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Roger Williams Family Association Collection (UA 2009.002)

Roger Williams University Library

Roger Williams University Library
One Old Ferry Road
Bristol, RI 02809
Tel: 401-254-3049
Fax: 401-254-0818
email: hbenedict@rwu.edu

Inventory

Container Description Date
Box 1 Biographical (unpublished) material about Roger Williams
1937-2007
Box 1, Folder 1 Papers I
Contents Note:
  • 1. Roger Williams of Rhode Island, Daisy (Nichols ) Swackhamer, Tuscon, AZ, 14 Apr. 1961
  • 2. Roger Willliams, from The Crusader, American Baptist Convention, April 1954, including "What Baptists Believe," Robert Torbet
  • 3. Roger Wlliams
  • 4. Redivivus, McNeil Poteat, 1940 (9 copies) with letter from Clarence Brown, requesting the extra copies
  • 5. Whatcheer or Roger Williams in Banishment (Poem), Job Durfee, Esq., 932, Providence, RI

Box 1, Folder 2 Papers II
Box 2 Material regarding Roger Williams
1617-1999
Box 2, Folder 3 Roger Williams of Virginia
Contents Note: Includes Melton Meek's research on the Pemberton and Williams families and his correspondence with the Association.
Box 2, Folder 4 untitled
Contents Note: Of note are transcriptions of the 1617 will of Margery Pate, with bequests to James Williams, son Roger and daughter Katherine, and the will of Roger’s father, James, 1626.
1936-2004
Box 2, Folder 6 New York University Hall of Fame and Reunions of Descendants of Roger Wiliams
1886-1966
Box 3 First Baptists Church in America
Contents Note: Material was given to the Association by the late Alice (Drowne) McMonegle and by the late Leone Cargill (a descendant of Roger Williams). It includes photographs, news articles, orders of worship, and membership lists.
1905-2007
Box 3, Folder 1 Leone Cargill: Artwork and Articles
Box 3, Folder 2 Additional Printed Material Collected by Leone Cargill
Box 3, Folder 3 Orders of Worship
1963-2007
Box 4 Roger Williams Family Association
Box 4, Folder 1 Important Papers, including original by-laws and agreement with Roger Williams University
1906-1998
Box 4, Folder 10 Four Generations of Descendants
circa 1600-1900
Box 5 Mary (Williams) Sayles
1893-2007
Boxes 6-7 Sayles Line Applications
Box 8 Sayles, Volume III: Printers Proof
Box 9 Sayles, Volume III: Second Draft
Box 10 Sayles, Volume III: Miscellaneous Material
Box 10, Folder 1 Application for Copyright and Information on Burial Site of Mary (Williams) Sayles
2007 July 16
Box 10, Folder 2 Research Material (compiled by Dorothy H. White)
Box 10, Folder 3 Additions and Corrections to Vol. III
2007 April
Box 10, Folders 4-5 Correspondence and Research Material for Generations after the 7th (for future publication)
Box 10, Folders 6 CD of complete book
Box 11-12 Freeborn (Williams) Hart
Box 13-15 Mercy (Williams) Waterman
Box 16-18 Mercy (Williams) Waterman/Winsor
Box 19 Daniel Williams
Box 20 Joseph Williams
Box 21 Middletown, RI, Tombstones
Box 22 Bertha Anthony, Volume I
Box 23 Bessie A. Bliss
Box 24 Charles W Howard
Box 25 Bertha Anthony and Blanche Scott
Box 26 Budlong, Fry, Tillinghast, Williams, and Rose
Box 27 Caroline Dudley Bell and Walter Covell
Box 28 Daniel and Hester Hillier
Box 29 Stuart Waterman
Box 30 Lippitt, King, Olney, and Brown
Box 31 Relief, Disabled ... Soldiers 1861-1888
Box 32 Roger Williams Family Association Bulletins
1942-2009
Box 33 Roger Williams Family Association Bulletins (extras)
Box 34 Roger Williams 400th Birthday and related Celebrations
Box 35 Newspaper Clippings
1876-2009
Box 36 Town of Johnson and other miscellaneous items
Box 37 Magazine articles
Box 38 Photographs
Box 39 Records of John Prokopowicz
Box 40 Roger Williams Family Assocation Records
Box 41-42 Roger Williams Family Assocation, Record Books
Box 43 Roger Williams Family Assocation, Membership Records
Box 43 Bertha Anthony
Box 44 Miscellaneous Material (from Straw Case)
Box 45 250th Anniversary Celebration
Box 46 Newspaper Clippings
Box 47 Artifacts
Box 48 Rhode Island History
Box 49 American Flags
Box 50 Richard Weber, Research
Box 51 China Platter and Old Chopping Knife
Box 52 Roger Williams Jug