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Collection
Identifier: 00-1972-131-0
Scope and Contents
The Dr. Burritt North Birge log book copy (1972-131-0) is a typewritten copy of the log kept by B.N. Birge, Surgeon's Steward of U.S. Gunboat Penobscot from October 19, 1863 to October 19, 1864. The copy was edited by E.C. Birge, Dr. Roy Bird Cook, and Margaret W. Kieffer.
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: undated; Other: Date acquired: 12/06/1971
Collection
Identifier: 00-2010-152-0
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Record of the marriage of James Birge and Sally Palmer Birge in 1780 and the birth of their children in the 1780s and 1790s.
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: circa 1810s
Collection
Identifier: 00-2010-296-0
Scope and Contents
Deed to William F. Baldwin for land in Litchfield, Conn.
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1847 Apr 3; Other: Date acquired: 01/09/2012
Collection
Identifier: 00-2010-198-0
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Check from Bishop to F. A. Newcomb, Dec. 6, 1910. On reverse is a pasted clipping regarding a resolution passed on Sep. 3, 1913, by the First National Bank on the occasion of Bishop's death.
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1910 Dec 6
Collection
Identifier: 2011-14-0
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The Bishop family collection (2011-14-0, .42 linear feet) documents the families of Charles B. Bishop (1832-1913) and Jane Farnsworth Bishop (1829-1892) of Litchfield, Conn. A number of individuals are represented in the collection, including Charles, his father Charles Bishop (1791-1871), his grandfather John Bishop (1756-1848); Charles’s brothers James Ensign Bishop (1828-1903) and Theophilus Fenn Bishop (1820-1846); Theophilus’s wife Susan Amelia Pratt Bishop (1818-1848); several of...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1825-1918; Other: Date acquired: 03/04/2012
Collection
Identifier: 00-1973-64-0
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The John Bishop account book (1973-64-0) was maintained in 1900 by John Bishop. The account book records his purchases made at the dry goods and grocery store owned by Frank E. Hull in New Haven, Connecticut. Items purchased are noted along with their price, and on what day the transaction took place.
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1900; Other: Date acquired: 12/12/1972
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...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: n.d.; Other: Date acquired: 04/06/2011
Collection
Identifier: 00-1954-04-0
Abstract
Watercolor rendering.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1911; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1954
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...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1760-1926; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1949
Collection
Identifier: 00-1947-13-0
Scope and Contents
Appointments by governors of John Bissell, who attended the Litchfield Law School, to serve as commissioner of deeds in various states, 1836-1878. There is also a letter from S. C. Hall of Nevada, Mo., to William Bissell, 1869.
Bound volume housed in 3B Box 20.
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1836-1878; Other: Date acquired: 01/12/1947
