Artifacts
You can look through the images of the family’s known artifacts here. Each image has an accompanying description and information about who currently holds the artifact in the family.
Amaret Dakin Waters’ Scrapbook
Amaret was a prolific scrapbooker, like many women in her era, and her scrapbook was so extensive it had to ...
Thomas Waters’ Diary
Pages from Thomas Waters Sr.'s Diary, transcribed by a relative into the pages of the Waters Family Scrapbook, covering 1824-27 ...
The Waters Family Scrapbooks
Today's popular hobby of scrapbooking originated in the nineteenth century, when the first chromolithographic prints made colorful images readily available ...
Elizabeth (Butterworth) Waters’ Diary (September 13, 1864)
This page of Elizabeth's handwritten diary describes the day her son Thomas surprised her with an anniversary visit and a ...
Letter to John Dickey from W. Archibald (March 18, 1892)
This interesting letter from William Archibald to "Mr. John Dickey" in Rhode Island, dated Mar 3, 1892, was recently shared ...
Possible Thomas Waters Jr. Sketch
This sketch appears in Thomas Waters Jr.'s wife Amy’s scrapbook. Though we can’t be certain he drew it, it seems ...
Wealth of Nations Record of Appropriation
The Record of Appropriation for Thomas Jr.’s new ship, Wealth of Nations, official number 54,391. We were unable to find ...
Bethiah Jewett Crew & Passenger List (1862)
A copy of the handwritten crew and passenger list for the 1862 voyage to Sydney, Australia that the Waters family ...
Sketch of Rev. Thomas Pyne, Vicar of Hook
A sketch of Rev. Pyne that appeared in the 1861 Record of Proceedings of the Peace & Temperance Festival. See ...
