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Benjamin Gibbs, Jr. military commission
00-2009-133-0
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 00-2009-133-0
Scope and Contents
Benjamin Gibbs Jr. commissioned as Ensign in the 11th Company in the 17th Regiment of Connecticut. Signed by Jonathan Trumbull, Captain-General and Commander in Chief in and over the State of Connecticut. Dated at Hartford, 4 June 1783.
Dates:
Created: 1783 Jun 4
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Benjamin M. Morse deeds
00-2010-343-0
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 00-2010-343-0
Scope and Contents
Two deeds to William F. Baldwin for land in Litchfield, Conn.
Dates:
Created: 1849-1850; Other: Date acquired: 05/09/2012
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
Benjamin Trumbull broadside
00-2009-155-0
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 00-2009-155-0
Scope and Contents
A printed broadside enlisting subscribers for an octavio volume by Benjamin Trumbull with the title "A complete history of Connecticut, from the time of the emigration of its first planters from England, in 1630, to 1712." to be printed by Hudson and Goodwin, Hartford, Conn.
Dates:
Created: 1796 Apr 26
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Bernice Fuessenich collection
2003-78-0
Collection
Identifier: 2003-78-0
Scope and Contents
The Bernice Fuessenich collection consists of photographs, invoices, programs, invitations, advertising, brochures, dance cards, calling cards, and other ephemera documenting cultural, social, religious, and business activities in Litchfield, Conn., 1897-1976. Among the subjects covered are drama productions, church dedications and services, horse shows, minstrel shows, dances and balls, businesses and restaurants. There are also receipts for goods and services. Some of the papers relate to the...
Dates:
Created: 1897-1976; Other: Date acquired: 01/02/2005
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Beverly Scoville Bronson account book
00-2011-115-0
Collection
Identifier: 00-2011-115-0
Scope and Contents
The Beverly Scoville Bronson account book (2011-115-0) was maintained from 1885 through 1891. The book contains cash accounts for items purchased, as well as wage accounts for compensation that Mr. Bronson earned as a labor from individuals as well as the town of Middlebury. Beverly Scoville Bronson was born January 9, 1861 in Middlebury, Connecituct and passed away in March of 1908.
The item is housed in 3A Box 31.
Dates:
Created: 1885-1891; Other: Date acquired: 10/06/2012
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Biglow Brothers invoice
00-2015-10-0
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 00-2015-10-0
Abstract
Biglow Brothers invoice (2015-10-0) to John Hannon for one load of slab wood and bushels of sawdust. Receipt of payment is recorded by C.W. Biglow.
Dates:
Created: 1912 Nov 16; Other: Date acquired: 04/02/2016
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Bill of knapsacks
00-2010-129-0
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 00-2010-129-0
Scope and Contents
A handwritten list of men who received knapsacks, both new and old, with the price and whether it was paid or not paid. The date and place are uncertain but it is possible that it was from Vermont during the Civil War, for some names may be matched to that state and time period.
Dates:
Created: undated
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Bills of Frederick Wiggin
00-1977-34-0
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 00-1977-34-0
Scope and Contents
Bills of Frederick Wiggin (1977-34-0) includes 21 bills for goods purchased from mainly Litchfield businesses between 1879-1890 (there is one bill from Paris in 1890). Among the businesses included are Albert L. Judd, F.D. McNeil & Co., E.E. Champlin, Echo Farm, and R.E. Tyrrell.
Dr. Frederick Holme Wiggin was born in England in 1853. He graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, New York University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College. He practiced medicine in...
Dates:
Created: 1879-1890; Other: Majority of material found in 1879; Other: Date acquired: 11/06/1978
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Bird family papers
00-1960-21-0
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
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