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Wyllys family. Wyllys family papers, 1633-1829.

Title: Wyllys family papers, 1633-1829.

Contains correspondence, land deeds, testimonies, petitions, wills, estate inventories, and other documents relating to the Wyllys family of Hartford. Individuals represented in the collection include: George Wyllys (d. 1645), Samuel Wyllys (1631-1709), Hezekiah Wyllys (1672-1741), George Wyllys (1710-1796), Mary Woodbridge Wyllys, Samuel Wyllys (1739-1823), Hezekiah Wyllys (1747-1827), Amelia Dyer Trumbull Wyllys, John Palsgrave Wyllys, Rev. Timothy Woodbridge, Jr., Dudley Woodbridge, Dorothy Lamb Woodbridge, Ashbel Woodbridge, Theodore Woodbridge, Governor John Winthrop, Jonathan Trumbull, Roger Sherman, Gershom Bulkley, William Samuel Johnson, John Pynchon, James Wadsworth, Silas Deane, Joseph Wadsworth, and Oliver Wolcott, Jr. Materials include petitions regarding Indian lands; a document of questions and answers in the Witchcraft examination in Stamford in 1692; a resolve regarding the purchase of lands by free blacks; a letter from Queen Anne to the Governor and Colony of Connecticut relating to an expedition against the French and Indians dated 1710-11; a letter from 1770 regarding the Sons of Liberty; a speech by Captain Solomon, chief of the Stockbridge Indians, dated January 15, 1776; payrolls for horses during the American Revolution; an estate inventory for George Wyllys dated 1645; land deeds for property in Hartford, Wethersfield, Windsor, Farmington, and Glastonbury; a bill of sale to George Wyllys for a slave dated 1777; court testimonies; a list of the freemen in Middletown in 1669; lists of corn, wheat, and persons in Hartford, Windsor, and Wethersfield in 1669; documents relating to the Commissioners of the United Colonies; and proclamations by Governor Oliver Wolcott. Also includes some Wyllys genealogy materials.

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