MSS16714Stoughton, Sarah, commonplace bookSarah Stoughton commonplace book MSS 16714Ellen WelchAlbert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

2022-09-22

Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections LibraryP.O. Box 400110University of VirginiaCharlottesville, Virginia 22904-4110URL:
This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2026-03-05 17:42:54 +0000.Description is written in: English, Latin script.Describing Archives: A Content Standard Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library Sarah Stoughton commonplace book MSS 16714 Archival Resource Key Previous Archival Resource Key Previous Archival Resource Key Previous Archival Resource Key Previous Archival Resource Key Previous Archival Resource Key Previous Archival Resource Key Previous Archival Resource Key Previous Archival Resource Key Previous Archival Resource Key /repositories/3/resources/1407 0.03 Cubic Feet 1 letter size folder 1826-1838 English BW 47 1/1 Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research use.

 Immediate Source of Acquisition

This collection was purchased from David A. Hamilton Americana Books by the Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia Library on 7 April 2019.

 Preferred Citation

MSS 16714, Sarah Stoughton commonplace book, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.

 Content Description

Sarah Stoughton commonplace book filled with hand-written sentiments, poems, and inscriptions, with many signed and dated. There is genealogical information, relating to Reverend Jonathan Edwards of East Windsor, Connecticut, including "John Ellsworth married Anne Edwards daughter of Reverend Timothy Edwards, and sister of Reverend Jonathan Edwards. Their children were John, Frederick, Solomon, and Anne..." Later in the genealogy notes, "Sarah married John, son of Lemeul Stoughton..." Family names include Wetmore, Ellsworth, Bartlett, and Lockwood.

The first page starts with a December 25, 1826 inscription from Sarah Bartlett of East Windsor of which part is transcribed here,

"...The sentiment you record here will probably be [read] by many, and will have influence, perhaps too, long after your ded,either ripening them for endless usefulness and happiness or in confirming them them in a course of eternal mischief and woe. That which is written may long remain for inspection. Beware what you write!..."

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