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Woodbridge, Theodore, b. 1747. Theodore Woodbridge papers, 1777-1798.

Title: Theodore Woodbridge papers, 1777-1798.

The bulk of the collection focuses on the years of the American Revolution and consists of general orders, returns, accounts with the State of Connecticut, troop reports, loyalty oaths, and correspondence with William Health, Heman Swift, A. Chapman, and Ruben Calkin. The topics of the letters include troop movements, lack of sufficient men to hold a line, deserters, army moral, selling forfeited (Tory) estates, smallpox among the army, and military strategy, including Woodbridge's taking of Morrisania (now part of the Bronx). A letter from A. Chapman dated February 1, 1778, includes a description of the Seven-Day Baptists at Ephrata, Pennsylvania. Heman Swift wrote wanting to discuss the General Assembly's plan to pay officers with land instead of money. This could have been in response to a complaint from the men of the Connecticut Line of the Continental Army about the depreciation of specie. After 1783, the number of items decreases considerably and in most cases is related to financial dealings, although there are several letters about surveying land in Ohio.

ArchivalResource: 1 volume.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/540692565 View

Linsley, Solomon. Solomon Linsley, Jr., certificate, 1784 Feb. 17.

Title: Solomon Linsley, Jr., certificate, 1784 Feb. 17.

Certificate that the 4th Class of the Town of Litchfield, Conn., have procured Solomon Linsley, Jr., to serve in the Continental Army in Col. Heman Swift's regiment for three years, approved by Col. Bezaleel Beebe and addressed to Elihu Harrison, foreman of the 4th Class. Certified by James Morris, captain of the 2nd Regiment Connecticut.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/779474560 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

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

Swift, Heman, 1733-1814. Letter, 1787 May 22, Litchfield, Conn., to Samuel Huntington, Hartford, Conn.

Title: Letter, 1787 May 22, Litchfield, Conn., to Samuel Huntington, Hartford, Conn.

Is confident that Colonel Canfield's actions have greatly diminished the prospect of a riot in Sharon, Conn.

ArchivalResource: 1 p. ; 32 x 20 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34054159 View