Connecticut -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
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
Strong Family Collection
Collection
Call Number: MS 1198
Abstract:
The collection consists of correspondence, legal and financial papers, diaries, writings, autographs, and other papers documenting the lives and activities of several generations of Strong family members and related Fowler, Pond, and Huntington families of Massachusetts and Connecticut. The bulk of the collection concerns the extended family of Phinehas Strong of Northampton, Massachusetts, and relates to the teaching and agriculture pursuits of family members in Ohio, Michigan, Virginia,...
Dates:
1667-1925
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Strong Family Collection