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Newton Family Papers (Ms.Newton)

Brown University Library

Box A
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
Tel: 401-863-2146
email: hay@brown.edu

Inventory

Series 1. Broadside verse titles in booklets

Container Description Date
Box 1, Page 4 Alas! Poor Maria Cornell
Box 1, Page 29 The beauties of May
Box 1, Page 15 The black joke
Box 1, Page 39 British taxation of North America
Box 1, Page 25 Catey Morey
Box 1, Page 20 Come all young ladies draw near
Box 1, Page 17 Cowper, William. Verses written by Alexander Selkirk on the island of Juan Fernandes
Box 1, Page 20 Cries Celia to a Revrend dean
Box 1, Page 8 The cruel step-mother
Box 1, Page 30 [The death of an Indian Chief]; A death song of an Indian chief
Box 1, Page 35 The death of the brave General Wolf
Box 1, Page 1 The death of Washington
Box 1, Page 43 The farmer
Box 1, Page 6 Few happy matches
Box 1, Page 6 Foreign missionaries
Box 1, Page 32 Handsome Harry: or the deceitful young man
Box 1, Page 10 Henry Clay
Box 1, Page 15 An heroic poem
Box 1, Page 1 The lamentation of America for her son
Box 1, Page 2 The last judgment of Sodom
Box 1, Page 37 Let us all be unhappy together
Box 1, Page 57 A love letter and The answer
Box 1, Page 13 The major's only son, and his true love's overthrow
Box 1, Page 32 Marian
Box 1, Page 7 Missionary hymn
Box 1, Page 28 The modest maid's reply
Box 1, Page 22 The moors
Box 1, Page 5 A much approved song made on the taking of Burgoyne and his army
Box 1, Page 12 [Murder of Joseph White...] Mr. Joseph White of Salem who was found murdered in his bed...
Box 1, Page 4 Music triumphant
Box 1, Page 3 The musical society
Box 1, Page 14 O England proud England: where girls in their teens
Box 1, Page 51 The old horse
Box 1, Page 27 The old bachelor's last prayer
Box 1, Page 49 The old maid's prayer
Box 1, Page 19 Omni vencit amor
Box 1, Page 19 On the taking fort william henry
Box 1, Page 59 Once I was great but little am I grown
Box 1, Page 22 [Perry's victory]
Box 1, Page 21 A poem on death
Box 1, Page 24 A poem on the resurrection
Box 1, Page 38 Polly Gould
Box 1, Page 26 Polly Gould
Box 1, Page 8 A poor man a poor man
Box 1, Page 56 A rept for chig f...s
Box 1, Page 23 The scornful damsel
Box 1, Page 53 The scornful damsel
Box 1, Page 27 A short discourse on eternity
Box 1, Page 30 The silly husband
Box 1, Page 3 The soldiers return
Box 1, Page 5 A song in praise of liberty
Box 1, Page 1 A song of praise for the comforts of life
Box 1, Page 38 This pleasant girl with all her charms, has fell into the tyrant's arms
Box 1, Page 45 This world is a stage
Box 1, Page 11 Those lines were composed concerning Mrs. Hamilton that was murdered by Clough
Box 1, Page 14 Twas morning when Mary arose
Box 1, Page 63 Twas on one flowry morn in May
Box 1, Page 6 Verses concerning the times

Series 2. Broadside verse on separate sheets

Container Description Date
Box 1 Adam and Eve
Box 1 [All is well]
Box 1 The batchelders lamentation
Box 1 The Castile lady
Box 1 Chevy Chace
Box 1 The cruel step-mother
Box 1 Daniel Shays verses
Box 1 The dawn of hope
Box 1 Disappointment
Box 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...)
Box 1 Early one morning as I was walking
Box 1 The female auctioneer
Box 1 A few lines of the devils management with the old and the young ancient and modern
Box 1 A few lines suggested on the death of our cat
Box 1 Flight of fidelity
Box 1 The fortunate lovers or Sweet Williams of Plymouth
Box 1 Friendship
Box 1 The gloom of autumn
Box 1 I call the attention of each merry blade
Box 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)
Box 1 Lines addressed to Rev. Mr. & Mrs. J. L. Herrick by Miss Nancy Newton now in her 80th year
Box 1 Lines composed by D. Gage Manchester for Mr. & Mrs. Ezekiel's golden wedding hymn
Box 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
Box 1 Lines wrote on the death of Loring Newton by Nancy Newton
Box 1 Lord Thomas
Box 1 The man that dare presume to sing the praises of tyrant king Marion (On conjugate leaf of The dawn of hope)
Box 1 A merry jest
Box 1 Michael Powers, the murderer of Timothy Kennedy
Box 1 The missionary sermon
Box 1 My dearest friends in bonds of love
Box 1 My mother
Box 1 O when shall I see Jesus and reign with him above
Box 1 [The] old horse
Box 1 On what tends to promote happiness
Box 1 The parting of friends
Box 1 [Peck John. Short poem on the universal plan] Pecks poem or Universalism displayed
Box 1 Perry's victory
Box 1 [A poem, occasioned by the death of David Mayo, jun. who was drowned in a well, in Warwick...]
Box 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...)
Box 1 Toasts drank in 1826
Box 1 Twas on one flowr'y morn in May
Box 1 Twas the loveliest season of life
Box 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)
Box 1 When Joseph his brethren beheld