In 1863, Fearing Burr wrote
The Field and Garden Vegetables of America. I'd been hoping to find a cheap copy somewhere, and just found out that the text is available, free, online, at:
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21682
I copped the above from a post elsewhere.
Cleo, either read the above or get thee to a library and take out the book or buy it if you wish.
He was a large scale grower in the Boston area and his book is terrific and right now I can't find my copy b'c it's somewhere. Everything has to be somewhere.
The tomato section is large and anything extant in 1863 would still be around in 1890.
At that time period there were lots and lots of varieties grown in the East and midwest and with Burr's book and looking at Craig's old catalog scans you shouldn't have any problem at all in coming up with the names of tomato varieties grown in the Boston area around 1890. You could even go back to Trophy from 1860 and then there were all the Livingston varieties as well, and many many more.
All you really need to know is that a variety was around before 1890.
I've done two historic Shaker gardens for the Shaker Historical Society near the Albany airport where Mother Ann Lee founded her first large community. And it was great fun doing the research.
If you know where this farm was , and you seem to know a bit about it, why not contact the Town or Village Historian for help in knowing more about it.