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Col. Miles Beach Papers
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 00-1985-52-0
Scope and Contents
The Col. Miles Beach Papers, 1985-52-0, consists of deeds, quit claims and two indentures from his time in Litchfield and Hartford, Connecticut.
Col. Miles Beach was born in 1742 in Goshen, Connecticut to Adna and Hannah Miles Beach. Beginning sometime before 1771 until 1785, Beach was a silversmith in Litchfield with a shop on North Street. In 1785 he relocated to Hartford, where he continued in his trade with various partners until his death in 1828. While in Hartford he was also the...
Dates:
Created: 1766-1825; Other: Date acquired: 12/07/1984
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Edgar D. Beach deed
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 00-2010-248-0
Scope and Contents
Deed from Edgar D. Beach to Frank H. Earl for land in Litchfield, Conn.
Dates:
Created: 1886 Apr 28
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
John Beach receipt
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 00-2010-188-0
Scope and Contents
Receipt given to John Beach from E. B. M. Hughes for hardware and household items.
Dates:
Created: 1842 Aug 30
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Lucy Sheldon Beach letter
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 00-2009-56-0
Scope and Contents
Lucy Sheldon in New York writes to her mother Huldah Sheldon (Mrs. Daniel) in Litchfield about her trip by coach to New Haven and then by packet boat to New York. She gives her impressions of life in the city.
Dates:
Created: 1810 Nov 29; Other: Date acquired: 09/11/2009
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Lucy Sheldon Beach Music Books
Collection — Box: Music Books
Identifier: 1910-11-0
Scope and Contents
Four music books, primarily manuscript, one dated 1818 and three undated. Housed in aisle 3A, Box 30b.
Dates:
Created: 1818, undated; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1910
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Virginia H. Beach collection
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 00-2007-21-0
Scope and Contents
Three folders consisting of Litchfield High School newspapers and concert and commencement programs, church and concert programs, photographs, news clippings, Camp Rainbow Y.T.C. Encampment, and Charlotte Deming essays (1880s).
Dates:
Created: 1880-1954; Other: Date acquired: 01/04/2009
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Beach, Webster, and Dickinson families papers
Collection
Identifier: 1995-15-0
Scope and Contents
The Beach, Webster, and Dickinson families papers (1995-15-0, 4.59 linear feet) relate to three associated Litchfield, Conn., families. In 1916, Bessie Rachel Beach (1893-1976) married Leonard Dickinson (1895-1946). The parents of Bessie were Milo D. Beach (1861-1959) and Louisa Webster Beach (1862-1951). A large part of the collection consists of genealogical information culled from a variety of sources. Original materials include marriage certificates; correspondence; mortgages and deeds;...
Dates:
Created: 1791-1990; Other: Date acquired: 05/12/1995
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Philo Beardslee account book
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 00-2011-124-0
Scope and Contents
The Philo Beardslee account book (2011-124-0) is an account book used by Philoe Beardslee to keep accounts at, what appears, a general store. The book appears to have exchanged hands a few times, however. In the front of the book there is an inscription “Adeline Johnson New Town March, 1848,” but this is after the account book was originally used. Almost the first half of the book is very wrinkled and has a yellow crust on the pages which may be from use as a scrapbook. If this is true, all the...
Dates:
Created: 1804-1829; Other: Date acquired: 06/07/2011
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
William Ernest Beatty Papers
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 00-2011-131-0
Scope and Contents
William Ernest Beatty Papers, 2011-131-0, includes booklets and brochures from the Spring Hill School, commencement program from Litchfield High School, class photos and school sports team photographs, photographs of Litchfield after an ice storm 1942 and Woodville after the 1955 Flood, his Litchfield High School diploma and class photograph taken in Washington, D.C.
William Ernest Beatty was born on April 12, 1919, in Derby, Conn., son of Elisabeth and Guy Beatty. In 1924, his family moved to...
Dates:
Created: 1920-1959; Other: Date acquired: 07/09/2011
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Solomon Beckeley papers
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 00-2010-63-0
Scope and Contents
Papers of Solomon Beckeley of Wethersfield, Conn. containing deeds to property in Wethersfield and a writ issued against him by Peter Fairchild of New Milford concerning payment of tinware.
Dates:
Created: 1797 Feb-Aug
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
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