Series II. Samuel Fowler (1776-1859) Papers contains shipping, business, legal, and civic papers. The shipping papers include insurance policies, accounts, and receipts for vessels Fowler owned or on which he commissioned cargo, and correspondence from merchant houses. Insurance policies, correspondence, orders, and accounts for his mills and ships are located in the business papers. Also found there are accounts and receipts for Fowler's share in the Danvers-Beverly Iron Works and the New Hampshire Iron Factory. The correspondence includes pleas for assistance from Danvers citizens as well as business notes from H. Putnam. The bills and receipts include business, household, and personal transactions.

The legal papers contain land and pew deeds, maps, partnership agreements with Israel Hutchinson, Sr., Israel Hutchinson, Jr., and Ebenezer Putnam for ownership of grist and bolting mills, and indentures to hire workers for building a mill. The civic papers include Fowler's military papers, accounts with the Danvers school committee, papers recording Fowler's involvement with the First Baptist Church of Danvers, and petitions to build a road from Topsfield to Danvers. This series also includes school workbooks that belonged to Samuel's children, Clarissa, Rebecca, William, Eliza, and Augustus Fowler. These workbooks are mostly of penmanship, but there are a few of arithmetic.