Archive Record

Metadata

Catalog Number

S0650

Title

Samuel Larkin diaries, 1839-1848

Scope & Content

Three diaries of Samuel Larkin from Portsmouth, New Hampshire, dated 1839 to 1848. The diaries record Larkin's weather observations and daily business, including his social, religious, and political life. He records the names of people who died as well as ship names. The diaries also include summaries of church sermons and numerous transcriptions of poems, hymns, and prose.

The first diary (258 pages) is dated January 1, 1839, to December 31, 1844, and includes a newspaper clipping from 1870 regarding the USS Oneida accident off the coast of Japan. The second diary (144 pages) is dated January 1, 1845, to May 9, 1846, and includes a number of transcriptions of religious writings and poems. The third diary (154 pages) is dated March 21, 1847, to December 31, 1848; the first half includes diary entries, and the second half includes a number of transcriptions of poems, hymns, and prose.

See "Multimedia Files" at the bottom of this catalog record for links to PDFs of the diaries and newspaper article.

Admin/Biographical History

Samuel Larkin was a New Hampshire auctioneer, bookseller, publisher, civic leader, and shipowner. He was part owner of the privateer Macedonian of Portsmouth, N.H.

Creator

Larkin, Samuel, 1773-1849

Collection

Digital Collections

Object Name

Diary

Date

1839-1848

Extent of Description

4 digital files (732 MB)

Language of Material

English

Archival History

Collection originally placed on deposit at the Portsmouth Athenaeum by the California State Parks (Larkin House, Monterey State Historic Park) in April 1996. Collection digitized and returned to California in April 2024.

People

Abbott, John W., c1790-1850
Adams, Capt., fl. 1839
Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848
Adams, John, c1760-1802
Akerman, Leonard, c1798-1876
Appleton, Charles John, 1794-1843
Austin, Daniel, 1753-1818
Ball, John, c1793-1859
Ballou, Hosea, 1771-1852
Barker, David
Barnes, Lewis, 1776-1856
Bell, Andrew Watkins, 1776-1841
Berry, William W., c1796-1824
Blunt, Oliver Cromwell, 1774-1844
Boardman, George Clifford, d. 1839
Bowles, Samuel, c1770-1840
Brown, Nathaniel, c1768-1844
Bufford, Henry, 1750-1854
Bufford, Marcellus, 1817-1894
Bufford, Mary (Gale), 1784-1839
Burroughs, Charles, 1787-1868
Burroughs, Henry, 1783-1870
Chase, Capt., fl. 1842
Chase, Philander, 1775-1852
Cheever, Charles Augustus, 1793-1852
Childs, Amariah, 1765-1846
Clapham, Thomas, 1783-1872
Clark, Orange, 1797-1869
Coffin, Charles, 1777-1842
Cooper, Grenville C., 1800-1844
Cotton, Leonard, 1800-1872
Coues, Samuel Elliott, 1797-1867
Crane, William Montgomery, 1776-1846
Currier, Thomas Charles, 1813-1844
Cutts, Edward, c1782-1844
Dallas, George M., 1792-1864
Dana, Napoleon Jackson Tecumseh, 1822-1905
Darlington, Benjamin Smith "Barton," 1813-1845
Davenport, John, 1752-1842
Davis, John Stavers, 1777-1843
Dennett, Capt., fl. 1842
Dwight, Josiah, 1775-1855
Dwight, Susanna "Suky" (Thompson), c1778-1843
Dwight, William Lyman, 1808-1899
Estes, Mr., fl. 1840
Fernald, Samuel, c1756-1830
Fowler, William Henry, c1816-1851
Frye, Samuel Smith, 1819-1908
Gardner, William, 1750-1834
Glentworth, Horatio Nelson, 1809-1847
Goddard, William, b. 1796
Godfrey, Capt., fl. 1839
Gookin, Samuel H., 1820-1894
Gookin, Samuel, 1790-1864
Gordon, Stephen Leavitt, c1798-1843
Gray, Robert, 1792-1860
Greenleaf, Abner, 1785-1868
Greenough, Charles Haven, c1809-1845
Griswold, Alexander Viets, 1766-1843
Hall, Stacy, c1777-1853
Hall, Timothy, 1797-1880
Halliburton, Andrew, 1771-1846
Ham, William, c1763-1845
Handy, John Nelson, c1815-1884
Harding, Robert
Hardy, Charles, c1779-1842
Hardy, William, d. 1841
Harrat, John, 1810-1864
Harrat, Mary Tucker (Fishley), 1809-1839
Harris, Charles Coffin, 1822-1881
Harris, Theodore Jackson, c1795
Harrison, William Henry, 1773-1841
Hatch, Albert Ruyter, 1817-1882
Haven, George Wallis, 1808-1895
Haven, Henry, 1768-1823
Haven, John, 1766-1845
Haven, Nathaniel Appleton, 1790-1826
Haven, Samuel, 1727-1806
Hayes, John Lord, 1812-1887
Hill, Capt., fl. 1848
Holt, Edwin
Homer, Elizabeth Jane Rundlet, 1813-1839
Hurd, Joseph, 1752-1842
Jenkins, Augustus, 1804-1862
Jones, Joshua, 1772-1843
Jones, William, 1785-1855
Judkins, Jonathan, 1776-1844
Kearney, Capt., fl. 1844
Kelsey, James Hervey, d. 1858
Kennard, James, c1780-1856
Kimball, David, 1799-1885
Ladd, Alexander, 1784-1855
Ladd, Henry H., 1810-1888
Ladd, William, 1778-1841
Laighton, Charles Edward, 1799-1885
Lambert, Mr., fl. 1840
Langdon, Henry Sherburne, 1766-1857
Langdon, Woodbury, 1802-1842
Larkin, Joshua Wentworth, 1809-1829
Larkin, Samuel, 1776-1849
Larkin, Samuel, 1813-1856
Leavitt, Gilman, 1760-1842
Locke, Hiram, 1802-1843
Lovering, Benjamin, c1782-1840
March, Clement, 1751-1818
March, Joseph Wainwright, 1785-1843
Marsh, Matthew Sheafe, 1773-1814
Marshall, Samuel Henry, c1815-1845
Martin, Capt., fl. 1839
Mason, Jeremiah, 1768-1848
May, George Hall, 1815-1858
McClintock, John, 1761-1855
Melcher, George, 1797-1877
Miller, Tobias Ham, 1801-1870
Minot, George, 1806-1861
Morrell, Benning (Capt.), c1769-1844
Moses, Nehemiah, c1801-1879
Mudge, Isaac B., c1804-1840
Oxford, John, 1795-1860
Parker, Robert 1818-1867
Parker, William Bennett, 1787-1869
Parker, William, 1804-1889
Parrott, Enoch Greenleafe, 1780-1828
Parrott, James Brackett, 1817-1890
Parsons, William Harrison, 1813-1867
Patten, Capt., fl. 1839
Paty, John
Peabody, Andrew Preston, 1811-1893
Pearse, Oliver Peabody, c1808-1848
Pearse, Stephen, 1779-1861
Peduzzi, Domenick, c1775-1840
Peirce, Mark Wentworth, 1787-1846
Penhallow, Andrew Jackson, 1815-1890
Penhallow, Benjamin, 1768-1839
Penhallow, David Pearce, 1805-1860
Penhallow, John Pearce, 1809-1848
Penhallow, Oliver Wendell, 1796-1873
Penhallow, Pearce Wentworth, 1817-1885
Penhallow, Thomas Wibird, 1783-1876
Peterson, Adrian A., c1786-1871
Pickering, Charles William Whipple, 1815-1888
Pickering, Stephen, 1793-1844
Pierrepont, James Hervey, 1768-1839
Pierson, Capt., fl. 1845
Plaisted, Elisha, c1785-1842
Polk, James Knox, 1795-1849
Purcell, Gregory, c1734-c1776
Putnam, Fernando Cortes, 1813-1886
Putnam, Israel W., 1786-1868
Rea, Samuel, c1805-1883
Rice, John, 1788-1871
Rice, Robert, 1780-1853
Rice, William Alexander, 1800-1847
Robinson, Samuel, c1793-1844
Rogers, Daniel Rindge, 1801-1867
Rogers, J. W.
Rollins, Dinah, c1768-1848
Rundlet, Alfred, 1811-1851
Rundlet, James, 1772-1852
Salter, Charles Henry, 1814-1884
Salter, Titus, 1764-1840
Saunders, William J., d. 1845
Scott, Winfield, 1786-1866
Seaward, John H., Jr., c1759-1845
Shaw, Abraham, 1775-1828
Sheafe, Edmund Quincy, 1788-1839
Sheafe, Jacob, 1784-1848
Sheafe, Thomas, 1752-1831
Sheafe, William, 1758-1839
Sherburne, John Nathaniel, 1793-1859
Sherburne, Samuel, 1744-1826
Simes, George, 1772-1842
Simes, Stephen Hardy, 1799-1871
Smith, James, c1760-1842
Smith, Robert, c1784-1847
Spalding, Lyman Dyer, 1810-1892
Spaulding, Capt., fl. 1845
Staples, John, c1772-1839
Staples, Samuel
Storer, Capt. fl. 1839
Storer, Clement, 1760-1830
Storer, George Washington, 1789-1864
Storey, Daniel, 1780-1844
Stover, Daniel L. c1820-1897
Thompson, John L., 1784-1844
Thompson, William Whipple, 1786-1843
Toscan, Frederick, c1797-1832
Towle, George William, 1810-1887
Treadwell, Daniel Hearle, 1799-1864
Treadwell, Robert Odiorne, 1765-1804
Tucker, Mark, c1788-1843
Tullock, Thomas Logan, c1820-1883
Tyler, John, 1790-1862
Upham, Joseph Badger, 1808-1889
Upham, Timothy, 1783-1855
Van Buren, Martin, 1782-1862
Vaughan, Daniel
Waldron, Isaac, c1773-1843
Walker, Nathaniel Kennard, 1807-1880
Washington, George, 1732-1799
Watkins, Thomas
Wendell, Daniel D., 1812-1892
Wentworth, Mark Hunking, 1813-1902
White, George McAllister, 1814-1882
Wiley, Henry, c1816-1844
Wilson, Josiah Haley, c1796-1876
Wilson, Peter, c1767-1843
Wise, William Gray, 1821-1886
Woodbury, Levi, 1789-1851
Woodman, Charles William, 1809-1888
Wyman, Thomas W., 1793-1854
Young, David
Young, James, c1809-1844
Zevely, Alexander N., 1813-1888

Search Terms

Subjects

Aqueducts
Auctioneers
Birthdays
Booksellers and bookselling
Boston (Mass.)
Businesses
Churches
Civic leaders
Death and dying
Diaries and journals
Elections
Epitaphs
Families
Holidays
Illness
Japan
Literature and society
Lunar eclipses--1841
New York (N.Y.)
Ohio
Poetry
Presidential elections
Prose
Publishers and publishing
Sermons
Shipowners
Ships
Weather
Whig Party (U.S.)

Multimedia Files

Click here to view the first Samuel Larkin diary from 1839 to 1844.
Click here to view the 1870 newspaper clipping found in the first diary.
Click here to view the second Samuel Larkin diary from 1845 to 1846.
Click here to view the third Samuel Larkin diary from 1847 to 1848.