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Collection
Identifier: 1950-01-0
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...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1762-1950; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1921
Collection
Identifier: 00-2009-83-0
Scope and Contents
Thomas M. Hardy, captain His Majesty's Ship Victory, orders Mr. Walter Burke, purser of HMS Victory, to supply His Majesty's Ship Spencer with butter and cheese.
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1806 Oct 2
Collection
Identifier: 2358
Abstract
The Jedediah Huntington Orderly Book collection (2358) is a book of orders from George Washington written by Jedediah Huntington. The orders in the book are from January 1st, 1776 to April 2nd of the same year.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1776-01-01 - 1776-04-02; Other: Date acquired: 02/07/1921
Collection
Identifier: 00-2010-282-0
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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.
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1864 Jul-Sep; Other: Date acquired: 11/09/2011
Collection
Identifier: 1918-38-0
Scope and Contents
Dated from Litchfield, subscribers enlist as Private soldiers in a Regiment to be commanded by Col. Andrew Ward, Jr. under the command of Major General Lee for the term of eight weeks. The subscribers are convinced of the necessity of a body of forces to defeat the enemy.
Added to the Beebe family papers.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1776 Jan 21; Other: Date acquired: 11/30/1917
Collection
Identifier: 2002-21-0
Scope and Contents
Connecticut covers (1967-1971); postcards, (circa 1903-1969); envelopes, unknown to Ransom (circa 1883), Pratt & Thompson to Ebenezer Wooster (1886), Flynn & Doyle to George R. Bailey (1913); photographs, including Litchfield High School students (circa 1880s), cabinet cards; publications and ephemera (1910s-1930s); Swamp-Root Almanacs, imprinted with Litchfield Pharmacy and Crutch & McDonald; deeds, F. Nelson B. Smith (1846), Edwin E. Pretiss (1858), and Charles Munson (1867);...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1797-1971; Other: Date acquired: 02/08/2003
Collection
Identifier: 00-2009-153-0
Scope and Contents
Records of Moses Lyman of Goshen (Conn.) with the 17th regiment of Connecticut Militia.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1784-1790
Collection
Identifier: 00-2010-284-0
Abstract
Message to the Confederates, Norfolk, Va., in answer to to our terms of surrender, signed Capt. Mackenzie. The message could be a copy of an original, and "Capt. Mackenzie" could be Capt. Ranald Slidell Mackenzie, who commanded the 2nd Connecticut Heavy Artillery in 1864.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: [1864?]
Collection
Identifier: 00-1955-32-0
Scope and Contents
A collection of papers of the Luddington and Potter families. Polly Luddington, granddaughter of David, married Sherman Potter on 13 March 1816.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1767-1821; Other: Date acquired: 07/09/1956
Collection
Identifier: 2010-97-0
Scope and Contents
The papers of the Starr family of Litchfield, Conn., primarily centering on Henry Starr (1785-1817) and his parents, Daniel (1759-1809) and Rachel Buell Starr (1761-1813), which include correspondence, a notebook, financial records, and documents related to the estates of Daniel and Rachel Buell Starr. Both father and son were tailors. There is a large group of military records created during the War of 1812 when Henry Starr was a lieutenant serving as paymaster in 37th Regiment U.S....
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1806-1816; Other: Date acquired: 09/04/2010
