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"Litchfield Hill" from Harper's New Monthly Magazine
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.
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Created: no date
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Elisha Sill family papers
Collection
Identifier: 1997-24-0
Scope and Contents
The papers of Dr. Elisha Sill (1730-1808) of Goshen, Conn., consist of his diary and account book, 1771-1783, and his copy of a 1776 letter to Col. Oliver Wolcott in which he asked to be relieved of service. The collection also includes two 1774 letters from committees of correspondence and papers related to Dr. Sill's son Elisha Eaton Sill (1774-1812) and grandson William Eaton Sill (1806-1888).
After graduating from Yale College in 1754, Dr. Sill settled in Goshen, Conn. and eastablished a...
Dates:
Created: 1771-1825; Other: Date acquired: 02/08/1999
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Wolcott family collection
Collection
Identifier: 1906-04-0
Scope and Contents
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 sheep,...
Dates:
Created: 1740-1844; Other: Majority of material found in 1790-1837; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1906
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
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- Gould, James, 1770-1838 1
- Huntington, Jabez Williams, 1788-1847 1
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- Rankin, Laura Maria Wolcott 1
- Reeve, Tapping, 1744-1823 1
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- Silliman, Gold Selleck, 1777-1868 1
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