Personal and business papers of a West Hartford businessman who in turns was a potter, a wagon maker and a farmer. Correspondence and financial records indicate that in the 1840s Faxon was in business with S. Goodwin as the firm of Faxon & Goodwin in the manufacture of flower pots and bricks. In the 1850s the same materials indicate he was in the business of making and repairing carriages and wagons. The financial records include bills, receipts, accounts, promissory notes, interest records and what appear to be store inventories although they are undated. Some family correspondence, in which only one person is positively identified, were sent to Emma, Sarah and Carrie. William Faxon signed one letter. Of particular interest are a set of "newspapers" called the Student Offering, written in Mansfield, Connecticut, by an as yet unidentified editor, from 1850-1851, and a play called "The Census" written by Jonathan Trescott.
