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Beckwith, J.G. to Sutherland, Josiah (2015-69-0) A hand written letter by Beckwith to Southerland. Although having acquired other references from prominent sources he is now requesting a character reference to get his son into West Point.

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Various documents of Ephraim Carter (1746-1823) & his son Ezra (1773-1811); William C. Carter and Horace E. Carter, sons of Ezra.

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A letter from Henry Horn in Washington, D.C. to Levi Woodbury, Secretary of the Navy recommending Doctor Baribino of Philadelphia as a valuable officer in the medical department of the navy.

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A letter to the Litchfield County Superior Court from Litchfield, Conn. dated August 20, 1818 from David Sherman Boardman, Asa Bacon, Jr. and Jabez W. Huntington, committee appointed by the Court, in which they recommend that Leman Church of Canaan be admitted to practice as an attorney & counselor of the Court. Church attended the Litchfield Law School in 1815.

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Richard Mathews in Litchfield gives character references for Mr. Major Dowell, James Ramsay, Andrew Steel, and Andrew Fulton, who are inhabitants of Augusta County, Virginia where Mathews resides.

Scope and Contents Papers related to William Buell Sprague (1795-1876), clergyman and autograph collector. He was born in Andover, Conn, a son of Benjamin Sprague and Sybil Buell. William Sprague's great grand uncle, John Buell, was one of the original proprietors of Litchfield. After graduation from Yale in 1815, Sprague was a private tutor, studied two years at Princeton theological seminary. In 1819, he was ordained pastor of the First Congregational Church in West Springfield, Mass., remaining there until...

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A handwritten copy of a letter from Ezra Stiles, President of Yale University, recommending that Miss Lucinda Foot, age 12 and proficient in Greek and Latin, be admitted as a pupil in the freshman class of Yale University.