TY - GEN AU - Felt,Joseph B. AU - Osgood,Joseph B.F. ED - New England Historic Genealogical Society. TI - Shaw family papers, KW - Adams, Abigail, KW - Cranch, Mary Smith, KW - Felt, Abigail Adams Shaw, KW - Fox, John, KW - Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw, KW - Shaw, William Smith, KW - Adams family. KW - Felts family. KW - Shaw family. KW - Smith family. KW - Woburn (Mass.) KW - Trials, litigation, etc KW - Antinomianism KW - Arminianism KW - Cities and towns KW - Massachusetts KW - Courts KW - Fasts and feasts KW - Genealogy KW - Societies, etc KW - Religion KW - Thanksgiving Day KW - Theology KW - New England KW - Social life and customs KW - Salem (Mass.) KW - History KW - United States KW - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 KW - Authors KW - itoamc KW - Secretaries N1 - Open to research; Microfilm edition available; no. 16,453; Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division; Washington, D.C.; Library of Congress Photoduplication Service; 1975 N2 - Correspondence, writings, copybooks, genealogical materials, reports, and other papers relating to the Shaw, Smith, Adams, and Felt (Felts) families. Central to the collection is the correspondence (1784-1818) of Abigail Adams with her sister, Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody, and with Elizabeth Peabody's children, Abigail Adams Shaw Felt and William Smith Shaw. Also includes correspondence of Elizabeth Peabody with her sister, Mary Smith Cranch; sermons and other papers (1822-1832) of Joseph B. Felt relating to New England; papers (1817-1892) of Felt's nephew, Joseph B.F. Osgood; material on state laws and practices regulating religious fasts and feasts, especially Thanksgiving; papers pertaining to ecclesiastical history including theological trends such as antinomianism and Arminianism; records (1849-1852) of the New England Historic Genealogical Society; court records (1731-1733) of the case of Woburn, Mass. vs. Rev. John Fox; Salem town records (1636-1820); and a review of manuscripts (1622-1782) concerning American colonies in the London State Paper Office UR - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012103 UR - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012103.3 ER -