Guide to the Vaughan Family Research Files, 1946-2002, bulk 1946-1955
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Vaughan Family Research Files, George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Brunswick, Maine.
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George E. Pettengill received his A.B. from Bowdoin in 1933, and was a librarian at several institutions, including the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia. Samuel Vaughan (1720-1802) of London was a West India merchant and planter. He married Sarah Hallowell, daughter of Benjamin Hallowell, a Boston merchant. Benjamin Vaughan (1751-1835), William Vaughan (1752-1850), John Vaughan (1756-1841), Charles Vaughan (1759-1839), and Samuel Vaughan, Jr. (1762-?) were sons of Samuel and Sarah Vaughan. The Vaughan brothers and extended Vaughan family were merchants, landowners, authors, and politicians, some with ties to Benjamin Franklin, the American Philosophical Society, and the Franklin Institute.
Vaughan family research files compiled by the donor, George E. Pettengill, for over fifty years, beginning in 1946. Included is correspondence to and from Pettengill regarding the Vaughan family, bibliographical material, articles, transcriptions of original Vaughan family correspondence, handwritten notes, and a genealogical chart.
Arranged alphabetically by material type.
For additional Vaughan family material see the Charles Vaughan Family Papers (M180).
- Vaughan family
Articles re: Benjamin Vaughan, 2002, undated
Bibliographical Material, 1974, 1995, 2002, undated (the bulk is a listing printed in 2002 of the Benjamin Vaughan Papers held by the American Philosophical Society)
Correspondence between George Pettengill and Mrs. J.M. (Sarah) Stetson, 1949-1950
Correspondence between George Pettengill and Vaughan Family Members, 1948-1955, undated
Correspondence to and from George Pettengill re: Samuel Vaughan, Jr., 1946-1950
Genealogical charts of the Vaughan family (handwritten), undated
Miscellaneous Material, 1995, undated
Miscellaneous notes, 1946, undated
Miscellaneous notes, undated
Typescripts of correspondence, Benjamin Vaughan to Parker Cleaveland (originals at Bowdoin), 1819-1834
Typescripts of correspondence to and from Samuel Vaughan, Jr. (Originals in Franklin Institute), 1776-1782
Vaughan family extracts and quotes from books about Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and other early Americans, undated