Elisaph Butler family papers, 1798-1867.

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Elisaph Butler family papers, 1798-1867.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/722850887

The collection consists of letters, deeds and other legal documents, and notes, bills and receipts to or from Elisaph Butler and his wife Hannah Brockett Butler of Norfolk, Connecticut. The letters to Elisaph, 1806-1840, are either business, including two letters from individuals Butler had contacted about working for him, or from friends and from his sister Elizabeth Holt. Most of Hannah's letters, 1823-1841, are from her brothers Justus and Levi Brockett and her sisters Patty Norton and Sally Danson. Also included in the collection are essays written by Elisaph's grandson Elisaph Butler, one which mentions seeing John Brown in Collinsville, where he spoke to a crowd and bought some knives.

0.6 linear foot (1 envelope)

Connecticut Historical Society

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Brockett, Levi, 1798-1886.

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Brown, John, 1800-1859

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John Brown (May 9, 1800, Torrington, Connecticut – December 2, 1859, Charles Town, Virginia) was born in Connecticut in 1800 before migrating with his family at an early age to the Connecticut Western Reserve. He failed at several business ventures and land speculations before devoting his life to the abolition of slavery. Brown was executed in 1859 following his failed attempt to incite a slave rebellion at Harper's Ferry, Virginia. Edwin Coppoc, a native of Salem, Ohio, joined Brown in his rai...

Butler, Hannah Brockett.

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Brockett, Justus, d. 1877.

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Butler, Elisaph, 1768-1843.

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Brockett, Levi.

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Butler, Elisaph, b. 1848.

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Holt, Elizabeth Butler.

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Danson, Sally.

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Norton, Patty Virginia

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