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The library of The Connecticut Historical Society, under grant funding from the
National Historical Publications and Records Commission, has begun to create
finding aids to twenty-five of its nationally significant collections. Additional finding aids have been compiled by Ruth Blair. for the XML version you will need:
Collection consists of the records of the Council of Safety, the Commissary, the Committee of Paytable, Sheldon's Light Dragoons, and the Third Regiment, Connecticut Line. The collection also contains journals, orderly books and correspondence describing activities of Connecticut persons during the Revolution.
Henry Barnard was a champion of public education. His work for the Connecticut
public school system parallels that of Horace Mann in Massachusetts. Barnard was
the first educator to sit in Congress. Collection consists largely of correspondence of featherweight boxing champion Christopher "Bat" Battalino, including letters from George Grosch, his former handler, members of boxers associations, fans and sports writers and ephemera including programs and menus for testimonial banquets and books used by his wife, Lillian, on the care of infants. Collection consists of letters written home to his parents and siblings by air force officer stationed on the Mariana Islands in the Pacific during World War II. George Clary was born in Cornish, New Hampshire in 1829, the son of Rev. Joseph Clary and his second wife Lucy. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1852 after which he studied with physicians in Thetford, New Hampshire and Hartford, Connecticut while also working as a clerk in a drug store. He attended the Yale School of Medicine, graduating in 1857. During the Civil War he served as surgeon in the Thirteenth Regiment of Connecticut Volunteers.
The collection (1843-1881) consists of his correspondence, diaries, papers and essays, papers of his family and transcriptions of some of his papers. Mason Fitch Cogswell was instrumental in establishing in Hartford an institute
for the deaf and dumb. Asylum Avenue in Hartford is named for his pioneering
institute; his daughter, Alice, was its first pupil.
As a U.S. agent in France during the American Revolution, Silas Deane recruited many French officers to serve in the Continental Army. He was recalled by Congress in 1777, after concerns from George Washington about the ability of his commissioned officers.
Collection (1844-1869) consists largely of letters written to William Ellsworth in a professional capacity as lawyer. The correspondence was written or received in the last twenty years of Ellsworth's life after his retirement form political life and his return to the poractice of law. Principal correspondents include: G. & C. Merriam, Chauncey Goodrich, Norman White, Henry Jones, W. G. Webster, and Henry Trowbridge.
Collection consists of a wide range of material created and/ or received by a number of members of the Gilman and Hills families over almost two centuries. The majorty of the material is correspondence. Collection contains material from: Phineas Gilman, Julius Gilman, George Shepard Gilman, Julius Sheldon Gilman, Ellen Hills Gilman, George Hills Gilman, George Hills Gilman, Jr. and Mabel Goodrich Gilman.
With popular and official state approval, Griswold was strongly opposed to the rebellious war with Great Britain. He went so far as to refuse to place Connecticut militia under the command of the national government.
Journals, accounts of enlisted men, financial records and orderly books comprise this varied collection of material relating to the the war that left the majority of North America under British Control.
By the end of the eighteenth century, St. Domingue prospered in large part due to the importation of African slaves to work on the plantations of sugar, coffee, indigo, and cotton. At the start of the French Revolution, Haiti was France's richest colony. But the slogans of Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité stirred up the passions of several of the poorer classes in the colony, including slaves.
Boon in Kent, England, and settling in Michigan, Mark Howard acted as newspaper editor, vociferous Republican (helping to establish the party in Connecticut) and agent for the Protection Insurance Company of Hartford. He worked within the insurance industry for most of his life and rose under Lincoln to become the first internal revenue collector for Connecticut.
Educated at Harvard College Jedidiah Huntington rose from ensign of the First Nowich Company in 1769 to brigadier-general in the Continental Army; by the end of the Revolutionary War he was brevetted as major-general. His leadership in many Connecticut Regiments served him after the Revolution when he assumed political prominence in Connecticut local government.
Collection consists of clippings of obituaries and news of social events appearing in the Hartford Courant of Hartford, Connecticut and the Republican of Springfield, Massachusetts, chronologically arranged from 1873 to 1924.
Professor of mining at Columbia University and consultant mining engineer, this Litchfield resident took his skills to Japan where he taught a generation of Japanese mining engineers.
These papers document the life and work of one of the first American Indian
missionaries to preach widely in New England.
Elizabeth Jarvis Raymond was born in Norwalk, Connecticut in 1881, the daughter of George Henry and Helen Eugenia Banks Raymond and granddaughter of Bradley and Rachel Jarvis Banks and Elizabeth Beers Raymond. She graduated from Centre High School in Norwalk in 1897. She was a Civil Service employee in Washington, D.C. until she retired in l944 at which time she moved to Hartford, Connecticut. Collection consists largely of correspondence of the Banks and Raymond families and includes a map of the Archer-Beers homestead and postcards depicting homes and buildings in Norwalk, Connecticut.
Thomas Seymour was commissioned Major of the Connecticut Infantry and the 9th U. S. Infantry, and led successful assaults on Mexico City and Chapultepec in the Mexican War. Equally at home away from the battlefield, he was returned as a Democrat to the 28th Congress and served four years as Franklin Pierce's ambassador to Russia.
Hartford's favorite poetess of the mid-nineteenth century; Lydia Sigourney's poetry was ranked by her contemporaries alongside that of Longfellow and Bryant.
David Trumbull, third son of Connecticut Governor Jonathan Trumbull, spent most of his life as a farmer in Lebanon, though he spent many of the years during the American Revolutionary War as his father's right-hand man at the War Office.
James Trumbull entered Yale College in 1838, but owing to poor health was never graduated. Nevertheless, Trumbull became a noted philologist, historian, and bibliographer. Assisting James Harvey Linsley, Trumbull cataloged the mammalia, reptiles, birds, shells, and fish of the state of Connecticut; he worked full time as a librarian at Hartford's Watkinson Library of Reference, and he compiled and published The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut, Prior to the Union with New Haven Colony, May 1665. Perhaps Trumbull's best-known work was that on Indian languages, including an 1865 translation of John Eliot's catechism for the Indians, and several journal articles on Indian languages.
John Trumbull, son of Jonathan Trumbull Governor of Connecticut, was an officer
in the Revolutionary War. He is the artist who created many of America's most
significant artwork relating to the Revolution.
Jonathan Trumbull, Jr. of Lebanon, Connecticut, began his political career in 1770, when he was elected to the Lebanon Board of Selectmen. His public duties later moved to Washington and he was appointed to succeed Alexander Hamilton as George Washington's secretary. Sitting in the Connecticut General Assembly, the House of Representatives and the Senate, Trumbull was an influential political figure. He returned to Connecticut as Governor upon Oliver Wolcott's death in 1797 and here failed to comply with James Madison's order to call out the Connecticut militia to enforce the Embargo Act.
Jonathan Trumbull developed an extensive trading business, and unlike most colonial traders, who went through middle men in New York and Boston, he established direct connexions with merchants in Great Britain. Elected Governor of Connecticut in 1769, Trumbull had enjoyed a long career in public service. At the start of the hostilities with Great Britain in 1775, Trumbull was the only governor to support the position of the colonies. He had long been a supporter of colonial rights and during the war supplied General Washington with food, clothing, and munitions. Trumbull remained in the governor's seat until his retirement in 1784. His distinguished life came to an end on August 17, 1785.
Appointed as the first Commissary-General of Stores and Provisions for the army of the United Colonies, but given little money to provision the force, Joseph Trumbull was the focus of a Court of Enquiry appointed by George Washington and was criticized for the prices he fixed for provisions. He was acquitted of any wrongdoing.
Editor of the Hartford Times, postmaster of Hartford, founder of the Republication Party in Connecticut, and Secretary of the U.S. Navy under Abraham Lincoln, Gideon Welles had an incalculable effect on the American political life in the 19th century.
Cosigner of the Declaration of Independence, William Williams, after graduating from Harvard in 1751, entered military service under his father's cousin Colonel Ephraim Williams during the French and Indian War. Williams was very active politically. In 1752 he became Clerk of the House, and in 1757 he sat on the General Assembly of Connecticut; the former role landed him several other duties, including that of assisting and advising Governor Jonathan Trumbull, Sr. in his preparation of an address to His Majesty King George III on the Stamp Act.
Yale educated lawyer, Oliver Wolcott, served in the American revolution, acepting an appointment in the quartermaster's department and supervised the safekeeping and conveyance of army stores and ordnance at Litchfield. He was admitted to the bar in 1781, and he moved to Hartford where he worked in the office of the committee of the pay-table. After the war Wolcott moved to New York with his family and established a capital venture in the China trade. Wolcott was auditor of the federal Treasury, Treasury Secretary, and later was prominent in launching the Bank of America, serving as its president from 1812 until 1814.
Oliver Wolcott studied medicine with his brother, Dr. Alexander Wolcott, but before he was established in practice he moved to Litchfield, where his father owned property, and became Litchfield's first sheriff (1751-1771). As Brigadier-General in August, 1776, Wolcott commanded the fourteen militia regiments sent to New York to reinforce General Putnam on the Hudson River. After success in the military, Wolcott was elected to governorship in 1796, and he held that office until his death the following year. He was president of the Connecticut Society of Arts and Sciences and the recipient of an honorary degree from Yale.
Wolcott was appointed Commissary of the Connecticut Forces in the 1711 expedition against Canada in Queen Anne's War (the War of Spanish Succession, 1702-1713). In 1745, at the age of 66, he was commissioned Major General by Governor William Shirley of Massachusetts and was second in command to Sir William Pepperell in the expedition against Louisbourg during King George's War (the War of the Austrian Succession, 1744-1748).
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