Guide to Newport Historical Society s Collection of Unpublished Papers Newport Historical Society, Newport, Rhode Island Last update on 2013 March 13

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1 Guide to Newport Historical Society s Collection of Unpublished Papers Newport Historical Society, Newport, Rhode Island Last update on 2013 March 13 Descriptive Summary Repository Newport Historical Society, Newport, Rhode Island Location Newport Historical Society, 82 Touro Street, Newport, RI Call No. Creators Title Date(s) Abstract MS Newport Historical Society Newport Historical Society s Collection of Unpublished Papers 1993-present This collection contains student and unpublished papers on various subjects relating to Newport, Rhode Island. Extent Accession Info Historical Note Scope and Content 3 boxes (2.42 linear feet) ; Collected by the Newport Historical Society from various sources, 1993-present. This collection has been minimally processed and added to over the years from a variety of sources. The files were stored in boxes or binders with little organization. Many of the papers in this collection were given to the historical society by undergraduate and graduate students from various colleges/universities who had used resources provided by the Newport Historical Society. Other student papers included were entries into the NHS College Essay Contest, from Past work done by interns hired by the Newport Historical Society, mainly Buchanan/Burnham interns, starting from the summer of 2002 to the present are also included in the collection. There are also several reports detailing work or assessment done on properties owned by the Newport Historical Society, particularly the Wanton-Lyman-Hazard house. The remaining few files came from independent researchers/lecturers/historical societies, who used NHS resources. This is an open collection. The contents of the files cover a wide range of subjects pertaining to Newport and its history. Files relating to death and cemeteries can be found in folders: 15, 59, 72 and 79. Files relating to NHS collections can be found in folders: 2, 22, 52, 61-64, 65-66, 68, 70-71, 77, 78 and 86.

2 Organization Related Material Restrictions Subject Access Files relating to slavery and African American history can be found in folders: 1, 5, 20, 28, 29, 37, 50-51, 58, 60, 73 and 87. Files relating to textiles can be found in folders: 22, 43, 54, 55, 61-64, 77 and 78. Files relating to the Wanton-Lyman-Hazard House can be found in folders: 3, 6, 7, 10, 14, 17, 19, 30, 35, 38, 39, 41, 44, 58, 67 and 83. The Newport Historical Society s Collection of Unpublished Papers is organized into one series: 1. Unpublished Papers files, 1993-present. The Folders are chronologically ordered by publication date, and then arranged alphabetically. The Newport Historical Society has collections relating to material found within the Collection of Unpublished Papers. There are no restrictions on physical access to this material. This collection is housed onsite at the Newport Historical Society. Researchers can be seen by appointment during operating hours at the Newport Historical Society, call to make an appointment. Personal Name Subject Banister, John Clarke, John Ellery, William Franklin, Ann Franklin, James Franklin, James, Jr. Howard, Ann Howard, Martin Irish, George Isham, Norman Morrison Lopez, Aaron Lyman, Daniel Malbone, Godfrey, Jr. Malbone, Godfrey, Sr. Malbone, John Osborn, Sarah Haggar Wheaton Perry, Oliver Hazard Robinson, Tom Stevens, James Stevens, Maud Lyman Stevens, Pompe Stiles, Ezra Tripp, Desire Wanton, John G. Ward, Samuel Wrightington, Margaret Ward Bradley

3 Form/Genre Archaeology Architectural surveys Dissertations Evaluations Exhibit texts Finding aid Geological survey Inventories Landscape archaeology Lecture Proposals Research (document genres) Research notes Term papers Theses Administrative Information Processor Finding aid prepared by Alison F. Cutter. Descriptive Rules Finding aid based on Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS) Citation The Newport Historical Society s Collection of Unpublished Papers, , Box Number, Folder Number, Newport Historical Society, Newport, Rhode Island. Inventory Series 1. The Newport Historical Society s Collection of Unpublished Papers, 1993-present. The folders are chronologically ordered by publication date, and then arranged alphabetically. A Precious Season at the Throne of Grace: Sarah Haggar Wheaton Osborn, Box 1, Folder , An Inventory of the Papers of Aaron Lopez ( ) at the American Box 1, Folder 2 Jewish Historical Society, Preliminary Historic Structure Evaluation: Wanton-Lyman-Hazard House, 17 Box 1, Folder 3 Broadway, Newport, RI, Box 1, Folder 4 The Forgotten Franklins: James, Ann and James Jr, Box 1, Folder 5 Sarah Haggar Wheaton Osborn, Wanton-Lyman-Hazard House: Cultural Landscape Assessment & Landscape Box 1, Folder 6 Master Plan, Archaeological Survey of the Wanton-Lyman-Hazard House: Newport, RI, Box 1, Folder George Irish: An Entrepreneur Extraordinaire In Revolutionary Era Newport, Box 1, Folder Box 1, Folder 9 The Malbone Family of Eighteenth Century Newport, RI, Box 1, Folder 10 An Inventory Analysis: Ceramics in Eighteenth Century Newport, 2001.

4 Celebrating 90 Years of A Newport Treasure: A Brief History of St. Augustin's Box 1, Folder 11 Parish, Box 1, Folder 12 Governor Samuel Ward: Reluctant Revolutionary, Box 1, Folder 13 Perry Luck: Oliver Hazard Perry and the Battle of Lake Erie, Plan of Work: For Development of the Furnishing and Interpretation of the Box 1, Folder 14 Wanton-Lyman-Hazard House, Box 1, Folder 15 Dust to Dust: Funerals in Newport, RI, , Box 1, Folder 16 James: The Forgotten Stevens, Report on Ceramics from the "Howard Privy": Backyard Archaeology at the Box 1, Folder 17 Wanton-Lyman-Hazard House, Newport, The Establishment of the Women's Meetings in Aquidneck Island's Box 1, Folder 18 Seventeenth-Century Quaker Congregations, This Most Interesting Old House: Maud Lyman Stevens and the First Box 1, Folder 19 Furnishing Plan for the Wanton-Lyman-Hazard House, What About the Others? The Social Experience of Slavery, Servitude, and Box 1, Folder 20 Apprenticeship in the Families of Colonial Newport, An Alienation Which Will Never be Healed: Ezra Stiles and the Stamp Act Box 1, Folder 21 Crisis, "And With My Needle I Wrought the Same": Needlework Samplers of Box 1, Folder 22 Newport: , "Articles Too Tedious to Enumerate": The Appreciation of Ceramics in mid- Box 1, Folder 23 18th-century Newport, RI, "By Her Own Economy and Industry": Enterprising Women in Colonial Box 1, Folder 24 Newport, Box 1, Folder 25 Clarke Lecture for Newport, Damaged and Destroyed: A Look into the World of Ann and Martin Howard, Box 1, Folder Box 1, Folder 27 Searching for Foodways in Colonial Newport, Box 1, Folder 28 Spring 2003 Seminar Paper by Edward Andrews, Box 1, Folder 29 African American Entrepreneurship During Newport's Golden Years, A Long and Useful Life: Daniel Lyman and Newport's Recovery from the Box 1, Folder 30 British Occupation , A Long Recess: Immediate Affects of the American Revolution on Town Box 1, Folder 31 Government in Newport, RI , "In moderation and plainness, in gesture, speech and apparel, and furniture Box 1, Folder 32 of their houses" John G Wanton: A Newport Quaker, "She Said She did not Know Money": Urban Women and Atlantic Markets, Box 1, Folder Test of A Lively Experiment: Religion, Intellectual Culture and Revolution in Box 1, Folder 34 Eighteenth Century Newport, The Wanton-Lyman-Hazard House: A Case Study of Social Change and their Box 1, Folder 35 Effects on Architecture, "We Have No Unity of Fellowship with Them": The American Revolution and Box 1, Folder 36 the Downfall of the Society of Friends in Newport, RI, Box 1, Folder 37 Appendix A: Probate Inventory Sample Spreadsheet, Box 1, Folder 38 Creating the Past: The Restoration of the Wanton-Lyman-Hazard House,

5 2005. Development of Standard Tree-Ring Chronologies for Dating Historic Box 1, Folder 39 Structures in Newport and the Narragansett Basin of RI, Empire of Friends: Quaker Travelers in the Eighteenth-Century Transatlantic Box 1, Folder 40 World, Flints, Balls, and Stone: An Analysis of Arnament Related Artifacts Discovered Box 1, Folder 41 Near the Wanton-Lyman-Hazard House, Engineering Geology, Young Faults, and Seismicity of the Northern Box 1, Folder 42 Narragansett Bay, Newport Toile: Reproductions, Adaptations & Inspirations: Leveraging Historic Box 1, Folder 43 Collections, A Middling Gentility: Taste, Status, and Material Culture at the Eighteenth- Box 1, Folder 44 Century Wood Lot, Wanton-Lyman-Hazard House Site, Newport, RI, An Indomitable Spirit: The Life & Legacy of William Ellery, Newport's Signer of Box 1, Folder the Declaration of Independence, Box 1, Folder 48 Gilded Age Recreation in Newport, St. Mary's Minstrels: "For over half a century it remained the most popular Box 1, Folder 49 entertainment form in the country", Box 2, Folder The Free African American Cultural Landscape: Newport, RI, , Box 2, Folder 52 Thirteen-Star American Flag of the Newport Historical Society, 2008 Box 2, Folder 53 An Archaeology of the Individual, Eighteenth-Century Costume and General Costume Collection Research, Box 2, Folder Box 2, Folder 55 Eighteenth-Century Fashion Exhibit Information, "The Belles of Newport": Beauty, Culture, and Dancing in Revolutionary Box 2, Folder 56 Newport, RI, Box 2, Folder 57 The Politics of Pluralism in Newport, RI , American World Views: Interpretation of the Historical Spiritual Objects Box 2, Folder 58 Found at the Wanton-Lyman-Hazard House, Buried in Meeting House Field: Quaker Funerary Traditions at the Great Box 2, Folder 59 Friends Meeting House, Chronological List of Advertisements Selling Slaves in Rhode Island Box 2, Folder 60 Newspapers from , Box 2, Folder Dressing Manifest Destiny: Men's Clothing in America , Handwritten History: Correspondence of Great Americans from the Box 2, Folder Collections of the Newport Historical Society, Norman Morrison Isham: Newport Restoration Foreshadows Modern Box 2, Folder 67 Preservation, Tooth and Bone: Miniature Paintings and Scrimshaw from the Collections of Box 2, Folder 68 the Newport Historical Society, An Overview of Archaeological Testing at Whitehall, Portsmouth, Rhode Box 2, Folder 69 Island, Box 2, Folder Cases & Types: The Lives and Works of Printers in Early Newport, Box 2, Folder 72 Dismembered Memory: Desire Tripp and Her Arm's Gravestone, From Slave Trader to Abolitionist: "Quaker Tom" Robinson of Newport, RI, Box 2, Folder

6 Box 3, Folder 74 How We Celebrate: Timeline of the Fourth of July in Newport, RI, Interpreting Objects Workshop Adapted Outline: What is it? How did it Box 3, Folder 75 become what it is? What does it mean? Box 3, Folder 76 Quakers and Aesthetics, Box 3, Folder 77 Sampler Exhibit Material, "Temptation stronger I fear than I can resist": Quaker Women's Clothing at Box 3, Folder 78 the Newport Historical Society, Digital Solutions to Mapping an Eighteenth-Century Cemetery: Newport Box 3, Folder 79 Common Burying Ground, , Enshrined Ideals: Rhode Island's Charter in Theory & Practice, From Birth to Box 3, Folder 80 Statehood, Margaret (Ward)(Bradley) Wrightington. Part One: Piracy and Piety in Box 3, Folder 81 Newport, Newport Historical Society Resource Map: Women's Roles in Newport Box 3, Folder 82 Churches , Box 3, Folder 83 Wanton-Lyman-Hazard House Inventory Guide, 2012 A Perfect Storm: Operation Clapboard, Urban Renewal and the Battle to Save Box 3, Folder 84 Eighteenth-Century Newport. Chapter One: The Gathering Storm, Compilation of Research Regarding Newport's Role in the Founding of Rhode Box 3, Folder 85 Island College (Brown University), Music Resources: NHS Collection of Music Finding Aid & Inventory, Box 3, Folder 86 Bibliography, Box 3, Folder 87 Pompe Stevens, Enslaved Artisan, Box 3, Folder 88 Private Lives and Public Spaces: John Banister and Colonial Consumers, 2013.