Grosvenor - Thompson family papers, 1798-1972.

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Grosvenor - Thompson family papers, 1798-1972.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/320353957

This collection represents several generations of the Grosvenor and Thompson families and reflects life in both the Boston, Massachusetts, and Pomfret, Connecticut, areas. Account books belonging to Lemuel Putnam Grosvenor contain both personal accounts and records from Hingham Umbrella Manufactory in the Boston area. There are numerous diaries, including travel diaries kept by Charles O. Thompson and by Clara Grosvenor Thompson. Clara Thompson also recorded her conversion to the Catholic faith in a diary. Elizabeth Thompson also kept diaries, and other volumes include lectures notes taken by Ebenezer Thompson while a student at Brown University in the late 1860s. Ebenezer would become an ordained preacher, and held pulpits throughout the Midwestern United States. Correspondence sent back East documents his locations. The family correspondence begins with letters between Clarisa Downes and Lemuel Putnam Grosvenor prior to their marriage. The most recent letter was sent to Elizabeth Thompson in 1972. Estate inventories are from Lemuel Putnam Grosvenor's estate in 1859 and one of the Thompsons in 1935. Genealogical information is included, as well as Caroline Wadsworth Thompson's application to the D.A.R.

4 linear feet (7 boxes and 8 volumes).

Connecticut Historical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 7334064

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Grosvenor - Thompson family.

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Thompson, Clara Grosvenor, 1817-1890.

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Thompson, Caroline Wadsworth, b. 1856.

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Grosvenor, Clarisa Downes, 1786-1857.

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Thompson, Ebenezer, 1846-1922.

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Grosvenor, Louisa, 1813-1869.

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Thompson, Charles Stockbridge, b. 1812.

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Thompson, Charles F., 1846-1921.

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Thompson, Elizabeth H. (Elizabeth Hardy), 1885-

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Mormon woman living on a farm near Riverdale, Weber County, Utah. From the description of Diary, 1896-1904. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122495090 Elizabeth Allen Thompson graduated from Radcliffe College (A.B. 1925) From the description of Papers, 1909-1936 (inclusive), 1934-1935 (bulk). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232009776 Colorado [?] composer. From the description of Collection 1956-1963. (Denver Public Library). WorldCat...

Thompson, Ebenezer, 1762-1828

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Merchant and shipbuilder, of Durham and Portsmouth, N.H. From the description of Papers, 1784-1827. (New Hampshire Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 70963906 Ebenezer Thompson, the oldest son of Ebenezer Thompson (1737-1802), was the Lieutenant-Colonel of the 25th New Hampshire Regiment, a shipbuilder, Portsmouth, N.H. merchant, representative to the N.H. legislature, and a justice of the peace. From the description of Ebenezer Thompson (1762-1828)...

Hingham Umbrella Manufactory

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Grosvenor, Lemuel Putnam, 1784-1858.

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