Showing Collections: 1 - 4 of 4
Beckwith family papers
1988-01-0
Collection
Identifier: 1988-01-0
Scope and Contents
The Beckwith family papers (1988-01-0) consist of correspondence, financial records, legal documents, military records, diaries, photographs, and other records. A small group of papers predates those of the Beckwith family. At present, only materials created prior to 1840, a limited selection of post-1840 materials, and those that relate to Josiah Beckwith (1803-1871) have been processed. They are arranged in three series.
Series 1, Papers (1767-1892), contains a collection of primarily...
Dates:
Created: 1767-1972; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1988
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
"Litchfield Hill" from Harper's New Monthly Magazine
00-2013-112-0
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 00-2013-112-0
Scope and Contents
"Litchfield Hill," is an article from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, 2013-112-0, about the town of Litchfield during the Revolutionary War and some of its most famous residents from the later 18th and early 19th centuries: Tapping Reeve, Sarah Pierce, Oliver Wolcott, James Gould, and Benjamin Tallmadge.
Dates:
Created: no date
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Benjamin Tallmadge collection
1933-19-0
Collection
Identifier: 1933-19-0
Scope and Contents
The Benjamin Tallmadge Collection documents the personal life and professional career of Colonel Benjamin Tallmadge through his correspondence as well as his legal, financial, and personal papers. An army officer, chief intelligence officer, and organizer of the Culper spy ring during the Revolutionary War, Tallmadge became a businessman and U.S. Representative from Connecticut in Congress after the war.The collection contains Tallmadge's duplicate original letters to George...
Dates:
Created: 1777-1864; Other: Majority of material found in 1778-1833; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1933
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Woodruff family collection
1953-02-2-8
Collection
Identifier: 1953-02-2-8
Scope and Contents
The Woodruff Collection primarily documents the personal life and professional career of George Catlin Woodruff, who not only practiced law for several decades in Litchfield but also served as Litchfield's postmaster and held elected positions both locally and in the United States Congress. His law career is extensively represented in his business correspondence with clients concerning suits in progress and with other law professionals; his law school notebooks; and his own...
Dates:
Created: 1779-1966; Other: Majority of material found in 1815-1919; Other: Date acquired: 11/03/1954
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Filter Results
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Correspondence 3
- Diaries 2
- Receipts 2
- United States--Politics and government--1775-1783. 2
- African Americans 1
- African Americans -- Connecticut -- Litchfield 1
- Autograph albums 1
- Billheads 1
- Business records 1
- Collecting of accounts--United States 1
- Connecticut--Politics and government 1
- Deeds 1
- Drawings 1
- Drugstores -- Connecticut -- Litchfield 1
- Epidemics--New York (State)--New York 1
- Estate inventories 1
- Financial records 1
- Genealogy--Connecticut 1
- Greeting cards 1
- Land titles--Connecticut 1
- Law--Connecticut 1
- Law--United States--Study and teaching 1
- Lawyers--Correspondence 1
- Legal documents 1
- Litchfield (Conn.) 1
- Litchfield (Conn.) - History 1
- Medicine 1
- Medicine--United States--History--18th century 1
- Merchants -- Connecticut -- Litchfield 1
- Military records 1
- Notebooks 1
- Photographs 1
- Physicians -- Connecticut -- Litchfield 1
- Postmasters 1
- Privateering--United States 1
- Real property 1
- Revivals--United States 1
- Scrapbooks 1
- Second Great Awakening 1
- Slavery 1
- Southern States--History--1775-1865 1
- Speculation--United States 1
- United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783 1
- United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Secret service 1
- United States--Politics and government--1783-1865 1
- United States--Politics and government--1865-1933 1
- United States--Religious life and customs 1
- United States--Social life and customs--1783-1865 1
- Western Reserve (Ohio) 1 ∧ less
- Names
- Tallmadge, Benjamin, 1754-1835 2
- Alsop family 1
- Beckwith family 1
- Beckwith, Josiah Gale, 1803-1871 1
- Beckwith, Josiah Gale, 1838-1911 1
- Beckwith, Sutherland Alsop, 1892-1986 1
- Coopernail, George, 1876-1964 1
- Cushman, John P. (John Paine), 1784-1848 1
- Cushman, Maria Tallmadge, 1790-1878 1
- Deming, Julius, 1755-1838 1
- Destouches, Charles-René-Dominique Sochet, 1727-1794 1
- Dwight, Timothy, 1752-1817 1
- Gould, James, 1770-1838 1
- Granniss family 1
- Hooker, Asahel, 1762-1813 1
- Litchfield Law School 1
- Pierce, Sarah, 1767-1852 1
- Seymour family 1
- Seymour, Lucy Morris Woodruff, 1807-1894 1
- Society of the Cincinnati 1
- Tallmadge, Frederick A. (Frederick Augustus), 1792-1869 1
- Washington, George, 1732-1799 1
- Wolcott, Oliver, 1726-1797 1
- Woodruff, George C. (George Catlin), 1805-1885 1
- Woodruff, George M. (George Morris), 1836-1930 1
- Woodruff, Henrietta Sophronia Seymour, 1806-1892 1
- Woodruff, James Parsons, 1868-1931 1
- Woodruff, Lewis B. (Lewis Bartholomew), 1809-1875 1
- Woodruff, Morris, 1777-1840 1
- Woodruff, Reuben M., 1811-1849 1 ∧ less
∨ more
∨ more