Series VI. Family Papers, 1677-1897, contains material documenting four generations of the Barton family, members of the Marston and Webb families, and miscellaneous papers. Among the papers of Barton family members are wills, legal and financial papers of Thomas Barton (1680-1751), his wife Mary (Willoughby), and their son John (1711-1774). Of note in Margaret (Gardner) Barton’s papers is a 1798 letter from Nathaniel West commenting on his partnership with her son Samuel (1767-1795), and a 1786 receipt for a spinet made by artist Samuel Blyth (1744-1795). The papers of miscellaneous Barton family members contain correspondence and financial papers of Elizabeth (Barton) and William Cleveland, Margaret (Barton) Derby, Sally (Barton) Derby, and Lydia Barton. The Marston family papers, the bulk of which is correspondence, reflect the activities of Elisabeth (Marston) Barton’s father and brother. The Webb family papers consist primarily of financial and legal papers of innkeeper Benjamin Webb, Mary (Webb) Barton’s father. Of interest in the miscellaneous papers are possible protest papers of the ship Argo (undated) and a 1768 inventory of the estate of Phillip Saunders.