The Samuel McIntire Papers consist mainly of business receipts and bills relating to the work done by Samuel; his father, Joseph; his two brothers, Joseph and Angier; his uncles, John and Robert; his nephews, Joseph and Thomas; and his son, Samuel Field. The collection also includes architectural drawings and plans, many drawn by McIntire, some by other identified architects and builders, and others drawn by unidentified designers. It has been organized into four series.

Series I. Bills and Receipts consists of business bills and receipts for the work done by Samuel McIntire and his family members. It is divided into five subseries.

Subseries A. Samuel McIntire and McIntire Family is arranged by billing date, and in the case of the absence of a billing date, by the payment date, or the last active date on the account. It is important to note that bills often include a span of dates--the dates the work was done, the date the bill was submitted for payment, and the date that the payment was received. Some bills and receipts list the amount of days various McIntires worked. Some bills and receipts list the work completed or the supplies used for the project by the various members of the extended McIntire family including such projects as "schooner joyner [joiner] work" (1766), "finishing three rooms and two stair cases" (1778), "mending garden fence...& making a seat...for wagon" (1784), "finishing the entries in the brick house" (1785), "finishing the Grand Turk's [a vessel] cabin" (1791), "repairing a hobby horse" (1801), "composition ornaments for a chimney piece" (1801), "a drawing for a coach house" (1803), "work on fluting capitols for the Tabernacle" (1803), "drawing ground plan for a building intended for a Registers Office" (1807), "making a dresser and shelves" (1812), etc.

Subseries B. Non-McIntire Individuals consists of material that seems to be from the two scrapbooks and one portfolio from which much of this collection came. Of note are bills and receipts relating to Daniel Bancroft, a carpenter and builder, who was involved in the building of Elias Hasket Derby's mansion. Bancroft's "estimate for work on new House on Essex Street," (undated, B1 F12) seems to refer to the Derby mansion project. This portion of the collection has other material related to the building of Elias Hasket Derby's mansion, including accounts with Thomas Robie, a hardware store owner, listing many items purchased for the construction of the mansion, and bills paid to George Heussler, who worked on the gardens of some properties owned by the Derby Family (see B1 F14).

Subseries C. Photocopies of S. McIntire and McIntire Family Within Other Phillips Library Collections and Subseries D. Photocopies of S. McIntire and McIntire Family in Other Libraries are comprised of photocopies that have been stored with, and compliment, the original McIntire manuscript material. Subseries E. Photocopies of Samuel McIntire and McIntire Family Bills and Receipts in this Collection contains acid-free copies of the original manuscript bills and receipts within this collection. All photocopies will be found in Box 2. The photocopies in Box 2, Folders 1-4, are filed by Norton #, which refers to a numbering system for a planned book on McIntire and his work that was never published.

Series II. Legal Papers and Correspondence includes an indenture of Samuel Luscomb Junior with Joseph Mackintire [McIntire], photocopies of a case heard by the Essex County Court of Common Pleas between Samuel McIntire and Thomas Thomas regarding the payment of a job, a letter from James Sheaf to Ichabod Nichols asking about how to contact a carver in Salem named "Mr. McIntyre," and two letters written by Sarah Field McIntire. Sarah Field McIntire was the daughter of Samuel Field McIntire and the granddaughter of Samuel McIntire. In these letters, written in 1819, Sarah writes to her friend Preserved Bullock (of Salem) about her life, her impressions of Hampton, New Hampshire, her studies, and some thoughts on religious issues.

Series III. Architectural Drawings include plans and elevations for a variety of projects. (See Appendix I for a complete list describing the drawings.) The drawings are arranged in numerical order corresponding to the numbers that are stamped in the corners of the documents. Not all of the plans within this collection of architectural drawings were drawn by Samuel McIntire. Appendix I indicates if the drawing was done by a different individual or if the authorship is unknown. Architectural drawings by (or attributed) to Samuel McIntire include elevations for the turnpike tavern in Lynn, the Stearns Block (a commercial building in Salem), architectural ornamentations and floor plans for the Elias Hasket Derby Mansion, elevation for the Salem courthouse, and the floor plan of the John Gardner House. The architectural drawings by Samuel McIntire also include sketches for vessels and designs for furniture carvings.

Two elevations and two plans for the Elias Hasket Derby Mansion are attributed to Charles Bulfinch (drawings 109, 110, 123, 124), and possibly a third elevation (drawing 114). The verso of drawing 109 has the notation, "Mr Bulfinshs," presumably written by Elias Hasket Derby's wife, Elizabeth (Crowninshield) Derby. Other plans not drawn by McIntire but included in the collection are the elevation of the Salem courthouse drawn by Joseph True (drawing #165), and the plan of the first floor of the Derby Mansion drawn by Daniel Bancroft (drawing #105). Negative photostats of some of the architectural drawings will be found in Box 3, Folder 1.

Series IV. Miscellaneous Papers consist of materials relating to the lawsuit of Eben Lemon vs. Elias Hasket Derby, 1796-1798. It is not clear what connection this suit may have had to McIntire, but the papers apparently were collected into the McIntire scrapbooks. Also included in Miscellaneous Papers are an 1806 plan of a lot on the south side of Chestnut Street, Salem, surveyed by G. Foster, and an unidentified drawing, both found in Box 3, Folder 1.