The Allen Family Papers contain the personal correspondence, shipping, and business papers of William Allen (1766-1853), his sons, Charles Henry Allen (1810-1899), Joseph Augustus Allen (1808-1840), and George Franklin Allen (1813-1852), grandchildren, William Henry Allen, Margaret Lockhart (Allen) Davis, and her husband William Augustus Davis (1813-1886).

This collection of Hamailton, Massachusetts, town records includes some bills and receipts, school records, selectmen's papers, warrants for town meetings, some church-related documents, petitions, an opinion on a court case written by Leverett Saltonstall, a list of men enrolled in the militia, a tally of votes for 1846, and a plan of the parsonage on the common.

The Stearns and Sprague Family papers document the activities of Dr. William Stearns (1754-1819), a Salem apothecary and grocer, and his father-in-law, shipping merchant and distillery owner Joseph Sprague (1739-1808).