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
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Asa Fish papers
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
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Makepeace family papers