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Collection
Identifier: 1949-37-0
Scope and Contents
The papers of the Seymour family of Litchfield, Conn. Principal figures are Maj. Moses Seymour (1742-1826); two of his sons, Ozias Seymour (1776-1851), and Epaphroditus Seymour (1783-1854); and Ozias Seymour's son, Origen Storrs Seymour (1804-1881). A number of other members of the Seymour family and its relatives, in particular, members of the Storrs family of Mansfield, Conn., and Woodruff family of Litchfield, are also represented. The papers include correspondence, business records,...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1777-1923; Other: Date acquired: 11/30/1948
Collection
Identifier: 2010-163-0
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The collection consists of what appears to be a grouping of family papers, including foreign and domestic post cards, greeting cards, and correspondence; souvenir folders; miscellaneous printed items; calling cards; news clippings; diaries; maps; materials relating to commencement at Brown University; and report cards and school progress reports. Family names in the collection include, but are not limited to, Allen, Dowd, Osborn, Stoddard, and Thielens.
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1856-1970
Collection
Identifier: 00-2011-66-0
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The Roger Minot Sherman papers (2011-66-0) consist of a diary and account book used my Roger Minot Sherman. The diary is made up of tables tracking: Miles walked, miles ridden on horseback, miles ridden in a carriage, hours spent reading, and letters.
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Other: Date acquired: 02/06/2011
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...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1771-1825; Other: Date acquired: 02/08/1999
Collection
Identifier: 1970-91-3
Scope and Contents
The Mrs. Younglove Cutler diary (1970-91-3) is a diary of family life in eighteenth century Connecticut. Mainly about the Stone family with many references to her brother Leman Stone, her tory brother Joel Stone and her sisters. The copies found in the archives are copies made from a transcript; the original diary location is unknown.
The transcript and photocopies are located in the Research File.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1777-1792; Other: Date acquired: 01/08/1970
Collection
Identifier: 00-1972-127-0
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The Emerette Colt Strong diary (1972-127-0) contains entries from March 8, 1874 through May 9, 1874. Emerette provides detailed daily accounts as she travelled across the country from New York to California by train. She provides descriptions of the cities that they stopped at along the way, as well as written sketches of the landscape, economy, and architecture of the country as she travelled west. Also represented in the diary are occassional histories of select cities or historic...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1874; Other: Date acquired: 01/06/1972
Collection
Identifier: 00-2011-71-0
Scope and Contents
The James C.L. Wadsworth journal (2011-71-0) was penned by Wadsworth in 1846 and 1847. The journal chronicles his voyage from New York to San Francisco which began on November 27, 1846 and ended April 24, 1847. In the journal he discusses passing in sight of Cape De Verde, and Falkland Islands, and Cape Horn. He also writes about stopping at the Island of Juan Ferdandez.
The item is currently housed in 3A Box 22.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1846-1847; Other: Date acquired: 03/06/2011
Collection
Identifier: 00-2010-233-0
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The journal of Samuel [Waldron?], Oct. 8, 1823-Nov. 3, 1823, chronicles the last days of Roger Wolcott Cooke (1797-1823), Litchfield Law School graduate and lawyer.
Cook was born in 1797, a son of Roger Cooke (1766-1836) and Emily Webster Cooke (1776-1807). He graduated from the Litchfield Law School in 1817 and was admitted to the Litchfield bar in 1819. He later moved to Augusta, Ga., and formed a partnership with William Tracy Gould, another Litchfield Law Student. Cooke again moved,...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1823; Other: Date acquired: 10/06/2011
Fonds
Identifier: 2017-11-0
Scope and Contents
The Webster family papers include Arethusa Farm records, ledgers, calendars, and postcards; documentation of a 1952 transcontinental trip to Alaska; and Litchfield photos and ephemera. Most of the family papers are from the 1870s through the 1920s.In 1868, Charles Baldwin Webster (1822-1912) Charles purchased a farm in Litchfield, CT, that he and his wife Lucinda Baldwin (1830-1871) named Arethusa, which remained in the Webster family until it was sold in 1981.The...
Dates:
1867-1998
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...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1740-1844; Other: Majority of material found in 1790-1837; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1906
