United States -- Social life and customs
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Bissell family collection
1949-24-0
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:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1760-1926; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1949
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Katharine Bissell Bogert Roe memoir
00-1960-23-0
Collection
Identifier: 00-1960-23-0
Scope and Contents
Ten-page memoir in which Katherine Bissell Bogert Roe recounts Litchfield in the 1860s when she was a teenager. She recalls visiting her Aunt Mary Bissell, other members of the Bissell and Welch families, and friends; details about the interiors and exteriors of houses; watching baseball; going to dances and the circus; riding down North Street imitating a circus performer on Dr. Gates's buggy; activities during the Civil War; giving Henry Ward Beecher an arbutus from Litchfield; and other...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1912; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1960
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society