Cushman, Maria Tallmadge, 1790-1878

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Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Maria Tallmadge Cushman home remedies notebook

00-1949-39-0

Collection

Identifier: 00-1949-39-0

Scope and Contents The Maria Tallmadge Cushman home remedies notebook (1949-39-0) was compiled by Maria Tallmadge Cushman from the year 1840 through 1864. The small notebook contains home remedies for illness as well as many recipes and hints for household cleaning. Many of the remedies are handwritten, and a fair amount are newspaper clippings. Health remedies include treatments for cholera, cancer, colds, rheumatism, dysentery, and "Mrs. Noyes Recipe for purifying the blood." Interspersed with health cures...

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1840-1864; Other: Date acquired: 11/30/1948

Found in: Litchfield Historical Society

Benjamin Tallmadge collection

1933-19-0

Collection

Identifier: 1933-19-0

Abstract

The Benjamin Tallmadge Collection documents the personal life and professional career of Colonel Benjamin Tallmadge through his correspondence as well as his legal, financial, and personal papers. An army officer, chief intelligence officer, and organizer of the Culper spy ring during the Revolutionary War, Tallmadge became a businessman and U.S. Representative from Connecticut in Congress after the war.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1777-1864; Other: Majority of material found within 1778-1833; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1933