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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

First Congregational Church (Norwich, Conn.). Records.

Title: Records. 1699-1928.

ArchivalResource: 1 1/2 ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1037573 View

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

Strong family. Strong family collection, 1667-1925 (inclusive).

Title: Strong family collection, 1667-1925 (inclusive).

The collection consists of correspondence, legal and financial papers, diaries, writings, autographs, and other papers documenting the lives and activities of several generations of Strong family members and related Fowler, Pond, and Huntington families of Massachusetts and Connecticut. The bulk of the collection concerns the extended family of Phinehas Strong of Northampton, Massachusetts, and relates to the teaching and agriculture pursuits of family members in Ohio, Michigan, Virginia, and Louisiana. The career of Josephine Strong, a teacher of freedmen, is highlighted. Papers of the Connecticut Strong families relate primarily to the colonial era and Revolutionary War, Milford town history, and Chatham, Milford, and Norwich church history.

ArchivalResource: 6.75 linear ft. (16 boxes, 1 folio)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702205830 View

Strong Family Collection, 1667-1925

Title: Strong Family Collection 1667-1925

The collection consists of correspondence, legal and financial papers, diaries, writings, autographs, and other papers documenting the lives and activities of several generations of Strong family members and related Fowler, Pond, and Huntington families of Massachusetts and Connecticut. The bulk of the collection concerns the extended family of Phinehas Strong of Northampton, Massachusetts, and relates to the teaching and agriculture pursuits of family members in Ohio, Michigan, Virginia, and Louisiana. The career of Josephine Strong, a teacher of freedmen, is highlighted. Papers of the Connecticut Strong families relate primarily to the colonial era and Revolutionary War; Milford town history; and Chatham, Milford, and Norwich church history.

ArchivalResource: 6.75 linear feet (16 boxes, 1 folio)

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.1198 View