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Johnston's Brigade battle reports
00-2010-282-0
Collection
Identifier: 00-2010-282-0
Scope and Contents
Reports of ammunition expended and casualties in Johnston's Brigade, Early's Division, 2nd Corps (Confederate States of America army) in engagements occurring in July through September 1864. Also includes battle reports of the 12th and 23rd North Carolina Troops.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1864 Jul-Sep; Other: Date acquired: 11/09/2011
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Jones and Kilbourn families papers
1971-15-0
Collection
Identifier: 1971-15-0
Abstract
The Jones and Kilbourn families papers document several generations of two families who lived primarily in Litchfield, Conn., principally Eaton Jones (1729-1791), Eaton Jones (1762-1838), Charles Jones (1797-1891), George Eaton Jones (1849-1927), Mary M. Jones (1851-1930), and Eaton Jones (1897-1971). George Eaton Jones married Mary Braman (1864-1927), a granddaughter of Payne Kenyon Kilbourne (1815-1859). In addition, there are third-party papers that relate to the American Revolutionary...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1747-1959; Other: Date acquired: 03/08/1972
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Capt. H. S. Jones collection
1976-14-0
Collection
Identifier: 1976-14-0
Scope and Contents
This collection contains records and correspondence pertaining to Captain Herbert Sidney Jones, of Litchfield, Conn.
Herbert Sidney Jones was born on July 22, 1893 in New York City. He attended the U.S. Naval Academy, graduating in 1916. He received his master's degree in engineering from Columbia University. He served in the U.S. Navy, and was the commander of a destroyer when he retired in 1934 for reasons of health. During WWII, he was recalled to active duty and served on the Bureau...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1928-1975; Other: Date acquired: 11/04/1977
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Julia Henrietta Jones letter to Laura Boardman Lane
00-2023-37-0
Item
Identifier: 00-2023-37-0
Abstract
Letter from Julia Henrietta Jones to Laura Boardman Lane offering excuses for not writing sooner. Jones details a doctor’s success in treating Mary Deming, also a former Female Academy student, who would die the following month.
Dates:
1847-03-31
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Joy and Beers families papers
00-1975-04-0
Collection
Identifier: 00-1975-04-0
Scope and Contents
Papers related to the Joy and Beers families consisting of genealogical tables and family records, news clippings and obituaries, correspondence (six are sympathy letters written at the death of Katie Palmer Joy at age 26 in childbirth), and other documents. Family members include Jane Joy Burgess, Jane Ellen Joy, Lewis Beers Joy, and Belle Radcliffe Laverack. These families primarily lived in New York State. Walter Joy (1810-1863) and Jane Ellen Radcliffe were married on January 22, 1833...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1859-1935; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1975
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Carte de viste of a girl by J. L. Judd
00-2021-47-0
Item
Identifier: 00-2021-47-0
Abstract
Carte de viste of an unidentified girl.
Dates:
probably 1860s-1870s
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Henry Judson military commissions
00-2008-36-0
Collection
Identifier: 00-2008-36-0
Scope and Contents
Connecticut military commissions to Henry Judson.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1813; 1818; Other: Date acquired: 11/30/2007
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Lucy Flower Karl papers
00-1971-44-0
Collection
Identifier: 00-1971-44-0
Scope and Contents
Papers of Lucy Flower Karl (1870-1958), consisting of correspondence, ephemera, a photograph, and other documents. Lucy Karl was married to William C. Karl, and the papers include items related to her 13-year-old son William Raymond Karl, who had the unfortunate distinction of being Litchfield's first motor vehicle fatality in 1915. William C. Karl was one of seven Karl brothers who came to Litchfield with their parents, Peter and Wilhelmina Hudel Karl, in the 1880s. William died in 1903....
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1896-1930; Other: Date acquired: 01/03/1971
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Karnae Mining and Milling Co. map
00-2010-347-0
Collection
Identifier: 00-2010-347-0
Scope and Contents
Map labeled "Property of the K[a?]rn[a?]e M[ining and?] Milling Co." showing the locations of land plots, a vein, shafts, a mill, and a tunnel.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: undated; Other: Date acquired: 05/09/2012
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
C. Murray Keefer manuscript
00-1956-30-0
Collection
Identifier: 00-1956-30-0
Scope and Contents
Typescript manuscript, "Historical Sketch: Portraying the Ceremony of Presentation to James Morris of the Morris Academy Building and Its Dedication in November 1803," prepared by C. Murray Keefer and enacted in the Morris Community Hall on Jul 24, 1935, as a part of the Connecticut Tercentenary Celebration.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1935; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1956
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society