Papers 1731-1894.

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Papers 1731-1894.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/5998207

Correspondence and account books of Marietta, Ohio, families. Includes letters and accounts of Dudley Woodbridge, owner of a general store chain, and Harman Blennerhasset. Topics include trade, land sales, taxes, churches, the Ohio and Scioto Companies, and other aspects of Marietta history, and legal, military, and political life in Marietta and in Norwich, Conn. Contact repository for more information.

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Ohio History Connection, Ohio Historical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 7775958

Ohio History Connection, Ohio Historical Society

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Woodbridge, Lucy Backus.

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Whiting, Robert.

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Buell, Timothy.

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Hall family.

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Backus, James.

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Ely, Marian.

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Meigs, Return Jonathan, Jr.

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Backus, Elijah, 1726-1798

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Elijah Backus was a justice of the peace in New London, Connecticut. From the description of Documents, 1770-1783. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 234338446 Elijah Backus (1726-1798) of Norwich, Connecticut, operated an iron works. From the description of Papers: Norwich, Connecticut, 1757-1807. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122601787 Receiver of the Land Office, Kaskaskia, Illinois Territory. From the description of Letter...

Mills, John, -1784?

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Sproat, Ebenezer

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Ebenezer Sproat was born in Middleborough, Massachusetts in 1752, where he received an education that included a knowledge of surveying. After service in the revolutionary war, Colonel Sproat was appointed Surveyor for Rhode Island in he territory northwest of the Ohio River. From the Indians he received the name of "Hetout", or "Big Bucheye", in token of their admiration of his commanding figure. This is said to have given rise to the name "Buckeye" as applied to natives of Ohio. By Governor St...

Woodbridge, William Ely

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U.S. senator from Michigan began his law career in 1806 in Marietta, Ohio; served in the Ohio General Assembly; served as Michigan judge, state senator, and governor. From the description of Marietta, Ohio, 1844. (Ohio Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 41144143 ...

Methodist Episcopal Church

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The Methodist Episcopal Church was organized in the U.S. in 1784. The first general conference was held in 1792 and the constitution was adopted in 1900. In 1939 the Methodist Episcopal Church and the Methodist Protestant Church united to form the Methodist Church (U.S.). From the description of Methodist Episcopal Church records, 1791-1945. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122455885 From the guide to the Methodist Episcopal Church records, 1791-1945, (The New ...

Brophy, John.

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Putnam, Rufus W.

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Blennerhassett, Harman 1765-1831

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Lawyer, planter, and scholar. From the description of Harman Blennerhassett papers, 1755-1866. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70979849 Harman Blennerhassett was an attorney born in County Cork, Ireland. He received his law degree from Trinity College in Dublin in 1790 and lived on the continent for several years afterward. In 1796, Blennerhassett married his niece, Margaret Agnew, daughter of Robert Agnew, the lieutenant-governor of the Isle of Man. Because of their marriage...

Racer, W. L.

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Woodbridge, Dudley W.

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Dudley Woodbridge was born in Stonington, Conn. on Oct. 9, 1747. After graduating from Yale University in 1766, he moved on Norwich, Conn. He married Lucy Backus on Apr. 28, 1774. In 1788 they moved to Marietta, Ohio, where Mr. Woodbridge served as judge of the peace. He died in Marietta on Aug. 6, 1823. From the description of Dudley Woodbridge papers, 1729-1837. (Detroit Public Library). WorldCat record id: 300017168 Physician of Groton, Conn. From the descript...

Ludlow, S. B.

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Loomis family.

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Shipman, Samuel.

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Edgerton, Luther

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Backus-Woodbridge Family.

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