MacPhaedris-Warner-Penhallow Collection - MS003

Provenance: Placed on deposit by the Warner House Association in 1995

Citation: Warner House Collection, MS003, on deposit at the Portsmouth Athenaeum

Size: 3 Hollinger box (1.5 linear feet), 162 pieces

Dates: 1635-1877

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Scope and Content

Correspondence, deeds, wills, legal documents, business records, and other papers, of the Macpheadris, Warner, and Penhallow families, prominent merchants, judges, and civic leaders, of Portsmouth, N.H., many of whose members lived in the Warner House. Subjects include the family's shipping business, sawmills, relatives in Londonderry, Northern Ireland and the procurement of Irish workers for the Macpheadris plantation in Casco, Me., extensive land holdings, involving lands originally granted to Capt. John Mason (considered the father of New Hampshire), and Samuel Penhallow's activities as justice of the peace. Persons represented include Archibald Macpheadris, his daughter, Mary (Macpheadris) Osborne Warner, her husband, Jonathan Warner, Elizabeth Warner Sherburne, John N. Sherburne, Samuel Penhallow, Pearce Wentworth Penhallow, Hunking Penhallow, Richard Wibird, Gerard Caseaux, French consul at Portsmouth (1803), and his wife, Sarah Caseaux.

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