Cheney family papers and Manchester town records, 1795-1915.

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Cheney family papers and Manchester town records, 1795-1915.

1795-1915

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Political records and voting lists of Manchester, Conn.; and correspondence, house expenses, marriage records, deeds, legal documents, scrapbooks, account books, and commonplace books of several generations of a Manchester, Connecticut, family noted for its silk mills. Includes Charles Cheney general store account from Providence, Rhode Island; letters to Frank W. Cheney, 1859-1860, while he was abroad; George Cheney's commonplace book, undated, and an account book, 1794-1806 from Manchester and Farmington; political papers and correspondence of Horace B. Cheney and a scrapbook on Manchester government, 1904-1915; manuscript of Cheney family history; records of the Cheney Brothers and Mt. Nebo Silk Company; records of Orford Parish and Five Mile Tract; copy of the Orford Church of Christ records; record book of the First Public Library Company of East Hartford; typed copies of journals by Mary B. Howell. Also includes material related to the Spencer repeating rifle in which the Cheney's invested. Correspondents in this collection include William Cullen Bryant, William Gillette, Elijah C. Kellogg, Jared Sparks and Christopher M. Spencer.

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Connecticut Historical Society

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