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Bird family papers
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 00-1960-21-0
Scope and Contents
Letters and deeds of the Bird family, mostly John Bird and Dr. Seth Bird.
Dates:
Created: 1733-1825; Other: Date acquired: 11/30/1959
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Bishop family collection
Collection
Identifier: 2011-14-0
Scope and Contents
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 Jane’s...
Dates:
Created: 1825-1918; Other: Date acquired: 03/04/2012
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Bissell family collection
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...
Dates:
Created: 1760-1926; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1949
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Boardman & Seymour records
Collection
Identifier: 2009-75-0
Scope and Contents
The Boardman & Seymour Records (2009-75-0) consist of correspondence, bills, legal documents, licenses to sell liquor, orders, receipts, statements of accounts and other business records. Daniel Boardman (1757-1833), New York City businessman and merchant, his brother Elijah Boardman (1760-1823), New Milford businessman and merchant, and Moses Seymour Jr. (1774-1826), Litchfield merchant and town official, maintained a partnership to operate a store in Litchfield in which they sold "a...
Dates:
Created: 1794-1811; Other: Date acquired: 11/04/1989
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Ebenezer Bolles family papers
Collection
Identifier: 1932-22-0
Scope and Contents
The Ebenezer Bolles family papers relate to Ebenezer Bolles (1764-1826), his sons Ebenezer W. Bolles (1793-1854), Samuel Penfield Bolles (1795-1875), and Henry Bolles (1802-1849), and Samuel's wife's half-brother William Mather Clark (1805-1878). The papers consist of correspondence, deeds, legal papers, and account books.
Ebenezer Bolles (1764-1826) married Abigail Penfield Bolles (1763-1844). They settled in Litchfield, where all of their children where born; as adults, most of them moved...
Dates:
Created: 1789-1849; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1932
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Bolles & Wells letter
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 00-2010-155-0
Scope and Contents
Bolles & Wells write to S. J. Lewis of Naugatuck, Conn., to say they do not accept a box of overshoes on his terms.
Dates:
Created: 1848 Dec 15
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Erastus Bostwick letter
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 00-2010-156-0
Scope and Contents
Erastus Bostwick of Hinesburgh, Vt., author of an 1851 genealogy on the Bostwick family, writes to Dr. D. E. Bostwick regarding genealogical matters.
Dates:
Created: 1852 May 29
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Letter of Dr. Jonathan Brace
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 00-2010-157-0
Scope and Contents
Item is labeled "Letter of Dr. Jonathan Brace" and gives biographical information.
Dates:
Created: undated
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Jonathan Brace letter
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 00-2010-158-0
Scope and Contents
Jonathan Brace writes from Milford, Conn., to Rev. L. W. Bacon with biographical information.
Dates:
Created: 1859 Apr 18
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
John Bradstreet letter
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 00-2009-102-0
Scope and Contents
John Bradstreet writes in Jan. or Feb. 1756 to Peter Van Brugh Livingston complaining that a man named Quackenbush has orders from "the General" [William Shirley] and Livingston to take sole management of the construction of additional whale boats at Schenectady. Bradstreet believes that the job is his alone and requests confirmation.
Letter endorsed as received February 6.
Dates:
Created: 1756 Jan/Feb
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
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