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Wadsworth, Daniel, 1771-1848. Daniel Wadsworth papers, 1749-1888.

Title: Daniel Wadsworth papers, 1749-1888.

Incoming and outgoing correspondence, legal records including plot plans, deeds, agreements, and the estate records of Mehitable, Jeremiah and Faith Wadsworth, accounts, bills and receipts kept by Daniel Wadsworth, merchant and philanthropist of Hartford, Connecticut. Correspondents include his nephew Quentin C. Terry, artist Thomas Sully, Decius Wadsworth, and James Whitelaw. Daniel's letters from 1792-1793 to his parents describes Bermuda where he had taken his sister Harriet for her health. Among his legal papers is the act of incorporation of the Hartford Orphan Asylum, of which Daniel was a trustee. Extensive records of Daniel's own estate settlement includes an inventory and appraisal of the estate and a record of sales of items not distributed in his will. John Bunce, John F. Morris and J. Hammond Trumbull were trustees of Daniel's estate. A small number of unrelated items includes a letter written by Daniel Putnam in 1818.

ArchivalResource: 2 linear feet (4 boxes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/212627018 View

Hartford Orphan Asylum. Hartford Orphan Asylum reports, 1946, 1950.

Title: Hartford Orphan Asylum reports, 1946, 1950.

Typed reports written by the Corresponding Secretary of the Hartford Orphan Asylum and a history of the presidents (all female) of the organization. The reports were for 1946 and 1950.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/748809234 View

Village (Agency). Archives of the Village for Families for Children, Inc., 1809-1970.

Title: Archives of the Village for Families for Children, Inc., 1809-1970.

Records of the organizations that preceded and ultimately merged with The Village for Families and Children, Inc., in Hartford, Connecticut, documenting the care of indigent and disabled children from the early 19th century to 1970. The organizations and their records include Hartford Female Beneficent Society case information, financial records, minutes, 1809-1863; Hartford Orphan Asylum annual reports, files on buildings, case information, financial records, histories, minutes of the Board of Managers, 1854-1954; City Missionary Society case information, reports, 1882-1899; Connecticut Children's Aid Society annual reports, by-laws, case information, district records, Board of Directors' minutes, newsletters and scrapbooks, 1892-1955; Children's Services of Connecticut accreditation records, annual reports, newsletters, by-laws, district minutes, Board of Directors' and committee minutes, records of mergers with the Women's Aid Society and Hartford Orphan Asylum, and records of the Hartley Salmon Clinic, 1941-1970; Charity Organization Society annual reports, minutes, scrapbooks, 1883-1950; Family Service Society annual reports, scrapbooks, 1930-1966; Child and Family Services annual reports, records of auxiliaries in Hartford, Redding, Ridgefield, Stonington, Westport and Wilton, by-laws, 1963-1969.

ArchivalResource: 30 linear feet (50 boxes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/694604358 View