Acres in Pelham, Nov. 19, 1796
--Original Deed: Harmon P. Horr [1799-1860] to Samuel Henry [ca. 1788-1862],
July 6, 1857
--Hampshire County Deed 19-32: Henry Lee to Eleazer Porter and William
Porter, Oct. 1, 1802, Land in Shutesbury
--Hampshire County Deed 265-106, Milo W. Field to Emeline Blackmer, Oct.
11, 1869
--Hampshire County Deed 594-301, Estate of Emmeline [sic] W. Holcomb to
William F. Chamberlain, Sheriff’s Deed, April 6, 1905
Sub-series: Warren Gibbs [1823-1860] Poison Oyster Gravestone
Folder Descriptions:
--Warren Gibbs [1823-1860] Poison Oyster Gravestone
--Carolyn M. Travis, Correspondence, 1981-1982
Sub-series: Montague City Fish Rod Factory
Folder Descriptions:
--Montague City Fish Rod Factory, West Pelham
--Montague City Fish Rod Factory, News Articles: 1800s
--Montague City Fish Rod Factory, News Articles: 1900-1920
--Montague City Fish Rod Factory, Postcard, n.d., [photocopy]
--Autio, Wesley, “Horace Gray and Son: The First Fishing Rod Factory in the
United States,” 1999
--Cutting, Michele B., “Montague City Rod Factory,” [Ms., 2001, photocopy]
--A.J. Campbell, “Classic and Antique Fly-Fishing Tackle,” [Excerpts, n.d., after
1995]
Sub-series: Orient Springs
Folder Descriptions:
--Orient Springs
--Orient Springs
--Orient Springs
--Orient Springs, 52 Amherst Road
--Robert Lord Keyes, “Time Line: Orient Springs, West Pelham, Massachusetts,”
[Ms., 2001]
--Hillel, Ron, “The Orient Estate,” [Ms., 1978] and “The Orient Springs,” [Ms.,
1983]
--Frederick L. Luddy, “The Twilight of Orient Springs,” “The Country Side
Magazine,” Summer, 1981
Sub-series: Pelham Monk’s Cave
Folder Descriptions:
--Pelham Monk’s Cave
--John R. Cole, “’Cult’ Archeology,” “Early Man,” Spring, 1980
--Arthur Davenport, “A Mystery of the Ages Hides in These Caves,” n.d.,
[photocopies]
--Arthur Davenport, Correspondence and Articles about Pelham Monk’s Cave
--Andrew E. Rothouis, “More on the Great Stone Mysteries,” “Yankee Magazine,”
May, 1964
--Linda Siteman, “Mystery of the Monk’s Caves,” “Springfield Sunday
Republican,” Sept. 3, 1972
Sub-series: Pelham Rocking Stone
Folder Descriptions:
--Pelham Rocking Stone
Sub-series: Pelham Natural Resources
Folder Descriptions:
--Pelham Land and Land Management
--Kestrel Trust, Lands in Pelham Designated Priority Areas for Protection, 1990,
[brochure]
--Pelham Geology
--Tom Rice, “The Nature and Interpretation of Glacial Outwash Features in
Pelham, Mass.,” n.d., ca. 1991, [field trip hand out]
--Pelham Geology Chapter, W.B. Gay, Ed., “Gazetteer of Hampshire County,”
l888, [photocopied excerpts]
--Biographies About Edward Hitchcock [1793-1864], [photocopies]
--Plants and Wildlife
--Animals in Pelham
--Bears in Pelham
--Hunting and Fishing
--Hunting and Fishing: Mountain View Shooting Range
--Mt. Orient
--Smith’s Pasture
--Camping and Outdoor Recreation
--Woods Trails
--Woods Trails, Metacomet-Monadnock Trail Guide, 1972, [booklets]
--Woods Trails, “Guide to The Robert Frost Trail,” The Kestral Trust, 1988,
[booklet]
--Woods Trails, Pelham Woods Committee, “Inventory of Trails,” 1973, [map,
photocopy]
--“Bicycle Touring in the Pioneer Valley” by Nancy Jane, [Pelham excerpts,
1978]
--Amethyst Brook
--Buffum Brook
Sub-series: Pelham Asbestos Quarry
Folder Description:
--Asbestos Quarry
--Benjamin Kendall Emerson, “Geology of Old Hampshire County,
Massachusetts,” 1898, [photocopied excerpts]
Sub-series: Pelham Stone Quarries
Folder Descriptions:
--Pelham Stone Quarry Industry
--Pelham Stone Cutters, Robert W. Drinkwater, Letter to Barbara Benda
Jenkins, Feb. 7, 1988
--Valley Quarry [Quarry Road]
--Amherst Buildings Constructed with Pelham Stone
--“A Short History of Walker Hall [Amherst College]” by David Tannous, [1963]
Sub-series: Mt. Lincoln and Cadwell Forest
Folder Descriptions:
--Mt. Lincoln
--Cadwell Forest
--“Cadwell Memorial Forest,” Trail Guide, [2002]
--Cadwell Forest: Public Meeting for Neighbors and Recreational Users, Jan. 30,
2003
Sub-series: Amherst Water Company Reservoir
Folder Descriptions:
--Amherst Water Company and “Pelham Water” Used in Amherst
--Hawley Reservoir
--Hills Reservoir
--Intake Reservoir
--Amherst Spring Water Co.
Sub-series: Quabbin Reservoir
Folder Descriptions:
--Quabbin Reservoir
--Greene, J. R., “An Atlas of the Quabbin Valley, Past and Present,” [Booklet,
1975, revised 1983]
--Quabbin Reservoir: Natural History Maps
--Walter E. Clark, “Quabbin Reservoir,” 1946, [photocopy of complete book]
--Decker, Bernard, “Quabbin Reservoir Covers 3 Hampshire County Towns,”
Daily Hampshire Gazette, Sept. 4, 1963
--Manning, Alice, “Today’s Lonely Valley of Water, Once a Happy Place Called
Home,” Daily Hampshire Gazette, July 24, 1968
--Campbell, Les, “Quabbin Reservoir,” [Post Card Brochure, 2000]
--Pelham Section of Quabbin Reservoir
--Photocard of Quabbin Reservoir Gate 12 Road, by Patrick Zephyr, 2001
--Packardville
--“S.R.V.H.S. Walk in Gates 8, 9 and 10: Packardville, May 4, 2002,” by Robert
Lord Keyes
--Pelham Hollow
--Pelham Hollow: H.A. Benson, “Benson Map of Northern Pelham Hollow in
1845,” [Ms., 1921]
--Robert Lord Keyes, “Gate 11: Pelham Hollow Road,” 1990, [field trip handout]
--East Pelham [aka “East Pelham Parish”]
--East Pelham: Bobbin Hollow Farm, [Moved to Belchertown, 1939]
--Town of Prescott [1822-1938]
--“Prescott” Chapter, W.B. Gay, Ed., “Gazetteer of Hampshire County,” 1888,
[photocopied excerpts]
--Town of Prescott: “Ghost of a Deserted Village Hovers over Lofty Prescott now
Abandoned,” Springfield Republican, Aug. 19, 1927
--Town of Prescott: “Ghosts of the Swift River Valley,” [Newspaper Rotogravure
Section, n.p., n.d., early 1900s]
--Swift River Valley Historical Society, New Salem, MA
--Former Quabbin Residents Reunion, 1964, [guest register]
--J.R. Greene, “Quabbin History,” n.d., ca. 1990, [brochure]
--Robert Lord Keyes, “Images: Archival Documents from the Lost Quabbin
Valley,” 1988, [exhibit handouts]
--Enfield, MA and North Dana, MA: “An Oral History Interview with Elizabeth
Howe Lincoln and Marion Johnson Carroll” by Nicholas W. Albertson, 1982,
[ms.]
--Woodland Recreation Activities [includes Hunting]
--Metropolitan District Commission, “General Plan of Quabbin Reservoir
Watershed,” 1959, [map]
--Kellman, Shelly, “Remembering the Quabbin Towns,” “Massachusetts
Municipal Advocate,” [n.d., ca. 1976]
--Quabbin Reservoir Blocks 306-407 Superimposed over Belchertown l9l3
Topographical Map, [map, photocopy]
--Metropolitan District Commission, “Metropolitan Water System,” 1974, [map]
--Frank Woolner, “A Place of Many Waters,” “Massachusetts [Magazine],”
Summer, 1974
--MassWildlife, Massachusetts Outdoor Recreation, 1999, [map]
--Metropolitan District Commission, “Water Supply System,” 1973, [report]
--Quabbin Reservoir and Response to Terrorism Threat, 2001-2002
Sub-series: Pelham Civic Organizations
Folder Descriptions:
--Pelham Athletic Club
--Pelham Boy Scouts
--Pelham Boys’ Club
--Pelham Concerned Citizens
--Pelham Country Club
--Pelham Democratic Party
--Epworth League
--Epworth League, Secretary’s Book, 1911-1912
--Equal Suffrage League
--4-H Club of Pelham
--Pelham Garden Club
--Pelham Girl Scouts
--Pelham Hunting Club: “History of the Pelham Hunting Club” by Cynthia
Moran, [Ms., 2000, photocopy]
--Pelham Lions Club
--Pelham Lions Club: Charter Night, Oct. 23, 1982, [Booklet]
--Pelham Men’s Club
--Pelham Men’s Club, Membership Lists, 1973-1977
--Norwottuck Tribe of Red Men and Daughters of Pocahontas [Amherst]
--Pelham Old Home [Day] Association
--Pelham Old Home [Day] Association, Activities, 1917-1919
--Pelham Old Home [Day] Association, Activities, 1920-1929
--Pelham Old Home [Day] Association, Activities, 1930-1934
--Pelham Old Home [Day] Association, Activities, 1935-1939
--Pelham Old Home [Day] Association, Activities, 1940-1949
--Pelham Old Home [Day] Association, Activities, 1950-1966
--Reform Club
--Pelham Republican Party
--Pelham Rod and Reel Club [a.k.a. “Pelham Hunting Club”]
--The Townsend Club
--Village Hall Association
--West Pelham Extension Group
--Women’s Christian Temperance Union
--Works Progress Administration [W.P.A.]
Sub-series: Pelham Economics, Agriculture and Industry
Folder Descriptions:
--Pelham Agriculture
--Gregory H. Nobles, “Hardship in the Hilltowns: Agricultural Development and
Economic Conditions in Pelham, Massachusetts, 1740-1800,” [Ms., 1980]
--Pelham Charcoal Making
--Pelham Palm Leaf Hat Making
--Palm Leaf Hat Making Account Book, Nov. 24, 1834-May 15, 1835, [n.f.k.]
--Palm Leaf Hat Making Account Book, Jan. 7-Dec. 21, 1835, [n.f.k.]
--Tobacco Crop and Cigar Making
--Pelham Industry
--Pelham Employment and Wages
--Quabbin Well Supply
--Pelham Mills
--Pelham Mills: Allen Mill, West Pelham
--Pelham Mills: Vanstone’s Mill, Pelham Hollow
--Account Book: [Pelham Hollow?] Saw Mill, 1870-1872 and [West Pelham?]
Store, May-Aug. 1874.
--Pelham Dams
--Boiler Equipment Trust
--Human Resource Development Press: Catalogue, 2002, Vol. 2
--Bobbin Factory, Pelham Hollow
--Laurie Autio, “Spinning and Weaving in Early Pelham,” [Ms., 2003]
Sub-series: Pelham Stores
Folder Descriptions:
--Pelham Hill Store [a.k.a. “Boynton’s Store,” “Ely’s Store,” etc.]
--Store at 25 Amherst Road [a.k.a. “Brown’s Store,” “Royal Grocery,” “Knight’s
Royal Grocery,” “Henri’s,” etc.]
--Pelham Cross Roads Country Store, 378 Daniel Shays Highway
--Store on Northeast Corner of Amherst Road and Enfield Road
--Store on Southwest Corner of Amherst Road and Enfield Road
--Store on Site of Campbell’s Barn Between 134 and 142 Amherst Road
--Robinson’s Store, West Pelham
--Packardville Store
Sub-series: Utilities and Transportation
Folder Descriptions:
--West Pelham Trolley Line
--Pelham Utilities
--Telephone Service in Pelham
--Pelham Transportation
Sub-series: Pelham Post Offices and Mail Service
Folder Descriptions:
--Pelham Post Offices and Mail Service
--Kelvin Kindahl, “Postal History of the Swift River Valley,” 1980, [ms.]
Sub-series: Pelham Free Public Library
Folder Descriptions:
--Pelham Free Public Library
--Pelham Free Public Library, Activities of 2000
--Pelham Free Public Library, Activities of 2001
--Pelham Free Public Library, Activities of 2002
--Pelham Free Public Library, Activities of 2003
--Pelham Free Public Library, Activities of 2004
--Rotman, Patricia, “History of the Free Public Library of Pelham, Mass.,” [Ms.,
1978]
--Pelham Free Public Library: Repair of 1860 Beers Map of Hampshire County
--“The Friends of the Pelham Library Welcome You…” [Booklet, 2002]
--Patron Notes of Support, 2003
--“The Gneiss News”
Sub-series: Community Center of Pelham
Folder Descriptions:
--Community Center of Pelham
--Community Center of Pelham
--Architect’s Drawing of Community Center of Pelham by J. Stewart Roberts
Associates Inc., [1997]
--Patience K. Jackson, Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners,
Remarks at Groundbreaking of Community Center of Pelham, May 3, 1998,
[speech]
--“Capital Campaign: The Community Center of Pelham,” [Booklet, 1997]
--“Capital Campaign: The Community Center of Pelham,” by Barbara Benda
Jenkins and Cynthia Kuusisto, [Draft of Booklet, 1997]
--Capital Campaign: Contributor Information
--Capital Campaign: Barbara Benda Jenkins, Fundraising Papers, 1997-2001
Sub-series: Town of Pelham Buildings
Folder Descriptions:
--Community Hall [previously City School I], [a.k.a. “Village Hall”]
--Robert Lord Keyes, “Community Hall, Pelham, Massachusetts,” 1985,
[handout]
--Rhodes Building [previously “Rhodes School”]
--Highway/Police/Fire Department Building, 2 South Valley Road
--“Specifications for Addition to Pelham Town Building, Amherst Road, Pelham,
Mass.,” 1966, [1 of 2]
--“Specifications for Addition to Pelham Town Building, Amherst Road, Pelham,
Mass.,” 1966, [2 of 2]
--Town Pound
Sub-series: Lower Pioneer Valley Regional Planning Commission
Folder Descriptions:
--Information about Pelham’s Membership in Lower Pioneer Valley Regional
Commission, 1976-1977
--“A Future for the Past: Historic Preservation in the Lower Pioneer Valley,”
Lower Pioneer Valley Regional Planning Commission, 1974, [report]
--“A Future for the Past: Historic Preservation in the Lower Pioneer Valley,”
Lower Pioneer Valley Regional Planning Commission, 1974, [report, photocopied
excerpts]
Sub-series: Hampshire County Government
Folder Descriptions:
--Hampshire County Government
--County Tax on Pelham
--“Treasurer’s Report of the County of Hampshire, 1932,” [Booklet, 1932]
--Hampshire County Commissioners, “County, City and Town Officers for 1974
in Hampshire County,” [Booklet, 1974]
Sub-series: Massachusetts State Government
Folder Descriptions:
--State Senator, State Representative, State Districts
--Pelham and Ratification of the United States Constitution, 1788
--Redistricting Issue, 1926
Sub-series: Western Massachusetts
Folder Descriptions:
--Amherst and East Amherst
--Amherst and East Amherst: East Amherst Congregational Church, [Becomes
Jewish Community Center of Amherst]
--Amherst: Pelham and the University of Massachusetts-Amherst
--Amherst: “Amherst Past and Present,” by Anna Phillips See, [Booklet, 1930]
--Amherst: “In the Wake of the Hurricane, 1938,” [Booklet, 1938]
--Amherst: “Amherst, Massachusetts: A College Town in New England,”
[Booklet, 1956]
--“Amherst, Massachusetts Guide Map,” [n.d., ca. 1959]
--“Amherst, Massachusetts…A Storied Past…A Spirited Present,” [Booklet, n.d.,
ca. 1970s]
--Amherst, MA Historical Commission, “Lost Amherst,” 1980, [booklets]
--Amherst: “The Emily Dickinson House, Amherst, Massachusetts,” [Booklet,
1966]
--“Amherst’s Suggested Field Trips,” [Ms., n.a., n.d., ca. 1970s]
--Amherst and Greenfield: Reid, Gerald F., “150 Years: Heritage Bank,”
[Northampton: The Benjamin Co., 1984], [Booklet]
--East Amherst: Brookside Farm, Pelham Road
--Belchertown
--Belchertown 1810 List of Males Above Age 16
--Belchertown: Pelham Auto Service
--Colrain
--Colrain: “Colrain’s Early Days” by Charles H. McClellan, [n.d., ca. 1890s]
--Deerfield
--Hadley, MA Bicentennial Commission, “Hadley Then and Now, 1659-1976,”
1976, [booklets], [1 of 2]
--Hadley, MA Bicentennial Commission, “Hadley Then and Now, 1659-1976,”
1976, [booklet], [2 of 2]
--New Salem
--Northampton: Pelham and Smith College
--Shutesbury
--Shutesbury: Letter from Foxborough Overseers of the Poor to Shutesbury
Overseers of the Poor, Aug. 8, 1817, Regarding Job Easter [or Easterly]
--Shutesbury. Annual Report, 1918.
--“Shutesbury, 1761-1961,” 1961, [booklet, photocopy]
--Springfield: Springfield Water Supply System
--Western Massachusetts: “The ABC’s of the Pioneer Valley,” [Booklet, n.d.]
--Western Massachusetts: “The ABC’s of the Pioneer Valley,” [Booklet, n.d.]
Sub-series: Towns with Ties To Pelham
Folder Descriptions:
--Salem, N.Y.
--Salem, N.Y., “The Bicentennial Celebration of the Naming of the Town of
Salem, New York,” 1988, [booklet]
--Madison, N.Y.
--Richmond, N.H., William Bassett, “History of the Town of Richmond, Cheshire
County, New Hampshire,” 1884, [photocopied excerpts]
--Colrain, MA
Sub-series: Pelham Miscellaneous
Folder Descriptions:
--Pelham Gold Cane for Oldest Resident
--Hamilton Maternity Home, 16 Harkness Road
--Jones Nursing Home
--Daily Hampshire Gazette and Pelham
--Pelham’s Need for a Physician Controversy, Springfield Union, 1923
--Pelham Weather
--Baseball
--Miscellaneous
Sub-series: Pelham Town Government
Folder Descriptions:
--David A. Booth, “A Compendium of Votes, Bylaws, Special Acts, and General
Law Acceptances of the Town of Pelham,” 1974, [report]
--David A. Booth, “A Compendium of Votes, Bylaws, Special Acts, and General
Law Acceptances of the Town of Pelham,” 1974, [report]
--David A. Booth, “A Compendium of Votes, Bylaws, Special Acts, and General
Law Acceptances of the Town of Pelham,” 1974, [report]
--Pelham Town Officials
--Open Meeting Law
--Official Town Map
--Town Seal, Town Flag
--Ad Hoc Committee on Revenue and Taxes
--Administrative Assistant
--Animal Inspector, Animal Issues
--Arts Lottery Council
--Board of Assessors, Tax Rate
--Tax Valuations [Excerpts]
--1895 Tax Valuation: Massachusetts Statement for Taxable Year 1895 [Blank
form]
--Board of Assessors, “Town of Pelham Real Estate Map,” [Listing of Names of
Owners, Deeds, etc., n.d., ca. 1966]
--Pelham Real Estate Valuations, 1978, “Amherst Record,” Aug. 30, 1978,
[photocopy]
--Cemetery Commission
--Town Collector
--Conservation Commission
--Conservation Commission, “Conservation Plan for Pelham,” n.d., ca. 1975?,
[report]
--Conservation Commission, “Natural Resources Program of the Town of
Pelham, Massachusetts,” 1971, [report]
--Conservation Commission, “Natural Resources Program of the Town of
Pelham, Massachusetts,” 1971, [report]
--Conservation Commission, “Town of Pelham Open Space and Recreation
Plan,” [report, 2002]
--Council on Aging
--Council on Aging: Newsletter, 2000-2001
--Council on Aging: Newsletter, 2002
--Council on Aging: Newsletter, 2003
--Council on Aging: Newsletter, 2004
--Finance Committee
--Fire Department
--Fire Department: Activities of 1990-1995
--Fire Department: Activities of 1996
--Fire Department: Activities of 1997-1999
--Fire Department: Activities of 2000
--Fire Department: Activities of 2001
--Fire Department: Activities of 2002
--Fire Department: Activities of 2003
--Fire Department: Activities of 2004
--Growth Policy Committee
--Board of Health
--Historical Commission
--Town Clerk
--Town Clerk: “The Pelham Slate,” [Newsletter, 2001- ]
--Town Paupers
--Personnel Board
--Planning Board
--Police Reports, 1800s
--Police Reports, 1900-1969
--Police Department, 1970s
--Police Department, 1980s
--Police Department, 1990
--Police Department, 1991
--Police Department, 1992
--Police Department, 1993
--Police Department, 1994
--Police Department, 1995
--Police Department, 1996
--Police Department, 1997-1998
--Police Department, 1999
--Police Department, 2000
--Police Department, 2001
--Police Department, 2002
--Police Department, 2003
--Police Department, 2004
--Police Department, Jose A. Cabrera Alleged Assault on Artenstein Youth and
Others, 1995-1996
--Police Department, Budget Request, 1973
--Police Department, Pelham Police Study Committee Conclusions, 1975,
[report]
--Board of Public Welfare, Welfare Report, 1948
--Department of Public Works
--Recreation Commission
--Recreation Commission, Constitution, Jan. 15, 1974
--Recreation Commission, Susan Davis, “The Simard Park Plan Manual for the
Town of Pelham,” l974, [ms.]
--Board of Selectmen, 1800s
--Board of Selectmen, 1900-1959
--Board of Selectmen, 1960s
--Board of Selectmen, 1970s
--Board of Selectmen, 1980s
--Board of Selectmen, 1990
--Board of Selectmen, 1991
--Board of Selectmen, 1992
--Board of Selectmen, 1993
--Board of Selectmen, 1994
--Board of Selectmen, 1995
--Board of Selectmen, 1996
--Board of Selectmen, 1997
--Board of Selectmen, 1998
--Board of Selectmen, 1999
--Board of Selectmen, 2000--Board of Selectmen, Open Meeting Law Issue, 1975
--Board of Selectmen, Police Department Controversy, 1975
--Town Records and Archives
--Tree Warden
--Voter Registration: Federal, State and County Election Results
--Wage and Salary Study Committee, “Report of the Wage and Salary Study
Committee,” n.d., ca. 1965
--Zoning Board, Zoning Board of Appeals
--Zoning By-Laws
--Amherst Road Sewer Line Issue, 1996
--Bingo Issue, 1990
--Recycling Issues
--Surrender of Town Charter Issue, ca. 1800s
--Town Growth Questionnaire
Sub-series: Pelham Town Meeting
Folder Descriptions:
--Pelham Town Meeting, 1743-1869
--Pelham Town Meeting, 1870s
--Pelham Town Meeting, 1880s
--Pelham Town Meeting, 1890s
--Pelham Town Meeting, 1910-1915
--Pelham Town Meeting, 1916-1919
--Pelham Town Meeting, 1920s
--Pelham Town Meeting, 1930s
--Pelham Town Meeting, 1940s
--Pelham Town Meeting, 1950s
--Pelham Town Meeting, 1960s
--Pelham Town Meeting, 1970s
--Pelham Town Meeting, 1980s
--Pelham Town Meeting, 1990-1991
--Pelham Town Meeting, 1992-1994
--Pelham Town Meeting, 1996
--Pelham Town Meeting, 1997-1998
--Pelham Town Meeting, 1999
--Pelham Town Meeting, 2000
--Pelham Town Meeting, 2001
--Pelham Town Meeting, 2002
--Pelham Town Meeting, 2003
--Pelham Town Meeting, 2004
--Pelham Town Meeting, March, 1897, [photocopy of photograph]
--Town Warrants
--Town Warrant, Jan. 14, 1781, [photocopies]
--Town Meeting, March, 1964, Lawrence F. Willard, “222 Years Later…,”
“Yankee Magazine,” March, 1965, [1 of 4]
--Town Meeting, March, 1964, Lawrence F. Willard, “222 Years Later…,”
“Yankee Magazine,” March, 1965, [2 of 4]
--Town Meeting, March, 1964, Lawrence F. Willard, “222 Years Later…,”
“Yankee Magazine,” March, 1965, [3 of 4]
--Town Meeting, March, 1964, Lawrence F. Willard, “222 Years Later…,”
“Yankee Magazine,” March, 1965, [4 of 4]
--Town Caucus
Sub-series: Pelham Schools Before 1968
Folder Descriptions:
--Pelham Schools, 1738-1968
--City School I [Becomes Community Hall]
--City School II [Destroyed in Fire, 1918]
--City School III [ca. 1919-1966]
--City School III: “Memories of a Two-Room Schoolhouse…” by Leonie Yolande
Doncarlos Beha [Booklet and Ms., n.d. amd 2001]
--East School
--Pelham Hill School
--Pelham Hollow School, [Becomes Pelham Hollow Chapel]
--Rhodes School [Becomes Rhodes Building]
--South School
--West School [118 Amherst Road]
--West School, n.d., ca.1900?, [photocopies of photographs]
--Valley School
--Parents-Teachers Association Before 1968
--Massachusetts Board of Education, Letter to John D. Brooks, Amherst
Superintendent of Schools, Jan. 12, 1918
Sub-series: Pelham Schools After 1968
Folder Descriptions:
--Pelham Elementary School and Pelham School Committee, Activities of 1960s
--Pelham Elementary School and Pelham School Committee, Activities of 1970s
--Pelham Elementary School and Pelham School Committee, Activities of 1980s
--Pelham Elementary School and Pelham School Committee, Activities of 1990
--Pelham Elementary School and Pelham School Committee, Activities of 1991
--Pelham Elementary School and Pelham School Committee, Activities of 1992
--Pelham Elementary School and Pelham School Committee, Activities of 1993
--Pelham Elementary School and Pelham School Committee, Activities of 1994
--Pelham Elementary School and Pelham School Committee, Activities of 1995
--Pelham Elementary School and Pelham School Committee, Activities of 1996
--Pelham Elementary School and Pelham School Committee, Activities of 1997
--Pelham Elementary School and Pelham School Committee, Activities of 1998
--Pelham Elementary School and Pelham School Committee, Activities of 1999
--Pelham Elementary School and Pelham School Committee, Activities of 2000
--Pelham Elementary School and Pelham School Committee, Activities of 2001
--Pelham Elementary School and Pelham School Committee, Activities of 2002
--Pelham Elementary School and Pelham School Committee, Activities of 2003
--Pelham Elementary School and Pelham School Committee, Activities of 2004
--Elementary School Addition
--Pelham Parents-Teachers Association, Pelham Parents-Teachers Organization
--Pelham Elementary School, Pelham School Building Committee, “Q. and A.
About the School Building Project,” l999, [handout]
--Pelham Elementary School, “Pelham Press,” 1999-2001
--Pelham Elementary School, “Pelham Press,” 2002
--Pelham Elementary School, “Pelham Press,” 2003
--Pelham Elementary School, “Pelham Press,” 2004
--“Pelham, Massachusetts: A Teacher’s Resource Book,” [Ms., n.d., ca. 1970]
--“Pelham, Massachusetts: A Teacher’s Resource Book,” [Booklets, n.d., ca.
1970], [1 of 2]
--“Pelham, Massachusetts: A Teacher’s Resource Book,” [[Booklets, n.d., ca.
1970], [2 of 2]
--Pelham Elementary School: “Young Glory,” American Flag Photograph Project
by Jeff Pokines, [2000]
--Pelham Elementary School: “Four Reports on Pelham and Local History” by
2nd Grade Class and Teachers, [Ms. and Drawings, 2000-2001]
--Pelham Elementary School, “Summary of Facts Pertaining to New School
Construction in the Town of Pelham,” 1963, [report]
--Pelham Elementary School, “Proposed Elementary School, Pelham,
Massachusetts,” n.d., ca. 1966, [brochure]
--Pelham Elementary School, “Questions and Answers on a Proposal for a New
Elementary School in Pelham, Massachusetts,” 1966, [handout]
--Pelham Elementary School, “Report of Evaluation Team: Pelham Elementary
School,” 1968
--Pelham Elementary School, “Pelham Public School. Proposed Budget for July
l, 1980-June 30, 1981.”
--“Pelham Elementary School. Proposed Budget. 1981-82.”
--“Pelham Elementary School. Proposed Budget. 1982-83.”
--“Pelham Elementary School. Proposed Budget. 1983-84.”
--Pelham Elementary School. “Long-Range Space Needs Report,” 1998.
--Pelham Elementary School. Applications for Repair…of Elevators…” [2002]
Sub-series: Amherst-Pelham Regional School District
Folder Descriptions:
--Amherst-Pelham Regional School District
--New England School Developmental Council, “A Study of the Administrative
Organization of the Amherst-Pelham Public Schools,” 1980.
--“Building A New School: Report of the Amherst-Pelham Regional District
School Committee,” 1955
--Amherst-Pelham Regional District School Committee, 1960, [report]
--“Amherst-Pelham Regional Schools. Proposed Budget. 1981-82.”
--Regional Schools Committees, “Facts For You: A Report to the Public,” 1963,
[booklet]
--Amherst-Pelham Regional School District Committee, Annual Report, in
“Town of Amherst Annual Report, 1969,” 1969.
COLLECTION/SERIES: PELHAM GENEALOGY
Folder Descriptions:
--A
--Abbey
--Abbott
--Abbott, Cheney [ca. 1799-1873], Account Book, ca. 1831-ca. 1844
--Abbott, Cheney [ca. 1799-1873], Account Book, ca. 1838-ca. 1859
--Abercrombie
--Abercrombie, Joel [1815-1897], and Family of, [Pelham and Florence
Residents]
--“Abercrombie, Robert, Jonathan Edwards, and The Great Awakening,” by
Ronald Story, [Ms., 2001]
--Abramson, Doris
--Adamcek
--Adams
--Adamites
--Adriance
--Adriance, Flora May Ely [1891-1980], Oral History Interview, 1979,
[transcription typescript, pp. 5-12]
--Agoglia
--Aiken
--Aldrich
--Allen
--Allen Family and Amherst Water Company
--Amsdell
--Anderson
--Anger
--Angus
--Anthony
--Armstrong
--Arnold
--Atkinson
--Autio
--Avery
--B
--Babbitt
--Bacon
--Bailey
--Baker
--Baker, Isaac, Sr. [1734-1820], Papers, 1761-1781, [Typescripts of copies
found in Tully, N.Y., 1965]
--Baker, Rachel [b. 1794] [a.k.a. “The Sleeping Preacher of Marcellus, N.Y.”]
--Baker, Rachel [b. 1794]: Excerpt from “Dark Trees to the Wind: A Cycle of
York State Years,” by Carl Carmer [1949]
--Ball
--Ballard
--Ballou
--Barber
--Barber, Benjamin [1751-1822], Correspondence of Mary Sanford Reynolds
with Pelham Historical Society, 1980-1982
--Bardwell
--Barnes
--Barrett
--Barrows
--Bartlett
--“Bartlett, Lemuel [1782-1832], Descendants of,” by Robert Lord Keyes, Ms.,
2001
--Bartok
--Barton
--Behre
--Benjamin
--Bennett
--Benson
--Berube
--Berry
--Bester
--Betjeman
--Bias, Thomas and Gould Families: Photograph Copies
--Bigelow
--Bishop
--Blackmer
--Blair
--Blake
--Blodgett
--Bohmer
--Boomer
--Booth
--Botkin
--Boyden
--Boynton
--Boynton, Miranda [1820-1906]: “Where is Miranda Boynton Buried?” by
Robert Lord Keyes, [Ms., 2000]
--Bradley
--Brailey/Braley
--Bray
--Briggs
--Brainard
--Brennan
--Brewer
--Brewster
--Brezinski, Thomas
--Brigmam
--Britt
--Brock
--Brown
--Brown, Warren R. [ca. 1873-1957], [Amherst Realtor]
--Bruce
--Bryant
--Buck
--Buffum
--Burek
--Burgess
--Burroughs, Stephen [b. 1765] [a.k.a. “Reverend Mr. Davis”], [“Imposter
Minister” in Pelham, 1784]
--Burroughs, Stephen [b. 1765], “Burroughs Be Damned!” by Samuel Carter III,
“Yankee Magazine,” Nov. 1967, [photocopy]
--Burroughs, Stephen [b. 1765], “Stephen Burroughs” Chapter from “Quabbin:
The Lost Valley” by Donald W. Howe, 1951, [photocopied excerpts]
--Burroughs, Stephen [b. 1765], “Pelham and the Imposter” by Helen Gould
Bess Mitchell [1900-1974], 1950, [play, typescripts]
--Burroughs, Stephen [b. 1765], “The Pelham Rogue” by George F. Whicher,
n.d., ca. 1930’s, repr. “The Country Side Magazine,” Summer, 1981
--Burrows
--Bush
--Butterworth
--Buxton
--Bynum
--C
--Cadrett
--Cadwell
--Cahill
--Cameron
--Campbell
--Campbell Family, “An Evening at Campbell’s Bakery,” by Linda Lee Campbell
Hanscomb, Pelham Historical Society Meeting, 1998, [program]
--Campbell Family: M. Louise Brewer [1861-1948], Letter to Helen Alice Ward
Campbell [1899-1979], Jan. 1, 1943, [Photocopy]
--Campbell, Paul Hardy, Sr. [1898-1992], Oral History Interview, 1979,
[transcription typescript]
--Campbell, Paul Hardy, Sr. [1898-1992], “A Biography of Paul W. [sic]
Campbell,” by Nick Miller, 1980, [ms.]
--Campbell, Paul Hardy, Jr. [b. 1921], “Final Visit to a Flooded Town,”
Massachusetts Wildlife, Winter, 1991.
--Canedy [Becomes Kennedy]
--Canterbury
--Carey/Cary
--Carmichael
--Carlson
--Carpenter
--Casagrande
--Caswell
--Cathey
--Cazier, Mathias [Rev.] [d. 1837], [Minister at East Pelham]
--Chaffee
--Chaffee, Jessica Emily Ballou [1878-1968], “Pelham Song,” 1935, [music
sheet]
--Chaffee, William Sumner [1885-1971], Schoolboy Essay, n.d.
--Chaffee, William Sumner [1885-1971], “Pelham” Chapter from “The
Hampshire History,” [1964]
--Chamberlain
--Chamberlain, Norris [b.ca. 1834], Pension Claim, 1879
--Champlin, Dennis V. [1834-1903]
--Chapin
--Chapman
--Chapman, Oliver Smith [1811-1877], Biography, n.a., 1977, [booklet,
photocopy]
--Chase
--Chickering
--Childs
--Chisholm
--Claeson
--Clapp
--Clark
--Clegg
--Clement
--Cleveland
--Clough
--Clowes
--Coar, Arthur H. [Rev.]
--Cochran
--Cohen
--Colditz
--Cole
--Collis
--Colton
--Colton, John Wadsworth [1883-1950], Lantern Slide Show Script, Pelham Old
Home Day, Sept. 10, 1949, [Ms., photocopy]
--Comstock
--Comtois
--Conant
--Conkey [a.k.a. “McConkey”]
--Conkey Family, Genealogy, n.a., n.d., Presented by Sylvia Conkey,
Belchertown, MA., Sept. 1991
--Conkey, Ithamar [Judge] [1788-1862]
--Conkey, Ithamar [Judge] [1788-1862], As Judge of Probate
--Conkey, Joshua [ca. 1734-1814], And the Battle on Snowshoes [1758]
--Conley
--Connolly, Marianne Thespina [b. 1957]
--Conway
--Cook
--Cook Family, “The Cookes of Rhode Island—Descendants of Walter Cook…” by
Ruth Cooke, 1901, [photocopied excerpts]
--Cooley
--Coolidge, Calvin [1872-1933], [U.S. President]
--Cooper
--Copeland
--Corbitt
--Correia
--Cortright
--Costello
--Cowden
--Cowen
--Cowls
--Cramer
--Crawford
--Crosby
--Crosier
--Crossman
--Crossett
--Cummings
--Cundall Family, Genealogy by Steve Nowotarski, 1994, [family group sheets,
etc.]
--Currier
--Cushman
--Cushman, Ethel Lillian Thornton [1901-1992], Oral History with Barbara
Benda Jenkins, June 26, 1979, [transcript]
--Cutler
--Cutler, Isaac Guernsey [Dr.] [1782-1834], List of Births Attended in Pelham,
1807-1833, [typescript copy by Frederick C. Warner, 1970, photocopy]
--Cutler, Rev. Robert [1721-1786], Descendants of, Family Line of Henry
Franklin Cutler [1862-1945]: Excerpts from Richard Ward Day, “A New England
Schoolmaster,” [1950]
--Cutting
--D
--Dane
--Davenport
--David
--Davidson
--Davis
--“Davis-Barden Genealogy” by Hester Quinque Davis White [1914-1995], Ms.,
1983
--Davison
--Dean
--Dexter, Rufus [ca. 1799-1883] [a.k.a. “Rufus Dodge”] and Thankful Dodge
[1798-1862]: Genealogical Source Materials
--Dick
--Dickinson
--Dickinson, Emily [1830-1886], [American Poet]
--Dillon, Hannah Smith [1822-1884], “In Memory of Hannah S., Wife of Sidney
Dillon,” n.a., n.d., ca. l884, [booklet, photocopy]
--Dillon, Sidney [b. 1812]
--Dillon, Sidney [b. 1812], “Union Pacific: Birth of a Railroad” by Muray Klein,
1987, [photocopied excerpts]
--Dodge
--Dore
--Doubleday
--Dougan
--Draper
--Draper, Lewis Leprelite [1801-1890]: Drapel Hotel, Northampton
--Duda
--Dudley
--Dunbar, John [b. 1793]: “John Dunbar” by James Edward Wood Mattern,
Ms., 2001
--Dunbar, John [b. 1793]: Former Farm at 574 North Gulf Road, Belchertown,
MA
--Duncan
--Dunlap
--Dunsett, Cato
--Dyar
--Dyer, Walter Alden [1878-1943]
--Dyer, Walter Alden [1878-1943], “American Furniture of the 18th Century,”
[Booklet, n.d.]
--Dyer, Walter Alden [1878-1943], “David Grayson: Adventurer,” [Booklet,
1928], [1 of 2]
--Dyer, Walter Alden [1878-1943], “David Grayson: Adventurer,” [Booklet,
1928], [2 of 2]
--Dyer, Walter Alden [1878-1943], “The Vision of Anton,” [Booklet, n.d.]
--Dyer, Walter Alden [1878-1943], “Embattled Farmers,” [Booklet on Shays’
Rebellion, 1931]
--Dyer, Walter Alden [1878-1943], Magazine Articles, 1922-1931, n.d.,
[photocopies]
--Dyer, Walter Alden [1878-1943], Magazine Articles, 1924-1936, n.d.,
[photocopies]
--Dyer, Walter Alden [1878-1943] and Murial Worthington Childs Dyer [18841967], “Walter and Murial Dyer” by Ruth Hibbard Romer [1901-1992], n.d.,
[ms., photocopy]
--Dzendolet
--E
--Eaton
--Eaton, Heman D. [1842-1915], Genealogy, Assembled by Hugh Lamb, Jr.
--Eaton, Marson, Sr. [1769-1845], and Walter Eaton [b. 1763] Genealogy, [n.a.,
n.p., n.d.]
--Ecclestone
--Edson
--Edwards
--Edwards, Jonathan [Rev.] [1703-1758]
--Edwards, Jonathan [Rev.] [1703-1758]: “The True Excellency of a Gospel
Minister,” [Rev. Abercrombie Ordination Sermon, Pelham, Aug. 30, 1744]
--Eiseman
--Eldridge
--Ely
--Ely, Charles E., [Northampton Resident and Owner of 290 Amherst Road]
--Ewell
--Ewing
--Ezbicki
--F
--Fairbanks
--Fales
--“Fales Family: Line of Edward A. Fales [1840-1919], by Robert Lord Keyes,
[Ms., 2002]
--Farnham
--Farrar
--“Farrington, Seth L. [1818-1848], Descendants of,” by Robert Lord Keyes,
[Ms., 2001]
--Faulkingham
--Fay
--Felton
--Fennessey
--Fenton
--Ferguson
--Fetler
--Field
--Firmin
--Fish
--Fisher
--Fitch
--Fitton
--Fitton, Ethel, Pelham Town Hall Complex Post Cards Owned by Ethel Fitton,
n.d., ca. 1970
--Fitts
--Fleming
--Fleury
--Foerster
--Foerster, William J. [1900-1989], “The First Trail Marker at Bourne,”
[Amherst, MA: Privately Printed, 1984], [Booklet]
--Foote
--Foote, Mary Zeleznicky [1898-1972], Stock Dividend Check, 1865
--Forman
--Foster
--Foster, Abigail Kelley [1810-1887], [American Abolitionist, Women’s Rights
Activist]
--Foster, Abigail Kelley [1810-1887], “Abby Kelley Foster” by Paul J. Bigelow,
[ms., photocopy, 1984]
--French
--Frost
--Frost, Robert Lee [1874-1963], [American Poet]
--Frost, William Butler [1815-1886]: Genealogical Source Materials
--Fuller
--G
--Gallagher
--Gardner
--Gaskell
--Gaskell, Cook and Thurber Families, Genealogy, Correspondence of Harry
Woodbury, Robert Lord Keyes, et al, 1990-1991, [photocopies]
--Gaskell, Lebbeus Cook [1808-1868]
--Gaskell, William, Jr. [1778-1822], “The Snow-Estes Ancestry” by Nora E.
Snow, 1939, [photocopied excerpts]
--Gates
--Gay
--Gaylord
--Genung
--Giat
--Gibbs
--Gibbs Family: “The Descendants of Matthew and Mary (Bradish) Gibbs Who
Settled in Sudbury, MA,” by Norma Lovett Gregory Flude, [Ms., 2001]
--Gilbert
--Gilmore
--Gilmore, Alice Moore [ca. 1717-1774]
--Gilmore, James, References in Land Records to, by Robert Lord Keyes, [Ms.,
2003]
--Gilmore Family: Correspondence and Enclosures of Joyce Taylor to Robert
Lord Keyes, July 21, 2002, [Photocopies]
--Giroux
--Gladstone
--Glazier
--Glennon
--Glover
--Goff, Harry Andrew [1864-1927], [a.k.a. “Andy Goff”]
--Gold
--Goodale/Goodell
--Goodell, Asahel [1810-1900], [Belchertown resident], Estate of: Articles About
--Goodell, Asahel [1810-1900], [Belchertown resident], Guardianship Case of
--Goodell Family: Copies of Family Photographs in Pelham During World War II
and at Adriance Airplane Spotting Station
--Goodrich
--Gould
--Gould Family: “Descendants of Stephen Gould,” by Robert Lord Keyes, [Ms.,
2002]
--Gould, Linda Gray [d. 1830]: Speculations about Linda’s Birth and Parentage
by Craig Beeman, [2000]
--Graham, Richard Crouch [Rev.] [ca. 1739-1771], [Pelham’s Second Minister]
--Grandy
--Graton
--Graves
--Graves, Sarah Hinds [1782-1844]
--Gray
--Gray Family Genealogy and Time Line by Alden Johnson of Ashfield, [2003]
--Gray, John, Sr. [ca. 1660-ca. 1739]: “John Gray Basis of Pelham and
Ashfield,” by Alden Gray, [Ms., 2003]
--Gray, John, Sr. [ca. 1660-ca. 1739]: “John Gray Basis of Pelham and
Ashfield,” by Alden Gray, [Genealogical Chart, 2003]
--Gray, Jonathan, Jr. [1762-1842] Genealogy by Nancy Gray Garvin, [Ms.,
2003]
--Gray and Harkness Families, Genealogy by Pauline H. Lawrence, 1991,
[family group sheets]
--Greanier
--Green/Greene
--Greene, Francis Coles [Dr.] [1827-1899], Memorial Book, [n.d., ca. 1899]
--Gridley
--Griffin
--Grout
--Gurney
--Guyott
--H
--Halbert Family: “Records Compiled of the Early Halbert Family in America by
Rev. Le Roy Halbert, Meridian, N.Y.,” [Ms. photocopy, 1908]
--Hall
--Hamilton
--Hamilton, Obadiah [1760-1828], “Obadiah Hamilton, 1760-1828,” by Beverly
J. Nelson, [Ms., 1995]
--Hammersley
--Hanks
--Hannigan
--Hannum
--Hanson
--Harkness
--Harkness Family: “Eolia,” The Edward Stephen Harkness [1874-1840] Estate,
Waterford, Ct.
--Harkness Family: Mary Louise Baldwin Tussing D.A.R. Application, [1961,
photocopy]
--Harkness Family, Genealogy by Deborah Elizabeth Harkness, 1992, [ms.,
family group sheets, etc.]
--Harkness, John Campbell: “John Campbell Harkness Master List,” by
Deborah E. Harkness, [Ms., 1991]
--Harlow
--Harrington
--Harris
--Hart
--Harvey
--Haskins
--Hatt
--Hawley
--Hawley Family, Genealogy Collected by Roy Graves Hawley [1915-1998],
[photocopied family documents]
--Hawley, Roy Graves [1915-1998], Military Service Record, 1943-1946
--Hayden
--Hayes
--Haven
--Hecht, Jeff, “On 202,” [short story, 1990, photocopy]
--Heed
--Henefield
--Hepler
--Herrick
--Hicks
--Hildreth
--Higgins
--Hillel
--Hills
--Hinds
--Hinds, Nehemiah [Dr.] [1745-1825], “Quabbin: The Lost Valley,” by Donald W.
Howe, 1951, [photocopied excerpts and reproductions of Revolutionary War
documents]
--Hodgkins
--Holcomb
--Holden
--Holland
--Holsman
--Holzhauer
--Hondrogen
--Hood
--Hopkins
--Horr [a.k.a.”Hoar”]
--Horr, Hannah M. Smith [1842-1927], Administratrix Sale of Real Estate,
[Poster, 1877]
--Hosmer, Jean E. [1954-1999], Murder of, and William J. Bernotas [19531999], Suicide of, Northampton, MA, Oct. 25, 1999
--Houston
--Howard
--Howe
--Howes Brothers, [Ashfield Photographers]
--Howland
--Howlett
--Hubbard
--Hudson
--Hunt
--Hunt, John Partridge [1901-1992], Oral History Interview, 1981,
[transcription typescript]
--Hunter
--Hutchinson
--Hutchinson, Amos [ca. 1800-1880], Genealogy by Elizabeth Lindsey, [family
group sheets, etc., photocopies]
--Hyde
--I
--Ingram
--J
--Jacobs
--Jacque
--Jeannotte
--Jenks
--Jenkins
--Jennings
--Jensen
--Jensen, Laura S. [b. 1955], in Pelham Town Hall, [UMass Magazine, Winter,
2000]
--Jewett
--Jillson
--Johnson
--Johnson, Adam [1753-1823], [Pelham Shaysite, Benefactor of Johnson
Chapel, Amherst College]
--“Johnson Family of Pelham, Massachusetts,” by Robert Lord Keyes, [Ms.,
2002]
--“Johnson Family of Pelham and Prescott, MA: Listings in Estate Index,
Hampshire County Probate Court,” by Robert Lord Keyes, [Ms., 2002]
--Johnson, Thomas, Sr. [d. 1774]: “Abstract of Hampshire County Probate Box
79, No. 24, Thomas Johnson,” by Robert Lord Keyes, [Ms., 2002]
--Jones
--Jones Family, “The Families of Charles Jones and Lois Smith” by Charles F.
Jones, 1993-1997, [genealogy charts]
--Jones, John [Rev.] [1818-1905], “Some New England Marrages” by Joseph
Cavalho III, “National Genealogical Society Quarterly”, June, 1981, [lists of
marriages performed by Rev. Jones]
--Joy
--Julian
--K
--Karch
--Kavanagh
--Keedy
--Keegan
--Keep
--Keith
--Kelley/Kelly
--Kellogg
--Kendall
--Kennedy
--Kenny
--Kepes
--Kerensky
--Keyes
--Keyes Family: “Descendants of Pardon Keyes” by Robert Lord Keyes, [Ms.,
2002]
--Keyes Family Birthday Book Transcriptions, [Ms., 2002]
--Keyes Family Photographs Owned by Eunice Julia Keyes Hannigan, [Laser
copies]
--Keyes, Julia Peckrule [1895-1990]: “Deutschland Antecenents” by Eunice
Julia Keyes Hannigan [b. 1917], [Ms. Photocopy, n.d., 1990s]
--Keyes, Pearl Pease, Sr. [1891-1982] and Julia Peckrule Keyes [1895-1990]: A
Biography by Eunice Julia Keyes Hannigan [b. 1917], [Ms. Photocopy, n.d.,
1990s]
--Kidd
--Kimball
--Kimball, Evelyn D. [1909-1982], Oral History Cards, [n.d., ca. 1979]
--Kindahl
--King
--Kingman
--Kneeland
--Knihnicki
--Knight
--Knowles
--Knox
--Koeber
--Kostoroski
--Kuczma
--Kurtz
--Kwartler, Eli [b. 1929]
--L
--Labelle
--Lamb
--Lambert
--Lamson
--Lane
--Lange
--LaPlante
--Lapointe
--Larson
--Latham
--Lauder
--Laurie
--Lawton
--Leach, Jonathan, Sr. [1741-1828]: “Jonathan Leach, Sr. Family of Pelham,
Massachusetts,” by Robert Lord Keyes, [Ms., 2000]
--Lederle
--Leonard
--Lerner
--Leschen
--Lesure
--Levin
--Lewis
--Lichtenberg
--Likens
--Lincoln
--Lincoln Family: “The Lincoln Line” by Quentin R. Kuehl [ms., 2000]
--Lindsey
--Lindsey Family, Genealogy by Elizabeth Ann Lindsey and Arthur L. Lindsey,
Jr., 1992, [ms., family group sheets, etc., photocopies]
--Livermore, Abraham, Sr. [1749-1826], Family of, by Robert Lord Keyes, [Ms.,
2003]
--Livingston
--Lockwood
--Lolley
--Long
--Lovejoy
--Lovern
--Lovern, Frederick Eugene [1912-1997]: Oral History Interview, Jan. 2, 1995,
in “The Secrets of Life: An Interview Project with the Elders of Some Pioneer
Valley Towns” by Ellen Evert Hopman, [Ms., 1995]
--Lovett
--Lucore
--Lumley
--Lumley, Albert Ernest [1902-1981] and Mabel H. Brinn Lumley [1908-1989],
“Al and Mabel Lumley’s Love Lilacs…” by Nancy Frazier. “Yankee Magazine,”
May, 1976, [1 of 2]
--Lumley, Albert Ernest [1902-1981] and Mabel H. Brinn Lumley [1908-1989],
“Al and Mabel Lumley’s Love Lilacs…” by Nancy Frazier, “Yankee Magazine,”
May, 1976, [2 of 2]
--Lyman
--M
--MacDonald
--Mace
--Machin
--Mack
--Macumber
--Magill
--Mahan
--Mailloux
--Mallory
--Marion
--Marsh
--Marshall
--Martell
--Martin
--Mason
--May
--Mayhew
--McAndrews
--McCollister
--McConnell
--McCormick
--McCulloch
--McCulloch, Sarah Peebles [1719-1804]
--McFarland
--McGarrett
--McLean
--McMaster
--McNeal
--McNitt
--McNitt, Alexander [1720-1817], Genealogy by Marjorie Davis, 1992, [ms.,
photocopies]
--McNutt
--McQuillen
--Mellen [a.k.a. “McMellen,” “McMillen,” etc.]
--Mellen Family, Genealogy by David Mellen [1783-1854] [former Prescott, MA
Town Clerk], 1853, [typescript copy, 1993, photocopy]
--Mellen Family: Chase Mellen, “Genealogy of the Children of William Proctor
Mellen,” [1907]
--Mellen, Patrick [Dea.] [1724-1797] [a.k.a. “Patrick McMullen”], Deed for Land
in Pelham, 1748, [typescript photocopy]
--Meno
--Merchant
--Merricle
--Merrill
--Merritt
--Messenger
--Messier
--Metcalf
--Millar
--Miller
--Mitchell
--Mitchell, Sadie Cooley Tillson [1890-1978], Scrapbook, 1895-1896
--Moakler
--Montgomery
--Montgomery Family, Genealogy by Helen T. Exton, [correspondence, 1992,
Bible Records, etc., photocopies]
--Montgomery, John [1791-1856], “Descendants of John Montgomery,” by
Robert Lord Keyes, [Ms., 2000]
--Moore
--Morales
--Moran
--Morehead
--Morrison
--Morse
--Morgan
--Moulton
--Mower
--Moyer
--Muldoon, Paul [b. 1951], [Irish Poet]
--Munsell
--Murray
--Murray, Harold F. [1896-1978], [Pelham Mail Carrier]
--Myrick [a.k.a. “Mirick”]
--N
--Neal
--Nehus
--Newell
--Nice
--Nice, Margaret Morse [b. ca. 1884], “A Study of a Nesting of Black-Throated
Blue Warblers,” The Auk, July, 1930
--Nice, Margaret Morse [b. ca. 1884], “A Study of a Nesting of Magnolia Warblers
(Dendroica Magnolia),” The Wilson Bulletin, December, 1926
--Nice, Margaret Morse [b. ca. 1884], “A Study of Two Nests of the BlackThroated Green Warbler,” Part I, Bird-Banding, July, 1932
-- Nice, Margaret Morse [b. ca. 1884], “A Study of Two Nests of the BlackThroated Green Warbler,” Part II, Bird-Banding, October, 1932
--Nice, Margaret Morse [b. ca. 1884], “A Study of Two Nests of the Ovenbird,”
The Auk, April, 1931
--Nice, Margaret Morse [b. ca. 1884], “Behavior of Blackburnian, Myrtle, and
Black-Throated Blue Warblers, with Young,” The Wilson Bulletin, June, 1926
--Nice, Margaret Morse [b. ca. 1884], “Further Notes on the Singing of the
Magnolia Warbler,” The Wilson Bulletin, December, 1927
--Nice, Margaret Morse [b. ca. 1884], “Habits of the Blackburnian Warbler in
Pelham, Massachusetts,” The Auk, January, 1932
--Nice, Margaret Morse [b. ca. 1884], “Magnolia Warblers in Pelham,
Massachusetts, in 1928,” The Wilson Bulletin, December, 1928
--Nice, Margaret Morse [b. ca. 1884], “Observations at a Nest of Myrtle
Warblers,” The Wilson Bulletin, March, 1930
--Nice, Margaret Morse [b. ca. 1884], “Summer Birds of Pelham,
Massachusetts,” Massachusetts Audubon Bulletin, Vol. 17 (7), pp. 13-15, [n.d.,
ca. 1933]
--Nice, Margaret Morse [b. ca. 1884] and Leonard Blaine Nice, Birds in Pelham,
Magazine Articles, 1926-1933, [photocopies]
--Nickerson
--Nicolay
--Nims
--Nissenbaum
--Noon
--Nutter
--O
--O’Brien
--O’Neil
--O’Rourke
--Olanyk
--Olds
--Oliveira
--Oliver
--Oppenheim
--Orr
--Orrell
--Osborn
--Osgood
--Otis
--Otis Family, “Family Record of Isaac Otis, Sr. [1788-ca. 1860] and His Wife
Tryphena Smith Otis [1793-1858,” n.a., 1859, [booklet, photocopy]
--Otis, Tryphena Smith [1793-1858], “A Discourse Delivered…at the Funeral of
Mrs. Tryphena Smith Otis…” by Rev. William Lord, 1858, [booklet, photocopy]
--Otis, William Smith [1813-1839], [Inventor of the Steam Shovel]
--Otis, William Smith [1813-1839], Genealogy by George Philip Smith, 1999,
[family group sheets, photocopies]
--Owen
--Owen, Olive [d. 1993], [Amherst Resident]
--Ozereko
--P
--Packard
--Paddock
--Page
--Page, Barbarina Page [b. 1877], Autograph Book, 1887-1894
--Page, Benjamin, Sr. [Capt.] [1829-1913]
--Page, John Alfred [1861-1940] and Ada Mary Page Page [1858-1930], Family
of, Two Photograph Copies [ca. 1891]
--Page Family: “The Page Family,” by Violet Reola Page Smith [1895-1950],
Poem, 1910, [photocopy]
--Paige
-- Paige, Christopher W., Sr. [1785-1866], Deed Fragments [Possibly for Land in
Hardwick, MA?], 1821, n.d.
-- Paige, Christopher W., Sr. [1785-1866], [Prescott Resident], Account of John
Briggs, June 1829-May 14, 1834
--Paine
--Palisin
--Palley
--Parents
--Pariseau
--Park
--Parker
--Parkinson
--Parmenter
--Parmenter, Charles Oscar [1833-1913], [Author of “History of Pelham” (1898)]
--Parmenter, Charles Oscar [1833-1913], Articles in Hampshire County
Journal, 1885-1892
--Partridge
--Partridge, Louise Hanson [1906-2002]: “Reflective Thoughts” by Rev. Jay W.
Fiegenbaum, [Eulogy, 2002, photocopy]
--Patrill
--Patterson
--Pease
--Peck
--Peebles, [a.k.a. “Peables,” “Piebols,” etc.]
--Peebles Family, “Oldest Peebles Descendants in Wisconsin” by Leslie Peebles,
W.S.G.S. Newsletter, Jan. 1971, [photocopy]
--Peebles, James Martin [1822-1922], Biography by Linda Pendleton, [Ms.,
2001]
--Peeso
--Pelham, Henry [Lord] [1696-1754], [a.k.a. “Lord Pelham”]
--Pemberton
--Penn
--Peppard
--Perou
--Perry
--Petersen
--Peterson
--Pettengill
--Pierce/Peirce
--Pike
--Pitman
--Plant
--Plotkin
--Pluff
--Potter
--Powell
--Powers
--Pratt
--Prescott [family]
--Presho
--Pryor
--Purnell
--R
--Ramsdell
--Randall
--Randolph
--Rankin
--Rankin, Daniel [1760-1840], Revolutionary War Pension File, 1831-1938,
[photocopies]
--Rankin Family, Genealogy by James A. Kelch, 1999, [ms., photocopy]
--Rankin-Page Farm, North Valley Road [ca. 1805-1914]
--Redding
--Reed
--Rhodes
--Rhodes, Joel [ca. 1805-1864], “Poem to Joel Rhodes,” n.a., n.d., [typescript
copy, 1985]
--Riccelli, Carlene
--Rice
--Richardson
--Rider
--Roberts
--Robie
--Robinson
--Robinson, Marion Carlton [1916-1991], Oral History Interview, 1991,
[transcription typescript]
--Robinson, Marion Carlton [1916-1991], Oral History Interview, 1991,
[transcription typescript]
--Rock
--Rodkey
--Rohde
--Romer
--Romer, Alfred Sherwood [1894-1973]: Biography by Joe Cain, [1999]
--Rose
--Ross
--Rotman
--Rowland
--Roy
--Royce
--Russell
--Russell, John [b. ca. 1807], Petition to Massachusetts General Court to Set
His Farm Off to Amherst, 1854, [photocopy]
--Ryavec
--Ryerson, Andre [b. 1936]
--S
--Sampson
--Sanders
--Sanderson
--Sauter
--Savage
--Sawyer
--Scaden
--Schmalz
--Schonhaut
--Scoon
--Searle
--Sears
--Seitz
--Selfridge
--Selfridge, Oliver, Jr. [1759-1845], Revolutionary War Pension File, 1831-1934,
[photocopies]
--Selfridge, Robert [1748-ca. 1835], Revolutionary War Pension File, 1820-1932,
[photocopies]
--Sellew
--Serra
--Shaw
--Shaw, Jennie E. Abby Warren [1862-1912], Murder of, and George Pliny Shaw
[1859-1912], Suicide of, Oct. 1912
--Shepard
--Shepard, Floretta Sally Ward [1889-1980] [a.k.a. “Sally Shepard”], Oral
History Interview, 1979, [transcription typescript, photocopy]
--Shores
--Shores, David [1823-1907] and Emeline Amanda Paul Shores [1826-1920]:
50th Anniversary Invitation Card, Dec. 5, 1895
--Shumway
--Shumway, Jeanne L. [b. 1945]: Profile in Hampshire Life, May 19, 2000
--Shurbert
--Sibley
--“Sibley, Ebenezer, Descendants of,” by Robert Lord Keyes, Ms., 2001
--Siddall
--Simard
--Sirulnik
--Sisson
--Slate
--Slater
--Slayton
--Sloan
--Sloan, Jonathan [1785-1854]: Letter of Robert B. Butler to Pelham Free Public
Library, Oct. 16, 1981
--Smith
--Smith, Anna Harkness [1790-1837], “Family Record of Ichabod Smith” by
Henry C. Smith and Amelia R. Gibbs, n.d., [ms., typescript photocopy, 1978]
--Smith, James Avery, [Pelham Minister, 1980s]
--Smith, William [Lt.] [1780-1814]: “Plan of Land Sold by S[amuel] F[owler]
Dickinson [1775-1838], Esq. to Lut. Wm. Smith,” [n.d., site unknown].
--Smolin
--Snow
--Sonderegger
--Southworth
--Spalding
--Spear
--Spencer
--Spencer, Dr. George Carl [1870-1942] and Lucy Ella Whitney Spencer, Pelham
References to, by Tobert Lord Keyes, [Ms., 2002]
--Squires
--St. Clair
--St. Pierre
--Stancer
--Staples
--Stebbins
--Stetson
--Stetson, Charles [1858-1881], [Murdered in Pelham, 1881]
--Stewart
--Stevens
--Still
--Stoddard
--Stoddard, John [Col.] [b. 1682], [Pelham Land Grantor, 1738-1739]
--Stone
--Stone, Mary Susannah Nash Squires [ca. 1844-1920], Pension Fraud Case,
1909, [newsclippings, photocopies]
--Stowell
--Stranlund
--Stratton
--Stromgren
--Strong
--Stuart
--Sullivan
--Summerlin
--Sumner
--Suprenant
--Swan
--T
--Tate, James [b. 1943], [Poet]
--Tate, James [b. 1943], “Police Story,” [Chapbook, 1999]
--Taylor
--Taylor, George Rogers and Mary Earlham Coll Henderson Taylor [b. 1898]
--Taylor, Mary Earlham Coll Henderson [b. 1898], Oral History Interview, 1979,
[transcription typescript, photocopy with notations by Mary Taylor]
--Temkin
--Teraspulsky
--Thayer
--Thelwell, Michael [b. 1939], [Civil Rights Activist]
--Thompson
--Thompson, Daniel [Dr.] [1800-1883]
--Thornton
--Thornton, Kenneth M. [1900-1984]: 1855 Deed to Property in New York City
[Document Once Owned by Kenneth M. Thornton.]
--Thornton, Matthew [Dr.] [1714-1803], [New Hampshire Signer of Declaration
of Independence and Pelham Land Owner]
--Thorp
--Thurber
--Thurston
--“Thurston and Hill Families,” by Robert Lord Keyes, [Ms., 2002]
--Tillson
--Titus
--Titus, Sylvester [1772-1841], Pelham References to, by Robert Lord Keyes,
[Ms., 2002]
--Todd, Mabel Loomis [1856-1932], [Amherst Author, Editor of Emily
Dickinson’s Poems]
--Tolson
--Tomson, [not “Thompson”]
--Torrance
--Towle
--Towne
--Trachy
--Trembly
--Trow
--Turcott
--Turner
--Turner Family: Excerpts from “History of the Town of Medfield,
Massachusetts” [1886]
--Turner Family: Source Material on Lewis Turner [1765-1806] and Ellis Turner
[b. 1770] Lines
--Tuttle
--Twohig
--Tyler
--U
--Ufford
--Utter
--V
--Vaill
--Vallee
--Van Steenburgh
--Vanstone
--Vaughan
--Vernalt
--Very
--Victor
--Vondell
--W
--Wade
--Waite
--Wakefield
--Walker
--Wallace
--Ward
--Ware
--Warner
--Washburn
--Weaver
--Webb
--Webber
--Webster
--Wedge
--Weeber
--Weeks
--Weinberg
--Welch
--Wells
--Wentworth
--West
--Westcott
--Wetherbee/Wetherby
--Wetherell [a.k.a. “Wetherall,” “Witherell,” etc.]
--Wheeler
--Whipple
--Whipple Family: Photo Image of Whipple Family Members at 126 Amherst
Road, Pelham, [n.d., ca. 1880s]
--Whipple, Harry John [1877-1953]: “Appraisement Value of Harry J. Whipple
Property, Pelham, Mass.” [Appraisement and Photographs, 1927]
--“Whipple, Solomon [b. ca. 1752], Descendants of,” by Robert Lord Keyes, Ms.,
2001
--Whipple, Solomon [b. ca. 1752], Information on the Solomon Whipple Desk
--Whitcomb
--White
--Whitney
--Wickwire
--Wideman
--Wightman
--Wilder
--Wiley
--Willard
--Williams
--Williams, Elisha [Dr.], [Rector of Yale University]
--Wills
--Willson, Wilson
--Witham
--Witt, Nelson [ca. 1833-1863], [Civil War Soldier]
--Wolcott, Nellie M. Shores [b. 1869], Will, 1940, [photocopy]
--Wood, Woods
--Worcester [Family]
--Wright
--Wright, Ebenezer [1732-1816] and Thankful Goss Wright [1736-1835] of
Brookfield and East Pelham, Mass., by Robert Lord Keyes, [Manuscript, 2002]
--Wright, Samuel, [Northampton Benefactor]
--Wyman
--X, Y, Z
--Yegian
--Yegian, Marie Ada Keeling [1901-1998], Oral History Interview, 1980,
[transcription typescript, photocopy]
--Yesacavich
--Young
--Young, Robert [ca. 1712-1796], Genealogy by Edward J. Young, 1992, [family
group sheets, etc., photocopies]
--Youngberg
--Zahradnik
COLLECTION/SERIES: ALLIS FAMILY PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM
Folder Descriptions:
--Allis Family [includes Bartlett, Firmin, Collis and/or Kimball Families?],
Photograph Album, n.d., ca. 1800s
--Allis Family, Letter of Karen Smith, Pelham Historical Society President, to
Virginia C. Allis, April 6, 1992, [photocopy]
COLLECTION: TOWN OF AMHERST
Sub-Series: Valuation and Taxes, 1886, 1903, 1919, and Annual Reports,
1874-1884, 1886-1894
Folder Descriptions:
--Valuation and Taxes, 1886
--Valuation and Taxes, 1903
--Valuation and Taxes, 1919
--Annual Reports, 1874-1876
--Annual Reports, 1877-1879
--Annual Reports, 1880, 1881
--Annual Reports, 1882, 1883
--Annual Reports, 1884, 1886
--Annual Reports, 1887, 1888
--Annual Reports, 1889, 1890
--Annual Reports, 1891, 1892
--Annual Reports, 1893, 1894
Sub-Series: Annual Reports, 1895-1912
--Annual Reports, 1895, 1896
--Annual Reports, 1897, 1898
--Annual Reports, 1899, 1900
--Annual Reports, 1901, 1902
--Annual Reports, 1903, 1904
--Annual Reports, 1905, 1906
--Annual Reports, 1907, 1908
--Annual Reports, 1909
--Annual Reports, 1910
--Annual Reports, 1911
--Annual Reports, 1912
Sub-Series: Annual Reports, 1913-1925
--Annual Reports, 1913
--Annual Reports, 1914
--Annual Reports, January 1, 1915
--Annual Reports, December 31, 1915
--Annual Reports, 1916
--Annual Reports, 1917
--Annual Reports, 1918
--Annual Reports, 1919
--Annual Reports, 1920
--Annual Reports, 1921
--Annual Reports, 1922
--Annual Reports, 1923
--Annual Reports, 1924
--Annual Reports, 1925
Sub-Series: Annual Reports, 1926-1937
--Annual Reports, 1926
--Annual Reports, 1927
--Annual Reports, 1928
--Annual Reports, 1929
--Annual Reports, 1930
--Annual Reports, 1931
--Annual Reports, 1932
--Annual Reports, 1933
--Annual Reports, 1934
--Annual Reports, 1935
--Annual Reports, 1936
--Annual Reports, 1937
Sub-Series: Annual Reports, 1939-1940, 1942-1944, 1950, 1954, 1956;
Street Lists, 1921, 1933, 1935-1938
--Annual Reports, 1939
--Annual Reports, 1940
--Annual Reports, 1942
--Annual Reports, 1943
--Annual Reports, 1944
--Annual Reports, 1950
--Annual Reports, 1954
--Annual Reports, 1956
--Street List, 1921
--Street List, 1933
--Street List, 1935
--Street List, 1936
--Street List, 1937
--Street List, 1938
Sub-Series: Street Lists, 1943, 1945-1955
--Street List, 1943
--Street List, 1945
--Street List, 1946
--Street List, 1947
--Street List, 1948
--Street List, 1949
--Street List, 1950
--Street List, 1951
--Street List, 1952
--Street List, 1953
--Street List, 1954
--Street List, 1955
Sub-Series: Street Lists, 1956, 1958-1959, 1967, 1970
--Street List, 1956
--Street List, 1958
--Street List, 1959
--Street List, 1967
--Street List, 1970
COLLECTION/SERIES: BENJAMIN F. PAGE [1863-1939] AND ANGIE EDNA
KIMBALL PAGE [1863-1936] FAMILY PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM
Folder Descriptions:
--Benjamin F. Page [1863-1939] and Angie Edna Kimball Page [1863-1936]
Family Photograph Album, n.d., ca. 1920s, 1930s
COLLECTION/SERIES: REV. JOHN F. DYAR [1813-1891] GENEALOGY
Folder Descriptions:
--Rev. John F. Dyar [1813-1891], Genealogy and Source Materials, Assembled
by Richard Robertson, 1993, [photocopies], Folder 1 of 11
--Rev. John F. Dyar [1813-1891], Genealogy and Source Materials, Assembled
by Richard Robertson, 1993, [photocopies], Folder 2 of 11
--Rev. John F. Dyar [1813-1891], Genealogy and Source Materials, Assembled
by Richard Robertson, 1993, [photocopies], Folder 3 of 11
--Rev. John F. Dyar [1813-1891], Genealogy and Source Materials, Assembled
by Richard Robertson, 1993, [photocopies], Folder 4 of 11
--Rev. John F. Dyar [1813-1891], Genealogy and Source Materials, Assembled
by Richard Robertson, 1993, [photocopies], Folder 5 of 11
--Rev. John F. Dyar [1813-1891], Genealogy and Source Materials, Assembled
by Richard Robertson, 1993, [photocopies], Folder 6 of 11
--Rev. John F. Dyar [1813-1891], Genealogy and Source Materials, Assembled
by Richard Robertson, 1993, [photocopies], Folder 7 of 11
--Rev. John F. Dyar [1813-1891], Genealogy and Source Materials, Assembled
by Richard Robertson, 1993, [photocopies], Folder 8 of 11
--Rev. John F. Dyar [1813-1891], Genealogy and Source Materials, Assembled
by Richard Robinson, 1993, [photocopies], Folder 9 of 11
--Rev. John F. Dyar [1813-1891], Genealogy and Source Materials, Assembled
by Richard Robinson, 1993, [photocopies], Folder 10 of 11
--Rev. John F. Dyar [1813-1891], Genealogy and Source Materials, Assembled
by Richard Robinson, 1993, [photocopies], Folder 11 of 11
COLLECTION/SERIES: WALTER ALDEN DYER [1878-1943]
Sub-series: Magazine Articles in “The Craftsman,” 1910-1911
Folder Descriptions:
--Walter Alden Dyer [1878-1943], “The Story of Ching Wong, the Craftsman,”
“The Craftsman,” May, 1910
--Walter Alden Dyer [1878-1943], “The Prince, the Pauper and the Golden
Mean,” “The Craftsman, June, 1910
--Walter Alden Dyer [1878-1943], “The Vision of Anton, the Clock-Maker,” “The
Craftsman,” July, 1910
--Walter Alden Dyer [1878-1943], “The Hermit, the Knight and the Jester,” “The
Craftsman,” Aug. 1910
--Walter Alden Dyer [1878-1943], “The Prince and the Maidens Three,” “The
Craftsman,” Oct. 1910
--Walter Alden Dyer [1878-1943], “The Art of Bernice and Agatha,” “The
Craftsman,” Nov. 1910
--Walter Alden Dyer [1878-1943], “A Little Boy and Santa Claus,” “The
Craftsman,” Dec. 1910
--Walter Alden Dyer [1878-1943], “The King Who Wished to Be Good,” “The
Craftsman,” Jan. 1911
--Walter Alden Dyer [1878-1943], “The Doctor and the Cobbler’s Son,” “The
Craftsman,” Feb. 1911
COLLECTION/SERIES: GRAVES-HAWLEY FAMILY BIBLES
Sub-Series: Graves-Hawley Family Bibles, Box 1
Folder Descriptions:
--Bible, [New York: American Bible Society, 1867], Copy Owned by Sarah Lavina
Graves Bolton Lund [1904-1994]
--Information on the Graves-Hawley Family Bibles and Exhibit Items Donated
to the Pelham Historical Society Museum by Roy G. and Betty Hawley, 1994
Sub-Series: Graves-Hawley Family Bibles, Box 2
Folder Descriptions:
--Bible, [n.p., n.d., title page torn, ca. 1800s]
Sub-Series: Graves-Hawley Family Bibles, Box 3
Folder Descriptions:
--Bible, [New York: James Pott and Co., 1898], Copy Owned by Sarah Lavina
Graves Bolton Lund [1904-1994]
COLLECTION/SERIES: ALFRED SHERWOOD ROMER [1894-1973] PAPERS
Folder Descriptions:
--History and Reminiscences of Pelham, n.d., [ms.]
--Notes on Pelham Deeds, Land Owners, ca. 1745; n.d., ca. 1960’s
--Notes on Pelham Deeds, “Pelham Home Lots—Early History;” n.d., ca. 1960s
--Notes on Pelham Deeds, Old Hampshire County Deeds [pre-1786] at Hampden
County Registry of Deeds; n.d., ca. 1960s
--Notes on Pelham Deeds, Deed Book 1, Hampshire County Registry of Deeds,
1784-1789; n.d., ca. 1960’s
--Notes on Pelham Deeds in Hampshire County Registry of Deeds; n.d., ca.
1960s
--Notes on Pelham Deeds, Metropolitan District Commission Land Takings for
the Quabbin Reservoir, ca. 1930s; n.d., ca. 1960s
--Notes on Pelham Deeds, Possible Pelham Residents Listed in Worcester
County Registry of Deeds, 1731-1779; n.d., ca. 1960s
--Notes on Pelham Deeds, Possible Pelham Residents Listed in Middlesex
County Registry of Deeds, 1716-1738; n.d., ca. 1960s
--Notes on Pelham Deeds, Miscellaneous Notes, n.d., ca. 1960s
--24 Cook Road, “History of the Romer Pelham Farm,” n.d., ca. 1960s, [ms.]
--“Provisional Notes on Pelham’s Earliest Settlers,” 1967, [ms., typescripts]
--“Life in Early Pelham,” n.d., ca. 1970, [ms., typescript photocopies]
--“Life in Early Pelham,” n.d., ca. 1970, [ms., typescript, photocopies]
--“He Didn’t Like Pelham,” Biography of Lyman Sibley Rowland [1831-1904],
1968, [ms., typescript, photocopies]
--Lyman Sibley Rowland [1831-1904], Autobiography, n.d., ca. 1900?,
[typescript excerpts]
--“Early Pelham: Three Sketches,” 1974, [booklets]
--“Early Pelham: Three Sketches,” 1974, [booklets]
--“Early Pelham: Three Sketches,” 1974, [booklets]
--Correspondence with Pelham Historical Society, 1967-1969
--“Pelham in the French and Indian Wars,” n.d., ca. 1960s, [ms.]
--Cook Family, Genealogy and Correspondence, 1949-1979, n.d.
--Notes on the Cook Family in Hampshire County Registry of Deeds, n.d., ca.
1960s
--Cowan and Breckenridge Families, Genealogy and Correspondence, 19631967
--Wood[s] Family, Family Group Sheets, n.a., n.d.
--Notes on Deeds for 24 Cook Road, n.d., ca. 1960s
--Correspondence with Richard W. Hale, Jr., Massachusetts Historical
Commission, 1966
--Alfred Sherwood Romer [1894-1973] and Ruth Hibbard Romer [1901-1992],
Miscellaneous Papers, n.d.
--Ruth Hibbard Romer [1901-1992], Cowan Family, Genealogy and
Correspondence, 1980
--Ruth Hibbard Romer [1901-1992], Correspondence About “Pelham, Mass: A
Small Hill Town” [Unpublished Pelham History Book Project], 1977
-Ruth Hibbard Romer [1901-1992], “Walter and Muriel Dyer,” n.d., ca. 1970s,
[ms.]
COLLECTION/SERIES: CHARLES OSCAR PARMENTER, “HISTORY OF
PELHAM” [1898]
Sub-Series: Book [Damaged Copy]
Folder Description:
--Charles Oscar Parmenter, “History of Pelham,” 1898, [book, damaged copy]
COLLECTION/SERIES: CHARLES OSCAR PARMENTER, “HISTORY OF
PELHAM” [1898]
Sub-series: Book [Photocopy]
Folder Description:
--Charles Oscar Parmenter, “History of Pelham,” 1898, [Photocopy], [1 of 4]
--Charles Oscar Parmenter, “History of Pelham,” 1898, [Photocopy], [2 of 4]
--Charles Oscar Parmenter, “History of Pelham,” 1898, [Photocopy], [3 of 4]
--Charles Oscar Parmenter, “History of Pelham,” 1898, [Photocopy], [4 of 4]
COLLECTION/SERIES: “PELHAM, MASS.: A SMALL HILL TOWN,” EDITED
BY MARY EARLHAM COLL HENDERSON TAYLOR [b. 1898] [UNPUBLISHED
TOWN HISTORY], CA. 1975-1980
Folder Descriptions:
--Mary Earlham Coll Henderson Taylor [b. 1898], Project Organizational
Assignments and Notes on Pelham History, n.d., ca. 1975-1977
--Application to Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities, 1978-1978
--Mary Earlham Coll Henderson Taylor [b. 1898], “Some Pelham Residents’
Interests and Hobbies,” n.d., ca. 1970s
--Mary Earlham Coll Henderson Taylor [b. 1898], Pelham History Notebook,
n.d., ca. 1970s
--Mary Earlham Coll Henderson Taylor [b. 1898], Notes on Recreation in
Pelham, n.d., ca. 1970s
--Mary Earlham Coll Henderson Taylor [b. 1898], Notes on Transportation in
Pelham, n.d., ca. 1970s
--Harry Willis Allen [1892-1981], “Life in West Pelham, Massachusetts from
1892 to 1918,” 1976, [ms., typescript, photocopy, and Correspondence,
photocopy]
--Joseph S. Larson [b. 1933], “Wild Mammals of Pelham,” n.d., ca. 1970’s, [ms.,
photocopy]
--Alfred Sherwood Romer [1894-1973], “Early Pelham: Three Sketches,” 1974,
[booklet]
--William W. Rice, “Forests of Pelham,” n.d., ca. 1976, [outline]
--Bradford White [b. 1931], “Recreation in Pelham,” n.d., ca. 1977, [ms.,
typescript, photocopy]
--Beatrice Irene Smith [b. 1908], “Pelham Church History, 1739-1976,” n.d., ca.
1976, [ms., typescript, photocopy]
--Franklin B. Wickwire [1931-1992], “History of Pelham,” 1977, [ms., first draft,
typescript, photocopy]
--Pelham, MA Historical Maps, [photocopies]
--“Welcome to Pelham,” n.d., ca. 1978, [information handout]
--J.R. Greene, “An Atlas of the Quabbin Valley Past and Present,” 1975,
[booklet]
--J.G. Holland, “Pelham” Chapter from “History of Western Massachusetts,”
1855, [photocopies]
--Charles Oscar Parmenter [1833-1913], “History of Pelham,” 1898,
[photocopied excerpts]
--Treasures of Pelham Committee, “Treasures of Pelham,” 1968, [booklet,
photocopied excerpts]
COLLECTION/SERIES: ROBB STRYCHARZ, CHRONOS HISTORICAL
SERVICES, “1996 PELHAM HISTORICAL VIDEO SURVEY”
Folder Descriptions:
--Robb Strycharz, Chronos Historical Services, “1996 Pelham Video Survey,”
1996, [report]
--Video 1 [of 4]
--Video 2 [of 4]
--Video 3 [of 4]
--Video 4 [of 4]
COLLECTION/SERIES: ELIZABETH SMOLIN [B. 1955], PELHAM HILL
CEMETERY; “OLD TOWN HALL BURIAL GROUND PHOTOGRAPHY
PROJECT, 1993”
Folder Descriptions:
--Map of Pelham Hill Cemetery Showing Gravestones and Gravestones Which
Have Been Photographed, 1993
--Reports on Condition of Individual Gravestones in Pelham Hill Cemetery, 1993
--Gravestones in Pelham Hill Cemetery, 1993, [5x7 photographs], [1 of 3]
--Gravestones in Pelham Hill Cemetery, 1993, [5x7 photographs], [2 of 3]
--Gravestones in Pelham Hill Cemetery, 1993, [5x7 photographs], [3 of 3]
--Gravestones in Pelham Hill Cemetery, 1993, [photograph contact sheets]
--Gravestones in Pelham Hill Cemetery, 1993, [negatives]
--Miscellaneous Papers, 1992, n.d., ca. 1993
COLLECTION/SERIES: BUTTER HILL DUMPSTER ASSOCIATION
Folder Descriptions:
--Statement of Purpose, 1998, and Letter of Donation to History Room Archives
Collection by Thomas E. Rice, 1999
--Newsletters, 1993
--Newsletters, 1994
--Newsletters, 1995
--Newsletters, 1996
--Newsletters, 1997
--Newsletters, 1998
--Newsletters, 1999
--Newsletters, 2000
--Newsletters, 2001
--Newsletters, 2002
COLLECTION/SERIES: PELHAM FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY
Folder Descriptions:
--Patricia Rotman, “History of the Free Public Library of Pelham, Mass.,” 1978,
[ms., typescripts, photocopies]
--Board of Trustees, Minutes, March 9, 1891-Dec. 28, 1940
--Reports to Division of Public Libraries, 1911-1937
--Reports to Division of Public Libraries, 1938-1960
--Reports, Miscellaneous Papers, 1952-1960, n.d.
--“Books Added to the Pelham Library,” 1916-1939, [ledger volume]
--Financial Reports, 1918-1954, [ledger volume]
--“Pelham Public Library Bulletin,” Nov. 1932, [booklet]
--Scrapbook, [Includes Library Membership List], Dec. 5, 1933
--Information for Volunteer Workers, 1976?
--Robert Lord Keyes, “A Guide to the Pelham Free Public Library Archives
Collection,” 1988
--Robert Lord Keyes, “A Guide to the Pelham Free Public Library Archives
Collection,” 1988
COLLECTION/SERIES: PELHAM PARENTS-TEACHERS ASSOCIATION,
MINUTES, 1927-1963
Folder Descriptions:
--Constitution, Membership List, Minutes, 1927-1945, [ledger volume]
--Minutes, 1944-1963, [ledger volume]
COLLECTION/SERIES: PHOTOGRAPHS
Sub-series: Photographs, Box 1
Folder Descriptions:
--Pelham Town Hall Complex, n.d., ca. 1890s?
--Pelham Town Hall Complex, [“Pelham Center—from the West”], by W.A. Clark,
[n.d., ca. 1890s]
--Pelham Town Hall and Pelham Hill Congregational Church, n.d., ca. 1912
--Pelham Town Hall and Pelham Hill Congregational Church, n.d., ca. 1912,
[postcard]
--Pelham Town Hall Complex, Sept. 1919
--Pelham Town Hall Complex, by Lowell [Bob] Ellis, June, 1923
--Pelham Hill Congregational Church and Pelham Town Hall, Sept. 1924
--Pelham Town Hall Complex, Contra Dancing, n.d., ca. 1980s?
--Pelham Town Hall Complex, Landscape Design Project by Pelham Historical
Commission, n.d., ca. 1981, [photographs and negatives]
--Pelham Town Hall Complex, Landscape Design Project by Pelham Historical
Commission, Dedication, Sept. 20, 1981, [photographs and negatives]
--Pelham Town Hall Complex, Work Day, 1993
--Pelham Town Hall Complex, Clean-up and Repair Day, n.d., ca. 1994
--Pelham Town Hall Complex, August 9, 2001, by Earle Brick
--Pelham Town Hall, n.d., ca. 1900?, [postcard, 1912]
--Pelham Town Meeting, March, 1897, Second Floor, Pelham Town Hall
--Pelham Town Hall, Dinner, n.d., ca. 1900?
--Pelham Town Hall, Pelham Residents in Historic Costume, by Lincoln W.
Barnes, n.d., ca. 1930s
--Pelham Town Hall, by Lincoln W. Barnes, n.d., ca. 1930s
--Pelham Town Hall, Front Door Latch, n.d., [possibly Aug. 24, 1968]
--Pelham Town Hall, Grafitti on Pew
--Pelham Town Hall, Roofing Project, by Larry Siddall, 1991
--Pelham Town Hall, Repairs, by Larry Siddall, Jan. 1991, [photographs and
negatives]
--Pelham Town Hall, Individuals Possibly During 250th Anniversary
Celebration, n.d., ca. May 1993
--Pelham 250th Anniversary, Re-enactment of First Town Meeting at Pelham
Town Hall, May 1, 1993
--Pelham Hill Congregational Church, n.d., ca. 1930s?
--Pelham Hill Congregational Church, Lightning Strike, 1907, [Postcard, 1907]
--Pelham Hill Congregational Church, Lightning Strike, 1907, [Postcard
Addressed to Sadie Cooley Tillson Mitchell (1890-1978), Aug. 8, 1907]
--Pelham Hill Congregatonal Church, Individuals Observing Centennial
Celebration of Birth of Dwight L. Moody, by Lincoln W. Barnes, 1937
--Pelham Historical Society Museum, Christmas, 1967
--Pelham Historical Society Museum, n.d., ca. 1970
--Pelham Historical Society Museum, [n.d., ca. 1975]
--Pelham Historical Society Museum, Summer 1991
--Pelham Historical Society Museum, Ramp, 1998
--Pelham Historical Society Museum?, “Graffiti on Back of Pew Now in
Museum,” by Barbara Benda Jenkins, n.d., ca. 1990s
--Pelham Hill Cemetery, Sunday Vesper Service, by Lincoln W. Barnes, 1937,
1938
--Pelham Old Home Day at Pelham Town Hall Complex, by Lincoln W. Barnes,
n.d., ca. 1930s
--First Pelham Historical Day, Dr. Charles Woolsey Cole [1906-1978] Speaking
in Pelham Town Hall, Sept. 24, 1966
--Second Pelham Historical Day, Activities at Town Hall Complex, Sept. 16,
1967
--Second Pelham Historical Day, Presentation of Certificate of Town Hall
Complex as a Massachusetts Historic Landmark, Sept. 16, 1967
--Pelham Bicentennial Celebration, Speaker and Audience in Pelham Hill
Cemetery, by Lincoln W. Barnes, 1946
--Pelham 225th Anniversary, Logo Design, 1968, [photograph]
--Pelham 225th Anniversary, Medallion, 1968
--Pelham 225th Anniversary at Town Hall Complex, Melha Temple Highlanders,
Aug. 24, 1968
--Pelham 225th Anniversary at Town Hall Complex, Activities, Aug. 24, 1968
--Pelham 225th Anniversary, Pelham Historical Society Museum Exhibits, Aug.
24, 1968
--Pelham 225th Anniversary at Town Hall Complex, 8th Air Force Band,
Westover Air Force Base, Aug. 24, 1968
--Pelham 225th Anniversary at Town Hall Complex, Recognition of Special
Pelham Citizens, Aug. 24, 1968
--Pelham 225th Anniversary at Town Hall Complex, The Colonials, Drill Band,
Fort Devens, MA, Aug. 24, 1968
--Pelham 250th Anniversary, Winter Fest Celebration at Pelham Elementary
School, 1993
--Pelham Town Meeting, n.d., ca. 1980?
--Pelham Federated Church, by Lincoln W. Barnes, ca. 1930s, 1940s
--Pelham Federated Church, Rev. J. Paul Williams, by Lincoln W. Barnes, n.d.,
ca. 1929-1936
--Pelham Federated Church, Rev. Harold White’s Cake, by Lincoln W. Barnes,
1937
--Pelham Federated Church, Three Former Ministers: Rev. William Osborn [b.
ca. 1883], Rev. Harold Bancroft White, Rev. J. Paul Williams, with Embert [Bert]
A. Harris [1856-1943], by Lincoln W. Barnes, n.d., ca. 1942
--Packardville Church, by Lowell [Bob] Ellis, June, 1923
--West Pelham Methodist Church, n.d., ca. 1900?, [photograph and negative]
--West Pelham Methodist Church, n.d., ca. 1900?, [photograph and negative]
--West Pelham Methodist Church, [n.d., ca. 1920s or 1930s]
--West Pelham Methodist Church, 100th Anniversary, by Lincoln W. Barnes,
Set. 17, 1933
--West Pelham Methodist Church, Children on Parade During Vacation Bilble
School, by Lincoln W. Barnes, [1930s]
--Rev. Harold Bancroft White and Others, Group Photograph, by Lincoln W.
Barnes?, n.d., ca. 1930s
--Pelham Church Activities at Camp Anderson, Wendall, MA, n.d., ca. 1930s
--Pelham Church Activities, Swimming at Camp Anderson, Wendall, MA, n.d.,
ca. 1930s
--United Church of Pelham, Aug. 20, 2002
Sub-series: Photographs, Box 2
Folder Descriptions:
--Pelham Hollow Cemetery, Prescott [ca. 1930s], by Metropolitan District
Commission
--Town House Cemetery, Prescott [ca. 1930s], by Metropolitan District
Commission
--34 and 37 Amherst Road, n.d.
--102 Amherst Road, n.d.
--126 Amherst Road, by Howe Brothers [Ashfield, MA Photographers], n.d., ca.
1800s?, [negatives]
--290 Amherst Road: Lester, Celia and Virginia Davis Family, ca. 1930s-ca.
1980s
--290 Amherst Road, with Letter of Virginia Davis to Karen Smith [1993] and
1933 Tax Bill [Photocopy]
--225 Amherst Road, Painting by Jonee Nehus, Home of George Rogers Taylor
and Mary Earlham Coll Henderson Taylor [b. 1898], n.d., ca.1970s, [photograph
of painting]
--98 Arnold Road: Grayrocks [Morse Estate]
--367 Daniel Shays Highway, Sunrise Service, n.d., ca. 1930s
--49 Enfield Road[?] with Powell Family, and Francis W. Powell [b. ca. 1866] and
Nettie M. Ramsdell Powell [b. ca. 1869]
--90 North Valley Road and Family of Martin Grovner Aldrich [1839-1917],
[n.d., ca. 1890s]
--124 North Valley Road, [n.d., ca. 1890s]
--Pelham School Children
--City School I [Becomes Community Hall]
--City School I, ca. 1890s, [postcard, ca. 1912]
--Community Hall: Welcoming for Returning World War I Soldiers, [1918]
--City School II, Destroyed by Fire, 1918
--City School III, n.d.
--City School III, Students, 1943
--City School III, Students, n.d., ca. 1943, with Correspondence of Norma J.
Stedman [2002]
--City School III: Demolition on Aug. 2, 1966, Photographs by Kenneth M.
Thornton [1900-1984]
--East School
--West School, 118 Amherst Road, with Students, [n.d., ca. 1900]
--West School, 118 Amherst Road, 1908, [postcard]
--Pelham Boy Scouts at Town Hall Complex and at Massachusetts Terecenenary
Parade in Amherst, by Lincoln W. Barnes, 1930s
--Cub Scouts at Pelham Library, n.d.
--Pelham Lions Club, Road Block for Charity in Front of Town Hall Complex, by
Robert Lord Keyes, May 28, 1989
--Pelham Lions Club, Chicken Barbecue at Rhodes Building Complex, Sept. 9,
1989
--Pelham Men’s Club, by Lincoln W. Barnes, n.d., ca. 1950
--Allen Brothers Saw Mill, Amherst Road, West Pelham, April 5, 1918
--Amherst Water Company Reservoir, ca. 1890s, [postcard, ca. 1912]
--William Conkey [1717-1788], Conkey’s Tavern, Painting by Bert V. Brooks
[1849-1934], Photograph and Slide
--William Conkey [1717-1788], Conkey’s Tavern, Tavern Door at Amherst, MA
Historical Society, n.d.
--William Conkey [1717-1788], Conkey’s Tavern, Presumed Tavern Location by
Lincoln W. Barnes, n.d., ca. 1936?
--William Conkey [1717-1788], Conkey’s Tavern, Lintel Stones
--William Conkey [1717-1788], Conkey’s Tavern, Interior Exhibit at American
Museum, Bath, England, [Post Card, n.d., ca. 1960s]
--Ziba Cook [1791-1868], Ziba Cook Tavern, 49 Enfield Road, Owned by George
H. Burrows [1850-1928], ca. 1890s?, [postcard, ca. 1912]
--Dam, Possibly Amherst Water Company Reservoir in Pelham?, n.d.
--Hawley Reservoir, by Lincoln W. Barnes, n.d., ca. 1930s or 1940s
--Kingman Tavern, n.d., ca. 1900?
--Montague City Fish Rod Factory, Workers, n.d.
--Montague City Fish Rod Factory, Employees [Identified], [n.d., ca. 1906]
--Montague City Fish Rod Factory, n.d.
--Montague City Fish Rod Factory, Photograph, n.d., with Handwritten
Reminiscences by Daniel Henry Allen [1904-1989]
--Montague City Fish Rod Factory, Post Mills, Vt. Factory, n.d., with Letter of
Carolyn L. Aldrich to Barbara Benda Jenkins, May 6, 1991
--Orient Springs Hotel, n.d., ca. 1880s?
--Orient Springs, n.d., [postcards]
--Orient Springs, Children on Bridge, 1909
--Orient Springs, Children on Bridge, 1909, with Letter of Virginia Davis to
Karen Smith, [Photocopy, 1993]
--Construction Workers at Harris Reservoir, [n.d., ca. 1900]
--Hotel Pelham
--Pelham Hollow Pond, View from Pelham Hollow Cemetery, n.d., ca. 1890s,
[postcard, ca. 1912]
--Former Bridge Abutment on Shores-Whipple Farm in Pelham Hollow, by
Kenneth M. Thornton [1900-1984], June, 1967
--Purgy Brook, Pelham Hollow, n.d., ca. 1890s?, [postcard, ca. 1912]
--Purgy Brook, Pelham Hollow, 1909, [postcard]
--The Rocking Stone, ca. 1890s, [postcard, ca. 1912]
--Valley Quarry, ca. 1890s, [postcard, ca. 1912]
--John Vanstone [1848-1918], Vanstone’s Mill in Pelham Hollow, ca. 1890s,
[postcard, ca. 1912]
--Postman Lysander Kingman Ward [1853-1933] Delivering Mail to Box of
James Robert Anderson [1859-1912], 1 Harkness Road, [n.d., ca. 1910]
--Unidentified Individual on Horse Cart Pulling Bags of Onions Past Mt.
Orient[?], [n.d., ca. 1800s?]
--West Pelham Baseball Team, n.d., ca. 1905-1908?
--Shays’ Rebellion, Dickinson-Baggs Tavern, 6 Southeast Street, East Amherst,
MA, n.d., ca. 1930s?
--Shays’ Rebellion Bicentennial, “Pelham in Shays’ Rebellion” Exhibit by Pelham
Historical Commission at Town Hall, Sept. 1986
--Shays’ Rebellion Bicentennial, Activities at Pelham Town Hall Complex, Sept.
1986
--Shays’ Rebellion Bicentennial, Celebration at Town Hall Complex, Guest
Speakers, Oct. 12, 1986
--Community Center of Pelham Fundraider at John and Mary Walker’s, 76
Amherst Road, Halloween, 1996, [Photographs and Negatives]
--Community Center of Pelham: Construction, 1999, by Karl Ryavec
--Pelham Free Public Library, Plant Sale at Rhodes Building, May 1996
--Pelham Free Public Library, Plant Sale at Rhodes Building, 1999
--Pelham Free Public Library, Party foer Librarians Suzanne Rohde and Rebecca
Frank, Community Center of Pelham, 2000
--Post Card of Pelham Hills from Amherst College Church, [n.d., ca. 1900]
--Pelham Hills from Amherst College, by Lincoln W. Barnes, n.d., ca. 1940s?
--East Amherst Congregational Church, n.d.
--Enfield, MA Scenes, n.d., ca. 1910s?, [postcards]
--Benjamin F. Page, Jr. [1863-1939] and Angie Edna Kimball Page [1863-1936]
Family, Enfield and Greenwich, MA, 1938, n.d.
--Prescott Peninsula, Metropolitan District Commission, 1936-1946
--Virgil Pratt [1816-1899], Saw Mill, Belchertown, MA, n.d., ca. 1900?,
[postcard, 1906]
--Shutesbury, MA Historical Pageant, n.d., ca. 1937
--Harvard Forest, Diorama, Petersham, MA, n.d., [commercial slides]
Sub-series: Photographs, Box 3
Folder Descriptions:
--Bailey Family Graves at Bridge Street Cemetery, Northampton, MA
--Bartlett Family, “David Sabin Bartlett Aged 10 Months and His Father,”
Enfield, MA, n.d., ca. 1920s?
--Joseph Freeland Bartlett [1843-1917], Gravestone, Turner’s Falls, MA, 1992
--Boyden, Erastus Pliny [1823-1893] and Mary R. Dunbar Boyden [1824-1869]:
Photograph and Portrait Painting
--Myret E. Boynton [1843-1904] and Laura Catherine Smith Boynton [18451927], House on Pelham Hill, n.d., ca. 1890s, [postcard, ca. 1912]
--Belinda Cordelia Brewer [b. 1805], Pelham Sampler, 1818, by Lincoln W.
Barnes, n.d., ca. 1930s
--Marion R. Mikolajczyk Burek [1897-1995], Pelham’s Oldest Resident, with
Karen Manners Smith, Nov. 1994
--George Washington Burrows [1893-1994], Pelham’s Oldest Resident, with
Barbara Benda Jenkins, at Burrow’s 99th Birthday, Feb. 22, 1992
--Campbell, Paul Hardy, Jr. [b. 1921], Photographs by Robert Lord Keyes, 2002
--Chaffee, William Sumner [1885-1971] and Jessica Emily Ballou Chaffee
[1878-1968], September 1957
--Conkey Family, Possible Conkey Farm in Pelham, n.d., ca. 1800s
--Sheldon Crossett [1820-1900] of Chicago
--Davis, Virginia, at Pelham Town Hall Complex, by Robert Lord Keyes, Sept. 2,
2001
--Draper Family Graves at Bridge Street Cemetery, Northampton, MA
--Walter Alden Dyer [1878-1943]
--Rev. Jonathan Edwards [1703-1758], Portrait by Joseph Badger
--Ely Family: Photograph of Lillian Myrtle Baker Ball [1881-1957], Dec. 25,
1955
--Fiegenbaum, Rev. Jay and Dorothy Fiegenbaum, and Beatrice Irene Smith [b.
1908], at Pelham Historical Society Museum, Aug. 31, 1986
--Gray Family Graves at Ashfield, MA
--Alice Moore Gilmore [ca. 1717-1774], Gravestone Before Re-setting, July,
1995
--Alice Moore Gilmore [ca. 1717-1774], Gravestone Re-setting Performed by
Fred Oakley, Pelham Hill Cemetery, July 8, 1995
--Guyott Family, n.d.
--Hanks, Ziza Ambrose [1828-1914] Family
--Hawley Family
--Hawley Family, Homes [Including Hawley Homestead] on North Side of
Amherst Road Opposite Hawley Reservoir, n.d.
--Hawley Homestead, by Lincoln W. Barnes
--Roy Graves Hawley [1915-1998], Pelham Lions Club Mugs, in Pelham
Historical Society Museum, by Robert Lord Keyes, Sept. 9, 1989
--Roy Graves Hawley [1915-1998], With Farming Implements Which He
Donated to Pelham Historical Society Museum, by Robert Lord Keyes, Sept. 20,
1989
--David Houston, Sr. [1719-1765] and Mary Peebles Houston [1722-1766],
Gravestone in Pelham Hill Cemetery, July 11, 1992
--Kimball Family, Reunion at 1 Harkness Road, n.d.
--Capt. Henry Kingman [1770-1851], n.d.
--Lovett-Stebbins Family
--David Noonan, Child Honored for Placing 911 Emergency Phone Call, at
Pelham Elementary School, n.d., ca. April 20, 1993
--Angie Edna Kimball Page [1863-1936], Graveside, June 10, 1936
--Benjamin F. Page, Jr. [1863-1939] and Angie Edna Kimball Page [1863-1936],
Family, Activities, n.d.
--Ethel Page [1888-1967]
--Charles Oscar Parmenter [1833-1913], House on Amherst Road, 1991
--Dr. Gulley Potter [ca. 1795-1821] and Dr. Olney Potter, Gravestones in Arnold
Cemetery, 1989
--Iwan Pranata and Elizabeth Ann Norton Pranata, Wedding at Pelham
Historical Society Museum, Aug. 5, 1991, [photographs and program]
--Albert Bertram A. [Bertie] Rhodes [1875-1944], In Front of His House on
Moore’s Road, n.d., [photograph and negative]
--Rice, Thomas E., “The Rock Salt Study,” [Slides, Documentation, 1972]
--William [Will] Henry Robinson [1854-1936], Family of, n.d.
--William [Will] Henry Robinson [1854-1936], possibly by Lincoln W. Barnes,
n.d., ca. 1930s
--Roy, Stephan and Gudrun Siegert Roy, Wedding Photograph at Pelham Town
Hall, Oct. 11, 1996
--Henry Shores [1849-1916], Inlaid Furniture, Owned by Olin Whipple of Heath,
MA, Photographs by Paul J. Bigelow, 1989
--Smith, Beatrice Irene [b. 1908], Receives Gold Cane from Pelham Historical
Society, April 28, 2002
--Smith, Betsey Otis [1796-1884], Burial in Stevens Cemetery, June, 1884
--Smith Family Graves at Bridge Street Cemetery, Northampton, MA
--Edward Southworth [1804-1869] and Wells Southworth [1799-1882],
Individual Portraits, n.d., 1800s, [lithographs]
--Taylor Family Graves at Bridge Street Cemetery, Northampton, MA
--George Wright, Pelham Historical Society Field Trip, n.d., ca. 1991
COLLECTION/SERIES: COMMONWEALTH MUSEUM. “SHAYS’ REBELLION;
THUNDERCLOUD FOR THE NEW NATION,” [EXHIBIT, 1986]
Folder Descriptions:
--Exhibit Information, 1986
--Life-size Figures on Display at Pelham Historical Society Museum,
[newsclippings]
--“Shay’s Rebellion: Thundercloud for a New Nation,” Teacher Materials, 1986,
[booklet]
--“Shays’ Rebellion: Thundercloud for a New Nation,” Information Booklet, 1986
--Exhibit Graphics
--Luke Day Audio Tape
--William Whiting Audio Tape
--Bezal Howard Audio Tape
--Gen. William Shepard Audio Tape
--Exhibit at Connecticut Valley Historical Museum, Springfield, MA, by Robert
Lord Keyes, 1986, [photographs]
COLLECTION/SERIES: PAUL J. BIGELOW [1937-2001] COLLECTION
Sub-series: Pelham History Topics, Box 1
Folder Descriptions:
--Franklin B. Wickwire [1931-1992], “Pelham, Massachusetts: A Guide to Town
Records” [a.k.a. “The Wooden Chest Papers” and “The Gibson Papers”], 1977
--Pelham Population, 1765-1985
--Notes on Miscellaneous Pelham Vital Records
--Kelvin Kindahl: “The Cook-Johnson Cemetery,” 1979, [gravestone recordings]
--Kelvin Kindahl, Pelham Hill Cemetery Gravestone Recordings, 1978
--Kelvin Kindahl, “The Valley Cemetery,” 1980, [gravestone recordings]
--Kelvin Kindahl, Gravestone Recordings of Johnson Family Burial Place,
Stevens Cemetery, Knight’s Corner Cemetery, and Harkness Cemetery, 1980
--Kelvin Kindahl, “The Arnold Cemetery,” 1979, [gravestone recordings]
--“Notes from Pelham Town Reports, 1876-1983,” 1984, [outline]
--“List of Historical Sites, Pelham, Mass.,”1974
--Notes On Untitled 1854 Pelham Manuscript at Special Collections
Department, Jones Library, Amherst, MA, n.d.
--“Summary of Attempts to Surrender Town Charter and Scale Drawing Map of
Elevations in Pelham,” n.d.
--Correspondence with Pelham Athletic Club, 1993
--Harry Willis Allen [1892-1981], “Life in West Pelham, Massachusetts from
1892 to 1918,” 1976, [ms., typescript, photocopy]
--Pelham Monk’s Cave, “Western Massachusetts ‘Monks Caves’: 1979 University
of Massachusetts Field Research,” by John R. Cole, “Man in the Northeast,”
Fall, 1982
--Pelham Street List and Map, 1887, W.B. Gay, Ed., “Gazetteer of Hampshire
County,” 1888, [photocopied excerpts]
--“Pelham” and “Prescott” Chapters, Louis H. Everett, Ed., “History of the
Connecticut Valley,” 1879, [photocopied excerpts]
--Howes Brothers, Ashfield, MA Photographers, Correspondence About with
Ashfield Historical Society, 1993
--“Pelham” Chapter, Clifton Johnson, “Historic Hampshire in the Connecticut
Valley,” 1932, [photocopied excerpts]
--Pelham History, Stephen Burroughs, and Shays’ Rebellion, in “Yankee Folk”
by Edwin Mitchell, 1948, [photocopied excerpts]
--Pelham Asbestos Quarry, Alan R. Plante, “The Pelham Anthophyllite Asbestos
Quarries,” 1985, [ms., typescript, photocopy]
--Carlene Riccelli, “Place Names of Pelham, Massachusetts,” 1970, [ms.,
typescript, photocopy]
--Anna Phillips See, “Ancient Pelham and the Oldest Town Hall in New
England,” D.A.R. Magazine, 1922, [photocopy]
--Pelham Historical Society, C.O. Parmenter Award to Paul J. Bigelow, 1989,
and Committee on the Use of Trails, 1972
--Otis Family, E.M. Ruttenber and L.H. Clark, Compl., “History of Orange
County, N.Y.,” [Chapter on Otisville, N.Y.], 1881, repr. 1980, [photocopied
excerpts]
--Elbridge D. Packard [1852-1928], House [in Packardville Section of Enfield,
MA?], n.d., Before 1938, [photocopy of photograph]
--Frank Prentice Rand, “Behind,” Poem from “Doctor Ben of Butter Hill,” 1923,
[photocopy]
--Thompson Family, Genealogy Correspondence of Dennis Thompson and
James Avery Smith, 1991, n.d.
--Elinor Genung Allen [b. ca. 1893], “Pelham Bicentennial Celebration, 17431946,” 1946, [booklet]
--Pelham Town Hall Complex, n.d., ca. 1970, [postcards]
--Treasures of Pelham Committee, “Treasures of Pelham,” 1968, [booklet]
--Treasures of Pelham Committee, “Treasures of Pelham,” 1968, [booklet,
photocopy]
--Pelham Maps
--Pelham Planning Board, Pelham Map, April, 1988
--“Topographic Map of the Town of Amherst,” 1983
--Miscellaneous Pelham Photographs, n.d., [photocopies only]
Sub-Series: Pelham History Topics, Box 2
Folder Descriptions:
--Rev. John Jones [1818-1905], “A Record of Marriages Performed by Rev. John
Jones in South Western Part of Maine and Hampshire County, Massachusetts,
from 1846 to 1895, Copied and Indexed by Reuben Roberts, Springfield, Mass.,”
[handwritten transcription, photocopy]
--Federal Census, Massachusetts, Hampshire County, Pelham, 1790,
[photocopy]
--Federal Census, Massachusetts, Hampshire County, Pelham, 1800,
[photocopy]
--Federal Census, Massachusetts, Hampshire County, Pelham, 1810,
[photocopy]
--Federal Census, Massachusetts, Hampshire County, Pelham, 1820,
[photocopy]
--Federal Census, Massachusetts, Hampshire County, Pelham, 1830,
[photocopy]
--Federal Census, Massachusetts, Hampshire County, Pelham, 1840,
[photocopy]
--Federal Census, Massachusetts, Hampshire County, Pelham, 1850,
[photocopy]
--Federal Census, Massachusetts, Hampshire County, Pelham, 1860,
[photocopy]
--Federal Census, Massachusetts, Hampshire County, Pelham, 1870,
[photocopy]
--“Vital Records of Pelham, Massachusetts, To The Year 1850,” New-England
Historic Genealogical Society, 1902, [photocopy]
--M. Louise Brewer [1861-1948], “The Valley Road and Silver Street” [i.e., North
Valley Road and Brewer Road], 1929, [ms., photocopy, with map of house sites
annotated by Paul J. Bigelow]
Sub-series: “DISOWNED—DISSOLVED—DISRUPTED,” “WRIGHTS AND
PRIVILEGES,” “THE STONE QUARRY INDUSTRY,” PHOTOGRAPHS
Folder Descriptions:
--Paul J. Bigelow, Portrait Photograph by Les Campbell, ca. 1990s,
[photographs and negatives]
--Pelham, MA and Prescott, MA, Historical Maps, 1738-1938, [photographs and
negatives]
--Valley Quarry, Vanstone’s Mill, Dam, Bridge Abutment, ca. 1890s,
[photographs and negatives]
--Pelham Mill Sites, 1990s, [photographs and negatives]
--David Shores [1823-1907] and Harry John Whipple [1877-1953], House,
Farm, Mill, and Outbuildings in Pelham Hollow, 1937, n.d., [photographs and
negatives]
--Henry Shores [1849-1916], Inlaid Furniture Owned by Olin Eugene Whipple
[1915-1999] of Heath, MA, 1989, [photographs and negatives]
--J.N. Shaw Blacksmith Shop, Dickey Brook, Prescott, MA, Watercolor, n.d.,
[“Wrights and Privileges” Site C-4]
--John Vanstone [1848-1918] Mill, Pelham Hollow, [“Wrights and Privileges”
Site B-15], 1890s, 1930s
--Saw Mill Site, Briggs Brook, Shutesbury, MA, [listed as “Pelham” (sic)],
[“Wrights and Privileges” Site B-3], 1990s
--Allen Brothers Saw Mill, Amherst Road, West Pelham, [“Wrights and
Privileges” Site A-1], ca. 1910s, ca. 1990s, [photographs and negatives]
--Eseck Cook [1768-1855], et al, Mill, North Valley Road, [“Wrights and
Privileges” Site A-13], 1990s
--Historic Pelham Homes, Mill Sites, Quaker Cemetery, 1980s, [contact sheets]
--Montague City Fish Rod Factory, [“Wrights and Privileges” Site A-2], ca. 1900
and ca. 1990s
--Packardville Road Shop, [Listed as “Enfield Road” (sic)], [“Wrights and
Privileges” Site A-18], 1990s
--Shutesbury Road Shop, [“Wrights and Privileges” Site A-17], 1990s
--Quabbin Gate 11 Mill Site, [“Wrights and Privileges” Site B-10], 1990s,
[photographs and negatives]
--King Street Mill Site, [“Wrights and Privileges” Site A-20], 1990s
--Amherst Water Company Intake Reservoir, [“Wrights and Privileges” Site A-6],
ca. 1880 and ca. 1990s
--Dunlap Brook Bridge, ca. 1890s
--Buffum Road Mill Site, [“Wrights and Privileges” Site A-9], 1990s
--Cook Road Mill Site, [“Wrights and Privileges” Site A-15], 1990s
--Enfield, MA Mill Site, [Located in Present Quabbin Reservoir Gate 8, Pelham],
[“Wrights and Privileges” Site B-19], 1990s
--North Valley Road Panorama, n.d., ca. 1910, [negatives]
--Pelham Town Hall, n.d., ca. 1900?, [negatives]
--West Pelham Methodist Church, n.d., ca. 1900?, [negatives]
--East School, n.d., [negative]
--Ziba Cook [1791-1868] Tavern, 49 Enfield Road, n.d., ca. 1900?, [negative]
--Kingman Tavern, n.d., [negative]
--Hawley House, n.d., [negative]
--New England Map of the Yearly Meeting of Friends [Quakers], 1833, [negative]
--24 Cook Road, n.d., [negative]
--37 Arnold Road, n.d., ca. 1880s?, [negative]
--Orra White Hitchcock [1796-1863], View of Amherst from Pelham, 1833,
[lithograph, photograph negative, 1980s]
--Amherst College Buildings Constructed of Pelham Stone, 1990s, [photographs
and negatives]
--Pelham Town Hall Complex Repairs, ca. 1994, [photographs and negatives]
--Pelham Mill Sites, Hill Reservoir, and Amethyst Brook, 1990s, [photographs
and negatives]
--Rankin-Fales Quarry Near 88 Buffum Road, 1990s, [photographs and
negatives]
--Sanford Boyden [1819-1890] Granite Quarry, Boyden Road, 1990s
--Aldrich Quarry, Located North of 90 North Valley Road, 1990s
--Stone Quarry East of Hawley Reservoir, as Viewed by Howard Harlow Frost [b.
1928], 1990s
--Pelham Town Meeting, 1974, [photographs and negatives]
--Pelham Town Hall Repairs, n.d., ca. Spring, 1994
--Valley Quarry, n.d., ca. 1890s
--Historic Pelham Houses, [Published in “Disowned—Disrupted—Dissolved”],
1980s, [negatives]
--Pelham Quaker Cemetery, ca. 1985, [photographs and negatives]
--Aldrich and Boynton Stone Quarries, 1990s, [negatives]
--Old Sturbridge Village, 1980s
--Old Sturbridge Village, 1990s, [negatives]
--Pelham Mill Sites, 1990s, [negatives]
--Quaker Gravestones and Historic Sites in Cumberland, R.I. and Uxbridge,
MA, ca. 1980s
Sub-series: “DISOWNED—DISRUPTED—DISSOLVED” [THE PELHAM
QUAKERS], BOX 1
Folder Descriptions:
--Correspondence Regarding Publication, Feb. 27, 1983-Jan. 5, 1997; n.d.
--Sales Orders, June 21, 1985-Nov. 20, 1987; n.d.
--Pioneer Valley Studies Lecture, Greenfield, MA Community College, April 15,
1983
-- “The Quakers of Pelham,” n.d., ca. 1970s, [ms., edited by Franklin B.
Wickwire (1931-1992)]
--Richmond, N.H. Monthly Meeting Records of the Society of Friends [Quakers],
1800s, [photocopies]
--“Quakers in Pelham,” Talk Before Pelham Historical Society, Oct. 1977
--Manuscript Excerpts, 1984, [1 of 3]
--Manuscript Excerpts, 1984, [2 of 3]
--Manuscript Excerpts, 1984, [3 of 3]
--Manuscript Draft, 1984, [Edited by Ruth Owen Jones]
--Manuscript Draft, 1985
--Manuscript, Final Draft, With Editorial Correspondence by Charles Moran,
1985
--Orra White Hitchcock [1796-1863], Massachusetts Scenes, 1800s,
[lithographs, photocopies]
--Federal Census, Rhode Island, Providence County, Cumberland Town, 1790
--“Bolton, MA Friends Meeting House,” n.a., n.d., ca. 1955, [ms., typescript,
newspaper clipping, all photocopies]
--Pelham Quaker Family Group Sheets, [1 of 4]
--Pelham Quaker Family Group Sheets, [2 of 4]
--Pelham Quaker Family Group Sheets, [3 of 4]
Sub-series: “DISOWNED—DISRUPTED--DISSOLVED” [THE PELHAM
QUAKERS], Box 2
Folder Descriptions:
--Pelham Quaker Family Group Sheets, [4 of 4]
--Gaskell Family, “Ruth Gaskell Woodbury Family History,” by Harry Woodbury,
1991, [book, includes correspondence between Bigelow and Woodbury]
--Pelham Quaker Families, Research Notes
--Pelham Quaker Families, Research Notes
--Pelham Quaker Families, Correspondence, Jan. 1, 1974-Feb. 10, 1983
--Descendants of George Aldrich [ca. 1605-1683], Family Tree Maker Genealogy
Report, 1999, [1 of 2]
--Descendants of George Aldrich [ca. 1605-1683], Family Tree Maker Genealogy
Report, 1999, [2 of 2]
--Descendants of Nathan Arnold [ca. 1709-ca. 1763], Genealogy Report, 1999
--Ballou Genealogy, “The Streeter Family,” Genealogy Report, 1999
--Descendants of Robert Buffum, Outline Descendant Tree, 1999
--Simon Cook [b. 1800], Genealogy, n.a., n.d.
--Descendants of David Daviels [1710-1776], Genealogy Report, 1999
--Dexter Family, Genealogy Notes, n.d.
--Dunbar, Cook, and Pettengill Families, Correspondence with James E.
Mattern, 1994-1996
--Jillson Family, “Descendants of James Gilson, Sr. [d. 1712],” Family Tree
Maker Genealogy Report, 1999
--George Kelly [“Killey”] [1775-1819] Family, Genealogy Notes, n.d.
--Pelham Quaker Cemetery, Correspondence Conveying the Pelham Quaker
Cemetery from Worcester Monthly Meeting [Quakers] to the Town of Pelham,
1972-1976
--Pelham Quaker Cemetery, Cemetery Deeds, 1808-1974, and Plot Maps, 1978
--Pelham Quaker Cemetery, Plot Map, n.d., ca. 1930s?
--Pelham Quaker Cemetery, Research Notes
--Pelham Quaker Cemetery, Site Plans by James Avery Smith, 1983
--New England Quakers, Source Material, [1 of 2]
--New England Quakers, Source Material, [2 of 2]
--Miscellaneous Papers, 1980s
--Paul J. Bigelow, Newsclippings
--Pelham Quakers, Research Note Cards
--Notes on Pelham Quaker Houses
--Bibliography
Sub-series: “DISOWNED—DISRUPTED--DISSOLVED” [THE PELHAM
QUAKERS], BOX 3
Folder Descriptions:
--Manuscript: The Arnold Family
--Stephen Ballou [1783-1859] Family, Manuscript and Genealogy Notes; BallouLemuel Wedge [1798-1877]-John J. Hawley [1857-1935] House
--“Brief History of the Pelham Society of Friends (Quakers) in Chronological
Order,” ca. 1980s, [outline]
--Helen Griffith, “History of Mt. Toby Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of
Friends,” 1964, [ms., typescript, photocopy]
--Manuscript Draft, Edited by Rev. James L. Haddix, 1983
--Manuscript Draft, ca. 1983
--Richmond [N.H.] Monthly Meeting of Friends [Quakers], Records Regarding
Pelham Quakers, 1806-1855, [photocopies]
--Pelham Quakers, Chart of Members
--“Quaker Cemetery, Pelham, Mass.,” ca. 1983, [ms., includes listing of possible
burials in Pelham Quaker Cemetery and cemetery map]
Sub-series: “WRIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES,” [PELHAM MILLS BOOK], BOX 1
Folder Descriptions:
--Rebecca Bigelow Brooks, Biography of Paul J. Bigelow, ca. 1990s
--Newsclippings About Paul J. Bigelow
--Alternative Cover Design
--Bibliography Details
--Bibliography [research]
--Glossary of Terms and Vocabulary of Milling Terms
--Manuscript Index Draft
--Brochure (1)
--Brochure (2), Oct. 1993
--Review of “Wrights and Privileges,” “Old Mill News,” Winter, 1995
--Lectures on Pelham Mills, April 9, 1990-Oct. 9, 1993
--Correspondence, Oct. 21, 1987-Nov. 28, 1990; n.d.
--Correspondence, March 1, 1991-Dec. 31, 1991
--Correspondence, Jan. 3, 1992-Dec. 6, 1996; n.d.
--Sales Order Correspondence, May 18, 1992-April 27, 1996
--Income, Expenses, Sales Orders, 1993-May 16, 1996; n.d.
--Society for the Preservation of Old Mills
--Distribution Summary, 1993-1995
--‘200 Years of Water Powered Mills in Pelham, Massachusetts,” [outline]
--List of Pelham Mill Sites
--Pelham Mills Research, [notes]
--Deed Research Notebook
Sub-series: “WRIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES” [PELHAM MILLS BOOK], BOX 2
Folder Descriptions:
--Deed Research, [1 of 3]
--Deed Research, [2 of 3]
--Deed Research, [3 of 3]
--“Site Notes,” [notebook]
--“Site Notes”
--“Site Notes—Sort Out Deeds. 1900.” [1 of 3]
--“Site Notes—Sort Out Deeds. 1900.” [2 of 3]
--“Site Notes—Sort Out Deeds. 1900.” [3 of 3]
--Maps of Pelham Mill Locations
--“200 Years of Water Powered Mills in Pelham, MA By Site and Dates of Use,
1738 to 1937”
--Philip T. Ives, Amherst Precipitation Records, 1839-1989, Sept. 15, 1989
--Frank Arthur Cadwell [1860-1935], Map of Properties in Pelham-Quaker Area
in 1930s, [photocopy]
--Horace P. Gray [1811-1899], Genealogy Correspondence with Ruth Gray
Holden, 1996
--M.D.W.S.C., “Land Taking in Pelham for the Construction of the Quabbin
Reservoir,” March 24, 1938, [map, photocopy]
--Daily Hampshire Gazette [Northampton, MA], Articles about Pelham Mills,
1806-1888, [typescripts, photocopies]
--Hampshire County Industrial Statistics, 1845, [photocopied excerpts]
--Site A-l, Allen Brothers Saw Mill Site, West Pelham
--Site A-2, Montague City Fish Rod Factory Site
--Site A-2, Montague City Fish Rod Factory Site
--Site A-2, Montague City Fish Rod Factory Site, Source Material
--Site A-2, Montague City Fish Rod Factory Site, Jillson Family Genealogy
--Site A-2, Montague City Fish Rod Factory Site, Stanley Allen, “The JillsonChew House,” [24 Amherst Road], 1976, [ms., typescript, photocopy]
Sub-series: “WRIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES” [PELHAM MILLS BOOK], BOX 3
Folder Descriptions:
--Site A-5, Amethyst Brook Near Orient Springs
--Site A-6, Meetinghouse Road
--Site A-7, Ezra Brown Site, Meetinghouse Road
--Site A-7, Jessica M. Del Genio, “Ezra Brown’s Mill,” 1989, [ms.]
--Sites A-9 and A-10, Buffum Road and Buffum Brook
--Site A-13, Eseck Cook [1768-1855], et al, Mill, North Valley Road
--Sites A-14, A-15 and A-19, Cook Road, King Street
--Site A-18, Packardville Road [listed as “Enfield Road" (sic)]
--Site A-20, King Street
--Site B-9, Packardville
--Site B-11, David Shores [1823-1907]-Harry John Whipple [1877-1953] Site,
Pelham Hollow
--Site B-11, David Shores [1823-1907]-Harry John Whipple [1877-1953] Site,
Pelham Hollow, Source Material, [photocopies]
--Site B-11, David Shores [1823-1907]-Harry John Whipple [1877-1953] Site,
Pelham Hollow, MDC Property Appraisal, Dec. 3, 1927
--Site B-12, Castle Bridge Site, Northern Pelham Hollow
--Site B-13, Pelham Hollow, [Includes Bobbin Factory]
--Sites B-13, B-14 and B-15, Pelham Hollow, Source Material, [photocopies]
--Site B-15, Theodore Frederick Cook [1841-1910] Site, Pelham Hollow
--Miscellaneous Pelham Mill Sites
--John Hill, “The Upper Portion of Amethyst Brook, Pelham, MA” [Brewer Road
area], 1992, [ms.]
--Swift River Valley Mills
--Hampshire County Mills
--Mills in New England
--Charles Howell and Allan Keller, “The Mill At Philipsburg Manor Upper Mills
and A Brief History of Milling,” [Tarrytown, N.Y.: Sleepy Hollow Restorations,
1977]
--Mills, Source Material
--“Waterpower Equipment Manufactured by Fitz Water Wheel Co., Hanover,
Pa.,” n.a., 1941, repr. 1992, [booklet]
--Bobbin Making, Source Material
--Cider Mills, Correspondence and Source Material
--Shops, Source Material
--Gristmills, Source Material
--Dams, Source Material
--Saw Mills, Source Material
--Mill Illustrations, Source Material
--Miscellaneous Papers
Sub-series: “WRIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES” [PELHAM MILLS BOOK], BOX 4
Folder Descriptions:
--Manuscript Draft, Annotated by ?, 1993
--Manuscript Draft, Edited by Rebecca Bigelow Brooks, 1993
--Printer Dummy Copy, 1993
--Manuscript Draft, 1993
--Manuscript Draft, Edited by Tom Keller, Feb. 1992
Sub-series: “WRIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES” [PELHAM MILLS BOOK], BOX 5
Folder Descriptions:
--Manuscript, Draft Chapters
--Manuscript Draft, 1993
--Manuscript Draft, Aug. 2, 1993
--Manuscript Draft, Aug. 2, 1993
--Manuscript Draft, 1993
--Manuscript Draft, Sept. 1993
Sub-series: “WRIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES” [PELHAM MILLS BOOK],
PHOTOGRAPHS
Folder Descriptions:
--Sites B-1 and B-2, Shutesbury, MA, 1990s
--Mills in Granby, MA and Stockbridge, MA, 1990s, [photographs and negatives]
--Saugus, MA Iron Works, 1990, [photographs and negatives]
--Saugus, MA Iron Works, Montague, MA, and Leverett, MA Mills, 1990s,
[photographs and negatives]
--Mills in Nantucket, MA and in New Hampshire, 1990s, [photographs and
negatives]
--Mill Illustrations, [Photographs of Drawings], n.d., [1 of 2]
--Mill Illustrations, [Photographs of Drawings], n.d., [2 of 2]
--Mill Illustrations, [Photographs of Drawings], n.d., [negatives]
--Miller’s Wheel, Hadley, MA Farm Museum, 1990s
--New England Mills
--Eseck Cook [1768-1855], et al, Mill, North Valley Road, 1980, [slides]
Sub-series: “THE STONE QUARRY INDUSTRY, PELHAM, MASSACHUSETTS”
[1998]
Folder Descriptions:
--Outline for Publication
--Manuscript, Draft, 1995
--Manuscript, Draft, 1996
--Manuscript, Draft, n.d., ca. 1998
--Manuscript, Draft, 1998
--Manuscript, Draft, March, 1998
--Manuscript, Galley for Photoreproduction, 1998
--Research and Correspondence
--Correspondence with Thomas E. Rice, July 22, 1991-Jan. 11, 1995; n.d.
--Diagrams of Pelham Quarry Site Locations, 1990s
--Map of Pelham Stone Quarries and “Uses of Pelham Stone,” 1990s, [map and
outline]
--Valley Quarry [a.k.a. “Gray-Gaylord Quarry”], Map of Land, Hampshire
County Plan Book 20-4, 1928, [photocopy]
--“Plan of Land in Pelham for the Amherst Water Co.,” Hampshire County Plan
Book 21-79, 1935, [photocopy]
--University of Massachusetts-Amherst Owned Former Quarry at Corner of
Buffum Road and Robinson Road
--Harkness Family, Harkness Stone Yard
--Adam Johnson [1752-1825] and Johnson Chapel, Amherst College
--Research on Amherst College Buildings
--Old Chapel, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
--Dr. Edward Hitchcock [1793-1864]
--Grace Episcopal Church and First Congregational Church, Amherst, MA
--Barre, VT Granite Industry
COLLECTION/SERIES: THE SEARCH FOR PELHAM [1993-1995] BY
BARBARA BENDA JENKINS
Folder Descriptions:
--Script Draft: Introduction
--Script Draft: Opening Sequence to Ninth Sequence
--Script Draft: Second Sequence
--Script Draft: Third Sequence
--Script Draft: Fourth Sequence
--Script Draft: Final Sequence
--Script Draft: Final Draft [No. 1]
--Script Draft: Final Draft [No. 2]
--Script Draft: Final Draft, Shays’ Rebellion Veteran’s Dialogue [Andy
Lichtenberg]
--Script Draft: Final Draft, Credits
--Script Draft: Final Draft, Narrative and Camera Directions
--Script Draft: Final Draft, Segment Listing
--Script Draft: Final Draft, Directions to David Rabinowitz
--Script Draft: Final Draft, Miscellaneous Papers
--Early Settlement of Pelham: Research
--Historical Resources: Notes
--Historical Resources: Thomas E. Rice [b. 1927], “The Nature and
Interpretation of Glacial Outwash Features in Pelham, Mass.,” [Ms., n.d., ca.
1991]
--Historical Resources: “The Study of Early Pelham, Mass.,” [Ms., n.a., n.d.]
--Historical Resources: Helen Gould Bess Mitchell [1900-1974], “A Look at
Pelham (Mass.) Today,” [Ms., n.d.]
--Historical Resources: “Governing Springfield, Pelham and Hampshire County,”
Excerpt from “Pelham, Mass.: A Teacher’s Resource Book,” [Ms., n.a., n.d., ca.
1970]
--Historical Resources: Paul J. Bigelow [1937-2001], “The Mills and Shops in
Pelham, 1740 to 1800,” [Ms., n.d., ca. 1991]
--Historical Resources: Maps of Pelham Mills from Paul J. Bigelow [1937-2001],
“Wrights and Privileges: The Mills and Shops of Pelham,” [1991]
--Historical Resources: Abercrombie Family, Excerpts from “Genealogical
Histories of Abercrombie, Fuller and Allied Families,” by Ruth Lawrence [1932],
[Typescript Copy, n.d.]
--Historical Resources: Abercrombie, Isaac, Sr. [1759-1847], Oath of Allegiance
to Gen. Ebenezer Mattoon, Jr. [1755-1843], March 2, 1787, [Photocopy]
--Historical Resources: Peebles Family, Excerpts from “Robert Peebles from
Ulster, 1718…” by Leslie A. Peebles, [1964]
--Historical Resources: American Presbyterianism
--Historical Resources: Londonderry, N.H.
--Historical Resources: Worcester, MA
--Historical Resources: Harvard Forest [Petersham, MA] Publications
--Historical Resources: Textile Crafts
--Native American Research
--Native American Research: Booklets About Native Americans in New England
--Native American Research: Drawings of Native Americans
--Involvement of Pelham School Children
--Correspondence, 1992
--Correspondence, 1993
--Correspondence, 1995; n.d.; and Miscellaneous Papers
--William Conkey [1717-1788], Conkey’s Tavern: Correspondence, 1993
COLLECTION/SERIES: TOWN OF PELHAM
Sub-series: Town of Pelham, Annual Reports, 1878-1917
Folder Descriptions:
--Annual Report, 1878
--Annual Report, 1879
--Annual Report, 1886
--Annual Report, 1888
--Annual Report, 1889
--Annual Report, 1890
--Annual Report, 1891
--Annual Report, 1894
--Annual Report, 1895
--Annual Report, 1896
--Annual Report, 1897
--Annual Report, 1898
--Annual Report, 1900
--Annual Report, 1901
--Annual Report, 1902
--Annual Report, 1903
--Annual Report, 1904
--Annual Report, 1907
--Annual Report, 1908
--Annual Report, 1909
--Annual Report, 1910
--Annual Report, 1911
--Annual Report, 1912
--Annual Report, 1913
--Annual Report, Feb. 15, 1914
--Annual Report, Dec. 31, 1914
--Annual Report, 1915
--Annual Report, 1916
--Annual Report, 1917
Sub-series: Town of Pelham, Annual Reports, 1918-1925
Folder Descriptions:
--Annual Report, 1918
--Annual Report, 1919
--Annual Report, 1920
--Annual Report, 1921
--Annual Report, 1921
--Annual Report, 1922
--Annual Report, 1922
--Annual Report, 1923
--Annual Report, 1923
--Annual Report, 1924
--Annual Report, 1925
--Annual Report, 1925
--Annual Report, 1925
Sub-series: Town of Pelham, Annual Reports, 1926-1933
Folder Descriptions:
--Annual Report, 1926
--Annual Report, 1926
--Annual Report, 1926
--Annual Report, 1927
--Annual Report, 1927
--Annual Report, 1928
--Annual Report, 1929
--Annual Report, 1930
--Annual Report, 1930
--Annual Report, 1931
--Annual Report, 1932
--Annual Report, 1933
--Annual Report, 1933
Sub-series: Town of Pelham, Annual Reports, 1934-1939
Folder Descriptions:
--Annual Report, 1934
--Annual Report, 1934
--Annual Report, 1935
--Annual Report, 1935
--Annual Report, 1936
--Annual Report, 1936
--Annual Report, 1937
--Annual Report, 1937
--Annual Report, 1938
--Annual Report, 1938
--Annual Report, 1939
Sub-series: Town of Pelham, Annual Reports, 1940-1946
Folder Descriptions:
--Annual Report, 1940
--Annual Report, 1940
--Annual Report, 1940
--Annual Report, 1941
--Annual Report, 1941
--Annual Report, 1942
--Annual Report, 1942
--Annual Report, 1943
--Annual Report, 1943
--Annual Report, 1944
--Annual Report, 1944
--Annual Report, 1945
--Annual Report, 1946
--Annual Report, 1946
Sub-series: Town of Pelham, Annual Reports, 1947-1952
Folder Descriptions:
--Annual Report, 1947
--Annual Report, 1947
--Annual Report, 1948
--Annual Report, 1948
--Annual Report, 1949
--Annual Report, 1949
--Annual Report, 1950
--Annual Report, 1950
--Annual Report, 1950
--Annual Report, 1951
--Annual Report, 1951
--Annual Report, 1952
--Annual Report, 1952
--Annual Report, 1952
Sub-series: Town of Pelham, Annual Reports, 1953-1956
Folder Descriptions:
--Annual Report, 1953
--Annual Report, 1953
--Annual Report, 1953
--Annual Report, 1953
--Annual Report, 1954
--Annual Report, 1954
--Annual Report, 1954
--Annual Report, 1955
--Annual Report, 1955
--Annual Report, 1955
--Annual Report, 1956
Sub-series: Town of Pelham, Annual Reports, 1956-1959
Folder Descriptions:
--Annual Report, 1956
--Annual Report, 1956
--Annual Report, 1957
--Annual Report, 1957
--Annual Report, 1957
--Annual Report, 1958
--Annual Report, 1958
--Annual Report, 1959
--Annual Report, 1959
Sub-series: Town of Pelham, Annual Reports, 1960-1963
Folder Descriptions:
--Annual Report, 1960
--Annual Report, 1960
--Annual Report, 1960
--Annual Report, 1961
--Annual Report, 1961
--Annual Report, 1962
--Annual Report, 1962
--Annual Report, 1963
--Annual Report, 1963
--Annual Report, 1963
Sub-series: Town of Pelham, Annual Reports, 1963-1966
Folder Descriptions:
--Annual Report, 1963
--Annual Report, 1964
--Annual Report, 1964
--Annual Report, 1964
--Annual Report, 1964
--Annual Report, 1965
--Annual Report, 1965
--Annual Report, 1965
--Annual Report, 1965
--Annual Report, 1966
--Annual Report, 1966
--Annual Report, 1966
Sub-series: Town of Pelham, Annual Reports, 1967-1971
Folder Descriptions:
--Annual Report, 1967
--Annual Report, 1967
--Annual Report, 1967
--Annual Report, 1968
--Annual Report, 1968
--Annual Report, 1968
--Annual Report, 1968
--Annual Report, 1969
--Annual Report, 1970
--Annual Report, 1970
--Annual Report, 1970
--Annual Report, 1971
Sub-series: Town of Pelham, Annual Reports, 1971-1974
Folder Descriptions:
--Annual Report, 1971
--Annual Report, 1971
--Annual Report, 1971
--Annual Report, 1972
--Annual Report, 1972
--Annual Report, 1972
--Annual Report, 1973
--Annual Report, 1973
--Annual Report, 1974
Sub-series: Town of Pelham, Annual Reports, 1974-1978
Folder Descriptions:
--Annual Report, 1974
--Annual Report, 1974
--Annual Report, July 3l, 1975-Dec. 31, 1975
--Annual Report, July 1, 1975-Dec. 31, 1975
--Annual Report, 1976
--Annual Report, 1977
--Annual Report, 1977
--Annual Report, 1977
--Annual Report, 1977
--Annual Report, 1978
--Annual Report, 1978
--Annual Report, 1978
Sub-series: Town of Pelham, Annual Reports, 1979-1984
Folder Descriptions:
--Annual Report, 1979
--Annual Report, 1979
--Annual Report, 1980
--Annual Report, 1980
--Annual Report, 1981
--Annual Report, 1981
--Annual Report, 1981
--Annual Report, 1981
--Annual Report, 1982
--Annual Report, 1982
--Annual Report, 1982
--Annual Report, 1983
--Annual Report, 1984
--Annual Report, 1984
Sub-series: Town of Pelham, Annual Reports, 1984-1991
Folder Descriptions:
--Annual Report, 1984
--Annual Report, 1985
--Annual Report, 1985
--Annual Report, 1986
--Annual Report, 1986
--Annual Report, 1987
--Annual Report, 1988
--Annual Report, 1989
--Annual Report, 1990
--Annual Report, 1991
--Annual Report, 1992
--Annual Report, 1992
--Annual Report, 1993
--Annual Report, 1994
Sub-series: Town of Pelham, Annual Reports, 1995-2000
Folder Descriptions:
--Annual Report, 1995
--Annual Report, 1995
--Annual Report, 1996
--Annual Report, 1996
--Annual Report, 1996
--Annual Report, 1997
--Annual Report, 1997
--Annual Report, 1998
--Annual Report, 1998
--Annual Report, 1999
--Annual Report, 2000
Sub-series: Town of Pelham, Annual Reports, 2001Folder Descriptions:
--Annual Report, 2001
--Annual Report, 2002
Sub-series: Town of Pelham, Street Lists, 1955-1979
Folder Descriptions:
--Street Lists, 1955-1961, [not inclusive]
--Street Lists, 1962-1967
--Street List, 1968
--Street List, 1969
--Street List, 1970
--Street List, 1971
--Street List, 1972
--Street List, 1973
--Street List, 1974
--Street List, 1975
--Street List, 1976
--Street List, 1977
--Street List, 1978
--Street List, 1979
Sub-series: Town of Pelham, Street Lists, 1980-1981
Folder Descriptions:
--Street List, 1980
--Street List, 1981
--Street List, 1982
--Street List, 1983
--Street List, 1984
--Street List, 1985
--Street List, 1986
--Street List, 1987
--Street List, 1988
--Street List, 1989
--Street List, 1990
--Street List, 1991
Sub-series: Town of Pelham, Street Lists, 1992-1999
Folder Descriptions:
--Street List, 1992
--Street List, 1993
--Street List, 1994
--Street List, 1995
--Street List, 1996
--Street List, 1997
--Street List, 1998
--Street List, 1998
--Street List, 1999
--Street List, 1999
Sub-series: Town of Pelham, Street Lists, 2000-2003
Folder Descriptions:
--Street List, 2000
--Street List, 2001
--Street List, 2002
--Street List, 2003
--Street List, 2004
--Street List, 2004
Sub-series, Town of Pelham Finance Committee Reports, Warrant Articles,
1973-1981
Folder Descriptions:
--Finance Committee Report, 1973-1974
--Finance Committee Report and Recommendations for the Annual Town
Meeting, July 1, 1975-June 30, 1976
--Finance Committee Report and Recommendations for the Annual Town
Meeting, July 1, 1975-June 30, 1976
--Finance Committee Report and Recommendations for the Annual Town
Meeting, July 1, 1976-June 30, 1977
--Finance Committee Report and Recommendations for the Annual Town
Meeting, July 1, 1976-June 30, 1976
--Warrant Articles, Finance Committee Report, Treasurer’s Report, 1975-76, for
the Annual Town Meeting, July 1, 1977-June 30, 1978
--Warrant Articles, Finance Committee Report, Treasurer’s Report, 1975-76, for
the Annual Town Meeting, July l, 1977-June 30, 1978
--Warrant Articles, Finance Committee Report, Treasurer’s Report, 1976-77, for
the Annual Town Meeting, July 1, 1978-June 30, 1979
--Warrant Articles, Finance Committee Report, Treasurer’s Report, 1976-77, for
the Annual Town Meeting, July 1, 1978-June 30, 1979
--Warrant Articles, Finance Committee Report, Treasurer’s Report, 1977-78, for
the Annual Town Meeting, July 1, 1979-June 30, 1980
--Warrant Articles, Finance Committee Report, Treasurer’s Report, 1977-78, for
the Annual Town Meeting, July 1, 1979-June 30, 1980
--Warrant Articles, Finance Committee Report, Treasurer’s Report, 1977-78, for
the Annual Town Meeting, July 1, 1979-June 30, 1980
--Warrant Articles, Finance Committee Report, Treasurer’s Report, for the
Annual Town Meeting, July 1, 1980-June 30, 1981
--Warrant Articles, Finance Committee Report, Treasurer’s Report, for the
Annual Town Meeting, July 1, 1981-June 30, 1982
COLLECTION/SERIES: ORAL HISTORY PROJECT [1980]
Sub-series: Original Transcripts and Photographs
Folder Descriptions:
--Oral History Project, Newsclippings, 1980s
--Flora May Ely Adriance [1891-1980], Oral History Interview, 1979,
[transcription and photograph]
--Mark Bartlett Aldrich [1907-1987], Oral History Interview, 1981,
[transcription and photograph]
--Daniel Henry Allen [1904-1989], Oral History Interview, 1979, [transcription
and photograph]
--Harold Dexter Bohmer [1890-1987], Oral History Interview, 1979,
[transcription and photograph]
--George Washington Burrows [1893-1994], Oral History Interview, 1979,
[transcription and photograph], [1 of 3]
--George Washington Burrows [1893-1994], Oral History Interview, 1979,
[transcription, [2 of 3]
--George Washington Burrows [1893-1994], Oral History Interview, 1979,
[transcription], [3 of 3]
--Paul Hardy Campbell, Sr. [1898-1992], Oral History Interview, 1979,
[transcription and photograph]
--Herbert Andrew Goodell [1907-1984], Oral History Interview, 1981,
[transcription and photograph]
--John Partridge Hunt [1901-1992], Oral History Interview, 1981, [transcription
and photograph]
--Pearl Pease Keyes, Sr. [1891-1982], Oral History Interview, 1980,
[transcription and photograph]
--Evelyn D. Kimball [1909-1982], Oral History Interview, 1979, [transcription
and photograph]
--Mabel H. Brinn Lumley [1908-1989], Oral History Interview, 1981,
[transcription and photograph]
--Gladys Olds Reed [1899-1988], Oral History Interview, 1980, [transcription
and photograph]
--Marion Carlton Robinson [1916-1991], Oral History Interview, 1981,
[transcription and photograph]
--Floretta Sally Ward Shepard [1889-1990] [a.k.a. “Sally Shepard”], Oral History
Interview, 1979, [transcription and photograph]
--Beatrice Irene Smith [b. 1908], Oral History Interview, 1981, [transcription
and photograph]
--Mary Earlham Coll Henderson Taylor [b. 1898], Oral History Interview, 1979,
[transcription and photograph]
--Rev. Gifford Hoag Towle [1907-1987], Oral History Interview, 1981,
[transcription and photograph]
--Lawrence [Bud] Albert Willson [1904-1992], Oral History Interview, 1979,
[transcription and photograph]
--Marion Gertrude Fiske Wilson [1904-1991], Oral History Interview, 1981,
[transcription and photograph]
--Marie Ada Keeling Yegian [1901-1998], Oral History Interview, 1981,
[transcription and photograph]
Sub-series: Transcript Copies in Folders, Adriance to Keyes
Folder Descriptions:
--Flora May Ely Adriance [1891-1980], Oral History Interview, 1979,
[transcription]
--Mark Bartlett Aldrich [1907-1987], Oral History Interview, 1987,
[transcription]
--Daniel Henry Allen [1904-1989], Oral History Interview, 1979, [transcription]
--Harold Dexter Bohmer [1890-1987], Oral History Interview, 1979,
[transcription]
--George Washington Burrows [1893-1994], Oral History Interview, 1979,
[transcription], [1 of 2]
--George Washington Burrows [1893-1994], Oral History Interview, 1979,
[transcription], [2 of 2]
--Paul Hardy Campbell, Sr. [1898-1992], Oral History Interview, 1979,
[transcription]
--Herbert Andrew Goodell [1907-1984], Oral History Interview, 1981,
[transcription]
--John Partridge Hunt [1901-1992], Oral History Interview, 1981,
[transcription]
--Pearl Pease Keyes, Sr. [1891-1982], Oral History Interview, 1980,
[transcription]
Sub-series: Transcript Copies in Folders, Kimball to Yegian
Folder Descriptions:
--Evelyn D. Kimball [1909-1982], Oral History Interview, 1979, [transcription]
--Mabel H. Brinn Lumley [1908-1989], Oral History Interview, 1981,
[transcription]
--Gladys Olds Reed [1899-1988], Oral History Interview, 1980, [transcription]
--Marion Carlton Robinson [1916-1991], Oral History Interview, [transcription]
--Floretta Sally Ward Shepard [1889-1990], [a.k.a. “Sally Shepard”], Oral
History Interview, 1979, [transcription]
--Beatrice Irene Smith [b. 1908], Oral History Interview, 1981, [transcription]
--Mary Earlham Coll Henderson Taylor [b. 1898], Oral History Interview, 1979,
[transcription]
--Rev. Gifford Hoag Towle [1907-1987], Oral History Interview, 1981,
[transcription]
--Lawrence [Bud] Albert Willson [1904-1992], Oral History Interview, 1979,
[transcription]
--Marion Gertrude Fiske Wilson [1904-1991], Oral History Interview, 1981,
[transcription]
--Marie Ada Keeling Yegian [1901-1998], Oral History Interview, 1981,
[transcription]
Sub-series: Oral History Project Audio Tapes, Adriance to Goodell
Folder Descriptions:
--Flora May Ely Adriance [1891-1980], Oral History Interview, 1979, [sound
recording]
--Mark Bartlett Aldrich [1907-1987], Oral History Interview, 1981, [sound
recording]
--Daniel Henry Allen [1904-1989], Oral History Interview, 1979, [sound
recording], [1 of 2]
--Daniel Henry Allen [1904-1989], Oral History Interview, 1979, [sound
recording], [2 of 2]
--Harold Dexter Bohmer [1890-1987], Oral History Interview, 1979, [sound
recording]
--George Washington Burrows [1893-1994], Oral History Interview, 1979,
[sound recording], [1 of 8]
--George Washington Burrows [1893-1994], Oral History Interview, 1979,
[sound recording], [2 of 8]
--George Washington Burrows [1893-1994], Oral History Interview, 1979,
[sound recording], [3 of 8]
--George Washington Burrows [1893-1994], Oral History Interview, 1979,
[sound recording], [4 of 8]
--George Washington Burrows [1893-1994], Oral History Interview, 1979,
[sound recording], [5 of 8]
--George Washington Burrows [1893-1994], Oral History Interview, 1979,
[sound recording], [6 of 8]
--George Washington Burrows [1893-1994], Oral History Interview, 1979,
[sound recording], [7 of 8]
--George Washington Burrows [1893-1994], Oral History Interview, 1979,
[sound recording], [8 of 8]
--Paul Hardy Campbell, Sr. [1898-1992], Oral History Interview, 1979, [sound
recording]
--Herbert Andrew Goodell [1907-1984], Oral History Interview, 1981, [sound
recording]
Sub-series: Oral History Project Audio Tapes, Hunt to Yegian
Folder Descriptions:
--John Partridge Hunt [1901-1992], Oral History Interview, 1981, [sound
recording]
--Pearl Pease Keyes, Sr. [1891-1982], Oral History Interview, 1980, [sound
recording]
--Evelyn D. Kimball [1909-1982], Oral History Interview, 1979, [sound
recording]
--Mabel H. Brinn Lumley [1908-1989], Oral History Interview, 1981, [sound
recording]
--Gladys Olds Reed [1899-1988], Oral History Interview, 1980, [sound
recording]
--Marion Carlton Robinson [1916-1991], Oral History Interview, 1981, [sound
recording]
--Floretta Sally Ward Shepard [1889-1990], [a.k.a. “Sally Shepard”], Oral
History Interview, 1979, [sound recording]
--Beatrice Irene Smith [b. 1908], Oral History Interview, 1981, [sound recording]
--Mary Earlham Coll Henderson Taylor [b. 1898], Oral History Interview, 1979,
[sound recording]
--Rev. Gifford Hoag Towle [1907-1987], Oral History Interview, 1981, [sound
recording]
--Lawrence [Bud] Albert Willson [1904-1992], Oral History Interview, 1979,
[sound recording]
--Marion Gertrude Fiske Wilson [1904-1991], Oral History Interview, 1981,
[sound recording]
--Marie Ada Keeling Yegian [1901-1998], Oral History Interview, 1981, [sound
recording]
TOWN OF PELHAM ARCHIVES COLLECTION
COLLECTION/SERIES: PELHAM HISTORICAL COMMISSION
Sub-series: Pelham Historical Commission
Folder Descriptions:
--Annual Reports, 1972-1987
--Minutes, March 23, 1972-Dec. 18, 1975
--Minutes, Jan. 15, 1976-Nov. 27, 1979
--Minutes, Feb. 5, 1980-Dec. 2, 1984
--Minutes, Jan. 8, 1985-Aug. 19, 1986
--Minutes, Jan. 13, 1987-May 25, 1988
--Minutes, 2003
--Correspondence, Jan. 4, 1971-Dec. 23, 1975
--Correspondence, Feb. 19, 1976-May 9, 1984
--Correspondence, May 14, 1984-April 15, 1988
--Budgets, 1974-1989
--Pelham Town Hall Complex, Declaration of Covenants with Massachusetts
Historical Commission, Dec. 27, 1972, [photocopy]
--Pelham Town Hall Complex, Federal Historic Preservation, Project Agreement
with Massachusetts Historical Commission, Nov. 1972, [photocopy]
--Pelham Town Hall Complex, Preservation Restrictions, Agreement with
Massachusetts Historical Commission, April 5, 1976, [photocopy]
--Pelham Town Hall Complex, Town Warrants to Authorize Preservation
Restrictions and Make Repairs on Town Hall Complex, Sept. 27, 1976
--Pelham Town Hall Complex, Landscape Design Project, Program,
Miscellaneous Papers, 1977-1978
--Pelham Town Hall Complex, Landscape Design Project, Correspondence,
1978-1981
--Pelham Town Hall Complex, Landscape Design Project, Site Plan, Feb. 1979
--Pelham Town Hall Complex, Landscape Design Project, Dedication, Sept. 20,
1981, [programs]
--Pelham Town Hall Complex, Landscape Design Project, Reports and Financial
Records, 1978-1981
--Pelham Town Hall Complex, Landscape Design Project, Miscellaneous Papers,
n.d., ca. 1978-1981
--“A Preliminary List: Old Houses of Pelham of Architectural or Historic Note,”
n.d., ca. 1978, [report draft]
--Pelham Historic Resources Inventory, Miscellaneous Papers, n.d., ca. 1988
--“Preliminary Survey Report for the Town of Pelham, Massachusetts Prepared
for the Massachusetts Historical Commission by the Pioneer Valley Planning
Commission,” [Sept. 2001]
--Pelham Historical Commission Return Envelopes, n.d., ca. 1980
Sub-series: William J. Foerster [1900-1989] Collection
Folder Descriptions:
--Correspondence, Announcements, Miscellaneous Papers, Jan. 15, 1972-May
26, 1972
--Correspondence, Announcements, Miscellaneous Papers, June 2, 1972-Oct.
27, 1972
--Correspondence, Announcements, Miscellaneous Papers, Nov. 2, 1972-Dec.
23, 1972; n.d.
--Correspondence, Announcements, Miscellaneous Papers, 1973
--Correspondence, Announcements, Miscellaneous Papers, Feb. 2, 1974-June
20, 1974
--Correspondence, Announcements, Miscellaneous Papers, July 3, 1974-Dec.
11, 1974
--1974 Pelham Historical Commission Report, Correspondence, Miscellaneous
Papers, March 5, 1975-Feb. 12, 1977; n.d.
--“Historical Assets Inventory, Town of Pelham, Massachusetts, June, 1973,”
[report on historic Pelham houses and cemeteries, photocopy]
--“Notes for a Second Edition of ‘Historical Assets Inventory,’” 1974-1975
--Pelham Historical Commission Scrap Book, 1968-1977
--Bicentennial Events Questionnaire, n.d., ca. 1973
Sub-series: Pelham Historic Homes Project, 1984-1986, Box 1
Folder Descriptions:
--A Preliminary List: Old Houses of Pelham of Architectural or Historic Note
--Report on Historic Pelham Homes, 1984-1985, [draft]
--Report on Historic Pelham Homes, n.d., ca. 1985, [1 of 2]
--Report on Historic Pelham Homes, n.d., ca. 1985, [2 of 2]
--“Pelham, Massachusetts Houses: Inventory by the Pelham Historical
Commission,” [Ms., Spring, 1985]
--Bibliography: Pelham Historical Resources Survey, [Draft, July 6, 1988]
--Massachusetts Historical Commission, “Reconnaissance Survey Report:
Pelham,” [Oct. 1982]
--Suggestions [for] Inventory Research Procedures
--Historic Pelham Homes, Slide Show Script, 1985
-- Historic Pelham Homes, Slide Show Script, [“Copy No. 1”], 1985
--Historic Pelham Homes, Slide Show Script, [“Copy No. 2”], 1985
--1 Amherst Road, Research Notes
--3 Amherst Road, Research Notes
--51 Amherst Road, by Paul J. Bigelow, Research and Genealogy Notes,
[Includes Daniels Family], ca. 1985
--51 Amherst Road, by Paul J. Bigelow, Kelley Family Research Notes, ca. 1985
--51 Amherst Road, “Abby Kelley Foster,” by Paul J. Bigelow, 1984, [ms.,
typescript]
--51 Amherst Road, Abigail Kelley Foster [1810-1887], by Margaret Hope Bacon,
“Valiant Friend,” n.d., [photocopied excerpts]
--51 Amherst Road, Abigail Kelley Foster [1810-1887], Biographies About,
[photocopied excerpts]
--102 Amherst Road, by Paul J. Bigelow, Research Notes, ca. 1985
--225 Amherst Road, by Paul J. Bigelow, ca. 1985, [ms., typescript]
--225 Amherst Road, by Paul J. Bigelow, Research Notes, ca. 1985
--37 Arnold Road, by Paul J. Bigelow, [Includes Arnold Family Research Notes],
ca. 1985, [ms., draft]
--24 Cook Road, by Paul J. Bigelow, Research Notes, ca. 1985
--24 Cook Road, by Paul J. Bigelow, ca. 1985, [ms., draft]
--24 Cook Road, by Paul J. Bigelow, 1983, [ms., draft, annotated by Ruth
Hibbard Romer (1901-1992)]
--24 Cook Road, by Paul J. Bigelow, Eseck Cook [1768-1855] Family,
Genealogical Research, ca. 1985
--24 Cook Road, Genealogy of Eseck Cook [1768-1855], by Leroy V. Cook, n.d.,
[genealogy report]
--24 Cook Road, Eseck Cook [1768-1855], Will and Probate Inventory,
[photocopies]
--24 Cook Road, Cook Family Vital Records, “Vital Records of Pelham, Mass., To
The Year 1850,” New-England Historic Genealogical Society, 1902, [photocopied
excerpts]
--24 Cook Road, Cook Family, Miscellaneous Papers, 1983, n.d.
--24 Cook Road, Alfred Sherwood Romer [1894-1973], “History of the Romer
Pelham Farm,” n.d., ca. 1960s, [ms., typescript, photocopy]
--24 Cook Road, “Alfred Sherwood Romer, 1894-1973: A Biographical Memoir,”
by Edwin H. Corbert, “Biographical Memoirs,” 1982, [photocopy]
--24 Cook Road, “Alfred Sherwood Romer: Memorial Minute Adopted by the
Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University, November 18, 1975,”
[photocopy]
Sub-series: Pelham Historic Homes Project, 1984-1986, Box 2
Folder Descriptions:
--9 Enfield Road, by Paul J. Bigelow, Research Notes, ca. 1985
--49 Enfield Road, Ziba Cook [1791-1868], “Ziba Cook Tavern,” by Paul J.
Bigelow, [Includes Cook Genealogy Notes], ca. 1985, [ms., notes]
--7A Gulf Road, by Paul J. Bigelow, Research Notes, ca. 1985
--7A Gulf Road, by Paul J. Bigelow, ca. 1985, [ms., draft]
--24 Harkness Road, “Lumley House,” by Paul J. Bigelow, ca. 1985, [ms.,
photocopy]
--58 Harkness Road, “Harkness House,” by Paul J. Bigelow, ca. 1985, [ms.,
research notes]
--59 Meetinghouse Road, “Rock Walls Farm, “ by Paul J. Bigelow, ca. 1985,
[ms., photocopy]
--90 North Valley Road, by Paul J. Bigelow, [Includes Genealogy on Aldrich,
Graves and Ezbicki Families], ca. 1985, [ms., notes]
--6 Quarry Road, by Paul J. Bigelow, Research Notes, ca. 1985
--69 Shutesbury Road, by Paul J. Bigelow, Research Notes, ca. 1985
--19 South Valley Road, by Paul J. Bigelow, ca. 1985, [ms., draft]
--19 South Valley Road, by Paul J. Bigelow, [Includes Jillson Genealogy and
Research Notes], ca. 1985
--19 South Valley Road, “Information Regarding Cary House and Family,” by
Helen [Mimi] Cary [b. 1920], n.d., ca. 1985
--42 South Valley Road, by Paul J. Bigelow, [Includes Keyes Family Genealogy],
ca. 1985
--42 South Valley Road, by Paul J. Bigelow, Research Notes, ca. 1985
--Stephen Ballou [1783-1859]-Lemuel Wedge [1798-1877]-John J. Hawley
[1857-1935] House, by Paul J. Bigelow, Research Notes, ca. 1985
--“Survey Map of Five West Pelham Residences, Dec. 10, 1812,” [Andrew Hyde
(1768-1827), David Harkness (ca. 1757-1816), John Harkness, Sr. (ca. 1750-
1821), John Harkness, Jr. (1788-1844) and (Capt.) David Hannum (ca. 17631848)], [photocopy]
--John Russell [b. ca. 1807], “Petition to Senate and House of Representatives of
the Commonwealth of Massachusetts” [to Set His Farm Off to Amherst], Dec.
30, 1854, [map, photocopy]
--Paul J. Bigelow, Miscellaneous Research Notes on Historic Pelham Homes, ca.
1985
--Slides: Pelham Town Hall Complex
--Slides: 37 Amherst Road: Beatrice Irene Smith [b. 1908].
--Slides: 225 Amherst Road. George Rogers Taylor [b. 1895] and Mary E.C.H.
Taylor [1898-1993].
--Slides: 290 Amherst Road. Kevin F. McQuillen and Elizabeth R. Rodier
McQuillen.
--Slides: 37 Arnold Road. Mary Elizabeth Greene [1921-2001]
--Slides: 24 Cook Road. Dr. Alfred Sherwood Romer [1894-1973] and Ruth
Hibbard Romer [1901-1992].
--Slides: 7 A Gulf Road. Andre Ryerson [b. 1936] and Christine Ryerson [b.
1951].
--Slides: 24 Harkness Road. Albert Ernest Lumley [1902-1981] and Mabel Brinn
Lumley [1908-1989].
--Slides: 49 Enfield Road. John H. Hicks, Priscilla Gibson Hicks [1926-2001]
and Joan R. Hart [b. 1925].
--Slides: 58 Harkness Road. The Harkness House. John M. Bardzik [b. 1945]
and Katherine F. Bardzik [b. 1946].
--Slides: 59 Meetinghouse Road. Louise Hanson Partridge [1906-2002].
--Slides: 59 Meetinghouse Road After Fire of Dec. 5, 1986 [Slides Taken Feb.
1987]. Louise Hanson Partridge [1906-2002].
--Slides: 90 North Valley Road. Luciano M. Matarazzo [b. 1942] and Leena
Matarazzo [b. 1950].
--Slides: 124 North Valley Road. Thomas Buffum, Jr. [1846-1897] House.
--Slides: 6 Quarry Road. Peter K. Hepler [b. 1936] and Margaret H. Hepler [b.
1941].
--Slides: 19 South Valley Road. John Sanford Cary [1920-1997] and Helen
[Mimi] Cary [b. 1920].
--Contact Prints of Pelham Homes: Photographs Taken by Pioneer Valley
Planning Commission.
Sub-series: Pelham Historic Homes Project, 1984-1986, Box 3
Folder Descriptions:
This box contains slides for the “Historic Pelham Homes Slide Show” [part 1] in
a carousel tray.
Sub-series: Pelham Historic Homes Project, 1984-1986, Box 4
Folder Descriptions:
This box contains slides for the “Historic Pelham Homes Slide Show” [part 2] in
a carousel tray.
Sub-series: “Pelham in Shays’ Rebellion,” [Exhibit, 1986-1987]
Folder Descriptions:
--“A Chronology of Pelham in Shays’ Rebellion,” [list]
--Barbara Benda Jenkins, List of Shays Rebellion Articles in Hampshire
Gazette, 1786-1787
--Exhibit Plan
--Margaret Hepler and Barbara Benda Jenkins, Exhibit Narratives, Folder 1
--Margaret Hepler and Barbara Benda Jenkins, Exhibit Narratives, Folder 2
--Margaret Hepler and Barbara Benda Jenkins, Exhibit Narratives, Folder 3
--Margaret Hepler and Barbara Benda Jenkins, Exhibit Narratives, Folder 4
--Program, Working Papers
--Exhibit Captions, Working Papers
--Exhibit Titles, Working Papers
--Correspondence, Jan. 14, 1986-Dec. 16, 1986
--Daniel Shays [1747-1825], Note to James Hunter, Sept. 17, 1794, [photocopy]
--Robert H. Romer, Locations on Prescott Peninsula of Daniel Shays House Site
and Conkey’s Tavern Site, 1986
--Conkey Genealogy, n.a., n.d., [Gift of Sylvia Conkey, Belchertown]
--Capt. Isaac Gray, Sr. [1730-1786], Probate Inventory, n.d., ca. 1986,
[handwritten transcription, ca. 1986]
--Barbara Benda Jenkins, Notes on “The History of the Insurrections in
Massachusetts…” by George Richards Minot
--Barbara Benda Jenkins, Notes on “A Little Rebellion” by Marion L. Starkey
--Barbara Benda Jenkins, Notes on “Selected Papers from the Sylvester Judd
Manuscript”
--Darrell K. English, Notes on Daniel Shays in Vermont
--Shaysite Sites in Hatfield, MA, Springfield, MA, and the Connecticut River
Valley
--Miscellaneous Papers
Sub-series: Pelham Town Hall Complex Committee, Box 1
Folder Descrptions:
--Bids, 1996; n.d.
--Correspondence Proposals, Miscellaneous Papers, Jan. 9, 1994-May 31, 1994
--Correspondence, Notes, Miscellaneous Papers, Nov. 6, 1992-Dec. 19, 1993
--Correspondence, Invoices, Miscellaneous Papers, Feb. 3, 1997-Sept. 4, 1997
--Correspondence, Job Site Minutes, Miscellaneous Papers, March 12, 1998Aug. 20, 1998
--Minutes, Nov. 1991-May 22, 1999
--Correspondence, Financial Records, Notes, Miscellaneous Papers, June 1994Dec. 14, 1994
--Massachusetts Historical Commission and Town of Pelham, Preservation
Agreement Regarding the Town Hall Complex, 1994, [photocopy]
--Town Hall Complex Repairs, Correspondence, Estimates, Working Papers,
March 1989-Feb. 6, 1993; n.d.
--Town Hall Complex Repairs, Correspondence of Margaret Hepler and
Evaluation of Complex, 1990
--Kevin F. McQuillen, Inspection Reports on Town Hall and Museum, 19891990
--John Brennan, Town Hall Roofing Plan, 1990
--Margo Jones, “Specifications: Roof Repair to the Pelham Church and Town
Hall,” May 14, 1990; revised June 20, 1990
--Anne Grady, “Examination of the Pelham Meeting House and Church,” 1990,
[report]
--Peter Benes and Anne Grady, “Pelham’s Historic Town Center Buildings:
Study Reports,” 1990, [1 of 2]
--Peter Benes and Anne Grady, “Pelham’s Historic Town Center Buildings:
Study Reports,” 1990, [2 of 2]
Sub-series: Pelham Town Hall Complex Committee, Box 2
Folder Descriptions:
--Thomas Paske, “Pelham’s Historic Town Center Buildings: Study Reports,”
April, 1991, [1 of 2]
--Thomas Paske, “Pelham’s Historic Town Center Buildings: Study Reports,”
April, 1991, [2 of 2]
--Complex Repairs: Summary of Income and Expenses for the National Trust
Grant, June 1991
--John Brennan, “”Pelham, Massachusetts Meeting House and Church: Review
Comments and Structural Assessment,” 1991
--Summary of Repair Work Needed for the Complex, Jan. 1992
--“Town of Pelham, Massachusetts Grant Application to the Massachusetts
Historical Commission,” Oct. 30, 1993
--Structural and Finish Repairs to Meetinghouse and Church/Museum, Jan.
1994, [draft report]
--Structural and Finish Repairs to Meetinghouse and Church/Museum, Jan.
1994, [final report]
--Contract for Complex Repairs, Town of Pelham and Heyl Cleare Construction,
Inc., April 21, 1994
--Contract for Museum Ramp Addition, etc., Town of Pelham and Whiteway
Construction Corp., April 1, 1998
--Margo Jones, Modifications of Town Hall Complex, Architectural Drawings,
1998
--Modification of Toilets and Ramp Addition to the Pelham Town Hall Complex,
1998
--Modification of Toilets and Ramp Addition to the Pelham Town Hall Complex,
1998
--Complex Repairs, Margo Jones, Architectural Drawings of Museum Steeple,
n.d.
--Miscellaneous Papers, n.d.
Sub-series: Pelham 250th Anniversary Committee
Folder Descriptions:
--Minutes and Correspondence, Dec. 1, 1991-Nov. 16, 1992
--Minutes and Correspondence, Jan. 11, 1993-Oct. 27, 1994; n.d.
--Newsclippings, 1993
--Re-enactment of First Pelham Town Meeting, Script, Notes, May 1, 1993
--Programs, 1993
--Logo Design, 1992-1993
--Financial Accounts, Sept. 1991-Feb. 15, 1995
--Pelham History Topics, Notes
--Pelham Bumper Stickers, 1993
--Metal Plaques
Sub-series: Long Range Planning Committee, 1986-1988
Folder Descriptions:
--Minutes, July 23, 1968-Jan. 21, 1988, n.d.
--Report to the Pelham Selectmen, March 1, 1987-July 13, 1987; n.d.
--Correspondence, Policy Statements, Miscellaneous Papers, 1987-1988
--Town of Pelham: Growth Management Plan Policy Statement, Meeting Notes,
etc., Dec. 3, 1987-June 9, 1988; n.d.
--Miscellaneous Papers, n.d.
--Town of Pelham, Conservation Recreation Master Plan, 1985
--“Pelham and Change: A Study of Citizen Perception with Regard to Growth in
Pelham, Massachusetts,” by Alison Groves, 1987
--“A Preliminary Strategic Master Plan for Pelham, Massachusetts,” by John R.
Mullin, et al, 1987
--Town of Pelham, Zoning By-law, Sept. 15, 1987
--“Growth Management Plan for the Town of Pelham,” by Alison Leschen, et al,
June 1988, [1 of 2]
--“Growth Management Plan for the Town of Pelham,” by Alison Leschen, et al,
June 1988, [2 of 2]
--Pelham Planning Board, Draft Zoning By-law, July 14, 1989
--“Pelham: A Community Profile, 1995,” by Executive Office of Communities
and Development, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1995
--Lower Pioneer Valley Planning Commission, Historic Preservation: Pelham,
1974, [report, photocopied excerpts]
PELHAM HISTORICAL SOCIETY
ARCHIVES COLLECTION
Sub-series: Secretary’s Reports and Minutes, 1981-1997; Trustee Meeting
Minutes 1991-1998
Folder Descriptions:
--Secretary’s Records and Minutes, 1981
--Secretary’s Records and Minutes, 1982
--Secretary’s Records and Minutes, 1983
--Secretary’s Records and Minutes, 1984
--Secretary’s Records and Minutes, 1985
--Secretary’s Records and Minutes, 1986
--Secretary’s Records and Minutes, 1987
--Secretary’s Records and Minutes, 1988
--Secretary’s Records and Minutes, 1989
--Secretary’s Records and Minutes, 1990
--Secretary’s Records and Minutes, 1991
--Secretary’s Records and Minutes, 1992
--Secretary’s Records and Minutes, 1993
--Secretary’s Records and Minutes, 1994
--Secretary’s Records and Minutes, 1995
--Secretary’s Records and Minutes, 1996
--Secretary’s Records and Minutes, 1997
--Secretary’s Records and Minutes, 1999
--Trustee Meeting Minutes, 1991-1998
--By-Laws, Revised Nov. 18, 1996, Adopted March 1997, [Secretary’s Copy]
--Membership Card File, ca. 1968-ca. 1978
Sub-series: Pelham Historical Society Activities, 1984-1990
Folder Descriptions:
--Annual Mailing and Membership List, 1984
--Annual Mailing, 1985
--Activities of 1986
--Annual Mailing, 1988
--Member Correspondence, 1988
--Activities of 1987
--Annual Mailing and Membership Lists, 1987
--Activities of 1989
--Annual Mailing and Membership Lists
--Member Correspondence, 1989
--Budgets, 1990-1992, 1994
--Activities of 1990
--Annual Mailing and Membership List, 1990
--Member Correspondence, 1990
--Gold Cane for Oldest Pelham Resident, 1990-
Sub-series: Pelham Historical Society Activities, 1991Folder Descriptions:
--Annual Mailing, 1991
--Activities of 1991
--Member Correspondence, 1991
--25th Anniversary Exhibit at Pelham Historical Society Museum, 1991
--Historic House Tour, Oct. 12, 1991
--Annual Mailing, 1992
--Activities of 1992
--Activities of 1993
--Activities of 1994
--Activities of 1995
--Activities of 1996
--Activities of 1997
--Activities of 1998
--Activities of 1999
--Activities of 2000
--Activities of 2001
--Activities of 2002
--Activities of 2003
--Activities of 2004
--Miscellaneous Papers, n.d.
--Museum Committee: Papers of Barbara Benda Jenkins, 1999-2001
--Museum Collection Inventory, 2001
--Museum Collection: Deed of Gift for Two-Piece Secretary by Phyllis W. Page,
[2001]
--Pelham Town Hall Complex Design Contest, Grades K-6, 1998
Sub-series: Pelham Historical Society Membership, 1975-1992, 1994, 1999
Folder Descriptions:
--Membership Roll, 1975-1991
--Membership Committee, 1983-1985
--Membership Committee, 1986-1989
--Membership Committee, 1990
--Membership Lists, 1991
--Membership Lists, 1992, 1994
--Membership List, 1999
Sub-series: William J. Foerster [1900-1989] Collection: Pelham Historical
Society Minutes, 1966-1980; 1989
Folder Descriptions:
--Pelham Historical Society Minutes, May 9, 1966-Dec. 12, 1966
--Minutes, Jan. 9, 1967-Dec. 11, 1967
--Minutes, Jan. 8, 1968-Dec. 14, 1970
--Minutes, Jan. 11, 1971-Nov. 8, 1971
--Minutes, Jan. 10, 1972-Dec. 10, 1973
--Minutes, Jan. 14, 1974-Dec. 8, 1975
--Minutes, Jan. 19, 1976-Dec. 1, 1977
--Minutes, March 14, 1978-Dec. 8, 1980
--Minutes, May 1, 1989-Dec. 4, 1989
Sub-series: William J. Foerster [1900-1989] Collection: Pelham Historical
Society Papers, Box 1
Folder Descriptions:
--“Progress Report: Pelham Historical Society, Inc. Prepared for the American
Association for State and Local History,” 1973, [report with photographs of
Pelham Town Hall Complex, ca. 1930s-1973]
--Pelham Historical Society Scrap Book, 1971-1975, [includes newsclippings
and photographs], [1 of 2]
--Pelham Historical Society Scrap Book, 1971-1975, [includes newsclippings
and photographs], [2 of 2]
--“By-Laws of the Pelham Historical Society, Pelham, Mass.,” ca. 1967
--By-laws and Proposed Revisions, Sept. 7, 1973
--By-laws, 1974
--By-laws, 1974, Proposed Revisions, Oct. 25, 1974
--By-laws, ca. 1960s
--Pelham Historical Society Charter Members, n.d., ca. 1966
--Membership List, Sept. 5, 1966
--Membership List, 1966-1970
Sub-series: William J. Foerster [1900-1989] Collection: Pelham Historical
Society Papers, Box 2
Folder Descriptions:
--Membership List, March 7, 1968
--1968 Annual Meeting Notice List, June3, 1968
--Membership List, March 26, 1971
--Dues List, 1972
--Lists of Officers, 1972
--Membership List, 1972-1976
--Membership List, July, 1973
--Membership List, May 23, 1974, Revised Aug. 15, 1974
--Membership List, May 23, 1974, Revised Aug. 15, 1974 and Oct. 1, 1974
--Membership List, March 8, 1975
--Membership List, Aug. 23, 1975
--Members Who Have Paid 1976 Dues by Dec. 1975
--Membership Lists, 1980, 1981
--Membership, n.d., ca. 1970?
--Notes About Pelham Historical Society Activities, 1967-1968
--Dues Payments, Dec. 1973
--Dues Payments, 1971, 1972, n.d.
--Financial Transactions, Nov. 25, 1973-Dec. 8, 1975
--Treasurer’s Report, Nov. 14, 1977-March 6, 1980
--Financial Transactions with Pelham Historical Society, Dec. 11, 1972-May 7,
1973
--Pelham 225th Anniversary, Commemorative Coin, 1968, [pamphlet]
--Pelham 225th Anniversary, Tickets, 1968
--Pelham Historical Society Correspondence with Harlan Arnold Howard [d.
1988] Concerning “Treasures of Pelham,” [Includes Financial Records], 1968
--Museum Sales, Sept. 7 and 8, 1974
--Museum Plaque Project, Correspondence with United States Bronze Sign Co.,
Feb. 24, 1968-Aug. 5, 1968
--“Pelham Historical Society News,” Vol. 1, No. 1, Sept. 18, 1971, Advertiser
Invoices
--“Pelham Historical Society News,” Vol. 1, No. 1, Sept. 18, 1971, Publication
Stencils
--Directory Questionnaire for American Association for State and Local History,
1974
--Correspondence with Internal Revenue Service and Pelham Historical Society
Tax Returns, March 18, 1967-June 21, 1974
--Miscellaneous Papers, n.d.
Sub-series: William J. Foerster [1900-1989] Collection: Pelham Historical
Society, Correspondence, 1966-July 30, 1968
Folder Descriptions:
--Correspondence, Membership Lists, Miscellaneous Papers, May 5, 1966-Sept.
24, 1966
--Correspondence, Membership Lists, Miscellaneous Papers, Sept. 27, 1966Dec. 30, 1966; n.d.
--Correspondence, Announcements, Lists of Officers, Jan. 3, 1967-March 15,
1967
--Correspondence, Announcements, Treasurer’s Report, March 25, 1967-May
27, 1967
--Correspondence, Announcements, Reports, Miscellaneous Papers, June l,
1967-June 30, 1967; n.d.
--Correspondence, Announcements, July 3, 1967-Sept. 14, 1967
--Correspondence, 2nd Annual Historical Day, Announcements, Miscellaneous
Papers, Sept. 16, 1967-Oct. 27, 1967
--Correspondence, Announcements, Miscellaneous Papers, Nov. 7, 1967-Nov.
28, 1967
--Correspondence, Announcements, Miscellaneous Papers, Dec. 1, 1967-Dec.
27, 1967; n.d.
--Correspondence, Announcements, Financial and State Tax Records, Jan. 1,
1968-Feb. 15, 1968
--Correspondence, Announcements, Financial and State Tax Records, Feb. 17,
1968-March 23, 1968
--Correspondence, Announcements, 225th Pelham Anniversary Celebration,
April 1, 1968-April 19, 1968
--Correspondence, Announcements, Miscellaneous Papers, April 20, 1968-May
31, 1968
--Correspondence, Announcements, June 2, 1968-June 29, 1968
--Correspondence, Announcements, July 1, 1968-July 30, 1968
Sub-series: William J. Foerster [1900-1989] Collection, Pelham Historical
Society, Correspondence, Aug. 3, 1968-1972
Folder Descriptions:
--Correspondence, Announcements, Senior Citizen Letters: Requests to Attend
Pelham 225th Anniversary Celebration, Aug. 3, 1968-Aug. 23, 1968
--Pelham 225th Anniversay Celebration and Historical Day, Correspondence,
Announcements, Aug. 24, 1968-Aug. 31, 1968, n.d.
--Correspondence, Announcements, Miscellaneous Papers, Sept. 3, 1968-Oct.
28, 1968
--Correspondence, Announcements, Miscellaneous Papers, Nov. 1, 1968-Dec.
28, 1968; n.d.
--Correspondence, Talks, Miscellaneous Papers, Jan. 10, 1969-Dec, 30, 1969;
n.d.
--Correspondence, Announcements, Lists of Officers, Jan. 4, 1971-Feb. 22,
1971
--Correspondence, Announcements, Miscellaneous Papers, March 1, 1971-June
30, 1971
--Correspondence, Announcements, Miscellaneous Papers, July 4, 1971-July
31, 1971
--Correspondence, Announcements, Miscellaneous Papers, Aug. 1, 1971-Sept.
14, 1971
--5th Annual Historical Day, Correspondence, Announcements, Financial
Records, Sept. 18, 1971-Oct. 29, 1971
--Correspondence, Announcements, Miscellaneous Papers, Nov. 1, 1971-Dec.
30, 1971; n.d.
--Correspondence, Announcements, Miscellaneous Papers, Jan. 3, 1972-May
30, 1972; n.d.
--Correspondence, Announcements, June, 1972-Nov. 28, 1972
--Correspondence, Announcements, Dec. 1, 1972-Dec. 27, 1972; n.d
Sub-series: William J. Foerster [1900-1989] Collection: Pelham Historical
Society, Correspondence, 1973-1988, n.d.
Folder Descriptions:
--Correspondence, Announcements, Lists of Officers, Miscellaneous Papers,
Jan. 3, 1973-March 28, 1973
--Correspondence, Announcements, Miscellaneous Papers, April 9, 1973-July
28, 1973
--Correspondence, Announcements, Pelham Historical Society Two-Day
Historical Observance, Miscellaneous Papers, Aug. 10, 1973-Sept. 30, 1973
--Correspondence, Announcements, Miscellaneous Papers, Oct. 1, 1973-Nov.
10, 1973
--Correspondence, Announcements, American Association for State and Local
History Award of Merit, Nov. 12, 1973-Nov. 15, 1973
--Correspondence, Announcements, American Association for State and Local
History Commendation Ceremony, Miscellaneous Papers, Nov. 17, 1973-Dec.
24, 1973; n.d.
--Correspondence, Announcements, Financial Records, Miscellaneous Papers,
Jan. 7, 1974-May 17, 1974
--Correspondence, Announcements, Financial Records, Miscellaneous Papers,
May 10, 1974-July 8, 1974
--Correspondence, Announcements, Miscellaneous Papers, July 9, 1974-Nov. 4,
1974
--Correspondence, Announcements, Financial Records, Miscellaneous Papers,
Nov. 9, 1974-Dec. 30, 1974; n.d.
--Correspondence, Announcements, Miscellaneous Papers, Jan. 4, 1975-Dec.
19, 1975; n.d.
--Correspondence, Announcements, Miscellaneous Papers, Jan. 7, 1976-1988
--Miscellaneous Papers, n.d.
Sub-series: William J. Foerster [1900-1989] Collection, Pelham Genealogy
and History Topics
Folder Descriptions:
--Correspondence with Mrs. Ethel Norman, Sept. 19, 1968-Nov. 4, 1968
--Patterson and Gilmore Families, Correspondence with Norman G. Patterson,
Dec. 7, 1970-Oct. 26, 1972
--Peebles Family, Correspondence with Leslie A. Peebles, Sept. 1, 1968-Sept.
22, 1975
--Pelham Family, Correspondence with James H. Pelham, Nov. 17, 1973-Nov.
17, 1975
--Romer Family, Correspondence with Alfred Sherwood Romer [1894-1973] and
Ruth Hibbard Romer [1901-1992], Jan. 22, 1967-June 10, 1974
--Lyman Sibley Rowland [1831-1904], “He Didn’t Like Pelham” by Alfred
Sherwood Romer [1894-1973], 1968, [ms., typescript, photocopy]
--Thompson, Hamilton, and Crossett Families, Correspondence of Dorothy Allen
and Richard Shurbert, Sept. 8, 1973-Sept. 30, 1973
--Warner Family, Correspondence with Leonard J. Warner, Feb. 22, 1968-Feb.
24, 1968
--Rev. Robert Abercrombie [1712-1786], Seal on Stationary, [Presumably Gift of
Robert L. Merriam], 1968
--Abercrombie Family, “Greenfield [MA] Savings Bank: A History,” n.a., 1974,
[booklet]
--Abercrombie Family, Correspondence with Robert L. Merriam and Alice A.
Merriam, May 25, 1967-May 18, 1968
--Correspondence with Harry Willis Allen [1892-1981], Jan. 29, 1975-Feb. 5,
1975
--Letter of Lena Mildred Allen [1894-1979], [Mentions Emily Dickinson], Dec.
10, 1971
--Estate of Grace Mary Bailey Sibley [1883-1970], Correspondence, March 24,
1970-April 16, 1970
--Blackmer, Bruce and Wright Families, Correspondence with Mason B. Bruce,
Sept. 23, 1974-Oct. 1, 1974
--Conkey Family, Correspondence with Sue N. Farrand, Sept. 18, 1973-March
11, 1974
--Crossett Family, Letter to Ernest Ritter, March 15, 1972
--Crossett, Abbott, Cady, Herrick, et al, Families, Correspondence with Mrs. R.
I. Willey, Aug. 3, 1974; n.d.
--Moses Davis, Jr. [ca. 1798-1859] and Sally Boynton Davis [1798-1848],
Correspondence with Old Sturbridge Village, July 23, 1974-Aug. 13, 1974
--Doubleday Family, Correspondence with William A. Doubleday, Feb. 24,
1968-Dec. 8, 1973
--Ferguson and Hood Families, Correspondence with Mrs. Raymond Prior, Jan.
16, 1968-March 14, 1968
--Gift of Books of Walter Alden Dyer [1878-1943] by Amherst College Library,
Correspondence and Inventory, Feb. 8, 1971-March 8, 1971
--Edson and Harkness Families, Correspondence with Mrs. Katherine P.
Robinson, Dec. 24, 1971-Jan. 12, 1972
--Gray, Harkness and Savage Families, Correspondence with Mary Ryan Miller,
Oct. 27, 1973-Nov. 27, 1973
--Harkness Family, Correspondence with Mrs. Myrtle D. Lundberg, April 4,
1968-May 11, 1968
--John Harkness and Sons, Post Card of Mrs. Fay Kantor. June 25, 1974
--Hannah M. Smith Horr [1842-1927], Two Postcards, Nov. 7, 1907; n.d.
--Hyde Family, Correspondence with John Worthington Hyde, Nov. 18, 1973Nov. 14, 1974
--Livingston Family, Correspondence with Mildred R. Livingston, Sept. 21,
1971-Oct. 15, 1971
--Mellen Family, Correspondence with Mrs. Myrtle Rushford, Jan. 29, 1967June 8, 1968
--Helen Gould Bess Mitchell [1900-1974], “A Look at Pelham (Mass.) Today,”
n.d., ca. 1968, [ms., typescript copy]
--Paul C. Mitchell [1889-1964] and Helen Gould Bess Mitchell [1900-1974],
Remembrances of by Jean and Jim Morehead, 1975
--Dr. James Morehead and Jean Mitchell Morehead, Circular Letter, Dec. 1975
--Act of Incorporation of the Town of Pelham, Jan. 15, 1742-43,
[photoreproduction]
--Pelham Historical Society Museum Exhibit Items, Correspondence and Notes
on the History of Individual Items, Dec. 15, 1971-Dec. 7, 1974; n.d.
--United Church of Pelham, Women’s Guild, Program, 1967-1968
--Miscellaneous Papers, n.d.
--Pelham Monk’s Cave, Sept. 3, 1972, [photograph published in Springfield
Republican]
--Hampshire County Deed 17-96, Adam Johnson to Samuel Arnold, May 19,
1800, [photocopy]
--Orient Springs, Miscellaneous Papers
--377 Amherst Road and Hotel Pelham, Letter of Franklin B. Wickwire [19311992], Aug. 8, 1973
--Federal Census, Massachusetts, Hampshire County, Pelham, 1790
--“Statement by Dr. Charles W. Cole Re: Daniel Shays,” n.d., ca. 1966-1967,
[typescript]
--Daniel Shays [1747-1825] Genealogy, Correspondence with William Shays
Atchinson, Aug. 22, 1966-Feb. 2, 1967
--Shays’ Rebellion, Miscellaneous Papers
--“Map of Amherst, Massachusetts,” n.d., ca. 1970s
--“Emily Dickinson Commemorative Stamp. First Day of Issue Ceremonies,”
Aug. 28, 1971, [booklets]
--Athol, MA Historical Society
--William J. Foerster in Amherst V.F.W. Group Photograph, n.d.
Sub-series: William J. Foerster [1900-1989] Collection: Pelham Town Hall
Complex
Folder Descriptions:
--William J. Foerster, “Evaluation of Pelham Town Hall Complex,” n.d., ca. 1967
--Town Hall Complex, Thomas S. Hamilton, Jr. [1923-1997], Sign Designs, Dec.
11, 14, 1966
--Handout Information Sheets, n.d., ca. 1970s
--Pelham Historical Society, Certificate of Commendation from the American
Association for State and Local History, Sept. 18, 1973
--Town Hall and Pelham Hill Cemetery, ca. 1970s, [photograph]
--Town Hall Complex, Drawing, n.a., n.d., ca. 1968
--Town Hall Complex, Thomas S. Hamilton, Jr. [1923-1997], Design for
Historical Sign, Dec. 29, 1970
--U.S. Rep. Silvio O. Conte, “Pelham: 225th Anniversary of A Landmark of
Democracy,” “Congressional Record,” July 8, 1968, [photocopies]
--Walter Witham, Notes about the Pelham Town Hall Complex, n.d., ca. 1968
--Warren Gibbs [1823-1860] Poison Oyster Gravestone, Transfer of Gravestone
from Knight’s Corner Cemetery to Pelham Historical Society Museum, 1971
--Harlan A. Howard, Note about Pelham Historical Society Museum Lighting,
n.d., ca. 1970
--Town Hall Complex Repair Work by Sanders and Roberge, May 2, 1972-Aug.
16, 1972
--Museum Roof and Steeple Repair Work by Bird and Son, Inc., Contract
Documents, etc., Dec. 1974-Jan. 2, 1976
--Pelham Historical Society Museum, Society Grant Application to
Massachusetts Council on Arts and Humanities, 1970
--Pelham Historical Society Museum: Grant Application to Massachusetts
Council on Arts and Humanities, 1972
--Town Hall Complex, Massachusetts Historical Commission, Project
Completion Report, “Pelham Town Hall Historic District: Pelham Hill Church
Development Project,” June 18, 1976
--Town Hall, Installation of Septic System, 1973-1975
--Town Hall, Massachusetts Historic Landmark Designation Plaque Project,
1975
--Town Hall Complex Repair: “Records of the Pelham Articles 20 and 21
Committee,” 1968-[1971-1972] 1972
Sub-series: Karen Manners Smith [b. 1944] Papers
Folder Descriptions:
--Correspondence, Jan. 19, 1991-Dec. 11, 1991
--Correspondence, Jan. 17, 1992-Nov. 18, 1993; n.d.
--Correspondence, Feb. 1994-Aug. 12, 1995; n.d.
--Pelham Historical Society, President’s Notes, Meeting Agendas, Feb. 6, 1991June 7, 1995; n.d.
--Pelham Town Hall Complex Committee, March 30, 1990-Dec. 14, 1994; n.d.
--Pelham 250th Anniversary Committee, Jan. 15, 1991-Jan. 1, 1995; n.d.
--“Schools in Pelham: A History,” n.d., ca. 1990s, [ms.]
--Pelham Library/Municipal Building Project, Correspondence, Information
Sheets, Sept. 9, 1991-April 1995; n.d.
--Correspondence with “Life Magazine,” Feb. 23, 1988-Sept. 23, 1991
--Correspondence with Paul J. Bigelow, March 4, 1991-July 18, 1992
--Paul J. Bigelow, “Wrights and Privileges: The Mills and Shops of Pelham,”
Manuscript and Correspondence, 1991
Sub-series: Charles Oscar Parmenter [1833-1913] Photograph Collection
and Lincoln Wade Barnes [1879-1966] Photograph Collection
Folder Descriptions:
--Charles Oscar Parmenter [1833-1913] Photograph Collection: Pelham
Photographs [1 of 2]
--Charles Oscar Parmenter [1833-1913] Photograph Collection: Pelham
Photographs [2 of 2]
--Charles Oscar Parmenter [1833-1913] Photograph Collection: Unknown and
Non-Pelham Photographs
--Lincoln Wade Barnes 1879-1966] Photograph Collection: Pelham Photographs
--Lincoln Wade Barnes 1879-1966] Photograph Collection: “Some Photographs
of Pelham, Massachusetts,” [1930s], [1 of 2]
--Lincoln Wade Barnes 1879-1966] Photograph Collection: “Some Photographs
of Pelham, Massachusetts,” [1930s], [2 of 2]
--Lincoln Wade Barnes 1879-1966] Photograph Collection: Federated Church of
Pelham Activities, [1930s]
--Lincoln Wade Barnes 1879-1966] Photograph Collection: Pageant at Federated
Church of Pelham, [1937 or 1938]
--Lincoln Wade Barnes 1879-1966] Photograph Collection: Federated Church of
Pelham, Daily Vacation Bible School, [1938]
--Lincoln Wade Barnes 1879-1966] Photograph Collection: Pageant at Orient
Springs [1930s]
--Lincoln Wade Barnes 1879-1966] Photograph Collection: 1938 Hurricane
Sub-series: Charles Oscar Parmenter [1833-1913] Papers, Box 1
Archivist’s Note, April 1, 2000: This collection has not yet been catalogued.
Sub-series: Charles Oscar Parmenter [1833-1913] Papers, Box 2
Archivist’s Note, April 1, 2000: This collection has not yet been catalogued.
COLLECTION/SERIES: PHOTOGRAPHS
Sub-series: Pelham Historical Society Activities: Photographs
Folder Descriptions:
--Pelham Historical Society, Litter Patrol, 1966
--Pelham Historical Society, Flea Market at Town Hall Complex, Sept. 9, 1989
--Pelham Historical Society Museum, Costume Committee, Oct. 7, 1989
--Pelham Historical Society, Christmas Dinner at United Church of Pelham,
n.d., ca. 1990s
--Pelham Historical Society, Holiday Buffet, Dec. 1990
--Pelham Historical Society, Field Trip to Monk’s Cave, 1991
--Pelham Historical Society, Field Trip to Hadley Farm Museum and PorterPhelps-Huntington House, June 1991
--Pelham Historical Society, Pelham Geology Field Trip Led by Tom Rice, July
1991
--Pelham Historical Society 25th Anniversary Picnic, Summer 1991
--Pelham Historical Society, Harvest Supper at Town Hall, Sept. 1991
--Pelham Historical Society, Historic House Tour, Oct. 12, 1991
--Pelham Historical Society, Holiday Buffet at United Church of Pelham, Dec.
1991
--Pelham Historical Society, Field Trip, n.d., ca. 1992
--Pelham Historical Society, Kim Gregory Program, “Taverns, Tippling and
Topers,” at Town Hall, by Barbara Benda Jenkins, May 11, 1992
--Pelham Historical Society, Cemetery Tour, July, 11, 1992
--Pelham Historical Society, Cemetery Tour, at Pelham Hill Cemetery, July 11,
1992
--Pelham Historical Society, Harvest Supper and Pie Auction, Oct. 3, 1992
--Pelham Historical Society, Summer Picnic and Pie Judging Contest at Town
Hall Complex, n.d., ca. 1993
--Pelham Historical Society, Field Trip to Shays’ Rebellion Marker in Petersham,
MA, by Barbara Benda Jenkins, 1993
--Pelham Historical Society, Children’s Choir at Society Meeting, at United
Church of Pelham, Christmas, 1993
--Pelham Historical Society, Harvest Supper at Town Hall, 1994
--Pelham Historical Society Meeting, Children and Partners Give a Program
About Pelham, by Barbara Benda Jenkins, March 14, 1994
--Pelham Historical Society Program, Dowsing in Pelham Hill Cemetery, June 4,
1994
--Pelham Historical Society, Event Honoring Out-going President Karen
Manners Smith, 1995
--Pelham Historical Society, Field Trip to Pratt Museum, Amherst College, June
3, 1995
--Pelham Historical Society, Harvest Supper at Town Hall, by Barbara Benda
Jenkins, 1997
--Pelham Historical Society Program, “An Evening at Campbell’s Bakery,” May
18, 1998
--Pelham Historical Society, Pelham Heritage Celebration, Sept. 13, 1998
--Pelham Historical Society, Holiday Buffet at United Church of Pelham, by
Barbara Benda Jenkins, 1998
--Pelham Historical Society, Memorial Day at Quabbin Park Cemetery, May 30,
1999
--Pelham Historical Society, Memorial Day at Quabbin Park Cemetery, [n.d., ca.
2000 or 2001]
--Pelham Historical Society, Society for Creative Anachronism Program at
Pelham Town Hall Complex, June 13, 1999
--Pelham Historical Society, Field Trip to William Cullen Bryant Homestead,
Cummington, June 19, 1999
--Pelham Historical Society, Pelham Stone Quarry Field Trip, Paul Bigelow,
Guide, April 29, 2000: Participants
--Pelham Historical Society, Pelham Stone Quarry Field Trip, Paul Bigelow,
Guide, April 29, 2000: Valley Quarry, [Bigelow Site “Gray-Gaylord Quarry”]
--Pelham Historical Society, Pelham Stone Quarry Field Trip, Paul Bigelow,
Guide, April 29, 2000: Rankin-Fales Quarry
--Pelham Historical Society, Pelham Stone Quarry Field Trip, Paul Bigelow,
Guide, April 29, 2000: Harkness-Sibley-Shaw Quarry
--Pelham Historical Society, Pelham Stone Quarry Field Trip, Paul Bigelow,
Guide, April 29, 2000: Aldrich Quarry
--Pelham Historical Society, Harvest Supper at Town Hall, 2000
--Pelham Historical Society Program on 18th Century Women’s Clothing,
Community Center of Pelham, Nov. 2000
--Pelham Historical Society, Holiday Buffet at United Church of Pelham, 2000
--Pelham Historical Society, Field Trip to Shelburne Falls Trolley Museum, 2001
--Pelham Historical Society, Holiday Buffet at United Church of Pelham, 2001
--Pelham Historical Society, Museum Volunteers, [n.d., ca. 2001]
--Pelham Historical Society, Clean-Up Day at Museum, May 23, 2002
--Pelham Historical Society Museum, Exhibit Item, Packardville Signature Quilt
[ca. 1890s], 1981
--Pelham Historical Society Museum, Exhibit Items, Possible Items from a
Furnace for Making Wedges, 1989
--Pelham Historical Society Museum, Exhibit Items, by Robert Lord Keyes, Sept.
1989
--Pelham Historical Society Museum, Exhibit Item, School Desk, Aug. 1993
--Partridge, Louise Hanson [1906-2002], Receives Gold Cane from Pelham
Historical Society, [n.d., ca. 2001]
Sub-series: Town of Pelham, Annual Reports,
Folder Descriptions: 1877-1913
--Annual Reports, 1877, 1878, 1880, 1883, 1886
--Annual Reports, 1889-1891, 1892
--Annual Reports, 1895-1898
--Annual Reports, 1900-1901
--Annual Reports, 1902-1905
--Annual Reports, 1906
--Annual Reports, 1907
--Annual Reports, 1908
--Annual Reports, 1909
--Annual Reports, 1910
--Annual Reports, 1911
--Annual Reports, 1911
--Annual Reports, 1911
--Annual Reports, 1912
--Annual Reports, 1913
--Annual Reports, 1913
Sub-series: Town of Pelham, Annual Reports,
Folder Descriptions: 1914-1920
--Annual Reports, Feb. 15, 1914
--Annual Reports, Dec. 31, 1914
--Annual Reports, 1915
--Annual Reports, 1915
--Annual Reports, 1916
--Annual Reports, 1917
--Annual Reports, 1918
--Annual Reports, 1918
--Annual Reports, 1919
--Annual Reports, 1919
--Annual Reports, 1920
--Annual Reports, 1920
--Annual Reports, 1920
--Annual Reports, 1920
Sub-series: Town of Pelham, Annual Reports,
Folder Descriptions: 1921-1923
--Annual Reports, 1921
--Annual Reports, 1921
--Annual Reports, 1921
--Annual Reports, 1921
--Annual Reports, 1922
--Annual Reports, 1922
--Annual Reports, 1922
--Annual Reports, 1922
--Annual Reports, 1922
--Annual Reports, 1923
--Annual Reports, 1923
--Annual Reports, 1923
--Annual Reports, 1923
Sub-series: Town of Pelham, Annual Reports,
Folder Descriptions: 1924-1926
--Annual Reports, 1924
--Annual Reports, 1924
--Annual Reports, 1924
--Annual Reports, 1924
--Annual Reports, 1925
--Annual Reports, 1925
--Annual Reports, 1925
--Annual Reports, 1925
--Annual Reports, 1925
--Annual Reports, 1926
--Annual Reports, 1926
--Annual Reports, 1926
--Annual Reports, 1926
--Annual Reports, 1926
--Annual Reports, 1926
Sub-series: Town of Pelham, Annual Reports,
Folder Descriptions: 1927-1928
--Annual Reports, 1927
--Annual Reports, 1927
--Annual Reports, 1927
--Annual Reports, 1927
--Annual Reports, 1927
--Annual Reports, 1928
--Annual Reports, 1928
--Annual Reports, 1928
--Annual Reports, 1928
--Annual Reports, 1928
Sub-series: Town of Pelham, Annual Reports,
Folder Descriptions: 1929-1930
--Annual Reports, 1929
--Annual Reports, 1929
--Annual Reports, 1929
--Annual Reports, 1929
--Annual Reports, 1929
--Annual Reports, 1929
--Annual Reports, 1929
--Annual Reports, 1929
--Annual Reports, 1930
Sub-series: Town of Pelham, Annual Reports,
Folder Descriptions: 1930-1932
--Annual Reports, 1930
--Annual Reports, 1930
--Annual Reports, 1930
--Annual Reports, 1930
--Annual Reports, 1931
--Annual Reports, 1931
--Annual Reports, 1931
--Annual Reports, 1931
--Annual Reports, 1932
--Annual Reports, 1932
--Annual Reports, 1932
Sub-series: Town of Pelham, Annual Reports,
Folder Descriptions: 1933-1936
--Annual Reports, 1933
--Annual Reports, 1933
--Annual Reports, 1933
--Annual Reports, 1933
--Annual Reports, 1934
--Annual Reports, 1934
--Annual Reports, 1934
--Annual Reports, 1935
--Annual Reports, 1935
--Annual Reports, 1936
Sub-series: Town of Pelham, Annual Reports,
Folder Descriptions: 1936-1939
--Annual Reports, 1936
--Annual Reports, 1936
--Annual Reports, 1937
--Annual Reports, 1937
--Annual Reports, 1937
--Annual Reports, 1938
--Annual Reports, 1938
--Annual Reports, 1938
--Annual Reports, 1939
--Annual Reports, 1939
--Annual Reports, 1939
Sub-series: Town of Pelham, Annual Reports,
Folder Descriptions: 1940-1943
--Annual Reports, 1940
--Annual Reports, 1940
--Annual Reports, 1941
--Annual Reports, 1941
--Annual Reports, 1942
--Annual Reports, 1942
--Annual Reports, 1942
--Annual Reports, 1943
--Annual Reports, 1943
--Annual Reports, 1943
--Annual Reports, 1943
--Annual Reports, 1943
Sub-series: Town of Pelham, Annual Reports,
Folder Descriptions: 1944-1946
--Annual Reports, 1944
--Annual Reports, 1944
--Annual Reports, 1944
--Annual Reports, 1945
--Annual Reports, 1945
--Annual Reports, 1945
--Annual Reports, 1946
--Annual Reports, 1946
--Annual Reports, 1946
--Annual Reports, 1946
Sub-series: Town of Pelham, Annual Reports,
Folder Descriptions: 1947-1949
--Annual Reports, 1947
--Annual Reports, 1947
--Annual Reports, 1947
--Annual Reports, 1948
--Annual Reports, 1948
--Annual Reports, 1948
--Annual Reports, 1948
--Annual Reports, 1948
--Annual Reports, 1949
--Annual Reports, 1949
--Annual Reports, 1949
Sub-series: Town of Pelham, Annual Reports,
Folder Descriptions: 1950-1953
--Annual Reports, 1950
--Annual Reports, 1950
--Annual Reports, 1950
--Annual Reports, 1951
--Annual Reports, 1951
--Annual Reports, 1951
--Annual Reports, 1951
--Annual Reports, 1952
--Annual Reports, 1952
--Annual Reports, 1953
--Annual Reports, 1953
Sub-series: Town of Pelham, Annual Reports,
Folder Descriptions: 1954-1957
--Annual Reports, 1954
--Annual Reports, 1954
--Annual Reports, 1955
--Annual Reports, 1955
--Annual Reports, 1955
--Annual Reports, 1955
--Annual Reports, 1956
--Annual Reports, 1956
--Annual Reports, 1956
--Annual Reports, 1957
--Annual Reports, 1957
Sub-series: Town of Pelham, Annual Reports,
Folder Descriptions: 1957-1961
--Annual Reports, 1957
--Annual Reports, 1958
--Annual Reports, 1958
--Annual Reports, 1958
--Annual Reports, 1959
--Annual Reports, 1959
--Annual Reports, 1960
--Annual Reports, 1960
--Annual Reports, 1961
--Annual Reports, 1961
Sub-series: Town of Pelham, Annual Reports,
Folder Descriptions: 1961-1963
--Annual Reports, 1961
--Annual Reports, 1961
--Annual Reports, 1962
--Annual Reports, 1962
--Annual Reports, 1962
--Annual Reports, 1962
--Annual Reports, 1963
--Annual Reports, 1963
--Annual Reports, 1963
--Annual Reports, 1963
--Annual Reports, 1963
Sub-series: Town of Pelham, Annual Reports,
Folder Descriptions: 1963-1965
--Annual Reports, 1963
--Annual Reports, 1963
--Annual Reports, 1964
--Annual Reports, 1964
--Annual Reports, 1964
--Annual Reports, 1964
--Annual Reports, 1964
--Annual Reports, 1964
--Annual Reports, 1965
--Annual Reports, 1965
--Annual Reports, 1965
--Annual Reports, 1965
Sub-series: Town of Pelham, Annual Reports,
Folder Descriptions: 1966-1968
--Annual Reports, 1966
--Annual Reports, 1966
--Annual Reports, 1966
--Annual Reports, 1966
--Annual Reports, 1967
--Annual Reports, 1967
--Annual Reports, 1967
--Annual Reports, 1967
--Annual Reports, 1967
--Annual Reports, 1968
--Annual Reports, 1968
--Annual Reports, 1968
Sub-series: Town of Pelham, Annual Reports,
Folder Descriptions: 1969-1971
--Annual Reports, 1969
--Annual Reports, 1969
--Annual Reports, 1969
--Annual Reports, 1970
--Annual Reports, 1970
--Annual Reports, 1970
--Annual Reports, 1970
--Annual Reports, 1971
--Annual Reports, 1971
--Annual Reports, 1971
Sub-series: Town of Pelham, Annual Reports,
Folder Descriptions: 1972-1976
--Annual Reports, 1972
--Annual Reports, 1972
--Annual Reports, 1972
--Annual Reports, 1972
--Annual Reports, 1973
--Annual Reports, 1973
--Annual Reports, 1973
--Annual Reports, 1974
--Annual Reports, 1974
--Annual Reports, 1975
--Annual Reports, 1975
--Annual Reports, 1976
Sub-series: Town of Pelham, Annual Reports,
Folder Descriptions: 1976-1982
--Annual Reports, 1976
--Annual Reports, 1976
--Annual Reports, 1977
--Annual Reports, 1977
--Annual Reports, 1978
--Annual Reports, 1978
--Annual Reports, 1979
--Annual Reports, 1979
--Annual Reports, 1980
--Annual Reports, 1980
--Annual Reports, 1981
--Annual Reports, 1981
--Annual Reports, 1982
Sub-series: Town of Pelham, Annual Reports,
Folder Descriptions: 1982-1991, 1996
--Annual Reports, 1982
--Annual Reports, 1983
--Annual Reports, 1983
--Annual Reports, 1984
--Annual Reports, 1984
--Annual Reports, 1984
--Annual Reports, 1984
--Annual Reports, 1985
--Annual Reports, 1986
--Annual Reports, 1987
--Annual Reports, 1988
--Annual Reports, 1988
--Annual Reports, 1988
--Annual Reports, 1989
--Annual Reports, 1990
--Annual Reports, 1991
--Annual Reports, 1996