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| Title: | Smyth Family. Papers |
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| Dates: | 1602-1692 |
| Size: | .25 linear ft. (1 box) |
| Repository: |
Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center |
| Abstract: | The collection contains correspondence, legal records, estate and other property documents relating to the Smyth family of Gloucestershire, England, and to the Berkeley and Overbury families. Includes notes prepared by Mary McEldowney concerning the papers. |
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These papers are concerned with the Smyth family of Gloucestershire in England, and the connections of this family with others in the neighborhood, particularly the Berkeleys (the local nobility), and the Overburys. There are approximately thirty-five letters and legal documents, from about 1602 to about 1686. A few are undated, but appear to belong to this general period. The papers include some personal letters among different members of the family, but for the most part are concerned with such matters as defining property boundaries; listing a harvest of crops; lawsuits over inheritance; etc. Typed copies of most of the original documents are included. Also included are a number of bibliographical sources of contemporary local history of this section of England in the seventeenth century, and biographical and other notes, presumably compiled by Mary McEldowney at the time she was working with these papers.
| Box 1 Folder 1 | Typescript
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| Box 1 Folder 2 | Documents
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| Box 1 Folder 3 | Correspondence (all with typed transcriptions)
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| Box 1 Folder 4 | Legal papers
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| Box 1 Folder 5 | Real estate and other property documents
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| Box 1 Folder 6 | Notes concerning the papers, presumably by Mary McEldowney
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