Bernhard Knollenberg collection, 1560-1943 (inclusive).

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Bernhard Knollenberg collection, 1560-1943 (inclusive).

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Correspondence, diaries, manuscripts of writings, narratives, biographical sketches, documents, reports, addresses, deeds, tax receipts, printed material, and other papers, relating to early American colonial settlement, the American Revolution, settlement of the West, slavery, the Civil War, Spanish-American War, women's suffrage, and various political questions. Includes ca. 100 letters (1838-1855) to Alvah Hunt, of Greene, Chenango Co., N.Y., describing current political issues, especially Whig politics, from Millard Fillmore, Hamilton Fish, Horace Greeley, Washington Hunt, William H. Seward, and Thurlow Weed; 171 letters written by Homer Sackett Curtiss to members of his family during his Civil War service in the 2nd Connecticut Volunteer Regt., Heavy Artillery; papers of George Panton, loyalist, of New York, containing letters from Daniel Batwell, Thomas Bradbury Chandler, other loyalist Anglican ministers who escaped to England during the Revolution, and others interested in the Church of England in America; 35 letters and documents (1779-1804) by and relating to Nathanael Greene; correpondence, deeds, and tax receipts, relating to Joel Barlow and the Ohio Company; 2 vols. of letters and papers by François Alexandre-Frederick La Rochefoucauld Liancourt; correspondence and writings of Seth Reynolds; and diaries of Alfred Brammer, English workman. In part, photocopies of originals in the Leffingwell collection at the New Haven Colony Historical Society, and transcripts (typewritten) and photocopies of originals in many libraries, historical societies, and private collections.

8.75 linear ft. (15 boxes, 2 folios)

Yale University Library

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Yale University Library

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Connecticut. Militia. Regiment, 19th (1775-1777)

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Greene, Nathanael, 1742-1786

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Panton, George

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Knollenberg, Bernhard, 1892-1973

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Bernhard Knollenberg was a lawyer, public official, and historian. He was born on November 26, 1892, in Richmond, Indiana. He received the degree of A.B. from Earlham College in 1912. He then moved to Harvard University where he received an A.M. In 1914 and LL.B. in 1916. Knollenberg practiced law in Hawaii, Indiana, Massachusetts, and New York before retiring from it in 1938. For the following six years, he was librarian of Yale University. Between 1943 and 1944, he was senior deputy administra...

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Curtiss, Homer Sackett.

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Hunt, Alvah.

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United States. Army. Connecticut Infantry Regiment, 2nd.

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