Wolcott, Oliver, 1760-1833
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1760 - 1833
Oliver Wolcott (1760-1833), 2nd United States Secretary of the Treasury, a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Circuit Court for the Second Circuit, and the 24th Governor of Connecticut.
Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
Chauncey family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 135
Overview:
The papers consist of correspondence, account books, financial records, diaries, journals, and other papers relating to the personal lives and professional careers of the Chauncey family of Connecticut. Material relating to the American Revolution and the colonial period includes the correspondence, legal papers, and financial records of Charles Chauncey (1747-1823). The legal papers of Charles Chauncey (1777-1849) document his work in Philadelphia. The European travel diaries for Nathaniel...
Dates:
1675-1928
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Chauncey family papers
David Daggett papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 162
Overview:
Correspondence (primarily letters received) and other papers of David Daggett, Connecticut lawyer, jurist, politician, teacher, and author. The papers relate primarily to Daggett's legal and political activities and to Federalist Party politics. Important correspondents include Simeon Baldwin, Abraham Bishop, Isaac Bronson, John C. Calhoun, Henry Clay, Charles Denison, Elizur Goodrich, Gideon Granger, Roger Griswold, Rufus King, William Leffingwell, Josiah Meigs, Timothy Pickering, Benjamin...
Dates:
1781-1851
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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David Daggett papers
Southard Hay autograph collection
Collection
Call Number: MS 268
Overview:
Correspondence, legal documents, financial papers and other items chiefly relating to the history of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York and Virginia. A large proportion of the papers concern the business affairs of Joseph Higbee of Trenton, Nathaniel Pendleton of New York, Thomas Woodruff and John Beatty, presidents of the Trenton Banking Company and Robert Morris of Philadelphia. Also in the papers are letters by several United States presidents, cabinet officers, Supreme Court justices and...
Dates:
1750-1885
Letter : Hartford, to Winthrop Saltonstall, 1788 Jul 8
Part of Collection — Box: 60, Folder: GROUP 2292, F-3
Call Number: GEN MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
LS written in autograph manuscript in an unidentified hand and signed by Wolcott.
Forms part of the Daggert autograph collection.
Forms part of the Daggert autograph collection.
Dates:
1788 Jul 8
Letter : Washington, to Jedidiah Morse, 1800 Nov 28
Part of Collection — Box: 60, Folder: GROUP 2292, F-2
Call Number: GEN MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
ALS discussing politics.
Dates:
1800 Nov 28
Signature, n.d.
Part of Collection — Box: 60, Folder: GROUP 2292, F-1
Call Number: GEN MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
Signature, possibly clipped from a document.
Dates:
n.d.
Eli Whitney papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 554
Overview:
The papers consist of correspondence and business papers relating to Eli Whitney's interests in developing the cotton gin and the manufacture of firearms employing a system of interchangeable parts. The papers include land records relating to the acquisition of property for the mill site, patents on inventions, account books and other financial records, and contracts and drawings concerning firearms production. Also included in the papers are records of Eli Whitney's estate, papers of Eli...
Dates:
1716-1959, bulk 1785-1881
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Eli Whitney papers
Woolsey family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 562
Overview:
The papers document three generations of the Woolsey family. The most prominent figures in the collection are William Walton Woolsey (1766-1839), land owner and merchant in New York City; his son, Theodore Dwight Woolsey (1801-1889), Greek scholar, political theorist and president of Yale College; and Theodore Salisbury Woolsey (1852-1929), professor of international law at Yale Law School, son of Theodore Dwight Woolsey. The papers of William Walton Woolsey contain extensive business...
Dates:
1750-1969, bulk 1811-1921
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Woolsey family papers