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Perkins, Elisha B. (Elisha Backus), 1792-1863. Elisha B. Perkins legal correspondence, 1816-1828.

Title: Elisha B. Perkins legal correspondence, 1816-1828.

Correspondence between Elisha B. Perkins, a Pomfret, Connecticut, lawyer and various individuals and companies involved in a court case against Charles H. Hall of New York City. The charges were for "book debt", although there are several mentions of robbery and stealing cargoes from ships. The case was brought to the Superior Court in Connecticut by Samuel Williams. Correspondents include F.W. Saltonstall, Timothy Williams, Peter Remsen & Co. of New York, Seth Staples and Benjamin Nichols. The final letter in the collection indicates the case was settled out of court, but not before numerous depositions were taken, and a legal ruling on bankruptcy came from a lawyer in Cadiz, Spain, where Charles Hall's brother John lived and worked. Not related to the case, but written by Perkins, is a questionnaire sent to determine the state of schools in Pomfret.

ArchivalResource: 0.5 linear foot (1 box).

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Backus, Sylvanus, 1768-1817. Sylvanus Backus papers, 1788-1836.

Title: Sylvanus Backus papers, 1788-1836.

Sylvanus Backus was an attorney residing in Pomfret, Connecticut. He served as Speaker of the Connecticut House of Representatives and was elected to Congress, but died before taking his seat. During the War of 1812 he was an officer with the 1st Regiment Volunteer Brigade under Gen. David Humphreys. Others represented in the collection include Elisha Backus Perkins, John McClellan, and James McClellan. Perkins read law with Backus and partnered with him in 1816. John McClellan served in the Connecticut legislature between 1792 and 1824. James was John McClellan's younger brother. Most of the papers are of a legal nature.

ArchivalResource: 1 linear foot (2 boxes).

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McClellan, John, 1767-1858. McClellan family papers, 1697-1907.

Title: McClellan family papers, 1697-1907.

Primarily personal and business correspondence of John McClellan, a Woodstock, Connecticut, lawyer, justice of the peace, selectman, and member of the state legislature. Among his more noted correspondents were Jesse Root, Jedediah Morse, Epaphroditis Champion, and John A. Rockwell. His correspondence is supplemented by writs, summonses, depositions, court dockets, judgments, and court expenses representative of his role as a lawyer. Legal papers of Sylvanus Backus and Elisha Perkins, who was guardian to Mary Ann and Andrew Backus, contain letters to McClellan, with whom one assumes they consulted. John's other business concerns represented in the collection are the partnership of McClellan & Averill, and the Woodstock Boarding House Association. A significant amount of land records and correspondence document Connecticut's presence in the Western Reserve and the activities of the Connecticut Land Company, with whom McClellan was affiliated. Other papers include invoices and accounts, expenses to the General Assembly, tax lists, militia papers, law notebooks, a diary while he was a student at Yale, drawings and contracts for building his home and office, Woodstock town records including tax lists, care of the poor, expenses, and plot maps. The collection also contains the correspondence, estate inventory and financial and legal papers of John McClellan's father, General Samuel McClellan. Other family members represented in the collection include Isaac Webb, his first wife Mary McClellan Webb, his second wife Sarah McClellan Webb who later married Benjamin Silliman, William Williams, Faith Williams McClellan, Joseph McClellan, Edward Percival McClellan, Jane McClellan Weaver, Dr. John McClellan, Olive McClellan, Jessy McClellan, and John Robinson, whose sermon notes date from 1697. Also in the collection, perhaps representing one of John's cases, are correspondence and supporting documents in the settlement and trial of the William Dudley estate in Roxbury, Massachusetts. Of particular interest is a map of a road, made in 1812, between the Rhode Island border and the town of Ashland, Connecticut and the passport and diaries of Isaac Webb while touring Europe, 1840-1842.

ArchivalResource: 15 linear feet (31 boxes)

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Winthrop, John, 1606-1676. John Winthrop, Jr., papers, 1644-1848.

Title: John Winthrop, Jr., papers, 1644-1848.

Land grants in New London and Plainfield, Conn.; deeds of sale, wills, summonses, leases, court papers, freeholder records, petitions to the Connecticut General Assembly (and General Court); copies of Indian deeds of Winthrop and John Still Winthrop; papers reflecting litigation between John Still Winthrop and Gurdon Saltonstall; and fragments of other documents. Other persons represented include David Chesebrough, Thomas Chipman, Benjamin Clarke, Silas Clark, Capt. Stephen Clark, Thomas Clark, Wm. P. Cleaveland, Daniel Coit, Isaac Coit, Thomas Coit, Thomas Collard, John Crary, James Dean, Jr., William Dean, Silas Deane, William Dennis, J. Douglas, William Douglas, Wm. Dudley, William Dummer, Wm. Edwards, Joseph Fairbanks, Ephraim Fellows, John Fellows, Maj. James Fitch, L. Fosdick, John Gallup, John Gallup, Jr., Wm. Gallup, Jonathan Gilbert, Stephen Hall, Edward Hallam, Ebenezer Harris, Thomas Harris, Joshua Hempstead, Stephen Hempstead, Nicholas Higgins, John Hollow, Samuel Howe, Henrietta Hyde, Nathaniel Jewell, Joseph Johnson, William Johnson, Eleazar Kimberly, James Kingsbury, Joseph Kingsbury, and Samuel Latimer. Other persons represented include Lucy Leghmore, John Lewis, John Livingston, Joseph Marion, Hugh Marks, Wm. Marsh, Samuel Mason, Jeremiah Miller, Jeremiah Miller, Jr., John Mills, Thomas Minor, James Morgan, John Mumford, Jr., Thomas Mumford, Jr., Timothy Newell, Elisha Paine, Benjamin Palmer, James Park, Samuel Holden Parsons, Elisha Perkins, Jabez Perkins, Ezekiel Pierce, Thomas Pierce, Timothy Pierce, Benjamin Pratt, Jonathan Prentiss, Edward Pynchon, John Richards, Amos Richeson, Joseph Rogers, Gurdon Saltonstall, Rebecca Saltonstall, Winthrop Saltonstall, Epos Sargent, James Seaton, Isaac Shepard, Jonas Shepard, Samuel Shepard, John Smith, Owen Smith, Joseph Spalden, Benjamin Spaulding, Edward Spaulding, John Spaulding, Thomas Spencer, Caleb Stanley, Herby Stephens, Thomas Stephens, Ralph Stoddard, Jr., Priscilla Symonds, Joseph Talcott, Capt. Jonathan Tillinghast, Daniel Tracy, John Tracy, Joseph Tracy, and Solomon Tracy. Other persons represented include Ellsworth Wait, Joseph and Mary Wanton, James Welch, Jacob Warren, Ephraim Wheeler, Isaac Wheeler, Parkhurst Wheeler, Joshua Whitney, Thomas Williams, Ann Winthrop, Anna Winthrop, Basil Winthrop, Catherine Winthrop, John Still Winthrop, Margarita Winthrop, Maria Winthrop, Rebecca Saltonstall Winthrop, Daniel Witherell, John Wood, Edwards Yeomans, and John Yeomans.

ArchivalResource: 65 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/71059107 View