Frost Family Papers, ca. 1770-1808 - MS034 Provenance: The Frost Family Papers were donated to the Portsmouth Athenaeum in 1991 by Peter and Marnie Frost. Citation: Frost Family Papers ( MS034), Portsmouth Athenaeum Size: 4 Hollinger Boxes Summary Business and personal correspondence, deeds, tax papers, estate papers, account books, poems, weather log (1845-1849), and miscellaneous papers of Frost family members. The collection also includes papers of the Tredick family including the will (1819) of Margaret Tredick. Persons represented include George Frost (1750-1808), merchant (son of Joseph and Margaret (Colton) Frost of New Castle), and his wife Abigail (Bell) Frost, their son Captain Thomas Bell Frost (1784-1856), ship captain and customs inspector, who married Sarah White in 1806, their son John Simpson Frost (1819-1858) and his wife, Sarah (Chesley) Frost and their son, Thomas Bell Frost (1845-1930), teacher and his wives (1) Pauline (Tarleton) Frost and (2) Sarah (Weir) Frost. Biographical Notes George Frost (1750-1808), son of Joseph and Margaret Colton Frost of New Castle. Eorge was a merchant engaged in trade with Europe and the West Indies, and a Justice of the Peace in New Castle. He married Abigail Bell of New Castle in 1770 and had thirteen children. Capt. Thomas Bell Frost (1784-1856), son of George and Abigail Frost of New Castle. Thomas was a sea captain and customs inspector in New Castle, a soldier during the War of 1812, and a New Castle representative in the New Hampshire legislature. He married Sarah White of New Castle in 1806 and had eight children. John Simpson Frost (1819-1858), son of Capt. Thomas Bell and Sarah (White) Frost. He moved to Durham and married Sarah Chesley; they had six children. Thomas Bell Frost (1845-1930), son of John Simpson Frost and Sarah Chesley, was a school teacher in New Castle, involved in the insurance business in Portland, worked as a book keeper in Boston, and was elected city treasurer and collector of taxes in Chelsea, MA. He married (1) Pauline Tarleton of New Castle and (2) Sarah Weir of Chelsea, by whom he had one child. Series List I. George Frost (1750-1808) I. George Frost (1750-1808) Box 1 Folders 1-4 Correspondence, including correspondents John Pitts of Boston and Joseph Whipple, customs collector at Portsmouth Folders 5-14 Bills and receipts, ca. 1770-1808 Folder 15 Shipping financial papers Folder 16-19 Ship books (customs records) Box 2 Folder 1 Indentures Folder 2 Deeds Folders 3-4 Quit claims and agreements Folder 5 Legal papers from work as Justice of the Peace Folder 6 Estate of Nathaniel Batson Folder 7 Estate of George and Thomas Bell Folder 8 Estate of Stephen Chase Folder 9 Estate of Abel Hutchings Folder 10 Estate of Edward Tredick Folder 11 Meeting minutes, Town of New Castle Folder 12 New Castle tax lists, 1772-1774 Folder 13 New Castle highway tax lists, 1772-1774 Folder 14 Complaints?, undated Folder 15 Subscription papers Flat Box 7 Waste Books Accounts of George Frost, New Castle, 1771-1808 Folder 1 1771-1772 Folder 2 1772 May – October Folder 3 1772-1773 Folder 4 1773 Jan – April Folder 5 1773 May – October Folder 6 1773-1774 Folder 7 1774 July – November Folder 8 1775-1782 Folder 9 1783-1788 Folder 10 1789-1808 Phase Box 1 Account book, 1749-1800, 1840-1853
II. Capt. Thomas Bell Frost (1784-1856) Box 2 Folders 16-20 Correspondence, including correspondents John Simpson Frost, Sarah R. Frost, Henry Frost and letters recommending Thomas B. Frost for the position of Customs Inspector. Folders 21-23 Account books, 1809-1834, 1810-1823, 1813-1848 Folders 24-25 Account books, Brig. Orleans, 1829-1837, 1833-1837 Folders 26-27 Bills and receipts, ca. 1825-1856 Box 3 Folder 1 Tax assessment, 1815 Folder 2 Log of weather, 1845-1849 Folder 3 Directions on maintaining a log book, 1827 Folder 4 Deeds Folder 5 Loan papers, 1821 Folder 6 Agreement, 1821 Folder 7 Appointment to be a policeman in New Castle, 1835 Folder 8 Appointment to be customs inspector in New Castle, 1850 Folder 9 Citizenship paper, 1801 Folder 10 Poetry Flat Box 7 Folder 11 Customs House record book of ships, 1845-1856 “List of vessels boarded by Thomas B. Frost, Inspector and Boarding Officer at New Castle [NH]” 1845-1856. Categories of information include names of vessels, names of masters, where belonging, where from, where bound, cargo, description of papers, etc. Phase Box 2 Account book, 1848-1861
III. John Simpson Frost (1819-1858) Box 3 Folders 11-14 Correspondence, mostly from his father, Thomas Bell Frost Folders 15-17 Bills and receipts, 1840s to 1850s Folder 18 School copy book on navigation Folder 19 Will of John S. Frost Folder 20 Map of Durham, ca. 1840
IV. Thomas Bell Frost (1845-1930) Box 3 Folders 21-22 Correspondence, including letters of recommendation Folder 23 New Castle school attendance record, 1863 Folder 24 Insurance policy, 1899 Folder 25 Public hearing on finance, T. B. Frost’s statement, Chelsea Folder 26 History of New Castle by T. B. Frost Folder 27 Copy of Charter of New Castle Folder 28 T. B. Frost’s fortune as related by Madame Gove of Portsmouth, 1867 Folder 29 New Castle Town Report, 1866 (printed) Folder 30 Chelsea printed material Folder 31 Chelsea miscellaneous
V. Miscellaneous Box 4 Folder 1 Thomas Bell, Charter with Matthew Sheafe and James McDonough, 1761 Folder 2 Sarah Chelsey Frost Emerson correspondence Folder 3 Benjamin Frost tax assessment Folder 4 George Frost estate papers Folder 5 George Frost tax assessment Folder 6 George P. Frost tax assessment Folder 7 John Frost tax assessment, 1815 Folder 8 Joseph Frost tax assessment, 1814 Folder 9 Joseph and Margaret Frost correspondence, 1798 Folder 10 Joseph Frost Jr. written essay Folder 11 Margaret Frost and Robert White power of attorney to John Frost Folder 12 Pauline Tarleton Frost correspondence with Miss Bowles Folder 13 Sarah W. Frost vs. Joseph S. Frost, marriage libel case, 1845 Folder 14 Thomas B. Frost? Correspondence, 1888 Folder 15 William C. Frost, deed Folder 16 Edward J. Horne citizenship papers, 1829 Folder 17 Sampson Sheafe correspondence, 1763 Folder 18 John Simpson correspondence, 1791 Folder 19 John and Sarah Simpson will and estates Folder 20 Joseph Simpson deeds Folder 21 Joseph Simpson indenture Folder 22 Staples deeds Folder 23 Tredick family bills and receipts, deeds Folder 24 Henry and Edward Tredick wills and estate papers Folder 25 Margaret Tredick will, 1819 Folder 26 Mehitable White correspondence, 1811 Folder 27 Robert White deeds Folder 28 English grammar book, given to Thomas B. Frost Folder 29 Schoolhouse dimensions Folders 30-31 New Castle broadside and printed material Folder 32 Newspaper clippings on genealogy and history Folder 33 Citizenship papers Folders 34-35 Deeds Folder 36 I. S. H. [?] poetry Folder 37 Directions for sailing over the Bahomey Bank, Sch. Harriet Newell Folder 38 Legal papers Folder 39 Shipping papers Folder 40 Photographs Folder 41 Frost genealogy Folder 42 Subscription to help the sick of the Methodist Church Folder 43 Miscellaneous Folder 44 Fragments
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