1695-1982; bulk: 1720-1900
Guide to the Collection
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| Title: | Hall-Baury-Jansen family
papers |
| Dates: | 1695-1982 |
| Bulk Dates: | 1720-1900 |
| Physical Description: | 3 document
boxes and 1 oversize box |
| Call Number: | Ms. N-2293 |
| Repository: | Massachusetts Historical Society
1154 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02215
library@masshist.org |
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Abstract:
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This collection consists of papers of the
interrelated Hall, Baury, and Jansen families. Materials in the collection
include family, business, and military correspondence; financial records;
estate papers; sermon notes and other religious papers; schoolbooks;
genealogical information; and diaries. A large part of the collection consists
of the personal and professional papers of Rev. Alfred L. Baury
(1794-1865).
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Below are brief biographical sketches of the individuals represented most
prominently within the collection.
Hugh Hall (1693-1773) was born in Barbados to the
Hon. Hugh Hall, a member of the King's Council, and Lydia Gibbs Hall. Raised in
Boston by his grandmother, Hall graduated from Harvard College in 1713. He
became a wealthy commission merchant in the Boston and Barbados trade, which
included the importation of slaves. Hall also served on numerous Boston town
committees and was a special justice on the Court of Common Pleas. In 1722,
Hall married Elizabeth Pitts, with whom he had eleven children. He is buried in
Boston's Old Granary Burial Ground.
Louis Baury de Bellerive (1753-1807) was born on
Saint Domingo (Saint-Domingue, Haiti) to John Baury de Bellerive and Maire-Jane
Guillotin de La Vigerie. He served in the American Revolutionary War from
1770-1783 and as aide-de-camp to Major General Benjamin Lincoln during Shays'
Rebellion in 1786-1787. He also served in the French army in Saint-Domingue
during the French Revolution. Baury married Mary Clark (1767-1856) in 1784, and
they had four children: Francis (1784-1803), Frederic (1792-1814), Alfred La
Figerie Jean Paul (1794-1865), and Mary B. (1799-1882).
Mary Clark Baury (1767-1856) was the daughter of
Elisha Clark and Sarah Hall Clark and the granddaughter of Hugh Hall. She
married Louis Baury de Bellerive in 1784.
Alfred La Figerie Jean Paul Baury (1794-1865) was
the third son of Louis Baury de Bellerive and Mary Clark Baury. Born in
Middletown, Conn., he owned a mercantile business in North Carolina before
returning to New England to become an Episcopal minister in 1818. He served as
rector of St. Mary's Episcopal Church in Newton, Mass. from 1822 to 1851 and as
rector of St. Mark's Church in Boston from 1855 to 1858. He received an M.A.
from Yale in 1848 and a Doctorate of Divinity from Norwich University in 1865.
Rev. Baury married Mary Catherine Henshaw (1798-1873) in 1829, with whom he had
five children: Alfred Louis, Frederick Francis, Katherine H., Elizabeth P., and
Caroline H.
Thomas Jansen (1735-1802) was the son of
Hendrickus Jansen and Anneke Schoonmaker. He married Elsie Osterhoudt
(1741-1808), the daughter of William Osterhoudt and Sarah Hasbrouck, in 1760.
Their children included Catharine (1760-1785), Sarah (1762-1833), Anneke
(1764-1787 ), Henry (1767-1793), William (1769-1808), Johannis (1771-1847),
Joseph (1774-1848), Levi (1776-1824), Egbert (1778-1834), Elsie (1780-1844),
Thomas T. (1782-1852), and Catherine (1785-1813). The family resided in
Shawangunk, New York.
The Hall-Baury-Jansen family papers consist of 3 boxes and one oversize box
spanning the years 1695-1982, with the bulk dating from the 1720s to 1900. The
collection contains the papers of three interrelated families and has been
divided into three series: the Hugh Hall papers; the Baury family papers; and
the Jansen family papers. Materials in the collection consist of family,
business, and military correspondence; financial records; estate papers; sermon
notes and other religious papers; schoolbooks; genealogical information; and
diaries. Family correspondence, which comprises the bulk of the collection,
includes the letters of Hugh and Richard Hall, Mary Clark Baury, Mary Brown
Baury, Thomas Jansen, and Thomas E. Jansen. The personal and professional
papers of Rev. Alfred L. Baury (1794-1865), minister of St. Mary's Episcopal
Church in Newton, Mass., also comprise a large part of the collection. Also
included are the diaries of farmer John Egbert Jansen (1837-1929) and his wife
Margaret A. (Wisner) Jansen (1840-1923).
Of particular interest is the correspondence of merchant Hugh Hall
(1693-1773) with his brother Richard Hall and other merchants regarding trade
between Boston and Barbados from 1716 to 1744. Also of interest are papers
relating to the French colony of Saint-Domingue (Haiti), including letters from
General Rochambeau to Louie-Baury de Bellerive, and 1803 customs house records
for Port-au-Prince during the last months of the Haitian revolution.
Of additional note are an 1839 New Zealand land contract with two Maori
chieftains and an October 1861 letter describing the war conditions in Newport
News, Va. from a sailor aboard the USS
Cumberland.
The Massachusetts Historical Society holds the following collections related
to the Hall-Baury-Jansen papers:
Hugh Hall papers, 1709-1774 (Ms. N-1352).
See also:
Hugh Hall
account book, 1728-1733.
Letters written to Hugh Hall, 1719-1765 (Ms. N-2261).
Alfred L. Baury family papers, 1791-1915 (Ms. N-34).
Baury family papers, 1809-1862 (Ms. N-2032 Tall).
Gift of Caroline Knox, Trintje D. Jansen, Thomas Borden, Bradford Jansen,
and Nicholas Slade Jansen, August 2008; February 2009. The Jensen family
volumes (Series III.B.) and the photograph album (removed to the MHS Photo
Archives) were given in October 2012.
The collection is organized into the following series:
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| I. Hugh Hall papers, 1709-1768 |
| II. Baury family papers, 1695-1906 |
| | A. Correspondence, 1796-1873 |
| | B. Alfred Baury professional papers, 1810-1866 |
| | C. Family financial records, 1788-1895 |
| | D. Miscellaneous records, 1695-1851 |
| | E. Printed material, 1818-1906 |
| III. Jansen family papers, 1747-1982 |
| | A. Loose papers, 1747-1982 |
| | B. Volumes, 1854-1878 |
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| Box | Folder | Contents |
| | I. Hugh Hall papers,
1709-1768
Arranged chronologically.The bulk of this series is family correspondence, including letters from
Hall in Barbados to his mother Lydia Hall Colman, her husband Rev. Benjamin
Colman, letters from Hall's brother Richard in Barbados concerning their
father's estate and their Barbados trading business, and a letter from Hall to
his daughter Sarah. Also included is correspondence between Hall and other
Boston and Barbados merchants. This series contains a sermon notebook kept by
Hugh Hall from 20-30 March 1709, with notes on sermons preached by various
ministers.
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 | | Sermon notebook,
1709 |
| Box 1 | Folder 2 | | Correspondence,
1716-1768 |
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| | II. Baury family papers,
1695-1906
This series contains the family, personal, and business correspondence of
members of the Baury family, including the professional correspondence of
Episcopal minister Alfred L. Baury, financial records, and other miscellaneous
papers.
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| Box 1 | Folder 3-12 | | A. Correspondence,
1796-1873
Arranged chronologically.Included in this subseries are several letters to Louis Baury de Bellerive
from Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeru, Compte de Rochambeau (1725-1807), when
Rochambeau was General in Chief of the Army of Saint-Domingue (Haiti). The
letters discuss Baury's military service and the death of Baury's son.
Also found here is correspondence relating to the legal claim of Mary Clark
Baury on the estate of her stepfather Wensley Hobby. The "Hobby Claim" papers
discuss legal opinions of the case, as well as the results of various
depositions.
Family correspondence includes letters between Alfred Baury and his mother
Mary Clark Baury, his sister Mary Brown Baury, his wife Catherine Henshaw
Baury, and his son Frederick, as well as several letters from friends and
business associates. An October 1861 letter from Alfred Baury's son-in-law, S.
Jackson, a sailor aboard the USS Cumberland,
describes conditions in Newport News, Va. several months before the ship was
destroyed by the ironclad Virginia.
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| Box 1 | Folder 13-18 | | B. Alfred Baury professional papers,
1810-1866
Arranged chronologically.This subseries includes correspondence and records relating to Alfred L.
Baury's religious career, primarily letters from parishioners and fellow
Episcopal ministers. Among these are an 1823 letter from Alexander Griswold,
Bishop of the Eastern Diocese, installing Baury as priest of St. Mary's Church
in Newton; a letter from Daniel Huntington; and letters from Boston's "Ice
King" Frederic Tudor concerning the "French spoilations."
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| | | C. Family financial records,
1788-1895
Arranged chronologically by record type.Financial records include a medical bill from Dr. John Warren (1788), a 1798
account book written in French, receipts for boarding and tuition, grocery
accounts, an insurance policy, and papers relating the estate of Mary Brown
Baury. An 1813 account book belonging to Alfred L. Baury records his business
transactions as a merchant in North Carolina.
Of particular interest is an 1803 "Declaration D'Árriveé" listing American
ships entering Port-Républicain in Saint-Domingue (today, Port-au-Prince,
Haiti) during the last months of the Haitian revolution. It includes the ships'
home ports, captains, destinations, cargo manifests, and value.
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| Box 1 | Folder 19-21 | | | Loose financial records,
1788-1895 |
| Box 1 | Folder 22 | | | Account book,
1795-1798 |
| Box 1 | Folder 23 | | | "Declaration of Arrivals," Haiti,
1803 |
| Box 1 | Folder 24 | | | Alfred Baury cash book,
1813 |
| | | D. Miscellaneous records,
1695-1851
Arranged chronologically by record type.Records in this subseries include the sermons of Rev. Nobadiah Russell of
Middletown, Conn., recorded by an unidentified parishioner, 1695-1696; a 1788
sermon of Rev. William Colman written in Colman's hand; papers relating to a
1742 Newport counterfeit trial; schoolbooks and copybooks belonging to members
of the Baury and Henshaw families; a typescript of the logbook of the
USS Constitution dating from June to October 1812,
kept by Frederic Baury when serving on the Constitution under Admiral Hull; and an 1839 New Zealand
land contract between Gilbert Mair and two Maori chieftains. The connection of
this contract to the Baury family is unknown.
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| Box 1 | Folder 25-26 | | | Sermon notebooks,
1695-1788 |
| Box 1 | Folder 27 | | | Newport counterfeit trial documents,
1742 |
| Box 1 | Folder 28-30 | | | Schoolbooks and copybooks,
1807-1816 |
| Box 2 | Folder 1-3 | | | Schoolbooks and copybooks,
1823-1851 |
| Box 2 | Folder 4-6 | | | Logbook of the USS Constitution
(typescript),
1812 |
| Box 2 | Folder 7 | | | New Zealand contract,
1839-1841 |
| Box 2 | Folder 8-10 | | E. Printed material,
1818-1906
Arranged chronologically.This subseries contains several pamphlets and booklets, including an 1833
Harvard directory, published letters of John Quincy Adams, and various
religious publications. Newspaper clippings and genealogical papers contain
information about the history of the Baury family, and include obituaries of
Alfred L. Baury and Mary B. Baury, as well as a Congressional memorial for Mary
Clark Baury.
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| | III. Jansen family papers,
1747-1982
Arranged chronologically by record type.This series contains correspondence, legal and financial records,
genealogical papers, and printed material relating to the Jansen family of
Shawangunk, New York. Included in the correspondence are letters between Thomas
Jansen (1735-1802) and his brother-in-law Joseph Oostershoudt, a letter from
Egbert Jansen to his brother John describing the territory of Natchez in 1808,
and an 1838 letter to Thomas T. Jansen from his nephew in Provincetown, Mass.,
describing his work on a fishing schooner.
Legal and financial records contain a 1748 Dutch receipt, indentures, deeds,
accounts, records relating to the estate settlement of Thomas Jansen, the
marriage certificate of Rachel Jansen and Pierre V.S. Miller (1830), a list of
property sold at auction by Joseph and Thomas Jansen (1830), documents relating
to New York Supreme Court case James Jansen vs. Benjamin
Dickerson, and estate papers of Thomas T. Jansen.
Genealogical papers include information on the Hardenburgh and Vernooy
families, as well as the Jansen families. Printed material includes a 1747 copy
of London Magazine, newspaper clippings, and
pamphlets.
The series also contains seven diaries of farmer John Egbert Jansen, as well
as three diaries and a commonplace-book of his wife Margaret A. (Wisner)
Jansen.
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| | | A. Loose papers,
1747-1982 |
| Box 2 | Folder 11 | | | Correspondence,
1771-1982 |
| Box 2 | Folder 12-14 | | | Legal and financial records,
1748-1899 |
| Box 2 | Folder 15 | | | Genealogical papers,
ca. 1889-1941 |
| Box 2 | Folder 16-17 | | | Printed material,
1747-1906 |
| | | B. Volumes,
1854-1878 |
| | | | John Egbert Jansen diaries,
1858-1878 The diaries of farmer John Egbert Jansen, kept at Pine Bush, N.Y., describe
his daily activities; logging and farm work; church attendance; travels; social
calls, including calls on Margaret A. Wisner, whom he married in 1862; news of
his brother Levi Jansen and other family members; local events; and the
weather. Also included are accounts, poetry, and memoranda. Entries in 1860
describe John's illness during an outbreak of measles in February, the illness
of his brother Charles, and Charles's death in November. The 1861 diary only
occasionally mentions the Civil War.
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| Box 2 | Folder 18 | | | | Diary,
1858 |
| Box 2 | Folder 18 | | | | Diary,
1859 |
| Box 2 | Folder 18 | | | | Diary,
1860 |
| Box 2 | Folder 18 | | | | Diary,
1861 |
| Box 2 | Folder 19 | | | | Diary,
1873 |
| Box 2 | Folder 19 | | | | Diary,
1875 |
| Box 2 | Folder 19 | | | | Diary,
1878 |
| | | | Margaret A. (Wisner) Jansen diaries and commonplace-book,
1854-1864 The diaries of Margaret A. (Wisner) Jansen, kept at Pine Bush, N.Y.,
describe her daily activities; church attendance; social calls, including
visits by John Egbert Jansen; and news of various Wisner and Jansen family
members. The majority of the entries were written before her marriage to John
E. Jansen on 17 Dec. 1862. Included are excerpts of poetry. The
commonplace-book, probably also written by Margaret, contains poems, newspaper
clippings, and memoranda.
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| Box 2 | Folder 20 | | | | Diary,
1858 |
| Box 2 | Folder 20 | | | | Diary,
1859 |
| Box 2 | Folder 20 | | | | Diary,
1862 |
| Box 3 | | | | | Commonplace-book,
1854-1864 |
Hall-Baury-Jansen family papers, Massachusetts Historical Society.
This collection is indexed under the following headings in
ABIGAIL,
the online catalog of the Massachusetts Historical Society. Researchers
desiring materials about related persons, organizations, or subjects should
search the catalog using these headings.
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| Persons: |
| | Baury, Alfred la Figerie Jean Paul,
1794-1865. |
| | Baury, Mary Brown, 1800-1882. |
| | Baury, Mary Catherine Henshaw,
1798-1873. |
| | Baury, Mary Clark, 1767-1856. |
| | Baury family. |
| | Hall, Hugh, 1693-1773. |
| | Hall, Richard. |
| | Jansen, John Egbert, 1837-1929. |
| | Jansen, Margaret A. Wisner,
1840-1923. |
| | Jansen, Thomas, 1735-1802. |
| | Jansen, Thomas E. |
| | Jansen family. |
| | Jansen family--Genealogy. |
| | Rochambeau, Jean-Baptiste-Donatien de Vimeur,
comte de, 1725-1807. |
| | Tudor, Frederic, 1783-1864. |
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| Organizations: |
| | Cumberland (Frigate.) |
| | Episcopal Church--Clergy. |
| | Episcopal
Church--Massachusetts--Newton. |
| | St. Mary's Episcopal Church (Newton,
Mass.). |
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| Subjects: |
| | Account books--1795-1813. |
| | Barbados--Commerce--Massachusetts--Boston. |
| | Boston (Mass.)--Commerce--Barbados. |
| | Clergy--Massachusetts--Newton. |
| | Commonplace-books. |
| | Copybooks. |
| | Family history--1700-1749. |
| | Family history--1750-1799. |
| | Family history--1800-1849. |
| | Family history--1850-1899. |
| | Haiti--Foreign relations--United
States. |
| | Haiti--History--Revolution,
1791-1804. |
| | Inventories of decedents' estates--New
York. |
| | Merchants--Barbados. |
| | Merchants--Massachusetts--Boston. |
| | Real property--New Zealand. |
| | Sermons--1695-1788. |
| | United States--Foreign
relations--Haiti. |
| | United States--History--Civil War,
1861-1865--Naval operations. |
| | Women's commonplace-books. |
A small album containing carte-de-visite and tintype photographs has been
removed to the MHS Photo Archives (Photo. Coll. U-170).
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