Hugh Peters Family Papers 1826-1831

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Hugh Peters Family Papers 1826-1831

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.1032

Family correspondence largely consisting of letters to Hugh Peters and his brother, William T. Peters, from their father John T. Peters, a judge of the Supreme Court in Connecticut, on local politics. Also in the papers are newspaper clippings on Hugh Peters' death. Several of his poems are mounted in the library catalogue of Ithiel Town, father-in-law of William T. Peters.

0.25 linear foot

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Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives

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Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives

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Peters, Hugh, 1807-1831.

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John Thompson Peters, father of William T. and Hugh Peters, was born in Hebron, Connecticut, on October 11, 1765. He was a graduate of the Yale College class of 1789 and studied law after graduation. Between 1802 and 1813, he served as a representative in the Connecticut General Assembly. In 1813, he was appointed tax collector and in 1818, made a justice of the Supreme Court of Connecticut. He died in Hartford, Connecticut, on August 28, 1834. John Thompson Peters was b...