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Stonington (Conn.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Asa Fish papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 963
Abstract:

Letters from family, friends, and business associates of Asa Fish chiefly relating to ocean going trade, whaling, and sealing around the Cape of Good Hope and marine insurance. Also some material on politics in Connecticut.

Dates: 1810-1855

Makepeace family papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 977
Abstract: Account books and autograph albums kept by various members of the Makepeace family of Connecticut. One, kept by Orlando Porter, relates to the clock manufacturing company of Samuel Harrison and Company. Another, kept by Ward Peck betweeen 1818 and 1842, records his farming activities in Waterbury. The four autograph albums (1827-1885) contain the signatures of such notables as John Burroughs, Leonard Bacon, Timothy Dwight, James A. Garfield, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Wendell Phillips, Henry...
Dates: 1773-1925