Room 2C

- A research paper by Margaret Bleeker, Principia College, Elsah, Illinois entitled Stearns Brothers Builders of Northfield given to the Warwick Historical Society December 10, 980 by the Northfield Historical Society as they felt this paper should also be in our archives as the “Stearns boys” were born and brought up in Warwick. The Stearns brothers were the “architect-builders responsible for the visual quality of Northfield Main Street.”
- Letter dated July 23, 1896 to Mrs. Samuel Hastings, Warwick from E.C. Stearns, President of the New York State Association of the Stearns’ Family. The following genealogical information is in the letter: Isaac Stearns came from England in 1630 in the ship Arabella. His third son, Samuel, born April 24, 1638 married Hannah Manning in 1663. Their second son, Nathaniel, born December 13, 1668 married (1) Elizabeth Dix and (2) Sarah Nevinson. He fathered twelve children. His ninth and tenth children, twins, Ebenezer and Mercy were born April 22, 1708. Ebenezer married Mary Spring April 12, 1737, fathered nine children. Nathaniel Stearns (son of Ebenezer and Mary) born October 26, 1743, married Mary Rice in Worcester October 13, 1768 and settled in Warwick - she died in 1772 and Nathaniel married his second wife Mary Richards of Roxbury. They had one son, Nathaniel, who ran away when a boy and was never heard from. Nathaniel married his third wife Elizabeth Stratton of Northfield in 1778. Nathaniel died February 17, 1819. Simeon, son of Ebenezer and Mary, born June 10, 1745, married Elizabeth Clark in 1772, settled in Warwick, died July 24, 1800.
- Copy of two+ pages of the History of Northfield which traces the Stearns family. It contains the same information as above but mentions an Ebenezer Jr. born October 3, 1741 residing in Warwick and continues with Ebenezer Jr.’s eight children, the last four of whom were born in Warwick. One of their daughters, Martha married Nathan Leonard in 1797 and had eight children, three died in infancy or early childhood. November 5, 1829, Rev. Preserved Smith married Martha and Nathan Leonard’s daughter, Experience to Daniel Hastings. Experience and Daniel had two sons, Nathan and Samuel. Samuel born February 1, 1837 married Helen R. Witherell of Mansfield, MA November 10, 1859.
- One+ page of handwritten genealogy: Ebenezer Stearns, born April 1708 and Mary Spring, born November 30, 1701, married April 12, 1737 and chronicles the names and birth dates of their nine children and deaths of same.
- A slip of paper in Charles Morse hand referring to someone who served numerous town officers from 1876-1906. No name to whom this refers.
- Two pages of handwritten notes (Charles Morse) covering the above material.
- Three letters to Charles Morse from Ethel F. Jackson (dated February 1966, June 13, l966, and March 29, 1967) asking for information concerning the Stearns family and thanking for information sent.
- Two pages of notes (Charles Morse's hand) with list of John & Sarah Stearns and children; Simeon & Eunice Stearns and children; Ebenezer & Eunice Stearns and children; John Stearns Jr. & Mary and children
-Xerox copy of Letter dated 1840 from Andrew Stearns to "Beloved Cousins."

Journal containing Biographical information on the Wheelock, Reed, and Hastings families by Everett Hastings(?). Wheelock entry contains lyrics of 19th century ballads and songs. A great many details given about 18th century farm life in Warwick, such as raising flax and wool for material for bedding and garments, common foods that were raised, as well as the diseases of the time.
Reed entry includes the gold rush. Hastings entry has much information on occupations of the family. And a page on the horses of the Hastings family.
Charles Morse notes that this journal is part of the Vorce collection.

Obituary for Eleanor Gray Temple, resident of Charleston, S.C., mother of Rev. Gray Temple, Episcopal Bishop of South Carolina.

Article from Charleston News and Courier regarding Bishop Temple's speech at the general convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church held in St. Louis.

Typed and handwritten information on Danford Tyler, 1821-1902; children, biographical details.

Single sheet in Charlie Morse's handwriting giving family dates of birth beginning with Thomas Tuel 1771-1808.

Information from Basatt's Family History of Richmond, p. 259
Information from Warwick Cemetery Records
Information from Blake History, p.213
Information from Warwick Records, Volume 2, p.246
There are 8 pages of births, marriages and deaths including a newspaper article on the death of Susie Whipple, the 3rd wife of Eugene Evans Whipple.
Susie and Eugene were grandparents of Rodney. All notes are by Charles Morse. A lineage chart that has been kept by the Whipple family is included. Newspaper clippings of Fayette Bennett - who at 87 talks about the mail route between Orange and Warwick. Newspaper clipping of five generations of the Whipple family taken at the homestead inon October, 1926.

Three pages of handwritten notes (Charles Morse). Benjamin Witherell, born July 17, 1790, married Ruth Selee. Albert, their son, born Feb 16, 1818, married Rosema Davis of Mansfield and had six children - Helen, Henry Albert, George, Frank, Ida, and Edward. The third page notes Albert and Rosema's 60th Wedding Anniversary March 19, 1900 and lists their children and burial lot numbers of those of their children buried in the Warwick cemetery. Ralph Witherell, grandson of Frank and great grandson of Albert & Rosemar, was an early promoter and president of the Warwick Historical Society and artist of paintings of town buildings and locales; paintings displayed in the Warwick Public Library.

Copy of letter sent by Charles Morse to Evan L. Ivie of Watertown dated October 5, 1963 answering his request for information on John Whiting and descendants. Letter has dates of births and marriages of Whiting family. A second page of handwritten notes (Charles Morse) most of which is in letter to Mr. Ivie. First birth recorded is Becca Whiting, daughter of John and Rebecca, born September 4, 1775; last birth recorded is Abner Ellis Whiting, son of Jaby and Rebecca, born Feb. 7, 1789. Jaby moved to Northfield 1797 and died 1834.

A few handwritten notes (Charles Morse) indicating that George M. Wheeler, son of James S. Wheeler, was born 1849, died 1926 and married Esther Forbush June 20, 1876. Pasted on this sheet of notes is a newspaper clipping with picture of George Wheeler and an article on his candidacy for political office. Mr. Wheeler was born in Warwick, has been a selectman of Warwick two years and a member of several organizations including being a member of the Orange Board of Trade. George Wheeler conducts a "flourishing business" making wooden boxes. With the exception of boxes made for Whitman Grocery Co. of Orange, his product mainly goes to the New York market. It is not clear what office Mr. Wheeler is pursuing but "He is the strongest candidate the Democrats could have placed in the field."

Four pages of handwritten notes (Charles Morse) on the genealogy of the Wheelock family. Genealogy begins with Eleazor Wheelock from Milford 1760-1775, married Huldah Woodward, and built a log house on Beech Hill and continues listing his nine children - Jonathan, Lemuel, Humphrey, Annie, Susannah, Experience, Lucy, Melinda, and Luthera and continues with the children of Eleazor's children. There is some very interesting information (perhaps gossip) on some of these people - no indication of where this information originated. One piece of information especially interesting to the WHS - Marie Antoinette (Nettie) daughter of Lemuel, married Colonel William McKim of Boston. Colonel McKim in 1862 gave Warwick a plantation bell to be hung in the center school (which burned in 1929).