Selden Huntington family papers 1762-1914

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Selden Huntington family papers 1762-1914

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.1064

Correspondence, diaries, and financial and legal papers of three generations of the Selden Huntington family of Old Lyme and Middlesex County, Connecticut. The papers document Selden Huntington's business fortunes in East Coast shipping and land speculation in Maine, his relationship with his son Joseph Selden, breaking up of his marriage to his second wife Jeanette Stewart, and social and religious activities in the community. Joseph Selden Huntington's letters record his years at school in Kents Hill, Maine, his attempts to establish himself in business in New York City and Springfield, Massachusetts, and his travels in the South. Also included in the papers are Joseph Selden Huntington's diary, notebook, scrapbook, and love letters from his freshman to his junior year at Yale College.

1.25 linear feet (3 boxes)

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Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 6351030

Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives

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