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John White Treadwell Papers, 1763-1902, 1971-1972, undated

 Collection
Identifier: MH 221

Scope and Content Note

The John White Treadwell papers is a collection of personal papers and estate papers of John White Treadwell of Salem, Massachusetts. The collection has been divided into three series.

Series I. Personal Papers includes personal correspondence written to his family while at sea or visiting Washington DC, a lecture on currency, and financial papers. The series also includes papers from the Salisbury Manufacturing Corporation.

Series I. Estate Papers contains papers from the administration of Treadwell's estate.

Series III. Other contains genealogy and miscellaneous items from other members of the Treadwell family.

Dates

  • Creation: 1763-1902, 1971-1972, undated

Creator

Restrictions on Access

This collection is open for research use.

Biographical Sketch

John White Treadwell was a sixth generation descendant of Thomas Treadwell, who settled in Ipswich, Massachusetts, in about 1638. He was born in Ipswich in 1785, the son of Jacob and Elizabeth White Treadwell. He moved to Salem, Massachusetts, early in his life, where he was a sea captain, merchant, and later Cashier and President of the Merchants Bank in Salem. He married Susanna Kendall Farley in 1810 (d. 1818); he married her sister, Harriet Kendall Farley, in 1819. By each wife he had six children (see Appendix I - Treadwell Family Tree). John White Treadwell died in Salem in 1857; his estate was administered by his son in-law, George Nichols.

Extent

1.17 linear feet (3 boxes)

Language of Materials

English

Abstract

The John White Treadwell papers is a collection of personal papers and estate papers of John White Treadwell of Salem, Massachusetts.

Series List

Series I. Personal Papers

Series II. Estate Papers

Series III. Other

Physical Location

Phillips Library Stacks

Provenance

Part of this collection was donated by Susan Farley Nichols Pulsifer in 1965; the provenance of the remaining material is unknown.

Bibliography and Related Collections

An Account of the Commemoration, by the Essex Institute, of the Fifth Half-century of the Landing of John Endicott in Salem. Essex Institute Historical Collections 15 (1878), p. 304.

Rollins, William A. Thomas Treadwell of Ipswich, Mass., and Some of his Descendants. Boston: Press of David Clapp & Son, 1906.

Processing Information

Collection processed by Lee Jacoby, October 2012.

Title
JOHN WHITE TREADWELL PAPERS, 1763-1972
Status
Completed
Author
Processed by: Lee Jacoby; machine-readable finding aid created by: Rajkumar Natarajan. Finding aid updated September 2022.
Description rules
Dacs
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the Phillips Library Repository

Contact:
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