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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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Samuel Lee, David Waterman, Peter Farnam & Ambrose Collins of Salisbury (Conn.) and Samuel Wadsworth and Tryal Tanner of Cornwall (Conn.) are managers of a Lottery granted by the Conn. General Assembly in Oct. 1792 for building a bridge across the Ousatonuck [Housatonic] River on the highway from Salisbury to Cornwall and are bound to Peter Colt, Treasurer of the state of Connecticut for 500 pounds.

Scope and Contents These Household Accounts, 2007-11-0, were kept by Elizabeth Laura Hathaway Kay of Burlington, Connecticut in 1941. She kept records of grocery, clothing, gas and oil, miscellaneous, bread, meat and sugar expensese every week, then totaled them up monthly from January through December 1941.  The records are handwritten on three-ring ruled paper. Elizabeth Laura Hathaway Kay was born in 1909 in Massachusetts.  She married John Francis Kay (born 1900) and they had at least two children, John...

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Stephen Hoyt receives one share in the New York and Sharon Canal Company for a payment of five dollars. Signed by John Owen, Secretary, July 12, 1825.

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Three photographs of John Hubbard, James Hubbard, and Philip Jubbard; a note with a description of the old broken gravestone found in the cellar wall of the "old red house."

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Philip Hubbard's commission as Captain of a company in the 30th Regiment, commanded by Colonel Scamman, for the defense of American Liberty. Signed by John Hancock, President of the Continental Congress, and Charles Thompson, Secretary for the Continental Congress and dated 1 July 1775. Capt. Hubbard (1718-1792) was from South Berwick, ME and commanded a company that included six of his sons. Some evidence suggests he was at the Battle of Bunker Hill.

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Papers of the retail firm of Mills & Mansfield of Kent, Conn. The partnership consisted of Bradley Mills and his son-in-law William Penderson Mansfield (1774-1855). School Fund bonds relating to Abijah Hubbell, Jr. and Ephraim Hubbell of Kent.

Scope and Contents The May Hughes photo album (1974-48-0) contains photographs from the year 1905. The bulk of the photos are of the Annual Monmouth County Horse Show in Long Branch, New Jersey. The Horse Show was held in July of 1905 at the Hollywood estate grounds (the estate of Mr. John Hoey). Also included in the album of photos taken at the beach while swimming, and other leisure snapshots. On the inside cover is writte the inscription "May Ridgely Brown Hughes -...

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Deed to George H. Westover for land in Litchfield, Conn.