Jun 05, 2008 - Sale 2148

Sale 2148 - Lot 268

Price Realized: $ 1,920
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
A RICH STORE OF LOCAL HISTORY (NEW HAMPSHIRE.) Archive of Caleb Stark family papers. 141 items, mostly manuscript, in one box. Condition mostly strong, some separations at folds. Vp, mostly 1824-1860
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Maj. Caleb Stark (1759-1838), son of New Hampshire's Revolutionary War hero Gen. John Stark, lived most of his life in Dunbarton and Pembroke, NH and was a prominent industrialist and merchant. He relocated to Ohio in 1830. His son Caleb Stark Jr. (1805-1864) graduated from Harvard in 1823, worked as an attorney in Dunbarton, wrote a history of his home town, and published the correspondence of his famous grandfather.

Includes A group of 48 letters addressed to Caleb Stark Sr. in Ohio, 1828-1838, from New Hampshire friends and family, including his sons and U.S. Congressmen Samuel Bell, Joseph M. Harper, Jonathan Harvey, and Henry Hubbard An interesting page of memoranda concerning the African colonization movement, tracking ships that sailed to Liberia from 1820 to 1824 and noting: "All that Wilberforce said amt to nothing, give give give" An 1839 deed of gift from Sarah McKinstry Stark to her daughter Harriet of the well-known portrait of Gen. John Stark painted by Samuel Morse A manuscript obituary of Caleb Sr., 1838 A packet of 13 documents concerning the family's Ohio lands, 1844-1851 25 letters to and from Caleb Stark Jr., 1827-1860, mostly relating to local history and politics; correspondents include historians Henry Barton Dawson and Jared Sparks, and U.S. Rep. Charles G. Atherton A small book of accounts with Robert Hogg, apparently a Stark employee, 1812-1813 29 financial documents, 1836-1855 21 manuscripts and clippings relating to various later family members, 1861-1934 A manuscript transcript of an anonymous poem by a Dunbarton man which had been sent to Sir Walter Scott, with transcriptions of extended appreciative comments on the poem by Scott and Lord Byron. The transcript was mailed to Charlotte Stark, sister of Caleb Jr. Neither the poem nor the comments appear to have been published.