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.
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Amaret Dakin Waters’ Scrapbook[2]
Amaret was a prolific scrapbooker, like many women in her era, and her scrapbook was so extensive it had to ...
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Thomas Waters’ Diary[5]
Pages from Thomas Waters Sr.'s Diary, transcribed by a relative into the pages of the Waters Family Scrapbook, covering 1824-27 ...
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The Waters Family Scrapbooks[8]
Today's popular hobby of scrapbooking originated in the nineteenth century, when the first chromolithographic prints made colorful images readily available ...
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Elizabeth (Butterworth) Waters’ Diary (September 13, 1864)[11]
This page of Elizabeth's handwritten diary describes the day her son Thomas surprised her with an anniversary visit and a ...
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Letter to John Dickey from W. Archibald (March 18, 1892)[14]
This interesting letter from William Archibald to "Mr. John Dickey" in Rhode Island, dated Mar 3, 1892, was recently shared ...
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Possible Thomas Waters Jr. Sketch[17]
This sketch appears in Thomas Waters Jr.'s wife Amy’s scrapbook. Though we can’t be certain he drew it, it seems ...
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Wealth of Nations Record of Appropriation[20]
The Record of Appropriation for Thomas Jr.’s new ship, Wealth of Nations, official number 54,391. We were unable to find ...
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Bethiah Jewett Crew & Passenger List (1862)[23]
A copy of the handwritten crew and passenger list for the 1862 voyage to Sydney, Australia that the Waters family ...
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Sketch of Rev. Thomas Pyne, Vicar of Hook[26]
A sketch of Rev. Pyne that appeared in the 1861 Record of Proceedings of the Peace & Temperance Festival. See ...