The collection contains legal documents, primarily land records in the form of deeds, leases, and quit claims, executed by residents of New Haven and New London counties in Connecticut, in particular families in the towns of Branford, New Haven, and N...
Description:
Box 1 contains Scipio C. Augustus, John Bradley, Henry Daggett Estate, and Leeman Dunning. Box 2 contains Eagle Bank, Hezekiah Howe Estate, Thomas Howell, Hotchkiss Leases, and Addin Lewis Estate. Box 3 contains Joel Root, John Skinner Estate, Bias St...
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., Connecticut., and New Haven (Conn.)
Subject (Name):
Augustus, Scipio C., -1833., Leffingwell, Christopher, 1734-1810., Stanley, Bias, -1854., African United Ecclesiastical Society (New Haven, Conn.), and Eagle Bank (New Haven, Conn.)
Subject (Topic):
African Americans, Real property, Social life and customs, and Enconomic conditions
Manuscript contract, signed, in the hand of William Smith, between Smith and Andrew C. Barnett, for relocation of one hundred sixty enslaved African American plantation workers and farming property owned by Smith from his plantations in Alabama to his...
Description:
William Smith (1762-1840), plantation owner and member of the Alabama House of Representatives, 1836-1840.
Subject (Geographic):
Alabama., Louisiana., Louisiana, and United States
Subject (Name):
Barnett, Andrew C. and Smith, William, 1762-1840.
Subject (Topic):
African Americans, Farmers, Slavery, History, Economic conditions, Social life and customs, and Politics and government
