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Roger Sherman (1721-1793) collection, 1749-1904

Title: Roger Sherman (1721-1793) collection 1749-1904

Correspondence, reports, legal records, financial documents and genealogical material of Roger Sherman, signer of the Declaration of Independence. Included are both family letters and political correspondence. Of special interest are the letters to Governor Jonathan Trumbull on the relationship of Connecticut to the prosecution of the war (1777-1780). Among Sherman's writings are a report from the Constitutional Convention (1787), a note on the proposal for a national bank (1791) and a printed copy of his Almanac for 1760. Genealogical and other papers assembled by Sherman's grandson, George Frisbie Hoar (1826-1904) are also in the collection. Major correspondents are Oliver Ellsworth, Samuel Hopkins, Titus Hosmer, Samuel Huntington, Stephen Mix Mitchell and William Williams.

ArchivalResource: 1 linear foot (2 boxes)

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.0447 View

Sherman, Roger, 1721-1793. Roger Sherman (1721-1793) collection, 1749-1904 (inclusive).

Title: Roger Sherman (1721-1793) collection, 1749-1904 (inclusive).

Correspondence, reports, legal records, financial documents and genealogical material of Roger Sherman, signer of the Declaration of Independence. Included are both family letters and political correspondence. Of special interest are the letters to Governor Jonathan Trumbull on the relationship of Connecticut to the prosecution of the war (1777-1780).

ArchivalResource: 1 linear ft. (2 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702206186 View

Mitchell family. Papers, 1789-1802.

Title: Papers, 1789-1802.

Octavo volume 1 is an envelope containing four sermons preached by Rev. Justus Mitchell, and dated 1789, 1791, and April 20 and July 19, 1795. Octavo volume 2 is a volume of 352 pages, approximately 100 pages of which are blank. It contains notes made by Minott Mitchell in 1802 on student disputations at Yale moderated by the college's president, Timothy Dwight (1752-1817). Topics of these disputations include "Is man totally depraved?" "Do springs originate from sea or vapors?" "Ought the liberty of the press to be restrained?" and "Ought slaves to be immediately emancipated?" There are also a few miscellaneous notes, including two pages of notes on legal topics.

ArchivalResource: 2 v. ; octavo.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/191259545 View