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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

Dartmouth College Office of the President. Records of the administration of Francis Brown, 1815-1820.

Title: Records of the administration of Francis Brown, 1815-1820.

Correspondence chiefly concerns the Dartmouth College case (Trustees of Dartmouth College v. William Woodward. Correspondents, whose letters primarily relate to the Dartmouth College case, include a number of Dartmouth College trustees including Nathaniel Niles, Israel W. Putnam, Seth Payson, Timothy Farrar, Elijah Paine, and Asa McFarland. Among those opposing the college trustees and supporting Dartmouth University, Brown received letters from Gov. William Plumer, Gov. John Taylor Gilman, William Henry Woodward, John Wheelock, and William Allen. Other correspondents include Joseph Hopkinson, Joseph Perry, Nathan Smith, Benjamin J. Gilbert, Joseph Annance, Alexander Ramsay, Jermiah Mason, Azel Backus, Jeremiah Day, R.D. Mussey, and Erastus Fairbanks. To a lesser extent the records concern fiscal matters of Moor's Charity School and the enrollment of boys from the Stockbridge Indians and the tribe at St. Francis. Other subjects include the loaning of a telescope to Dartmouth by William Thurston, and the leasing of college-owned land in Wheelock, VT. The records include Brown's inaugural address and some accounts.

ArchivalResource: 3 boxes (1.0 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/240876750 View

Marsh, Charles, 1765-1849. Report of the committee on prize speaking, 1838 July 26 [Hanover, N.H.].

Title: Report of the committee on prize speaking, 1838 July 26 [Hanover, N.H.].

The winners are Edmund Slafter, James Abbot, Austin Heaton, and Walter Tenney.

ArchivalResource: 1 p. 10 x 21 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/2774354 View

Mason, Jeremiah, 1768-1848. Jeremiah Mason papers, 1798-1844 (inclusive).

Title: Jeremiah Mason papers, 1798-1844 (inclusive).

Correspondence during his terms as Attorney General of New Hampshire (1802-1805), as a senator in the United States Senate (1813-1817), and as a representative in the New Hampshire House of Representatives (1820-1824). The correspondence also reflects his activities in private practice and in local issues, such as the Dartmouth College Case (1818-1819). The correspondence, which is largely political, reflects the issues of the times, among them Aaron Burr's activities, the Tripolitan War, the War of 1812, the presidential elections of 1816 and 1824, the embargo and the tariff. Among the correspondents are Nicholas Biddle, David Daggett, Rufus King, William Plumer, Benjamin Tappan and Bennett Tyler.

ArchivalResource: .25 linear ft. (1 box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702166213 View

Brown, Francis, 1784-1820. Letter, 1809 Oct. 7, N. Yarmouth [ME], to Charles Marsh, Esquire, Woodstock, Vt.

Title: Letter, 1809 Oct. 7, N. Yarmouth [ME], to Charles Marsh, Esquire, Woodstock, Vt.

Brown expresses his reasons for considering a preaching position in No. Yarmouth rather than Woodstock.

ArchivalResource: [1] p. ; 39 x 31 cm. folded to 20 x 31 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82212626 View

Brown, Francis, 1784-1820. Papers, 1806-1815

Title: Papers, 1806-1815

Chiefly letters received by Brown while a tutor at Dartmouth College.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (0.4 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81215070 View

Justin S. Morrill Papers, 1825-1923, (bulk 1854-1898)

Title: Justin S. Morrill Papers 1825-1923 (bulk 1854-1898)

United States senator and representative from Vermont and merchant. Correspondence, government documents, speeches and writings, printed matter, scrapbooks, and miscellaneous material relating principally to Morrill's career as a congressman and senator.

ArchivalResource: 10,600 items; 77 containers; 30.8 linear feet; 52 microfilm reels

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009307 View

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

Marsh, Charles, 1821-1873. Marsh Family of Woodstock, Vt., genealogical papers, 1849-1869.

Title: Marsh Family of Woodstock, Vt., genealogical papers, 1849-1869.

Correspondence and notes of Charles Marsh, relating to the genealogy of the descendents of John Marsh of Essex County, England, and Charles Marsh (1765-1849), of Woodstock, Vt. Includes 2 letters of Roswell Marsh commenting on Joseph Marsh's participation in the Battle of Bennington.

ArchivalResource: 19 items ; 32 cm. or smaller.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/237598239 View

Brown, Francis, 1784-1820. Letters, 1818 Jan. 13-Mar. 21 [and later?], to Charles Marsh.

Title: Letters, 1818 Jan. 13-Mar. 21 [and later?], to Charles Marsh.

Brown, president of Dartmouth College, writes to Charles Marsh, attorney and college trustee, concerning the Dartmouth College case.

ArchivalResource: 5 items (5 sheets)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122358217 View