Subseries B. Document Collections has been divided into five groups. Personal documents (B6 through 9 and 15) bear the signature of prominent individuals such as American Presidents, signers of the Declaration of Independence, British statesmen and admiralty, writers, and scholars. Many of the individuals represented were important figures in the history of Salem. For a comprehensive list of signatories, see Appendix I. The autographs consist of document fragments bearing the signature of other individuals (B9). Hawaiian materials (B15) include newspaper articles on the death of Queen Tamehamalu (1824), and a printed letter by Na Kekuanaoa to "The French Gentlemen" (1837). The Essex County materials consist of the eighteenth-century commission of officers in the Essex Regiment, seventeenth-century deeds and indentures from Haverhill, Massachusetts, and a subscription list of the First Regiment of Essex County from Salem (circa 1776). The miscellaneous folder (B2 F6) features early printing samples such as leaves from William Caxton's translation of Jacobus de Voragine's Golden Legends, one of the twelve editions published at Westminster between 1485 and 1527.