Judson Canfield papers, 1760-1856.

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Judson Canfield papers, 1760-1856.

Chiefly legal documents of Judson Canfield, including agreements, deeds, executions, receipts, statements, and correspondence, relating to his law practice, principally involving matters around Sharon, Conn., but also including several documents pertaining to the Connecticut Land Company and land sales in Ohio.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8098921

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Babbit, James, 1769-1849

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McKay family.

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Flewwelling family.

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Ruggles, Julia Canfield, 1826-1857

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Ruggles family.

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Bostwick family.

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Canfield, Judson, 1759-1840

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Lawyer, of Sharon, Conn.; graduate of Yale, 1782; purchased land in the Western Reserve; state legislator, associate judge, farmer, and landowner. Died in New York City in 1840. Canfield's son, Henry Judson Canfield married Sally Ruth Ferris, daughter of Walter Ferriss and Sarah (Sally) Morgan Ferris. Walter Ferriss, whose papers are also included in the collection, was a farmer who later became a Universalist minister in Charlotte, Vt. From the description of Judson Canfield papers,...

Connecticut Land Company

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The Connecticut Land Company (1795-1809) was a syndicate of 35 groups representing 58 individuals who purchased on credit the majority of Connecticut's Western Reserve land as a speculative venture. Proceeds from the sale of the Reserve were used to establish the Connecticut School Fund. The Western Reserve was that area of northeastern Ohio which Connecticut reserved for her citizens in 1786 in exchange for ceding the remainder of her western land claims to the newly-formed United States govern...

Ferris, Sarah Morgan, 1772-1850

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Bostick family.

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Mackay family.

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Ferris, Walter, 1768-1806.

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Canfield, Henry J. (Henry Judson), 1789-1856

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Talmadge family.

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