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Daggett, David, 1764-1851. Autograph letter signed : New Haven, to Noah Webster, 1813 Aug. 12.

Title: Autograph letter signed : New Haven, to Noah Webster, 1813 Aug. 12.

Sending a bill for legal services.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; (fol.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270525962 View

Smith, Helen Evertson, b. 1839. Collection ca. 1762-ca. 1904.

Title: Collection ca. 1762-ca. 1904.

Collection consists of correspondence and papers, ca. 1762 to ca. 1904, of various members of the Smith family of Sharon, Connecticut, particularly: John Cotton Smith (1765-1845), lawyer and governor of Connecticut; his son William Mather Smith; Rev. John Cotton Smith (1826-1882), Protestant Episcopal clergyman; and Helen Evertson Smith's own correspondence and papers, including typescripts of many of her articles on American colonial history, the Revolutionary War, loyalists, social customs, and chapters from her unpublished study "Rebels and Royalists," based, at least in part, on privately owned papers, and relating to such families as Smith (from Rev. Henry Smith of Wethersfield, Connecticut), Gallup, Worthington, Livingston, Evertson, L'Estrange, Kent, Kane, Russell, Morris, Bloom, and many others. Also represented in the collection are David Daggett, Cotton Mather Smith, Samuel Hurlbut, Robert W. Smith, John Cotton Smith, Jr., Gilbert Livingston Smith, William Mather Smith, Simeon Smith, Chauncey Langdon, Robert Gilbert Livingston, Cristopher Minot, Jacob Evertson, and Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Geer.

ArchivalResource: ca. 8 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58657707 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

Daggett, David, 1764-1851. Autograph letter signed : New Haven, to Jedediah Huntingtn, 1800 Jul. 7.

Title: Autograph letter signed : New Haven, to Jedediah Huntingtn, 1800 Jul. 7.

Enclosing a commission to swear the appraisers of a brig.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; (8vo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270525947 View

Daggett, David, 1764-1851. Letter, 1816, Feb. 29.

Title: Letter, 1816, Feb. 29.

ArchivalResource: 1 sheet (1 p.) ; 14 x 20 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/65164081 View

Nesbet, James Alexander, 1812-1862. Letter, 1835 July 1, Madison, Ga., to Messrs. Daggett & Hitchcock, New Haven [Conn.].

Title: Letter, 1835 July 1, Madison, Ga., to Messrs. Daggett & Hitchcock, New Haven [Conn.].

ArchivalResource: 4 p. ; 24 x 20 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/227511004 View

Daggett, David, 1764-1851. David Daggett note to John Babcock, 1820 Mar. 19.

Title: David Daggett note to John Babcock, 1820 Mar. 19.

David Daggett in Washington writes to John Babcock, bookseller in New Haven, Conn., concerning the fees for a patent Daggett sent to Babcock.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/747430625 View

Middlebrook family. Middlebrook family papers, 1782-1929.

Title: Middlebrook family papers, 1782-1929.

Correspondence, legal and financial papers and estate records of several generations of a Trumbull, Connecticut, family. John Middlebrook is represented by records of his estate settlement, 1782. Dr. Stephen Middlebrook received letters from his brother Theophilus in Ferrisburgh, New York, David Daggett, Edmund and Joseph Curtis, Issac Mitchell and John Haines which seem to relate to land investments in New York State. His papers also include an account book, 1772-1819, and several deeds and other legal papers. Robert Middlebrook, Jr., received part of his mother's interest in his father's estate, 1807. Robert's papers include legal and financial records, estate papers, and memorandum books of trips to New York City on board various vessels. Robert's wife Nancy Burton Middlebrook received letters from family members, friends, and her son Louis N. Middlebrook. The elder Stephen Middlebrook is represented by an account book, 1754-1794 documenting his farming activities. The later documents are notes gathered on the history of the Middlebrook family. Two seemingly unrelated letters were written by John Haines to Roger Minott Sherman.

ArchivalResource: 0.65 linear foot (1 box, 3 volumes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/748809201 View

Lane, Wolcott Griswold, d. 1956. Wolcott G. Lane collection, 1930.

Title: Wolcott G. Lane collection, 1930.

Typescript copies of original letters in Lane's possession, most written to Roger Griswold or to or by members of the Griswold family. Letters were written by such individuals as David Daggett, Samuel W. Dana, Samuel Dexter, Timothy Dwight, Thomas Fitch, Chauncey Goodrich, William Hull, Ebenezer Lane, Richard Law, William Pitkin, Israel Putnam, Zephaniah Swift, Joseph Taclott, John Winthrop and George Wyllys. Also Lane's correspondence with relatives and librarians in regard to borrowing any Roger Griswold letters in their possession for includion in a documentary edition of Griswold's correspondence by the Yale University Press.

ArchivalResource: 0.5 linear foot (1 box).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/42077691 View

Daggett, David, 1764-1851. Autograph letter signed : New Haven, to Josiah Williams, merchant in Middletown, 1809 Dec. 25.

Title: Autograph letter signed : New Haven, to Josiah Williams, merchant in Middletown, 1809 Dec. 25.

Giving a legal opinion.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.) ; (8vo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270525969 View

Chauncey family. Chauncey family papers, 1675-1928 (inclusive).

Title: Chauncey family papers, 1675-1928 (inclusive).

The papers consist of correspondence, account books, financial records, diaries, journals, and other papers relating to the personal lives and professional careers of the Chauncey family of Connecticut. Material relating to the American Revolution and the colonial period includes the correspondence, legal papers, and financial records of Charles Chauncey (1747-1823). The legal papers of Charles Chauncey (1777-1849) document his work in Philadelphia. The European travel diaries for Nathaniel Chauncey (1824-1826) and Durham, Connecticut town records relating to Worthington Gallup Chauncey's municipal duties are also included in the papers.

ArchivalResource: 8 linear ft. (19 boxes, 1 folio)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702153373 View

Baldwin, Simeon, 1761-1851. Letter to the mayor and alderman of New Haven, Conn., 1840.

Title: Letter to the mayor and alderman of New Haven, Conn., 1840.

Request for a city meeting to discuss plans to sustain the Farmington Canal; the letter is signed also by David Daggett.

ArchivalResource: 1 p. ; 21 x 20 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34749906 View

Perkins, Elias, 1767-1845. Elias Perkins papers, 18th-19th centuries.

Title: Elias Perkins papers, 18th-19th centuries.

Papers reflecting Perkins's various activities chiefly reflecting his interests as a judge, member of U.S. Congress, and banking and business activities.

ArchivalResource: 332 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/468822170 View

Daggett, David, 1764-1851. Autograph letter signed : New Haven, to William Leffingwell, 1794 Mar. 6.

Title: Autograph letter signed : New Haven, to William Leffingwell, 1794 Mar. 6.

Concerning shipment of pots of pickles.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; (8vo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270525954 View

Edwards, Ogden, 1781-1862. Papers of Ogden Edwards, 1753-1876.

Title: Papers of Ogden Edwards, 1753-1876.

The core of the collection consists of incoming correspondence of Pierpont and Ogden Edwards, with some individuals letters retained, evidently, for their autograph value. Many letters contain annotations identifying famous authors or addressees. The annotations are penned in the same hand as a list of famous historical personages, which appears to be a catalog and/or list of collector's desiderata; the names represented in the Edwards collection are ticked off. include his incoming correspondence and miscellaneous documents documenting Edwards's political and legal career. The correspondents include James Kirke Paulding (1778-1860), William Irving (1766-1821), Eliphalet Nott (1773-1866), Gideon Lee (1778-1841), Edmond Charles Genet (1763-1834), Peter Buell Porter (1773-1844), Stephen Allen, Calhoun, John C. (John Caldwell) (1782-1850), William Bristol, Henry Waggaman Edwards (1779 -- 1847), William Alexander Duer (1780-1858), Gulian Crommelin Verplanck (1786-1870), Francis Granger (1792-1868), Samuel Lewis Southard (1787-1842), and William Kent (1802-1861). Some letters discuss the 1824 Presidential elections and the New York politics. Also included are individual documents pertaining to military careers of Ogden Edwards's sons George Pierpont Edwards and Alfred Edwards. include letters from David Dagget (1764-1815), Jeremiah Wadsworth (1743-1804), Aaron Ogden, Oliver Ellsworth (1745-1807), Alexander Hamilton, Roger Minot Sherman (1773-1844), Johnson, William Samuel, 1727-1819 and Aaron Burr. The letters discuss local politics, Edwards's legal practice, and his social life. Also included a receipt for 250 pounds for purchasing & fitting out a privateer (October 1776). The rest of the collection are letters retained for their autograph value. This portion consists individual letters by Thomas Gage, Samuel Huntington, Stephen Girard (1750-1831), William Gaston (1778-1844), Oliver Wolcott (1760-1833), William North (1755-1836), and Marie Joseph Lafayette, and and indemnification bond to the Overseers of the Poor of Dover Hundred (Delaware, 1761).

ArchivalResource: 45 pieces, also ephemera.1 box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79070570 View

Kent, James, 1763-1847. Papers, 1779-1854, (bulk 1798-1847)

Title: James Kent Papers 1779-1854 (bulk 1798-1847)

Jurist and legal commentator. Correspondence, including family letters, journals of official and personal travels, diplomas, and commissions pertaining primarily to Kent's service as judge of the New York supreme court and as chancellor of the New York court of chancery.

ArchivalResource: 1,500 items; 17 containers plus 4 oversize; 7 linear feet; 7 microfilm reels

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010132 View

Edwards, Jonathan, 1745-1801. Letter, 1793 March 4, New Haven, Conn., to Samuel Huntington.

Title: Letter, 1793 March 4, New Haven, Conn., to Samuel Huntington.

Inquires, on behalf of the Connecticut Society for the Promotion of Freedom, whether he has received a reply from the Governors of North or South Carolina in regard to African-American Aaron, now called Bristol, who was decoyed or kidnapped from New Hartford, Conn.

ArchivalResource: 1 p. ; 20 x 19 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/23525493 View

United States Sanitary Commission records. Army and Navy Claim Agency archives, 1861-1870

Title: United States Sanitary Commission records. Army and Navy Claim Agency archives 1861-1870

The United States Sanitary Commission established the Army and Navy Claim Agency (ANCA) in Washington, D.C. on April 1, 1864 to serve as the USSC’s central office to assist Union soldiers, sailors, and their families in prosecuting claims on the federal government for pensions, back pay, bounty, commutation of rations, prize money, and other benefits, without cost. The Army and Navy Claim Agency Archives comprise the records of the Army and Navy Claim Agency; the records of the Pension Agency, its predecessor organization; the registers and cash books of its subsidiary local agencies; and the records of two quasi-independent USSC claim agencies whose origins predate the establishment of the Army and Navy Claim Agency: the Protective War Claim Association of the State of New York, located in New York City, and the Protective War Claim and Pension Agency, located in Philadelphia.

ArchivalResource: 506.37 linear feet; 1190 boxes, 46 volumes

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/18809 View

Daggett family. Daggett family papers, 1780-1949.

Title: Daggett family papers, 1780-1949.

Correspondence, account notebooks, sermons, law lecture notes, poetry albums, clippings, memorabilia, and other papers, chiefly of David Daggett (1764-1851), lawyer, judge, mayor of New Haven, and U.S. Senator from Connecticut, and his sons, Leonard A. Daggett (1790-1867), merchant and teacher of New Haven, and Oliver Ellsworth Daggett (1810-1860), Congregational clergyman and professor of divinity at Yale University.

ArchivalResource: 2 ft. (1392 items)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/495708500 View

Day family. Day family papers, 1767-1929 (inclusive).

Title: Day family papers, 1767-1929 (inclusive).

The Day family papers consist of correspondence, account books, diaries, journals, lectures, manuscripts, notes, sermons, and related papers of the Day family, 1767-1929. The personal lives, academic activities, and professional careers of several family members are documented, including Reverend Jeremiah Day (1737-1806), Reverend Jeremiah Day (1773-1867), Henry Noble Day (1808-1890), Mills Day (1783-1812), and others.

ArchivalResource: 17.75 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702181735 View

Worth, W. S. Autograph collection [manuscript] / originally compiled by W.S. Worth. 1803-1865.

Title: Autograph collection [manuscript] / originally compiled by W.S. Worth. 1803-1865.

Correspondents include George Bancroft, Theodoric Romeyn Beck, John Cabell Breckinridge, Benjamin Franklin Butler, David Daggett, Samuel Whittelsey Dana, William Alexander Duer, Josiah Ogden Hoffman, Samuel Jones, John Laurence, William North, Benjamin Silliman, John Canfield Spencer, Joel Barlow Sutherland, William Peter Van Ness, Abraham Van Vechten, Benjamin Walker, William Wirt. Among the recipients are Henry Clay, Samuel Cooper, Isaac Hull, William Learned Marcy, Morris Smith Miller, Eliakim Parker Scammon, Stephen Van Rensselaer and Benjamin Walker. Topics include Confederate Civil War orders, exchange of Civil War prisoners in Florida in 1865; deWitt Clinton, Rufus King, the Federalist Party and the New York Senatorial elections of 1819; and student defiance at Yale in 1825.

ArchivalResource: 18 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647967702 View

Daggett, David, 1764-1851. Autograph letter signed : New Haven, to Samuel M. Hopkins, 1809 Jul. 15.

Title: Autograph letter signed : New Haven, to Samuel M. Hopkins, 1809 Jul. 15.

Concerning the apprenticeship of his son in a law office.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.) ; (8vo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270525928 View

Daggett, David, 1764-1851. David Daggett papers, 1781-1851 (inclusive).

Title: David Daggett papers, 1781-1851 (inclusive).

Correspondnece (primarily letters received) and other papers of David Daggett, Connecticut lawyer, jurist, politician, teacher, and author. The papers relate primarily to Daggett's legal and political activities and to Federalist Party politics. Important correspondents include Simeon Baldwin, Abraham Bishop, Isaac Bronson, John C. Calhoun, Henry Clay, Charles Denison, Elizur Goodrich, Gideon Granger, Roger Griswold, Rufus King, William Leffingwell, Josiah Meigs, Timothy Pickering, Benjamin Rush, John Cotton Smith, Daniel Webster, William Wirt, and Oliver Wolcott.

ArchivalResource: 5 linear ft. (14 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702168609 View

Smith, John Cotton, 1765-1845. John Cotton Smith personal, legal and political papers, 1788-1845.

Title: John Cotton Smith personal, legal and political papers, 1788-1845.

Smith was a Sharon, Connecticut, lawyer, Superior Court judge, Lieutenant Governor and later Governor of the State of Connecticut. His correspondence encompasses letters to and from family, clients and other lawyers, and state and federal political leaders. Among his legal papers are records of Superior Court cases, 1809-1811, court dockets, 1788-1794, and a writ of execution register, 1799-1800. His gubernatorial papers include proclamations, speeches, and correspondence, the majority of which relate to events surrounding the War of 1812 and Connecticut's response to attack. Personal papers include financial records, agreements, and deeds. His correspondents included Epaphroditus Champion, David Daggett, Samuel W. Dana, John Davenport, Jr., Stephen Decatur, Roger Griswold, James Hillhouse, David Humphreys, Chauncey Langdon, Timothy Pitkin, Benjamin Tallmadge, Nathaniel Terry, and Joseph Trumbull.

ArchivalResource: 5 linear feet (12 volumes, 4 1/2 boxes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/276839531 View

Hitchcock, Samuel J. (Samuel Johnson), 1786-1845. Document, 1832, Dec. 22, certifying that Elijah P. Grant studied law at Yale from Aug. 1831 to Apr. 1832.

Title: Document, 1832, Dec. 22, certifying that Elijah P. Grant studied law at Yale from Aug. 1831 to Apr. 1832.

ArchivalResource: [4] p. ; 26 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/227510942 View

Daggett, David, 1764-1851. Letter, 1816, Feb. 29.

Title: Letter, 1816, Feb. 29.

ArchivalResource: 1 sheet (1 p.) ; 14 x 20 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/191678662 View

Houghton Library printed book provenance file, A-D

Title: Houghton Library printed book provenance file, A-D

Index to ownership/provenance information, primarily from printed books, held by Houghton Library.

ArchivalResource: 1 collection

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01529/catalog View

Kent, James, 1763-1847. Papers, 1779-1854, (bulk 1798-1847)

Title: James Kent Papers 1779-1854 (bulk 1798-1847)

Jurist and legal commentator. Correspondence, including family letters, journals of official and personal travels, diplomas, and commissions pertaining primarily to Kent's service as judge of the New York supreme court and as chancellor of the New York court of chancery.

ArchivalResource: 1,500 items; 17 containers plus 4 oversize; 7 linear feet; 7 microfilm reels

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010132 View

Lewis family. Lewis family papers, 1811-1918 (inclusive).

Title: Lewis family papers, 1811-1918 (inclusive).

The principal figure in these papers is Addin Lewis, who was the first Collector of the District of Mobile and later mayor of the city. The outgoing correspondence is made up of his official letters as Collector and contain several on the smuggling of slaves. The incoming correspondence contains both business and family letters. Notable correspondents include David Daggett and Jeremiah Day.

ArchivalResource: .75 linear ft. (2 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702167227 View

United States. Constitutional Convention (1787). United States Constitutional Convention microfilm collection, 1787-1791 (inclusive), [microform].

Title: United States Constitutional Convention microfilm collection, 1787-1791 (inclusive), [microform].

The collection contains correspondence, manuscripts, and printed material concerning the ratification of the United States Constitution from Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection (MS 352), Baldwin Family Papers (MS 55), Morse Family Papers (MS 358), Roger Sherman (1721-1793) Collection (MS 447), Colonel John Trumbull Papers (MS 506), Stokes Autograph Collection (MS 402), Betts Autograph Collection (MS 603), William Griswold Lane Memorial Collection (MS 189), Frederick William Hotchkiss Papers (MS 974), David Daggett Papers (MS 162), Bernhard Knollenberg Collection (MS 26), Nathaniel Pendleton Family Papers (MS 392), Gibbs Family Papers (MS 236) Webster Family Papers (MS 527), William Rogers Papers (MS 1058), Hooker Family Papers (MS 289), John Cotton Smith Papers (MS 460), Cogswell Family Papers (MS 141), Colonel John Mason Brown and Major General Preston Brown Papers (MS 105), Ulrich B. Phillips Collection (MS 397), Samuel Blachley Webb Papers (MS 539), and the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

ArchivalResource: 1 reel.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86131880 View

David Daggett papers, 1781-1851

Title: David Daggett papers 1781-1851

Correspondence (primarily letters received) and other papers of David Daggett, Connecticut lawyer, jurist, politician, teacher, and author. The papers relate primarily to Daggett's legal and political activities and to Federalist Party politics. Important correspondents include Simeon Baldwin, Abraham Bishop, Isaac Bronson, John C. Calhoun, Henry Clay, Charles Denison, Elizur Goodrich, Gideon Granger, Roger Griswold, Rufus King, William Leffingwell, Josiah Meigs, Timothy Pickering, Benjamin Rush, John Cotton Smith, Daniel Webster, William Wirt, and Oliver Wolcott.

ArchivalResource: 7 linear feet (14 boxes)

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.0162 View

Daggett, David, 1764-1851. Letter, 1833 May 28, New Haven, Conn., to William Leffingwell, London, England.

Title: Letter, 1833 May 28, New Haven, Conn., to William Leffingwell, London, England.

States that John Randolph's course was like a meteor that gives a dazzling light more likely to mislead than to guide; also that two men convicted of murdering guard E. Hoskins at the State prison were to be hanged.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder ; 24 x 38 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49788270 View