Due to the large dimensions of several items in these papers, the Buddington Family Collection has been separated into two parts; Collection 257 and HFM 228.

Coll. 257 is contained in a small holinger box holding approx. 160 items. The first five folders are arranged chronologically and grouped by individual persons. The first folder contains a protection certificate, while the remaining four contain copies of death certificates, applications for admittance to Sailors Snug Harbor, and newspaper articles about Leroy Buddington's brief escape from a state hospital and Captain Sidney O. Budington's association with the Eskimo's and Charles F. Hall's arctic exploration. The remaining folders, 6-9, contain information relating to the Buddington family as a whole, and are arranged by type of material; typed paper describing the family homes, and handwritten genealogical tree ca. 1900, genealogical notes; many copied from published books, or worksheets, and xerox and photographed copies of legal manuscript documents from the seventeenth and eighteenth century signed by members of the Buddington family. The "Buddington Geneological Notes," folder contains assorted papers including family worksheets, xerox copies of photographs, and copies of published material relating to the Budington's, primarily Captain James M., and Captain James W. Buddington, and their rescue of the HMS RESOLUTE.

HFM 228 contains the larger Buddington family documents; three ship's papers; a crew list of the Brig GEORGIANA, and whalemen's shipping papers for the Schooner FRANKLIN, and the Bark GEORGE HENRY. It was on this 1855 voyage of the George Henry that Captain James M. Buddington salvaged the HMS RESOLUTE. The file also contains a magazine photo of the desk make from the RESOLUTE's timbers and presented to the President of the United States by Queen Victoria, as well as a "Map of the Polar Regions" diagraming various polar explorations and a certificate of the Groton Monument Association.

NOTE: Several photographs of the Buddington family, and family grave sites are cataloged in the Historical Photograph Collection as #1997.135.