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.