US-RPB-msnewton Newton Family Paperscirca 1780-1856 Finding aid prepared by Jayati Chaudhuri. Brown University Library
Box A Brown University Providence, RI, 02912 Tel: 401-863-2146 email:hay@brown.edu
2002 Oct 11 This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit 2013-04-01 English Newton Family Papers Ms.Newton John Hay Library Special Collections
Box A Brown University Providence, RI 02912 Tel: 401-863-2146 email: hay@brown.edu
English circa 1780-1856 Manuscript copies of 18th and 19th century broadside verse, made by members of the Newton family, chiefly Mrs. Miriam Newton and Miss Nancy Newton, with an occasional original piece; accounts, genealogies, verse and prose; copies of sermons; excerpts from religious books; biographies of famous people; accounts of local weather; newsworthy local events. Compiled mostly in Southboro, Massachusetts, and Marlboro, New Hampshire. .25 linear feet (ca. 50 items) Newton, Miriam, 1765-1852 Newton, Nancy, 1801-1887 Newton Family Papers Biographical/Historical note

Manuscript copies of 18th and 19th century broadside verse, made by members of the Newton family, chiefly Mrs. Miriam Newton and Miss Nancy Newton, with an occasional original piece. Six home-made manuscript booklets containing accounts, genealogies, verse and prose; copies of sermons; excerpts from religious books; biographies of famous people from Adam to Timothy Dwight; accounts of local blizzards, gales, storms, etc.; newsworthy local events. Compiled mostly in Southboro, Massachusetts, and Marlboro, New Hampshire. Little is known about the Newton Family with the exception that they resided in Southboro, Massachusetts, and Marlboro, New Hampshire.

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The collection is divided into two series:

Series 1. Broadside verse titles in booklets Series 2. Broadside verse on separate sheets

Items within each series are arranged alphabetically by verse title.

Newton Family Papers, Ms. Newton, Brown University Library.

Items for the period 1780 to 1856 collected by the Newton family of Southboro, Massachusetts, and Marlboro, New Hampshire. Included are manuscript copies of eighteenth and nineteenth century broadside verse, and notebooks containing accounts, genealogies, transcripts of sermons, biographies, and records of noteworthy local events.

 Administrative information

Gift of Mr. Benjamin Tighe in 1968. Accession number: HA23554 [1-50].

 Names Newton family Newton, Miriam, 1765-1852 Newton, Nancy, 1801-1887 Subjects American poetry--18th century American poetry--19th century Murder--Poetry Storms--Poetry Occupations Poets Collectors Types of Materials Accounts Broadside poems genealogies Notebooks Poems Sermons RIAMCO Browsing Term Social Life and Customs Broadside verse titles in booklets Series 1 Alas! Poor Maria Cornell 1 4 The beauties of May 1 29 The black joke 1 15 British taxation of North America 1 39 Catey Morey 1 25 Come all young ladies draw near 1 20 Cowper, William. Verses written by Alexander Selkirk on the island of Juan Fernandes 1 17 Cries Celia to a Revrend dean 1 20 The cruel step-mother 1 8 [The death of an Indian Chief]; A death song of an Indian chief 1 30 The death of the brave General Wolf 1 35 The death of Washington 1 1 The farmer 1 43 Few happy matches 1 6 Foreign missionaries 1 6 Handsome Harry: or the deceitful young man 1 32 Henry Clay 1 10 An heroic poem 1 15 The lamentation of America for her son 1 1 The last judgment of Sodom 1 2 Let us all be unhappy together 1 37 A love letter and The answer 1 57 The major's only son, and his true love's overthrow 1 13 Marian 1 32 Missionary hymn 1 7 The modest maid's reply 1 28 The moors 1 22 A much approved song made on the taking of Burgoyne and his army 1 5 [Murder of Joseph White...] Mr. Joseph White of Salem who was found murdered in his bed... 1 12 Music triumphant 1 4 The musical society 1 3 O England proud England: where girls in their teens 1 14 The old horse 1 51 The old bachelor's last prayer 1 27 The old maid's prayer 1 49 Omni vencit amor 1 19 On the taking fort william henry 1 19 Once I was great but little am I grown 1 59 [Perry's victory] 1 22 A poem on death 1 21 A poem on the resurrection 1 24 Polly Gould 1 38 Polly Gould 1 26 A poor man a poor man 1 8 A rept for chig f...s 1 56 The scornful damsel 1 23 The scornful damsel 1 53 A short discourse on eternity 1 27 The silly husband 1 30 The soldiers return 1 3 A song in praise of liberty 1 5 A song of praise for the comforts of life 1 1 This pleasant girl with all her charms, has fell into the tyrant's arms 1 38 This world is a stage 1 45 Those lines were composed concerning Mrs. Hamilton that was murdered by Clough 1 11 Twas morning when Mary arose 1 14 Twas on one flowry morn in May 1 63 Verses concerning the times 1 6 Broadside verse on separate sheets Series 2 Adam and Eve 1 [All is well] 1 The batchelders lamentation 1 The Castile lady 1 Chevy Chace 1 The cruel step-mother 1 Daniel Shays verses 1 The dawn of hope 1 Disappointment 1 [The dying address of the three Thayers, who were executed for the murder of John Love] (In remembrance of the murder of John Love of Boston...) 1 Early one morning as I was walking 1 The female auctioneer 1 A few lines of the devils management with the old and the young ancient and modern 1 A few lines suggested on the death of our cat 1 Flight of fidelity 1 The fortunate lovers or Sweet Williams of Plymouth 1 Friendship 1 The gloom of autumn 1 I call the attention of each merry blade 1 I'll sing to thee O goddes, pray aid my feeble tongue; The life of a beau (On verso of The dawn of hope) 1 Lines addressed to Rev. Mr. & Mrs. J. L. Herrick by Miss Nancy Newton now in her 80th year 1 Lines composed by D. Gage Manchester for Mr. & Mrs. Ezekiel's golden wedding hymn 1 Lines composed by Emily Newton in the 14th year of her age, on the death of her mother who died May 25, 1832, aged 42 1/2 1 Lines wrote on the death of Loring Newton by Nancy Newton 1 Lord Thomas 1 The man that dare presume to sing the praises of tyrant king Marion (On conjugate leaf of The dawn of hope) 1 A merry jest 1 Michael Powers, the murderer of Timothy Kennedy 1 The missionary sermon 1 My dearest friends in bonds of love 1 My mother 1 O when shall I see Jesus and reign with him above 1 [The] old horse 1 On what tends to promote happiness 1 The parting of friends 1 [Peck John. Short poem on the universal plan] Pecks poem or Universalism displayed 1 Perry's victory 1 [A poem, occasioned by the death of David Mayo, jun. who was drowned in a well, in Warwick...] 1 Shall e'er cold water be forget When we sit down to dine; Temperance ode (On verso of Early one morning); This world and its glory & all we hold dear (On verso of Shall e'er cold water...) 1 Toasts drank in 1826 1 Twas on one flowr'y morn in May 1 Twas the loveliest season of life 1 The vernal flowers their beauties spread; The voice of my country (On verso of Shall e'er cold water...); What sound is this? a song through heaven resounding (On verso of All is well) 1 When Joseph his brethren beheld 1