Roger Sherman (1721-1793) collection 1749-1904

Otis, Samuel Allyne, 1740-1814

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Samuel Allyne Otis (November 24, 1740 – April 22, 1814) was the first Secretary of the United States Senate, serving for its first 25 years. He also served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives and was a delegate to the Confederation Congress in 1787 and 1788. Born in Barnstable in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, he graduated from Harvard College before engaging in mercantile pursuits in Boston. Otis served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives and as a member of the Board ...

Johnson, William Samuel, 1727-1819

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William Samuel Johnson (October 7, 1727 – November 14, 1819) was an American Founding Father and statesman. During the Revolutionary War, he served as a militia lieutenant before being relieved following his rejection of his election to the First Continental Congress. He was notable for signing the United States Constitution, for representing Connecticut in the United States Senate, and for serving as the third president of King's College, now known as Columbia University. Born in Stratford, ...

Morris, Gouverneur, 1752-1816

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Gouverneur Morris (January 31, 1752 – November 6, 1816) was an American statesman, a Founding Father of the United States, and a signatory to the Articles of Confederation and the United States Constitution. He wrote the Preamble to the United States Constitution and has been called the "Penman of the Constitution." In an era when most Americans thought of themselves as citizens of their respective states, Morris advanced the idea of being a citizen of a single union of states. He was also one o...

Hosmer, Titus, 1736-1780

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Titus Hosmer (1736 – August 4, 1780) was an American Founding Father and lawyer from Middletown, Connecticut. He was a delegate for Connecticut to the Continental Congress in 1778, where he signed the Articles of Confederation. Titus was born in West Hartford, Connecticut, attended Yale and graduated in 1757. He read for the law, was admitted to the bar, and began a practice in Middletown, Connecticut. Hosmer was elected to the Connecticut State Assembly annually from 1773 to 1778 and served ...

Sherman, Roger, 1721-1793

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Roger Sherman (April 19, 1721 – July 23, 1793) was an early American statesman and lawyer, as well as a Founding Father of the United States. He is the only person to have signed all four great state papers of the United States: the Continental Association, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution, and also signed the 1774 Petition to the King. Born in Newton, Massachusetts, Sherman established a legal career in Litchfield County, Connecticut despit...

Huntington, Samuel, 1731-1796

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Samuel Huntington (July 16, 1731 [O.S. July 5, 1731] – January 5, 1796) was a Founding Father of the United States and a jurist, statesman, and Patriot in the American Revolution from Connecticut. As a delegate to the Continental Congress, he signed the Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation. He also served as President of the Continental Congress from 1779 to 1781, President of the United States in Congress Assembled in 1781, chief justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court...

United States. Constitutional Convention 1787

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Ellsworth, Oliver, 1745-1807

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Ellsworth, jurist and statesman; delegate to the Continental Congress (1777-1784); chief justice, U.S. Supreme Court (1796-1799). From the description of Letters to Rufus King, 1800-1801. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 237392171 From the description of Opinions of Oliver Ellsworth, 1774-1786. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 234339020 Member of the Continental Congress from Connecticut and later Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme C...

Franklin, John, 1749-1831

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Spencer, Joseph, 1714-1789

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Epithet: of Add MS 35789 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001392.0x000291 Epithet: American, Major -General British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001392.0x000290 Army officer and Continental Congressman from Connecticut. From the description of Papers of Joseph Spencer, 1775-1778. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71069599 ...

Gibbs, Henry, 1749-1794.

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Marsh, Charles, 1765-1849

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Swift, Heman, 1733-1814

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Holmes, Temperance.

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Hopkins, Samuel, 1721-1803

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Author and clergyman. From the description of Letter of Samuel Hopkins, 1759. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79450325 Samuel Hopkins, American clergyman and theologian, founder of Hopkinsianism. He graduated from Yale in 1741, and afterwards studied with Jonathan Edwards for two years. Afterwards Hopkins settled at Housatonic (later Great Barrington). In 1769, the privation of his congregation and an opposition to his intransigent doctrine led to his dismissal. He then accep...

Austin, David, 1759-1831

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American Congregational clergyman and writer on the millenium. From the description of Letter to Jedidiah Morse, 1792 March 10. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 53794736 ...

Sherman, Elizabeth, 1778-1834.

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Lynde, Joseph.

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Mitchell, Stephen Mix, 1743-1835

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Stephen Mix Mitchell (December 9, 1743 – September 30, 1835) was an American lawyer, jurist, and statesman from Wethersfield, Connecticut. He represented Connecticut in the Continental Congress and the U.S. Senate and was chief justice of the state's Supreme Court. Born in Wethersfield in the Colony Connecticut, Mitchell pursued academic studies, ultimately graduating from Yale College in 1763. He went on to serve as a tutor at Yale from 1766 to 1769 while he studied law. Mitchell was admitte...

Hoar, George Frisbie, 1826-1904

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U. S. Senator from Massachusetts. From the description of George Frisbie Hoar letter to S. S. McClure [manuscript], 1894 January 5. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 694733616 George Frisbie Hoar (1826-1904) was a Republican Senator from Massachusetts (1877-1904). From the description of Autograph collection, 1598-1945. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122405022 From the guide to the George Frisbie Hoar autograph collection, 1598-194...

Channing, Henry, 1760-1840

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United States. Constitution.

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Prescott, Henry W. (Henry Washington), 1874-

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Prescott graduated from Harvard in 1895. From the description of Elegiac, iambic, lyric poetry : [notes in a course on Greek poetry given by Dr. C. B. Gulick, c. 1891-1895] (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77074002 Epithet: Rear-Admiral; Governor of Newfoundland 1834; GCB 1869 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000614.0x00019c ...

Butler, Zebulon, 1731-1795

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Imlay, William, 1743-1807.

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Strong, Joseph, 1753-1834

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Sherman, Isaac, 1753-1819.

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Sherman, Elizabeth, 1765-1850.

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Mitchell, Justus, 1754-1806

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Hazen, Moses, 1733-1803

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Army officer. From the description of Papers of Moses Hazen, 1780. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71132127 From the description of Papers of Moses Hazen, 1780. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81173451 From the description of Papers of Moses Hazen, 1780-1783. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79455961 ...

United States. Continental Army

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In response to the expansion of the Continental Army the number of staff was increased and reorganized in 1776. Changes included the creation of a new unit to supplement George Washington's personal staff. This special unit, the Commander in Chief's Guard, was formed on March 12, 1776 with Captain Caleb Gibbs (formerly adjutant of the 14th Continental Regiment and appointed Aid to Major General Greene) as commander. The unit protected Washington, the army's cash, and official papers. ...

Sherman family.

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Ogden, Robert, 1746-1826.

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Williams, Nathan, 1735-1829

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Baldwin, Simeon, 1761-1851

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American lawyer, jurist, politician. From the guide to the Simeon Baldwin letters and legal documents, 1792, 1793, 1795, 1796, 1799, 1800, 1802, 1805, 1812, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) ...

Sherman, Harriet, 1776-1795.

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Sherman, Nathaniel, 1727-1797

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Sherman, Maria, 1774-1857.

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Safford, Samuel.

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Wooster, David, 1711-1777

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American soldier. From the description of Autograph letter signed with initials : Rye Neck, to Col. William Duer, 1777 Mar. 2. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270584086 Army officer in colonial Connecticut Militia and in the American Revolution and colonial legislature in Connecticut. From the description of Orderly book of David Wooster, 1759. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71070567 ...

Whitman, Mary.

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Silkin, George.

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Sherman, Rebecca Prescott, 1742-1813.

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Humphreys, David, 1752-1818

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Army officer, diplomat, and author. From the description of Papers of David Humphreys, 1776-1810. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71065032 Army officer, diplomat, and poet, of Connecticut; b. in Derby; d. in New Haven. From the description of David Humphreys papers, 1687-1819. (New Haven Colony Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 430490748 Connecticut Revolutionary War Officer, statesman, and poet. From the description of Poems, [...

Goodhue, Benjamin, 1748-1814

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Sherman, William, 1751-1789.

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Willis, Roswell.

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Howell, Joseph (Joseph Williams), 1857-1918

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Utah legislator and U.S. Congressman from Utah, 1903-1917. From the description of Joseph Howell papers, 1903-1918. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122391400 From the guide to the Joseph Howell papers, 1903-1918, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) ...

Denison, Nathan

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Ames, Ellis, 1809-1886

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Ames was a lawyer practicing in Canton, Massachusetts. From the description of Papers, ca. 1694-1891. (Boston Public Library). WorldCat record id: 57376726 Lawyer, local historian, and state legislator, Ellis Ames was born in Stoughton, Massachusetts, October 17, 1809. He graduated from Brown University in 1830 and having read law with William Baylies, of West Bridgewater, MA, was admitted to the Plymouth county bar in December, 1833. After representing West Bridgewater in t...