Series III. Reverend George Curwen (1683-1717) Papers has been subdivided into three subseries. Subseries A. Papers and Accounts includes letters from George to his parents and fiancé, Mehitable Parkman, while at Harvard, letters from his relatives, Henry and Robert Gibbs, and letters from George refusing the position of minister for the town of Reading (1710). It also includes a 1713/4 acceptance of the minister's position at the First Church in Salem, 1717 minister's rates, his estate papers, and poetic eulogies on the death of his sister Anna, his niece Sally Curwen, and several of his parishioners. Subseries B. Sermons includes the sermons he preached while at Harvard, and as a guest preacher at various churches. The unarranged sermons contain miscellaneous unidentified sermons.