Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Cornelia Elizabeth Boardman was the sixth child of Elijah Boardman and Mary Anna Whiting. She was born August 4, 1808 in New Milford, Connecticut. She attended school in New Haven where her brother William Whiting Boardman resided, and New York where her sister, Caroline Boardman Schroeder, lived. Her father died when she was 15 years old. Despite several proposals of marriage, Cornelia chose to remain single and care for her mother, who lived to the age of 80. Cornelia inherited the family...

Scope and Contents First of two folders of bills and receipts for goods and services purchased by Cornelia E. Boardman in 1854. 38 receipts from New Milford, New York, and Bridgeport, including some which are partially illegible due to water damage. Items listed include food; lumber; dividends; candles; a subscription to the "Horticulturalist" and the "Churchman"; dress making; seed; paint; books; a coffin; textiles; a piano stool; town taxes; jewelry; transportation of goods from Bridgeport ad New York; and...

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Bills and receipts to Cornelia E. Boardman for goods and services.

Scope and Contents 55 Bills and receipts to Cornelia E. Boardman for goods and services purchased in 1860 in New Milford, New York, New Haven, Great Barrington, and Hartford. Items purchased included wagon repairs; oysters; nails and hardware; food; calf skin; tailoring; clothing; donations; lumber; wall paper; roofing; horse shoeing; medical attendance; books; textiles; candles; a horse; butter; subscriptions to "The Church Journal" and "The Calendar;" flatware; shoes; furniture; perfume; spices; feed;...

Scope and Contents Bills and Receipts for goods and services purchased by Cornelia E. Boardman in 1861 from Hartford, New Milford, New York, Geneva, and Rochester. Items purchased include food; subscriptions to "The Calendar;" a plow; repairs to a carriage; donations; horse blankets, saddles, etc.; shingles; oak posts; hardware; trees and plants; sugar; medicine; account settlement having to do with her sister Caroline; cement; books; and labor. Folder includes a string that tied the bills and a pressed flower...

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Bills and Receipts for goods and services purchased by Cornelia E. Boardman dated 1863-1865 from New York, New Milford, New Haven, Philadelphia, and Hartford. Items purchased include food; dressmaking; fertilizer; clothing; labor; textiles; subscription to “The Calendar;” medical services; stereoscopic cosmorama; fruit trees; vegetable plants; and donations.

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Bills and receipts for Cornelia E. Boardman between 1869-1874 and 1877-1879 from New Milford, New York, and Great Barrington. Items purchased include fruit trees and bushes; horses; groceries; silver; postage; books; dishes; a quilt; clothing; taxes; subscription to “New York Times,” “The Spirit of Missions,” and the “Pacific Churchman;” labor; furniture; services rendered by David S. Boardman; and toiletries.

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Bills and receipts for Cornelia E. Boardman dated 1875 from New Milford; New York; Mahoning County, Ohio; and Cleveland, Ohio. Items purchased include spools of silk; taxes for land in Ohio; horse shoeing; hardware; carpet; textiles; a boiler and furnace work; books including Mother Goose; medical services for Bishop Whipple; and clothing. A note at the top of the stack says, “Culled for the most attractive bills (superficially)”

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Bills and receipt for goods and services purchased by Cornelia E. Boardman in 1875 in New Milford, New York, New Haven, and Poughkeepsie, NY. Items purchased include labor, hardware, clothing, textiles, food, stoneware, property survey for the Boardman Homestead in New Milford, hay, household linens, cords of wood, Iron pipe, galvanized pipe, lamp oil, a faucet, rat poison and insect poison, horse blankets, paint, and cookware.

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Bills and receipt for goods and services purchased by Cornelia E. Boardman in 1875 in New York; New Milford, Bridgeport, New Haven, and Branford, CT; and Cleveland, OH. Items purchased include food, hardware; labor; trees, shrubs, and bushes; shingles; carpet; plumbing hardware; medical attendance; pharmaceuticals; taxes; china; tea; published sermon; carriage, board and stage fare; brandy and sherry; textiles; mirror sent to H.W. Boardman in Ohio; and an account book