Below are finding aids to some of the manuscript collections in the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association Library. Although these collections are organized by families, they contain documents and correspondence pertaining to a wide variety of topics, such as agriculture, domestic economy, education, medicine, military events, and theology, to name a few.
Miscellaneous Family Papers Collections
Abell Family Papers
Abercrombie Family Papers
Allen Family Papers
Alquist-Sherman Papers
Amos Taylor Papers
Arms-Family-Papers
Arms Family Papers – Masha & William
Ashley Family Papers
Atherton Papers
Avery Family Papers
C. Alice Baker Papers
Ball Family Papers
Bardwell Family Papers
Barnard Family Papers
Bartlett Family Papers
Birks Family Papers
Boyden Family Papers
Boynton Family Papers
Briggs Family Papers
Brown Family Papers
Cannon-Canning Family Papers
Carter Family Papers
Catlin Family Papers
Childs Family Papers
Clapp Family Papers
Coleman, Emma Lewis, Papers
Cooley Family Papers
Dickinson Family Papers
Field Family Papers
Fuller-Higginson Family Papers
Greenough Family Papers
Grout Family Papers
Hawks Family Papers
Higginson Family Papers (see Fuller-Higginson Family Papers above)
Hinsdale Family Papers
Hitchcock Family Papers
Hoyt Family papers
Hyde Family Papers – Frederick & Matilda
Lamson Family Papers
Lane Family Papers
Luey-Family-Papers
George Melnik Papers
Miscellaneous Family Papers Collections
Negus Family Papers
Newton Family Papers
Nims Family Papers
Parker-Family-Papers
Pratt Family Papers
Rice Family Papers
Robbins & Wilbur Family Papers
Russell Family Papers
Saxton Family Papers
Sheldon Family Papers
George Sheldon Papers
Smead Family Papers
Sprague Family Papers
Starr Family Papers
Stebbins Family Papers
Stevens Family Papers
Stowell Family Papers
Taylor Family Papers
Watson Family Papers
Wells Family Papers
Wilby Family Papers
Willard Family Papers
Williams Family Papers
Wilson Family Papers
Wright Family Papers
Yale Family Papers
More Resources:
PVMA’s American Centuries website also features a large number of scanned and transcribed items from the library collection.
