ABBREVIATIONS

In the interest of space, the names of the following archives and collections have been abbreviated in the notes.

ACAL

American Congregational Association Library, Boston, Massachusetts

ACPR

Addison County Probate Records, Addison County Probate Court, Middlebury, Vermont

BBFP

Bryant Family Papers, Bureau County Historical Society, Princeton, Illinois

BCPFP

Bristol County Probate File Papers, 1690–1881, MJA

BCPR

Bristol County Probate Records, MJA

BDP

Charity Bryant–Sylvia Drake Papers, HSM

BFF

Bryant Family Folder, HSM

BGP

Bryant-Godwin Papers, New York Public Library, New York, New York

CCC

Cummington Community House, Cummington, Massachusetts

DFP

Drake Family Papers, HSM

GWR

Georgia Willis Read Papers, HL

HBFP

Bryant Family Papers, Long Island Studies Institute, Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York

HL

Huntington Library, San Marino, California

HOU

Peter Bryant Papers, bMS Am 1438, Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

HSM

Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History, Middlebury, Vermont

MBFP

Bryant Family Papers, MHS

MHS

Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, Massachusetts

MJA

Massachusetts Supreme Court Judicial Archive, Boston, Massachusetts

OCHS

Old Colony Historical Society, Taunton, Massachusetts

PCPR

Plymouth County Probate Records, MJA

SDD

Sylvia Drake Diary, BDP

SDP

Fordyce Shaw–Polly Drake Papers, HSM

SSBD

Sarah Snell Bryant diary, HOU

WCBH

William Cullen Bryant Letters & MSS, HL

WCCR

Weybridge Congregational Church Records, WTH

WLR

Weybridge Land Records, WTH

WTH

Weybridge Town Hall, Weybridge, Vermont

WTMR

Weybridge Town Meeting Records, WTH

WTR

Weybridge Tax Records, WTH