Sarah Stoughton commonplace book

Access and use

Location of collection:
University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
University of Virginia
P.O. Box 400110
160 McCormick Rd
Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4110
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Brenda Gunn
Phone: (434) 924-1037
Phone: (434) 243-1776
Fax: (434) 924-4968
Restrictions:

The collection is open for research use.

Preferred citation:

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

Summary

Extent:
0.03 Cubic Feet 1 letter size folder
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

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

Background

Scope and content:

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!..."

Acquisition information:
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.
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard