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• catalog abstract "This wide-ranging collection contains biographical materials on Benjamin Bussey copied from several publications that appeared at the time of his death in 1842 and later in the nineteenth century. Of interest is an autobiographical sketch in Bussey's own words and unique spelling. There are copies of letters written to him copied from collections at the Dedham Historical Society as well as copies of his will and probate inventory. There are several short general histories of the local Roxbury/Jamaica Plain area including an early history of the lands that would later comprise the Bussey estate and a copy of a map of the area c. 1832. There is supporting correspondence and photographs concerning the fundraising and purchase by the Arnold Arboretum of the 1839 painting of the Bussey Mansion. There are articles (not contemporary) about the Joyce murders of 1865 and the legend of the Bussey ghost. There are various photographs of the Bussey estate from the late nineteenth to mid twentieth centuries, including photographs of the mansion just prior to its demolition in 1940. In addition there are photographs of the Gilbert Stuart painting of Benjamin Bussey held by Harvard University. There is a small amount of correspondence concerning the refurbishment of the Bussey tomb in the churchyard of the First Congregational Society (Unitarian) in Jamaica Plain in the 1940s. The bulk of the papers are photocopies of the original documents. There are some original letters from the last half of the twentieth century. The many of the photographs are modern reprints of original negatives. There are some original prints.".
• catalog contributor b12509033.
• catalog coverage "Jamaica Plain (Boston, Mass.) History.".
• catalog coverage "Roxbury (Boston, Mass.) History.".
• catalog date "1757".
• catalog description "Benjamin Bussey was born in 1757 in Stoughton (later Canton), Massachusetts. He served in the American Revolution seeing service at Saratoga and rising to the rank of Quartermaster. About 1779 he went into business as a silversmith in Dedham, Massachusetts and he married in 1780. By 1792, when he moved to Boston, his business had expanded into trading in a variety of goods. He was highly sucessful and in the following years engaged in overseas trade as well. He retired from business in 1806 and bought an estate in Roxbury, Massachusetts, turing to his interests in farming and manufacturing. He established woolen mills in Dedham and bought extensive properties in Maine. In 1815 he built a mansion on his Roxbury property where he resided until his death in 1842.".
• catalog description "Electronic finding aid available http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:ARB:ajp00009".
• catalog description "In his will, Bussey gave his Roxbury property to Harvard University for the "instruction in practical agriculture, in useful and ornamental gardening, in botany, and in such other branches of natural science as may tend to promote a knowledge of practical agriculture, and the various arts subservient thereto and connected therewith." A number of years would elapse before Harvard could act upon the bequest. By 1871 the Bussey Institution had been established to carry out the terms of the will. The rest of Bussey's bequest was organized in to the Arnold Arboretum in 1872.".
• catalog description "Inventory available in library: folder level control.".
• catalog description "This wide-ranging collection contains biographical materials on Benjamin Bussey copied from several publications that appeared at the time of his death in 1842 and later in the nineteenth century. Of interest is an autobiographical sketch in Bussey's own words and unique spelling. There are copies of letters written to him copied from collections at the Dedham Historical Society as well as copies of his will and probate inventory. There are several short general histories of the local Roxbury/Jamaica Plain area including an early history of the lands that would later comprise the Bussey estate and a copy of a map of the area c. 1832. There is supporting correspondence and photographs concerning the fundraising and purchase by the Arnold Arboretum of the 1839 painting of the Bussey Mansion. There are articles (not contemporary) about the Joyce murders of 1865 and the legend of the Bussey ghost. There are various photographs of the Bussey estate from the late nineteenth to mid twentieth centuries, including".
• catalog description "photographs of the mansion just prior to its demolition in 1940. In addition there are photographs of the Gilbert Stuart painting of Benjamin Bussey held by Harvard University. There is a small amount of correspondence concerning the refurbishment of the Bussey tomb in the churchyard of the First Congregational Society (Unitarian) in Jamaica Plain in the 1940s. The bulk of the papers are photocopies of the original documents. There are some original letters from the last half of the twentieth century. The many of the photographs are modern reprints of original negatives. There are some original prints.".
• catalog extent "0.25 (1".
• catalog issued "1757".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog spatial "Jamaica Plain (Boston, Mass.) History.".
• catalog spatial "Roxbury (Boston, Mass.) History.".
• catalog subject "Arnold Arboretum History.".
• catalog subject "Bussey, Benjamin, 1757-1842.".
• catalog title "Records of the Benjamin Bussey collection, 1818-1840s, 1940s, 1990s, 2001 (scattered).".
• catalog type "collection".