Scope and Contents The Deming, Perkins, and Quincy Families Papers document members of several prominent families who lived in the town of Litchfield, Conn. In the late eighteenth century, the patriarchs of each family earned wealth through their activities as merchants, traders, and investors, enabling them and many of the members of the next generations to live lives free from financial concern, if not outright luxury. The papers consist largely of correspondence, and also include collections of financial...

Abstract

Perkins-Champion-Deming family births, marriages, and deaths recorded in The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ..., 1783, on 5 sheets torn from the book. Dates recorded range from the 1740s through the 1870s.