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Hart Family. Papers, 1795-1873.

Title: Papers, 1795-1873.

Deeds, maps, accounts and correspondence documenting the acquisition, speculation in, and sale of lands in the Connecticut Western Reserve by the Hart and Jarvis families of Saybrook and Hartford, Conn. Papers include proprietors' records of the towns of Hartsgrove, Wrightsburg, (i.e. Saybrook) and Sheffield, Ohio. Persons extensively represented include William Hart and Richard W. Hart of Saybrook, Conn., Hetty B. Hart of Hartford, Conn., William and Elizabeth Jarvis of Chatham, Conn., and their agents Sumner Bull and Isaac Mills in the Reserve. Includes field notes of surveyors J.R. and Almon Hawley and letters from James H. Causten about French spoilation claims.

ArchivalResource: 5 boxes, 1 portfolio (1655 items) : ill. ; 66 x 51 x 2 cm. or smaller.

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Gelston & Saltonstall. Letter book, 1791 May-1793 May.

Title: Letter book, 1791 May-1793 May.

Letter book of the firm containing copies of letters to business contacts (May 1791-May 1793), particularly in Connecticut and Long Island, on topics such as their trade in sugar, molasses, rum, coffee, Jamaica spirits, beeswax, white beans, and other commodities; shipping, market conditions and prospects, freight, prices, trade with the West Indies, sale and charter of vessels, credit, marine insurance, the excess of molasses and closing of distilleries in 1791, financial speculation, economic crisis of 1792, and the insurrection in Haiti.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (486 p.)

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