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Mitchell, Stephen Mix, 1743-1835

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Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Roger Sherman (1721-1793) collection

 Collection
Call Number: MS 447
Abstract: 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...
Dates: 1749-1904

Wadsworth family papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 525
Abstract: Chiefly correspondence of the Wadsworth, Silliman, and Trumbull families. Of note in the eighteenth century correspondence is the exchange between Joseph Trumbull and Jeremiah Wadsworth concerning the business of the Commissary General during the American Revolution. Major correspondents in the later period are Faith Trumbull Wadsworth, Benjamin and Harriet Trumbull Silliman and their children. There is a long series of ninety-one letters (1806-1846) to Eliza Winthrop Sebor from Faith...
Dates: 1745-1914, bulk 1775-1862

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Connecticut 1
Connecticut -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 1
Constitutional history -- United States 1