Otis, Samuel Allyne, 1740-1814
Person
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Baldwin and Company papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 56
Overview:
A shipping firm based in New York trading with Europe, South America and various ports in the United States. The principal partner in the firm was Simeon Baldwin of New Haven. The records include account books, correspondence, papers dealing with the general business of the firm and papers dealing with the individual ships. The records for each of the 124 ships consist of bills of lading, manifests, freight lists, settlements of earnings, letters of instruction to captains, captain's accounts...
Dates:
1818-1876
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Baldwin and Company papers
Roger Sherman (1721-1793) collection
Collection
Call Number: MS 447
Overview:
Correspondence, reports, legal records, financial documents and genealogical material of Roger Sherman, signer of the Declaration of Independence. Included are both family letters and political correspondence. Of special interest are the letters to Governor Jonathan Trumbull on the relationship of Connecticut to the prosecution of the war (1777-1780). Among Sherman's writings are a report from the Constitutional Convention (1787), a note on the proposal for a national bank (1791) and a printed...
Dates:
1749-1904
Samuel Blachley Webb papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 539
Overview:
The Webb papers consist of letterbooks, correspondence, journals, notebooks, orderly books, papers, and military records documenting the personal life and military career of Samuel Blachley Webb, who served in the American Revolutionary forces under Israel Putnam and George Washington. Notable correspondents include: Joseph Barrell, Silas Deane, Nathanael Greene, Alexander Hamilton, Robert Morris, Samuel Otis, Timothy Pickering, Jonathan Trumbull, George Washington, and Catharine Hogeboom Webb.
Dates:
1756-1819
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Samuel Blachley Webb papers