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Advertisement with a Fourth of July theme featuring Eric Hatch and two children.

Scope and Contents The Cheney and Kilborn Coffin Records collection (2011-107-0) is a collection of two typed transcripts compiled into one collection. The collection is a list of people who the two coffin makers (Silas Ellis Cheney and John Kilborn) made coffins for, the price, what the coffin was made from, and the date. The two made coffins for many people in town including the Buells, Buels, Ozias Seymour, and  Lyman Beecher and the Beecher Estate. One entry is for the purchase of a child’s coffin by Cato,...

Scope and Contents The Silas E. Cheney account book (1973-6-0) contains records for the years 1848-1856. Silas E. Cheney (1821-1874) was the son of Litchfield furniture maker Silas Ely Cheney and his wife Mary Young Cheney. During the 1840s and 1850s Silas operated a store in Litchfield. The account book indicates that the business dealt in general goods as well as foodstuffs. In the late 1850s Silas and his brother Edward relocated to New York where they briefly worked from their brother-in-law Horace...

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Notes covering events Feb.-Aug. 1883, perhaps using a newspaper as a source. On reverse of the note pages is "Apothecaries Hall, 301 Chapel St." with additional information and a raphic.

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A letterfrom Samuel Church in Salisbury (Conn.) written to Melzar Gardiner, at the Democrat [newspaper] office in Litchfield in which he expresses his views on the State Temperance Convention and Republican politics, and requests that Gardiner publish the procedings of the Cato Convention.

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Record of Churchill family births and the marriage of Hull Churchill and Polly Moss, 1807-1820.

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"Order of the exercises of the Ciceronean Society of Goshen" (Conn.). The managers were W. Lyman and H.H. Beach and the Committee members were W. Hart, C.C. Beers, and J.F. Norton.

Scope and Contents Citizenship Papers,  1980-299-0, include thirteen records from the Litchfield County Court House and documents the day when these individuals became American citizens.  Each document records the name of the petitioner, his town of residence in Litchfield County, his age, his city and country of birth, and the foreign power he renounced to become a citizen.  Included are Joseph Gould formerly of England and a resident of Winchester, Charles Caldis formerly of Paris, France and now a resident...

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Two Civil War Discharge Certificates, 2005-24-0, of soldiers in the Second Regiment of the Connecticut Volunteer Heavy Artillery.  One is for Charles W. Beeman of Brookfield, Connecticut who was a 1st Sergeant in Company A when we was discharged at Fort Ethan Allen, Virginia on Auugust 18, 1865.  The other was for  Thomas Sherman, who was a private in Company G and was discharged from Fort Ethan Allen, Virginia on July 7, 1865.

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Lists date when received, name of soldier voting, town where he claimed the right to vote, company letter, and regiment, battery, or battalion number.