Mary Eddy Benjamin collection, undated.

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Mary Eddy Benjamin collection, undated.

Genealogies traced by Benjamin, including her own; published articles by Benjamin including "Anna Warner Bailey" and "Beacon Lights of New England"; marriage and death lists, copied from Connecticut Gazette and Norwich Register; Civil War poem by Park Benjamin entitled The Dead Hero; deeds to land in Preston, Conn.; and family chart.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6959076

New London County Historical Society

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Bailey, Anna Warner, 1758-1851

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Benjamin, Mary Eddy

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Local historian, of New London, Conn. From the description of Necrology of Nerw London beginning 1652, vol. 1, undated. (New London County Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 222268565 Historian and genealogist, of New London County, Conn. From the description of Mary Eddy Benjamin collection, undated. (New London County Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 191800430 ...

Benjamin family.

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Ross, Betsy, 1752-1836

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Seamstress, credited with having made the first American flag bearing the Stars and Stripes at the request of George Washington, Robert Morris and George Ross. Full name: Betsy Griscom Ross Ashburn Claypoole; married John Ross (1773), Joseph Ashburn (1777) and John Claypoole (1783). From the description of Papers of Betsy Ross, undated. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71070538 ...

Hale, Nathan, 1755-1776

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Nathan Hale (b. June 6, 1755, Coventry, CT-d. September 22, 1776, New York City, NY) was born and raised in Coventry, Connecticut, and served in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. In 1776 he landed at the town of Huntington in Long Island, New York on an intelligence-gathering mission that ultimately resulted in his capture and execution by the British Army....

Benjamin, Park, 1809-1864

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American journalist and poet; father of Park Benjamin, 1849-1922. From the guide to the Park Benjamin letters and miscellany, 1841, 1847, 1848, 1877, undated, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) Editor and poet. From the description of Park Benjamin poem, 1850. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79450619 American editor and poet. From the description of To an old friend : autograph poem signed : [n.p., n.d.]. (Unknow...

Brooks, Jonathan Henderson, 1905-1945

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New London Harbor Light (Conn.)

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