Scope and Contents From the Series: Series III. Family and Miscellaneous Papers documents six generations of the Stearns and Sprague families. The papers include: household and farm receipts of Dr. William Stearns' father Peleg (1720-1780); Sarah White (Sprague) Stearns' (1764-1844) personal correspondence, accounts land deeds, and an 1827 lease of land to the town of Salem for the Bickford Street School; pew deeds and household, apothecary and grocer's receipts of William Stearns Jr....