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Webster, Noah, 1758-1843. Noah Webster papers, 1790-1868, bulk 1796-1868 [microform].

Title: Noah Webster papers, 1790-1868, bulk 1796-1868 [microform].

Letters, 1808-1839, including 1 deed dated 1790, 1 facsim. letter dated 16 Feb. 1831.

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http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/19174049 View

Letters to Mrs. Peter Colt, 1782

Title: Letters to Mrs. Peter Colt 1782

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http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=cw/viwc00279.xml View

Burr family papers, 1750-1890

Title: Burr family papers 1750-1890

Correspondence and other papers relating to members of the Burr family of Fairfield, Conn. Principal figures represented in the papers include Aaron Burr (1756-1836), soldier, politician and third vice-president of the United States; and his father, the Reverend Aaron Burr (1716-1757), scholar, clergyman, and second president of the College of New Jersey (later Princeton). These papers were formerly part of the Annie Burr Jennings Memorial Collection (MS 687). See also the Bidwell Family Papers (MS 79) and the Reeve Family Papers (MS 686).

ArchivalResource: 1 linear foot (3 boxes, 1 folio)

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.0303 View

Colt family. Papers, 1777-1913.

Title: Papers, 1777-1913.

ArchivalResource: 123 items (14 folders).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122582932 View

Hartford Woolen Manufactory. Hartford Woolen Manufactory records, 1788-1796.

Title: Hartford Woolen Manufactory records, 1788-1796.

Organizational documents, inventories, sales records and bills of the Hartford Woolen Manufactory. Includes accounts of Daniel Hinsdale and Peter Colt. Papers regarding the Hartford Woolen Manufactory Lottery were originally part of the Andrew Kingsbury Papers. Company is best known for having produced the suit worn by President George Washington at his first inauguration. Bound volumes are a ledger and a daybook kept by Peter Cook, an invoice book of goods made by the company, and a book of sales made by Daniel Hinsdale.

ArchivalResource: 2.5 linear feet (4 boxes and 4 volumes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/294903702 View

Sam Schaefler historical and literary letters and documents, 1674-1970s

Title: Sam Schaefler historical and literary letters and documents, 1674-1970s

Correspondence, documents and manuscripts from late seventeenth and eighteenth century France, especially from the French Revolution, collected by Sam Schaefler. Authors include J.B. Colbert Torcy and the Duchesse Du Lude. Many of the items from the French Revolution represent the work of the Committee of Public Safety and the Committee of General Security. French Revolutionary leaders represented in the collection include François-Antoine Boissy D'Anglas, Jean-Baptiste-Noel Bouchotte, Pierre Joseph Cambon, Lazare Carnot, Jean-Marie Collot D'Herbois, l'Abbʹe de Fauchet, Philippe-Antoine Merlin de Douai, Jean Victor Moreau. C.A. Prieur-Duvernois, and Antoine Joseph Santerre. In addition, the collection includes a letter from the Danish physicist Hans Christian Oersted to Sir John Herschel, a letter by the French poet Romain Rolland, a document of the Philadelphia Artists' Fund Society of 1846 with signatures of its officers, and an autograph letter and a photograph of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. 1986 ADDITION: One letter from James Monroe and two from Theodore Roosevelt. 1987 ADDITION: Correspondence, documents, manuscripts, and photographs dealing with American and English literature, and American and French history during the era of the Revolutions. Included are letters from Erskine Caldwell, Will Durant, Howard Fast, Rachel Field, Emil Ludwig. Edwin Markham, Christopher Morley, and John Howard Payne; manuscripts of John Drinkwater, Felicia Hemans, Romain Rolland, Louis Untermeyer, and Tennessee Williams; and documents of James Duane, Joseph Hopkinson, and Sir Walter Scott. 1988 ADDITION: Correspondence and documents dealing with American and English history during the 18th and 19th centuries. There are letters from Dubo and Demante de Millot (about the French fleet in Haiti in 1780), U.S. Grant, Victor Hugo, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Robespierre, W.H. Seward, and Daniel Waldo; and documents of the Sultan of Borneo and James Madison. There are also photographs taken by Lee David Hamilton of Central Park and of Polaris submarines. 1989 ADDITION: Correspondence, manuscripts, and documents on American history and literature, from the 17th through the 20th centuries. There are letters and some manuscripts to the editor of ANTHOLOGY OF MYSTICAL VERSE and LYRA MYSTICA dating from the 1920s and the 1930s; letters and autographs of early 20th century Americans and New York and Connecticut colonial documents signed by Isaac Huntington, Jacob Remer, and Thomas Dongon. Also included are photographs of foreign travels in a Packard motorcar, 1903-1904, and a photographic travelogue (photographs taken by Henry C. Rem) of the first European motorcar tour by Americans in a Packard, 1907-1910. 1990 ADDITION: Documents dealing with finance and land sales in New York from 1789 to 1879. There are land deeds resulting from the dispersal of the assets of John Lamb at the end of the 1790s, mortgage bonds, insurance policies, and papers about the insurance claims of Ebenezer Stevens for shipping seized by France in 1808. There is also a letter in rebus form, written in 1734. 1992 ADDITION: Three letters from Richard Le Gallienne to Margot Holmes, his photograph signed and inscribed to her, and a Berenice Abbott photograph have been added. 1997 ADDITION: Naval commission of Richard Morice as Commander of H.M.S. Tarrier.

ArchivalResource: 2 linear feet (5 boxes, several oversized items)

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/archival/collections/ldpd_4078402/ View

Bayles, George, 1836-1901. Canfield-Dickerson families papers, 1738-1926.

Title: Canfield-Dickerson families papers, 1738-1926.

Correspondence, diaries, financial records, and legal papers, of allied families of Morris County, N.J.

ArchivalResource: 6 ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70956113 View

American Revolution Collection, 1776-1786.

Title: American Revolution Collection, 1776-1786.

Collection consists of records of the Council of Safety, whose function it was to handle the day to day affairs of Connecticut's wartime government; records of the Commissary department which was responsible for providing food and equipment for the soldiers; records of the Committee of Pay table which paid for supplies and services; payroll records of Col. Sheldon's Light Dragoons; the commissary and paymaster records of the Third Regiment, Connecticut Line; Naval records including correspondence and papers of Timothy Parker, commander of the Oliver Cromwell and correspondence of Nathaniel Shaw, orderly books, journals and correspondence describing activities of Connecticut persons during the Revolution, including Asa Waterman, Peter Colt, Sanford Billings, Benjamin Boardman, Oliver Boardman, William Chapman, Elihu Clark, Joseph Morgan, Calvin Pease and Benjamin Trumbull.

ArchivalResource: 5.5 linear feet (11 boxes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/317877732 View

John de Neufville & Son (Amsterdam, Netherlands). Records, 1780-1853 (bulk 1780-1786).

Title: Records, 1780-1853 (bulk 1780-1786).

Whole and partial letter books, journals, a ledger, a summary of letters received, a personal account book, and other papers of, or related to, the firm of John de Neufville & Son (1780-1853). Letter books (1780-1786) contain copies of correspondence mostly addressed to merchants in Boston, Newburyport, other places in New England, Philadelphia, and occasionally to persons in Baltimore, Albany, Virginia, and South Carolina (3 v., 1,500 p. total). Letters pertain to commercial matters, shipments of goods, debts, dangers to shipping, frequent references to the war, actions of the British, friendly relations between the U.S. and the Netherlands, naval activity, political affairs, etc. The summary of letters received, 1780-1782, is in French (183 p.). Journals (Feb. 1780-May 1785) and ledger (Jan. 1780-Jan. 1782) record accounts primarily with American merchants; in Dutch (3 v.). Personal account book of Nancy de Neufville (1806-1820) records amounts paid for items such as fabric, sewing notions, shoes, entertainments, charitable giving, etc. Other papers include claims made for money owed the firm (1807), a contract in Dutch between John and Leonard de Neufville and Jean Rolland (1783), and an accounting of claims made against the U.S. government (1853).

ArchivalResource: 1.2 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/476924739 View

Connecticut. Treasury Dept. State Treasurer returns, 1791,1793.

Title: State Treasurer returns, 1791,1793.

A collection of returns sent to the Connecticut State Treasurer's office. Peter Colt was serving as Treasurer at the time.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/741357595 View

Wadsworth, Jeremiah, 1743-1804. Jeremiah Wadsworth business and commissary records, 1759-1847.

Title: Jeremiah Wadsworth business and commissary records, 1759-1847.

Primarily correspondence, bills and receipts, and accounts of a Hartford, Connecticut, merchant and Commissary General for the Continental Army during the Revolution. The correspondence covers such topics as trading and shipping goods to Hispaniola and the West Indies, the inexorable steps to war with Britain, Wadsworth's appointment as commissary, reports to Commissary General Joseph Trumbull, the difficulty of securing and transporting provisions for the troops, purchasing sailing vessels, the progress of the war, securing funds to pay suppliers and teamsters, the entry of the French into the war and provisioning their army and navy (for which Wadsworth was appointed agent), the negotiations for peace with Great Britain, establishing commercial ties with merchants in France and Great Britain, and ratification of the constitution. There are also the occasional letters to his wife Mehitable and his children Harriet and Daniel. A portion of correspondence is related to Wadsworth's involvement in settling the estate of General Nathanael Green and caring for his wife Catharine. After the war, topics of the letters turn to wool and cotton mills in Hartford, growing silk, settling land in what was known as Genesee Country in New York States, and the Western Reserve in Ohio, and the halting progress of the newly formed government. Wadsworth found himself commissary for troops in Springfield, Massachusetts, during the period of Shay's Rebellion. Correspondence with Alexander Hamilton documents Wadsworth's participation in the creation of the Bank of the United States. Bills, receipts and accounts cover similar topics--provisioning American troops and later the French troops, and his own merchant ventures. Often the distinction between government-related and personal activities is not clear. Wadsworth was in partnership with Barnabas Deane and later with John Carter in the firm called Wadsworth & Carter. Some of the correspondence and financial records relating to the firm were separated from the business records and filed in their own boxes, as were some of the records regarding the French army. The final 18 boxes in the collection are not as organized as the first ones. There can be found Wadsworth and Carter accounts and the sale and purchase of land in Vermont. He was also involved in settling the estate of Maurice Rondineau.Correspondents included Joel Barlow, Joseph Trumbull, Thomas Mifflin, Benjamin Tallmadge, John Jeffrey, Henry Champion, Jonathan Trumbull, and the Marquis de Lafayette among many others.

ArchivalResource: 24 linear feet (40 boxes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/276407578 View

Peter Colt & Co. Account books, 1786-1792.

Title: Account books, 1786-1792.

Accounts of Brigs Sally, Hope and Jason and of Sloop Diamond.

ArchivalResource: 2 v. ; 32 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/30099252 View

Colt, Peter. Letter, 1782 May 24, Williamsburg [Va.] to Mrs. Peter Colt, Wethersfield [Conn.].

Title: Letter, 1782 May 24, Williamsburg [Va.] to Mrs. Peter Colt, Wethersfield [Conn.].

Received her letter of April 24. Has sent her several letters on matters of business. Wishes for her to send him items of clothing if Col. [Jeremiah] Wadsworth is sending a wagon to the Army. Has heard of the Jays' arrival from Maj. Benjamin Talmadge. Tells of Samuel Allyn's death in Hampton [Va.] Will write to her brother at Charleston. Expects next to go to New York.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (4 p.) ; 23 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/14238010 View

Eldridge, James. James Eldridge correspondence and papers, 1778-1789.

Title: James Eldridge correspondence and papers, 1778-1789.

Correspondence and papers of James W. Eldridge, Assistant Commisary of Purchases. Eldridge worked with Peter Colt, and received several letters from him. Includes records of purchases made and tax lists. Eldridge was working in the southeastern portion of Connecticut.

ArchivalResource: 1 envelope.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/668088658 View

Trumbull, David, 1751-1822. Papers, 1773-1823.

Title: Papers, 1773-1823.

Correspondence and accounts pertaining to raising and equipping troops and forwarding supplies to land and naval forces during the American Revolution; correspondents include Christopher Backus, Peter Colt, John Porter, Joseph Otis, Jeremiah Wadsworth and William Williams. Includes a passport issued to David Trumbull by his father Jonathan Trumbull, Sr.

ArchivalResource: 3 boxes ; 39 x 26 x 12 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/42652236 View

Reeve family. Reeve family papers, 1766-1813 (inclusive).

Title: Reeve family papers, 1766-1813 (inclusive).

Correspondence of Tapping Reeve, jurist, author, and teacher of law, and of his wife, Sarah Burr Reeve, sister of Aaron Burr (1756-1836). Correspondents include Joel Barlow, Aaron Burr, Peter Colt, Jonathan Edwards, Pierpont Edwards, Timothy Edwards, and John Cotton Smith. The letters relate to both family and business affairs.

ArchivalResource: .25 linear ft. (1 box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702168757 View

New Jersey Bank,. New Jersey Bank manuscript collection, 1789-1932.

Title: New Jersey Bank manuscript collection, 1789-1932.

Artificial collection of ca. 60 items consisting primarily of envelopes and handwritten letters. Some of the material pertains to railroads in the mid-Atlantic region; some of it consists of letters sent or received by persons in New Jersey.

ArchivalResource: .2 cubic ft. (1 box).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122414706 View

Nelson, William, 1847-1914. Manuscript collection, 1690-1875

Title: Manuscript Group 23 William Nelson (1847-1914), Lawyer and historian Manuscript Collection, 1690-1875

Letters and documents purchased at the auction of the William Nelson manuscript collection; typescripts of interviews with residents of Paterson, New Jersey and its environs, made and transcribed between 1873 and 1885.

ArchivalResource: 3.0 linear feet

https://jerseyhistory.org/0023-2 View

Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804. [Note to] Peter Colt, Patterson, N.J. / A. Hamilton.

Title: [Note to] Peter Colt, Patterson, N.J. / A. Hamilton.

Holograph signed. A note explaining the lettering delivered by Mr. Binks to Peter Colt concerning the immigrant situation.

ArchivalResource: 1 leaf ; 21 cm. + 1 address leaf (13 x 15 cm.) + 1 name slip (4 x 20 cm.) + 1 transcript (13 cm.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/8392513 View

Burr family. Burr family papers, 1750-1890? (inclusive).

Title: Burr family papers, 1750-1890? (inclusive).

Correspondence and other papers relating to members of the Burr family of Fairfield, Conn. Principal figures represented in the papers include Aaron Burr (1756-1836), soldier, politician and third vice-president of the United States, and his father, the Reverend Aaron Burr (1716-1757), scholar, clergyman, and second president of the College of New Jersey (later Princeton). These papers were formerly part of the Annie Burr Jennings Memorial Collection.

ArchivalResource: l linear ft. (3 boxes, 1 folio)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702166673 View

Trumbull, Joseph, 1737-1778. Joseph Trumbull papers, 1776.

Title: Joseph Trumbull papers, 1776.

True copy of a congressional resolution (1776 December 26) signed by John Hancock empowering Joseph Trumbull as commissary general to acquire flour and the ships with which to transport it from Virginia and other southern states, followed by a copy of an order by Trumbull to Jeremiah Wadsworth and an order by Wadsworth to Peter Colt for the acquisition of ships.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70980663 View

Colt, Francis S. Colt family genealogical research papers, 1878-1966 (bulk 1930-1935).

Title: Colt family genealogical research papers, 1878-1966 (bulk 1930-1935).

The Colt family traced their lineage to John Colt who immigrated to the American colonies in 1636 or 1638 and Peter Colt (1744-1824) who served in the Continental Army from Connecticut. The papers consist primary of the research notes and correspondence of Francis S. and Harris Dunscomb Colt, brothers who sought to document the Colt family's descent. The papers also include genealogical charts and lists, as well as histories of the Colt family. The correspondence consists largely of responses to letters from people who bore the Colt family name and dates mainly from 1930-1936, with some additional letters from the late-19th and late-20th centuries. The family histories include a typescript copy of Peter Colt's "Account of the Colt Family," Francis S. Colt's manuscript on the history of the Colt family, and other typescript and manuscript copies of unidentified historical summaries of the Colt family. Allied families in this collection include Beaumont, Bowne, Child, Dunscomb, Grossinger, Hooker, McGill, More, Netherhall, Spencer, Turner, and Whiting.

ArchivalResource: .21 linear foot (1 box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/669059963 View

Connecticut. Treasury Dept. Treasury Office notes, 1780, 1782.

Title: Treasury Office notes, 1780, 1782.

Peter Colt, treasurer of the State of Connecticut, signed two notes, one to Levi Bingham and the other to Zadock Seymour, promising them a sum of money for serving in the Connecticut Line of the Continental Army. The documents indicate each man had to wait at least 15 years to receive their payment.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/428811154 View

Colt family genealogical research papers, 1878-1966, 1930-1935

Title: Colt family genealogical research papers 1878-1966 1930-1935

The Colt family traced their lineage to John Colt who immigrated to the American colonies in 1636 or 1638 and Peter Colt (1744-1824) who served in the Continental Army from Connecticut. The Colt Family genealogical research papers consists primary of the research notes and correspondence of Francis S. and Harris Dunscomb Colt, brothers who sought to document the Colt family's descent. The papers also include genealogical charts and lists, as well as histories of the Colt family. The correspondence consists largely of responses to letters from people who bore the Colt family name and dates mainly from 1930-1936, with some additional letters from the late-19th and late-20th centuries. The family histories include a typescript copy of Peter Colt's "Account of the Colt Family," Francis S. Colt's manuscript on the history of the Colt family, and other typescript and manuscript copies of unidentified historical summaries of the Colt family. Allied families in this collection include Beaumont, Bowne, Child, Dunscomb, Grossinger, Hooker, McGill, More, Netherhall, Spencer, Turner, and Whiting.

ArchivalResource: .21 linear feet; 1 box

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/18174 View

Wadsworth, Jeremiah, 1743-1804. Jeremiah Wadsworth papers, 1776-1802.

Title: Jeremiah Wadsworth papers, 1776-1802.

Correspondence, business and military accounts, and commissary records, 1776-1802, of Connecticut merchant and commissary general of the Continental Army, Jeremiah Wadsworth.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (ca. 152 items)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58780060 View

Colt, Peter. Letter, 1782 March 14, Williamsburg [Va.] to Mrs. Peter Colt, Wethersfield, [Conn.].

Title: Letter, 1782 March 14, Williamsburg [Va.] to Mrs. Peter Colt, Wethersfield, [Conn.].

Describes his arrival in Williamsburg and the general appearance of the town. His journey was trying. Has found a room at Mrs. Hubbard's, whose husband [a Loyalist] is in New York. Does not know when he will be home. Luxury items are hard to come by, and gambling is rampant. Sends his love and some advice concerning his business.

ArchivalResource: 4 p. ; 23 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/14259605 View

Ely, Edwin A., 1836-1927,. Autograph collection, ca. 1663-1890.

Title: Autograph collection, ca. 1663-1890.

Autograph letters and signed documents, chiefly from the Revolutionary era.

ArchivalResource: 250 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70954623 View

Tallmadge, Benjamin, 1754-1835. Benjamin Tallmadge correspondence, 1781-1782.

Title: Benjamin Tallmadge correspondence, 1781-1782.

ALS (1781 August 18; Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.) written by Tallmadge to Peter Colt concerning naval affairs during the Revolution and mentioning John Paul Jones; and ALS (1782 March 24; Philadelphia, Pa.) written by Tallmadge to Jeremiah Wadsworth pertaining to British military activities on Long Island, N.Y.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70980354 View

Colt, Peter, 1744-1824. Treasurer pay voucher to Samuel Cleveland, 1782 June 1.

Title: Treasurer pay voucher to Samuel Cleveland, 1782 June 1.

Document declaring that the state owes to Cleveland, who served in the Connecticut line of the Continental Army, four pounds, fourteen shillings and eight pence, to be paid with interested before June 1, 1787.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/212782034 View