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Ann Appleton Storrow papers [textual record (microform)]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1790-1794.

Reference:

R13237-0-5-E

Type of material:

Textual material

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

3963348

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Ann Appleton Storrow papers
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Date(s):

1790-1794.

Place of creation:

Various places

Extent:

1 microfilm reel.

Language of material:

English

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Fonds consists of letters from Mrs. Storrow to family and friends describing her life at Campobello Island, at St. Andrews, New Brunswick, at Kingston, Jamaica, and at Boston. It includes letters to her sister and brother-in-law Henry Barlowe Brown at St. Andrews, New Brunswick, and to Rebecca and Penny Butler in Providence, Rhode Island.

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Storrow, Ann Appleton, 1760-1796

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Storrow, Ann Appleton, 1760-1796 : Ann Appleton was born in 1760 in New Hampshire. In 1777, she married Thomas Storrow, a British Army officer who has been prisoner of war during the War of Independence. They embarked on a seventeen-year transatlantic odyssey to England, Jamaica and Canada in search of economic security. After Storrow's death in 1794, Ann Appleton Storrow opened a residential school for girls at Hingham (Massachusetts). She died two years later in 1796.

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General note:

Microfilming of the documents was done in 2005, thanks to financial assistance provided by the Cultural Affairs office of the United States Embassy to Canada.

Location of originals note:

Originals are kept by the Massachusetts Historical Society, call number P-772.

Source:

Private
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Microfilm reel [R13237] M-9646

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