McClellan family papers, 1697-1907.

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McClellan family papers, 1697-1907.

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Primarily personal and business correspondence of John McClellan, a Woodstock, Connecticut, lawyer, justice of the peace, selectman, and member of the state legislature. Among his more noted correspondents were Jesse Root, Jedediah Morse, Epaphroditis Champion, and John A. Rockwell. His correspondence is supplemented by writs, summonses, depositions, court dockets, judgments, and court expenses representative of his role as a lawyer. Legal papers of Sylvanus Backus and Elisha Perkins, who was guardian to Mary Ann and Andrew Backus, contain letters to McClellan, with whom one assumes they consulted. John's other business concerns represented in the collection are the partnership of McClellan & Averill, and the Woodstock Boarding House Association. A significant amount of land records and correspondence document Connecticut's presence in the Western Reserve and the activities of the Connecticut Land Company, with whom McClellan was affiliated. Other papers include invoices and accounts, expenses to the General Assembly, tax lists, militia papers, law notebooks, a diary while he was a student at Yale, drawings and contracts for building his home and office, Woodstock town records including tax lists, care of the poor, expenses, and plot maps. The collection also contains the correspondence, estate inventory and financial and legal papers of John McClellan's father, General Samuel McClellan. Other family members represented in the collection include Isaac Webb, his first wife Mary McClellan Webb, his second wife Sarah McClellan Webb who later married Benjamin Silliman, William Williams, Faith Williams McClellan, Joseph McClellan, Edward Percival McClellan, Jane McClellan Weaver, Dr. John McClellan, Olive McClellan, Jessy McClellan, and John Robinson, whose sermon notes date from 1697. Also in the collection, perhaps representing one of John's cases, are correspondence and supporting documents in the settlement and trial of the William Dudley estate in Roxbury, Massachusetts. Of particular interest is a map of a road, made in 1812, between the Rhode Island border and the town of Ashland, Connecticut and the passport and diaries of Isaac Webb while touring Europe, 1840-1842.

15 linear feet (31 boxes)

Connecticut Historical Society

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Williams family.

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Perkins, Elisha B. (Elisha Backus), 1792-1863

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Webb, Isaac, 1798-1842

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Weaver, Jane McClellan, b. 1809.

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Backus, Sylvanus.

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McClellan, Faith Williams, 1775-1838.

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Dudley, William, 1608-1684

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McClellan, Samuel, 1730-1807

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Colonel in the Connecticut Militia. From the description of Samuel McClellan letter, 1782 Sept. 18. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 166428822 ...

Webb family.

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McClellan, Edward Percival.

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McClellan, John, 1812-1905.

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McClellan, Joseph, 1814-1905.

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Webb, Mary McClellan, 1800-1836.

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McClellan, John, 1767-1858.

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Yale College (1718-1887)

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The Linonian Literary Society was founded in 1753. All undergraduates were allowed to be members of the Linonian Society. The club provided students with a forum to debate, stage plays, and deliver poems, essays, and orations. The society disbanded in 1868. From the guide to the Linonian Society, Yale College, records, 1753-1870, (Manuscripts and Archives) ...

Williams, William

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