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Litchfield Superior Court intentions to become citizens and account
00-2010-115-0
Collection
Identifier: 00-2010-115-0
Abstract
Intentions to become U.S. citizens, 1860-1871, and an accounting sheet for costs, 1883-1884.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1860-1884
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Seymour family papers
1949-37-0
Collection
Identifier: 1949-37-0
Scope and Contents
The papers of the Seymour family of Litchfield, Conn. Principal figures are Maj. Moses Seymour (1742-1826); two of his sons, Ozias Seymour (1776-1851), and Epaphroditus Seymour (1783-1854); and Ozias Seymour's son, Origen Storrs Seymour (1804-1881). A number of other members of the Seymour family and its relatives, in particular, members of the Storrs family of Mansfield, Conn., and Woodruff family of Litchfield, are also represented. The papers include correspondence, business records,...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1777-1923; Other: Date acquired: 11/30/1948
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Spring Hill School collection
1951-30-0
Collection
Identifier: 1951-30-0
Scope and Contents
The Spring Hill School collection (1951-30-0, .83 linear feet) documents a private school modelled on a philosophy of progressive education. Founded by Dorothy Bull and Mabel Foster Spinney in Litchfield, Conn., the school operated from 1926 to 1939. The collection includes correspondence, financial records, minutes, institutional records, brochures, and published editions of student work. The collection also contains tributes to co-founders Bull from 1934 and Spinney from 1951 and a...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1926-1940; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1951
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
West Episcopal Society records
00-2010-382-0
Collection
Identifier: 00-2010-382-0
Scope and Contents
The West Episcopal Society records document the first 20 years of what is now St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Bantam, a borough of Litchfield, Conn. Most of the records relate to the construction of a new church in 1796, and include accounts, bills, lists and memoranda, orders, receipts, summonses, and other documents. Several documents relate to aspects of church business. The records are arranged chronologically.
According to the ...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1791-1814; Other: Date acquired: 06/12/2012
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Whittlesey family papers
2001-14-0
Collection
Identifier: 2001-14-0
Scope and Contents
The papers of the Whittlesey family, primarily relating to the activities of David Whittlesey (1750-1825), his son David Chester Whittlesey (1803-1880), both of New Preston, (part of Washington), Conn., and David Chester Whittlesey's son John Eliphalet Whittlesey (1830-1910), who served in the Civil War and then settled in Houston, Tex. Also included are papers related to the Hazen, Mitchell, and Titus families of Washington, late 1700s-early 1800s. The collection includes correspondence,...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1775-1912; Other: Date acquired: 07/07/2002
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
John Wright collection
1982-22-0
Collection
Identifier: 1982-22-0
Abstract
The John Wright Collection (1715-1853) [1982-22-0] consists of papers related to the Bostwick, Buck, Canfield, Ferriss, Hine, McEuen, Northrop, Taylor, and Treadwell families; lawyer Partridge Thacher; and others living in New Milford, Conn. It also includes papers related to New Preston Society. Included in the papers is correspondence; deeds; notes, orders, receipts and other business records; leases; subscription lists; account books, and other documents.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1715-1892; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1982
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Samuel Wright papers
1953-26-0
Collection
Identifier: 1953-26-0
Scope and Contents
The papers of Samuel Wright (1789-1875) of Litchfield, Conn., including correspondence, deeds, financial records, legal documents, records related to the militia, and tax collection documents. Samuel Wright was the son of Jonathan Wright (1745/46-1836) and his third wife, Thankful Landon (1757?-1831), who was the widow of Benjamin Gibbs. Jonathan's first wife was Leah Bissell (1747?-1782). Many of the deeds in the papers relate to land transactions involving his wives' families. Samuel...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1767-1877; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1953
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society