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Channing, Walter, 1757-1827. Walter Channing papers, 1676-1829, bulk: 1788-1827.

Title: Walter Channing papers, 1676-1829, bulk: 1788-1827.

Correspondence, accounts, notes, and other papers of Walter Channing, business partner of George Gibbs in the firm of Gibbs & Channing of Newport, R.I. Channing carried on the business after Gibbs's death and moved to Boston in 1814. The correspondence relates to the company's shipping business, real estate transactions in Newport and Boston, Channing's attempts to have import duties on saltpeter curtailed, and business affairs with Channing's relatives, including Henry Channing, William Ellery, William Ellery Channing, William C. Gibbs, and William C. Woodbridge. Other correspondence concerns the estates of George and Mary C. Gibbs, the seizure of the company ship Hercules Courtenay, the loss of the ship Mary, and the collapse of the firm of Minturn and Champlin. Channing provided financial advice to relatives, including his niece Sarah Gibbs. Included are ledgers and bank accounts of Walter Channing, 1810-27, and of Gibbs & Channing, 1806-1810.

ArchivalResource: 17 boxes, 2 oversize vols., and 1 box containing 12 vols.

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Gibbs, William, b. 1785,. Letters : from various correspondents, 1826-1842.

Title: Letters : from various correspondents, 1826-1842.

Letters, primarily from John Farmer of Concord, N.H., chiefly concerning research about Harvard graduates and the Salem witchcraft trials.

ArchivalResource: 76 items ; 32 cm.

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Gibbs, William, b. 1785,. Letters : from various correspondents, 1826-1842.

Title: Letters : from various correspondents, 1826-1842.

Letters, primarily from John Farmer of Concord, N.H., chiefly concerning research about Harvard graduates and the Salem witchcraft trials.

ArchivalResource: 76 items ; 32 cm.

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Seymour, George Dudley, 1859-1945. George Dudley Seymour papers, 1684-1944 (inclusive).

Title: George Dudley Seymour papers, 1684-1944 (inclusive).

The papers consist of correspondence, writings, photographs, research files, printed material, and miscellanea of George Dudley Seymour, a lawyer, antiquarian, historian, author and city planner in New Haven, Connecticut. Seymour's personal papers and collected manuscripts document the history of the Seymour family, the patriot Nathan Hale, the city planning movement in New Haven, Connecticut, and local history, 1684-1944. General correspondence files contain the bulk of personal correspondence, with many figures from the fields of art, education, politics, and sculpture represented, including William Howard Taft, a close friend of Seymour's. Family genealogy files include extensive correspondence, papers, and photographs Seymour accumulated in the course of his research on The Seymour Family (1939). Seymour also collected information and manuscripts relating to Nathan Hale, the Connecticut hero. As a pioneer in New Haven's early city planning movement, Seymour amassed correspondence with such notable figures as Cass Gilbert and Frederick Law Olmstead, minutes of commission meetings, and clipping files which detail much of the city planning activity engaged in during the early 1900s. Topical files and scrapbooks document a wide range of literary and professional activities, including Seymour's writings on New Haven and Connecticut history, and his legal practice in patent law.

ArchivalResource: 57 linear ft. (128 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702153515 View

James Fowler Simmons Papers, 1771-1939, (bulk 1840-1860)

Title: James Fowler Simmons Papers 1771-1939 (bulk 1840-1860)

Manufacturer, political leader, and United States senator from Rhode Island. Correspondence, family letters, memoranda, legal documents, account books, photographs, and printed matter relating to Simmons's cotton and yarn manufacturing enterprises and to public matters, including the tariff, Thomas Dorr and the Dorr Rebellion of 1842, the nomination and election of Abraham Lincoln as president, and social, economic, and political conditions in Rhode Island.

ArchivalResource: 21,000 items; 58 containers; 19 linear feet; 1 microfilm reel

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