Middletown Manuscripts collection, 1668 - 1937.

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Middletown Manuscripts collection, 1668 - 1937.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/319883617

The majority of this collection is 18th- and 19th-century documents from around the Middletown area, with some documents from the 17th- and 20th-centuries. Most of the documents contained in this collection are legal documents, such as deeds, petitions, issued tickets, bills, etc. There are documents about the railroad in Middletown, including the documents about the building process of the extension through Middletown. The shipping records in the collection include some information about the ships themselves, as well as some information about where they were coming from and who was part of the crew. There is a folder of financial information belonging to the Addis family, which is primarily a collection of bills for Miss Addis and all the purchases she made. Another folder has financial information related to the Doane family. There are two bound books in the collection. The first has very little written in it, but it includes some correspondence between father and son in the de Zeng family about financial issues. The second bound book is a detailed journal kept by Charles H. Neff about the discovery of Indian relics and old Indian settlements in and around the Middletown area.

0.75 linear feet.2 archival boxes.

Wesleyan University, Olin Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7332253

Wesleyan University, Olin Library

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De Zeng family.

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Wilcox, Crittenden & Co.

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Manufacturer of marine hardware in Middletown, Conn.; established in 1847 as E.H. & I.K. Penfield; ca. 1850 reorganized as Penfield & Wilcox; dissolved in 1859 when new partnership formed under name of Wilcox & Hall which continued until 1869 when William W. Wilcox formed the new company with Albert R. Crittenden and others. Wilcox, Crittenden & Co. was purchased by North & Judd Manufacturing Company in the 1950s and in 1967 became part of Gulf & Western. From...

Neff, Charles H.

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Addis family.

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Wesleyan university, Middletown, Conn.

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