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Munday family papers

Title
Munday family papers, 1783-1857 (bulk 1845-1857).
Physical Description
1.71 linear feet (2 boxes) + 1 broadside
Notes
In English.
Provenance
Purchased from George S. MacManus Co. on the Walter Jennings Memorial Fund, 2018.
Access and use
This material is open for research.
Biographical / Historical Note
Captain George Munday (1790-1855) of Fall River, Massachusetts married Ann Tisdale, with whom he had five children: Nathaniel, Elizabeth, Lucy, Hannah Bell, and Phoebe. Elizabeth and her husband James Whitaker both passed away in 1842, leaving their son George William Whitaker orphaned. George later became a landscape painter and married Sarah L. Hull, a descendant of ship captain John Hull and of the Quaker Estes family. Nathaniel and his wife Mary joined the utopian community Brook Farm Phalanx from 1845-1847, before living at North American Phalanx in 1850 with Nathaniel’s sisters Phoebe (wife of Phalanx member John Glover Drew), Lucy, and Hannah Bell. The Munday family were members of the New Church and followers of theologian Emanuel Swedenborg.
Brook Farm Phalanx in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, founded in 1841 and closed in 1847, and North American Phalanx in Monmouth County, New Jersey, established in 1843 and disbanded in 1855, were utopian communities inspired by Transcendentalism and the philosophy of early socialist thinker Charles Fourier.
Summary
Family papers, largerly correspondence, from the Munday family of Fall River, Massachusetts, 1783-1857.
Box 1: Nineteenth-century correspondence between Nathaniel Munday, his wife Mary, his sisters Lucy, Phoebe, and Hannah Bell, and his parents George and Ann, and others. The letters document the Mundays' social and religious lives, including their membership in the New Church and their experiences living on collective farms. 23 letters between Nathaniel and Mary at Brook Farm and family members in Fall River, 1845-1847, and 17 letters to and from the Mundays while at North American Phalanx, 1850-1853, discuss the two utopian communities’ membership, agriculture, finances, buildings, and educational opportunities. Also present are 8 manuscript Quaker epistles from Yearly Meetings in London and New England, 1792-1799; Munday family correspondence from the 1780s regarding real estate and inheritance; genealogical notes on the Tisdale family and a manuscript copy of the will of Ann’s sister Patience Tisdale (-1849).
Box 2: Records of the cargo, expenses, and voyages of the ship Recovery commanded by John Hull, 1806-1808.
3 (Broadside): Printed map “Map of the domain of the North American Phalanx” (New York: Endicott & Co, 1855), 104 x 75 cm (cartographic image 85 x 63 cm), showing the land owned by the Phalanx, to be sold in whole or in lots on October 3, 1855. Includes pictorial depictions of woods, orchards, meadows, roads, and railroads, as well as side illustrations of central buildings, a seristery (social hall), and Smith Farm.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts / Maps & GIS
Language
English
Added to Catalog
December 13, 2019
Indexes/Finding aids
Accompanied by a vendor list and genealogical chart detailing family provenance (in box 1).
References
Munday Family Papers. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Munday Family Papers. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Genre/Form
Maps.
Citation

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