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Hillhouse family. Hillhouse family papers, 1707-1943 (inclusive), 1771-1938 (bulk).

Title: Hillhouse family papers, 1707-1943 (inclusive), 1771-1938 (bulk).

The papers consist of correspondence, deeds, account books, estate records, architectural drawings, legal papers, notebooks, commonplace books, letterbooks, scrapbooks, daybooks, and miscellaneous papers documenting the personal lives and professional careers of three generations of the Hillhouse family of New Haven, Connecticut and New York. Major figures represented in the papers include: James Hillhouse (1754-1832), Mary Lucas Hillhouse (1785-1871), James Abraham Hillhouse (1789-1841), Augustus Lucus Hillhouse (1791-1859), and James Hillhouse (1854-1938). The papers document family relationships, personal activities, the business and legal careers of family members, political interests, and the architectural design of the family residence, Sachem's Wood.

ArchivalResource: 37 linear ft. (88 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702157851 View

Cavallon, Michael F. New Haven and Northampton Canal collection, 1826-1985.

Title: New Haven and Northampton Canal collection, 1826-1985.

Materials relating to a canal chartered by the State of Connecticut in 1822, connecting New Haven to Southwick, Mass., via Farmington, Conn., opening in 1828 (known as the Farmington Canal) which was extended into the State of Massachusetts (under name Hampshire and Hampden Canal) from Southwick to Westfield in 1829 and completed to Northampton in 1835; in 1855 the canals suffered heavy damage and both companies sold out to a new company: New Haven and Northampton Canal Company which put the whole system under one control, operating it until 1845 when the canal was replaced by a railroad.

ArchivalResource: 1 box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70958283 View

Hillhouse family papers, 1707-1943

Title: Hillhouse family papers 1707-1943

The papers consist of correspondence, deeds, account books, estate records, architectural drawings, legal papers, notebooks, commonplace books, letterbooks, scrapbooks, daybooks, and miscellaneous papers documenting the personal lives and professional careers of three generations of the Hillhouse family of New Haven, Connecticut and New York. Major figures represented in the papers include: James Hillhouse (1754-1832), Mary Lucas Hillhouse (1785-1871), James Abraham Hillhouse (1789-1841), Augustus Lucus Hillhouse (1791-1859), and James Hillhouse (1854-1938). The papers document family relationships, personal activities, the business and legal careers of family members, political interests, and the architectural design of the family residence, Sachem's Wood.

ArchivalResource: 48 linear feet (90 boxes, 2 folios)

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.0282 View

Farmington Canal Company. Farmington Canal collection, 1822-1925.

Title: Farmington Canal collection, 1822-1925.

Correspondence, minutes (1822-1828, 1841-1843) of meetings of commissioners, stock certificates, petitions, newspaper clippings, maps, and other legal and administrative records, relating to the canal which ran from New Haven, Conn., to Northampton, Mass.

ArchivalResource: size.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/428818113 View