Litchfield (Conn.)
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 266 Collections and/or Records:
Almira A. Bissell notebook
00-2011-73-0
Collection — Box 3A Box 21
Identifier: 00-2011-73-0
Scope and Contents
The Almira A. Bissell notebook (2011-73-0) is an undated paperbound notebook. The notebook, kept by Almira A. Bissell (Mrs. Francis Bissell), has "Composition Book" printed on the front cover. The volume contains an alphabetical list of Revolutionary soldiers who enlisted from the town of Litchfield. Mrs. Bissell also includes brief war records, and genealogy when possible. Some notes are inserted on loose paper into the notebook.
Almira A. Piper Bissell was the wife of Francis Bissell of...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: n.d.; Other: Date acquired: 04/06/2011
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Bissell family collection
1949-24-0
Collection
Identifier: 1949-24-0
Scope and Contents
The papers of the Bissell and Bissell-Baldwin families, including family members, friends, and business associates. The collection consists of correspondence, business records, account books, and other records.
Isaac Bissell (1682-1744) moved to Litchfield in 1723, where he owned a 60th share, approximately 700 acres. He was the father of ten children, including Benjamin (1717-1747) and Zebulon (1724-1777).
The Bissells were farmers, although there is little material in the Society's...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1760-1926; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1949
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Samantha J. Bissell cemetery deeds
00-2010-153-0
Collection
Identifier: 00-2010-153-0
Scope and Contents
Deeds from the Litchfield Cemetery Company to Samantha J. Bissell for a plot, Aug. 24, 1914, and Sep. 18, 1915.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1914-1915
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Warren W. Bissell et al. deed
00-2010-247-0
Collection
Identifier: 00-2010-247-0
Scope and Contents
Deed from Warren W. Bissell, Samantha J. Bissell, Dwight H. Seelye, Marcella W. Sellye, Lawson Taflin and Antoinette Taflin to Mary P. Earle for land in Litchfield, Conn.
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1902 Oct 21
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Edward Blakeslee and Charlotte Blakeslee deed
00-2010-297-0
Collection
Identifier: 00-2010-297-0
Scope and Contents
Deed to James P. Peck for land in Litchfield, Conn.
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1840 Jun 5; Other: Date acquired: 01/09/2012
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Boardman & Seymour records
2009-75-0
Collection
Identifier: 2009-75-0
Scope and Contents
The Boardman & Seymour Records (2009-75-0) consist of correspondence, bills, legal documents, licenses to sell liquor, orders, receipts, statements of accounts and other business records. Daniel Boardman (1757-1833), New York City businessman and merchant, his brother Elijah Boardman (1760-1823), New Milford businessman and merchant, and Moses Seymour Jr. (1774-1826), Litchfield merchant and town official, maintained a partnership to operate a store in Litchfield in which they sold "a...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1794-1811; Other: Date acquired: 11/04/1989
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Ebenezer Bolles family papers
1932-22-0
Collection
Identifier: 1932-22-0
Scope and Contents
The Ebenezer Bolles family papers relate to Ebenezer Bolles (1764-1826), his sons Ebenezer W. Bolles (1793-1854), Samuel Penfield Bolles (1795-1875), and Henry Bolles (1802-1849), and Samuel's wife's half-brother William Mather Clark (1805-1878). The papers consist of correspondence, deeds, legal papers, and account books.
Ebenezer Bolles (1764-1826) married Abigail Penfield Bolles (1763-1844). They settled in Litchfield, where all of their children where born; as adults, most of them moved...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1789-1849; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1932
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Ann Borzilleri collection
00-2008-01-0
Collection
Identifier: 00-2008-01-0
Scope and Contents
Two issues of "The Bantam Bugle," 1979; menu for Hattie's Family Restaurant; two bookmarks from Cobble Court Bookshop; receipt for prescription signed G. M. Woodruff, 1873; "Breakfast Dinner & Tea" advertisement pamphlet "compliments of Wessels & Gates, Litchfield, Conn.," circa 1880.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1873-1979; Other: Date acquired: 09/01/2008
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Carol Bramley collection of Litchfield Historic District papers
2003-54-0
Collection
Identifier: 2003-54-0
Scope and Contents
The Malcolm and Carol Bramley collection of Litchfield Historic District papers includes the final National Historic Landmark nomination form, 1986; National Historic Landmark draft nomination forms, 1986; National Register of Historic Places final nomination form, 1976; "The Historical Archeology of Culture and Society in the Center Village of Litchfield, Connecticut," by Russell G. Handsman, 1984; "Another City Upon a Hill: Litchfield, Connecticut, and the Colonial Revival," by William J....
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1976-1986; Other: Date acquired: 03/10/2003
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
William J. Brewster sermon
00-2010-225-0
Collection
Identifier: 00-2010-225-0
Scope and Contents
Sermon preached by Rev. William J. Brewster at the 200th anniversary of the founding of St. Michael's Church in Litchfield, Conn., Nov. 5, 1945.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1945 Nov 5
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society