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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

Connecticut. Governor (1754-1766 : Fitch). Military appointments of Israel Kimberly, 1758-1759.

Title: Military appointments of Israel Kimberly, 1758-1759.

Appointments as ensign in the sixth company in a regiment of foot, raised in the Colony of Connecticut to invade Canada, under command of Col. Nathan Whiting, 27 Mar. 1758, and as lieutenant of the first company in a regiment of foot, under command of Col. David Wooster, 27 Mar. 1759. Both documents signed by Thomas Fitch, governor of Connecticut.

ArchivalResource: (0.1 linear ft.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/72711303 View

Thomas Addis Emmet collection, 1483-1876 (bulk:1700-1800)

Title: Thomas Addis Emmet collection, 1483-1876 (inclusive), 1700-1800 (bulk)

The portion of the Emmet Collection housed in the Manuscripts and Archives Division consists of approximately 10,800 historical manuscripts relating chiefly to the period prior to, during, and following the American Revolution. The collection contains letters and documents by the signers of the Declaration of Independence as well as nearly every prominent historical figure of the period.

ArchivalResource: 30.83 linear feet; 108 boxes, 21 volumes

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/927 View

Chauncey family. Chauncey family papers, 1675-1928 (inclusive).

Title: Chauncey family papers, 1675-1928 (inclusive).

The papers consist of correspondence, account books, financial records, diaries, journals, and other papers relating to the personal lives and professional careers of the Chauncey family of Connecticut. Material relating to the American Revolution and the colonial period includes the correspondence, legal papers, and financial records of Charles Chauncey (1747-1823). The legal papers of Charles Chauncey (1777-1849) document his work in Philadelphia. The European travel diaries for Nathaniel Chauncey (1824-1826) and Durham, Connecticut town records relating to Worthington Gallup Chauncey's municipal duties are also included in the papers.

ArchivalResource: 8 linear ft. (19 boxes, 1 folio)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702153373 View

A map of the bay from Tunderoga to Crown Point / Mr. Colden.

Title: A map of the bay from Tunderoga to Crown Point / Mr. Colden. [1759?]

ArchivalResource: 1 map on 2 assembled sheets : ms. ; 32 x 57 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58670075 View

Wooster, David, 1711-1777. Autograph letter signed with initials : Rye Neck, to Col. William Duer, 1777 Mar. 2.

Title: Autograph letter signed with initials : Rye Neck, to Col. William Duer, 1777 Mar. 2.

Complaining of lack of co-operation by commanding officers and insubordination in the ranks.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (3 p.) ; (fol.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270584086 View

Wooster, David, 1711-1777. Orderly book of David Wooster, 1759.

Title: Orderly book of David Wooster, 1759.

Orderly book (1759 June 19-October 10) including orders for Wooster's regiment at Fort Edward, Lake George, Ticonderoga, and Crown Point, N.Y.

ArchivalResource: 1 volume (180 pages).1 microfilm reel.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/71070567 View

New Haven (Conn.). Justice of the Peace. Summons, 1774.

Title: Summons, 1774.

Summons Samuel Martin for non payment of debt, signed by David Wooster; Elisha Booth, constable, certifies that the writ was read in the defendant's hearing.

ArchivalResource: 1 p. ; 33 x 21 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/43707986 View

Porter, Elisha, 1742-1796. Elisha Porter papers, 1762-1822.

Title: Elisha Porter papers, 1762-1822.

Army officer. Correspondence, commissions, returns, regimental lists, orders and reports relating to Porter's military service (1775-82) with the 4th Hampshire County Regiment of the Massachusetts Militia in the Revolution and Shays' Rebellion, the war effort (1775-76) in the Hadley, Mass., area, and Porter's duties as sheriff and justice of the peace of Hampshire County, Mass. Correspondents include Benedict Arnold, Elbridge Gerry, Joseph Hawley, Samuel Hopkins, Samuel Osgood, Col. Joseph Reed, Gen. Philip Schuyler, Gen. William Shepard, John Trumbull (1756-1843), Israel Williams, Baron Frederick de Woedtke, and David Wooster.

ArchivalResource: 1 box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/16782014 View

Washington Irving's Life of George Washington Volume IV, Miscellany, 1756-1807

Title: Washington Irving's Life of George Washington Volume IV, Miscellany, 1756-1807

Portraits, prints, letters, and documents tipped into Volume 4 of the extra-illustrated quarto edition of Washington Irving's Life of George Washington (New York: G.P. Putnam & Co., 1855-1856) (Rare E 312 I72++ 1898). Portraits: Washington Irving (2), John Burgoyne, Nathanael Greene, Earl of Dartmouth, Joseph Reed (2), Horatio Gates, John Sullivan, Elbridge Gerry, Guy Carleton, Richard Montgomery, Aaron Burr (2), William Pitt, David Wooster, John Lamb (2), Benjamin Church, Thomas Graves, Benjamin Franklin, Henry Knox (2), Benedict Arnold, Christopher Greene, Philip Schuyler, Thomas Mifflin, Martha Washington, Charles Lee, John Adams, John Macpherson, Daniel Morgan, Henry Clinton. Prints: View of Boston from the Bay; Washington's Headquarters at Cmabridge; Vue du mont Vernon et la maison du général Washington; Death of Chatham; Quebec in 1775; View of Quebec, the Capital of British America; London; Mount Vernon; A View of Quebec from the Bason; On th Wast River; A Perspective View of the City of Quebec, the Capital of Canada; [Quebec - The Old Citadel]; [Quebec]; Hudson River From Hoboken; The Evacuation of Boston. Letters: ALS, Jonathan Trumbull to Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, and Oliver Wolcott, May 5, 1778; ALS, Joseph Reed to Abbè Raynal, July 14, 1780; ALS, Elbridge Gerry to Mr. Eliot, June 24, 1800; A[aman.]LS, Aaron Burr to Timothy Edwards, March 5, 1789; ALS, Henry Knox to Mrs. Breck, September 21, 1786; ALS, Píerre Van Cortlandt to Philip Schuyler, MArch 8, 1785; ALS, N. Decubaur to Stephen Moylan, November 21, 1807; ALS, Edward Everett to , February 19, 1834. Documents: A[aman.]DS, [authorization of expenditure, sent to Ebenezer Hancock and signed by Artemus and Joseph Ward], July 29, 1776; ADS, [Proclamation by New Hampshire Governor John Sullivan of a fast], February 29, 1788; A[aman.]DS, [Warrant for the arrest of Reuben Payne, issued by Virignia Governor Benjamin Harrison], June 6, 1782; DS, [Commission of Jonathan Gage, signed by John Avery, et al.], July 2, 1778.

ArchivalResource: 60 items.

https://catalog.library.cornell.edu/catalog/2093665 View

Wooster, David, 1711-1777. Accounts, 1765.

Title: Accounts, 1765.

Charges for detecting and apprehending Ralph Isaacs and others for rioting in New Haven, Conn.

ArchivalResource: 1 p. ; 17 x 20 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/43707985 View

Spencer, Joseph, 1714-1789. Letter, 1776 December 2, North Castle, to David Wooster.

Title: Letter, 1776 December 2, North Castle, to David Wooster.

Exchanges intelligence about troop and fleet movements.

ArchivalResource: 1 p. ; 21 x 16 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/19416752 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