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Accompanied by a note by Parsons' grandson, indicating that Parsons was a dry goods importer in New York.

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This series contains personal accounts, bills, and receipts. The first subseries contains the personal estate papers of members of the Woodruff family, while the second subseries contains the papers of third party individuals. The subseries have been arranged alphabetically.

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Discusses land speculation.

Scope and Contents From the Series: This series has been divided into seven subseries to reflect Woodruff's diverse business and personal correspondence. The first subseries, law, consists primarily of correspondence from his law clients, for whom he worked in many cases as a debt collector, as well as from those he dunned for money. The second subseries represents his correspondence as postmaster of Litchfield. In addition to routine postal office business, including scheduling mail deliveries, inquiring about potential...