Litchfield Female Academy (Conn.)
Organization
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Litchfield Female Academy collection
1890-07-2
Collection
Identifier: 1890-07-2
Scope and Contents
This collection documents the history of The Litchfield Female Academy, Litchfield, Connecticut. Early records refer to the Academy as Miss Pierce's School, Miss Pierce's Academy, and Sarah Pierce's Academy. In the collection are institutional records; correspondence, diaries, journals, school notebooks, and albums of students; papers of Sarah Pierce and the Pierce family; and correspondence of Emily Noyes Vanderpoel regarding her research for her books "Chronicles of a Pioneer School, from...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1787-1927; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1890
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Pierce family correspondence
1978-39-8
Collection
Identifier: 1978-39-8
Scope and Contents
The Pierce Family Correspondence consists primarily of letters to and from the children of John Pierce and his first wife, Mary (Paterson) Pierce, as well as of his second wife, Mary (Goodman) Pierce. The collection documents events of national importance: John Pierce, a colonel and paymaster in the Continental Army, received letters from numerous correspondents concerning military, administrative, and political news of the American Revolution. Moreover, the Pierce brothers traveled...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1775-1825; Other: Majority of material found in 1776-1825; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1978
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Wolcott family collection
1906-04-0
Collection
Identifier: 1906-04-0
Abstract
Correspondence chiefly between Frederick Wolcott (1767-1837), his wife Elizabeth (Betsey) Huntington Wolcott (1774-1812), his brother Oliver Wolcott (1760-1833) who served as Secretary of the Treasury and Governor of Connecticut, and Jabez W. Huntington (1788-1847) who served as a U.S. Senator from Connecticut. Topics include domestic news, local, state, regional and national politics, business affairs, church activities, trade with China and the merchant vessel Trident, raising merino...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1740-1844; Other: Majority of material found within 1790-1837; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1906
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
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- Account books 2
- Diaries 2
- Litchfield (Conn.) - History 2
- Private schools - Connecticut - Litchfield - History 2
- Receipts 2
- Schools 2
- United States--Politics and government--1775-1783. 2
- Women - Education - Connecticut - Litchfield - History 2
- Autograph albums 1
- Charleston (S.C.)--Description and travel 1
- China -- Commerce 1
- Connecticut--Politics and government 1
- Epidemics--New York (State)--New York 1
- Exercise books 1
- Florida--Description and travel 1
- Fort Ticonderoga (N.Y.)--Capture, 1777 1
- Litchfield (Conn.) -- History 1
- Medicine--United States--History--18th century 1
- Notebooks 1
- Rewards of merit 1
- Slavery--United States 1
- Southern States--History--1775-1865 1
- Trident 1
- United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783 1
- Washington (D.C.)--Description and travel 1
- Woolen and worsted manufacture 1
- Yellow fever--New York (State)--New York 1 + ∧ less
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