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28. Hartford and New-Haven Turnpike Company records, 1799-1853 (bulk 1799-1840).
- Creator:
- Hartford and New-Haven Turnpike Company
- Published / Created:
- 1806 July 16
- Call Number:
- GEN MSS 841
- Container / Volume:
- Box 1 | Folder 7
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- Also present in Box 2 is an unrelated printed indenture with manuscript annotations, dated September 2, 1799, transferring 100 acres of land in Ontario County, New York, from Oliver Phelps of Hartford, Connecticut, to Oliver Ellsworth of Windsor, Connecticut. and The records contain approximately 300 manuscript papers including, in Box 1, correspondence, contracts and agreements, financial statements, toll both records, lists of stockholders, records for 12 scheduled dividends paid out between 1805 and 1826, dividend orders and receipts, and in Box 2, vouchers (invoices and receipts) for building, maintaining, and repairing the road. Most of the correspondence is addressed to Simeon Baldwin, but letters were also sent to James Hillhouse and Jeremiah Wadsworth.
- Alternative Title:
- [Dividend order and receipt for Dwight Foster]
- Description:
- Gift of the estate of Delia Lyman Porter, 1934. and The Hartford and New-Haven Turnpike Company was formed in 1798 with the purpose of surveying and laying out "a direct road from New Haven to Hartford through the town of Berlin and through such towns and in such places as will best promote the public travel." The treasurer of the company was New Haven lawyer Simeon Baldwin (1761-1851).
- Subject (Geographic):
- Hartford and New-Haven Turnpike (Conn.)
- Subject (Name):
- Ellsworth, Oliver,--1745-1807, Hartford and New-Haven Turnpike Company, Hillhouse, James,--1754-1832, Phelps, Oliver,--1749-1809, and Wadsworth, Jeremiah,--1743-1804
- Subject (Topic):
- Roads--Connecticut, Toll roads--Connecticut, and Transportation--Connecticut
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Hartford and New-Haven Turnpike Company records, 1799-1853 (bulk 1799-1840).
29. Hartford and New-Haven Turnpike Company records, 1799-1853 (bulk 1799-1840).
- Creator:
- Hartford and New-Haven Turnpike Company
- Published / Created:
- 1802 April 12, undated
- Call Number:
- GEN MSS 841
- Container / Volume:
- Box 2 | Folder 12
- Image Count:
- 4
- Abstract:
- Also present in Box 2 is an unrelated printed indenture with manuscript annotations, dated September 2, 1799, transferring 100 acres of land in Ontario County, New York, from Oliver Phelps of Hartford, Connecticut, to Oliver Ellsworth of Windsor, Connecticut. and The records contain approximately 300 manuscript papers including, in Box 1, correspondence, contracts and agreements, financial statements, toll both records, lists of stockholders, records for 12 scheduled dividends paid out between 1805 and 1826, dividend orders and receipts, and in Box 2, vouchers (invoices and receipts) for building, maintaining, and repairing the road. Most of the correspondence is addressed to Simeon Baldwin, but letters were also sent to James Hillhouse and Jeremiah Wadsworth.
- Alternative Title:
- [Receipt for Henry Hartley's work on Sugarloaf Hill &c.] and James Hillhouse pd to Joel Cole for work at the well
- Description:
- Gift of the estate of Delia Lyman Porter, 1934. and The Hartford and New-Haven Turnpike Company was formed in 1798 with the purpose of surveying and laying out "a direct road from New Haven to Hartford through the town of Berlin and through such towns and in such places as will best promote the public travel." The treasurer of the company was New Haven lawyer Simeon Baldwin (1761-1851).
- Subject (Geographic):
- Hartford and New-Haven Turnpike (Conn.)
- Subject (Name):
- Ellsworth, Oliver,--1745-1807, Hartford and New-Haven Turnpike Company, Hillhouse, James,--1754-1832, Phelps, Oliver,--1749-1809, and Wadsworth, Jeremiah,--1743-1804
- Subject (Topic):
- Roads--Connecticut, Toll roads--Connecticut, and Transportation--Connecticut
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Hartford and New-Haven Turnpike Company records, 1799-1853 (bulk 1799-1840).
30. [Receipt to Cadell and Davies, London]
- Creator:
- Ouseley, William, Sir, 1767-1842
- Published / Created:
- 1799 November 20
- Call Number:
- OSB MSS 139
- Collection Title:
- Cadell & Davies letters from various authors
- Container / Volume:
- Box 1 | Folder 10
- Image Count:
- 2
- Subject (Name):
- Cadell & Davies, Davies, William,--d. 1820, and Ouseley, William,--Sir,--1767-1842
- Subject (Topic):
- Authors and publishers--England--London, Authors, English--18th century, Booksellers and bookselling--England--London, and Publishers and publishing--England--London
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Receipt to Cadell and Davies, London]
31. [Secret Service financial records]
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1794-97]
- Call Number:
- OSB MSS 148
- Collection Title:
- George Aust papers concerning the Secret Service, 1794-1800
- Container / Volume:
- Folder 3
- Image Count:
- 6
- Abstract:
- This collection, with its painstaking accounts and administrative receipts, shows the daily complexities of managing a secret service.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain --History --George III, 1760-1820
- Subject (Name):
- Aust, George, 1749-1829, Great Britain. Foreign Office --Officials and employees, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Thomas Coutts & Co, and Wickham, William, 1761-1840
- Subject (Topic):
- Ciphers, Cryptography --Great Britain, and Intelligence service --Great Britain
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Secret Service financial records]
32. [Receipts for monies received by George Aust on Lord Grenville's separate account]
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1794-97]
- Call Number:
- OSB MSS 148
- Collection Title:
- George Aust papers concerning the Secret Service, 1794-1800
- Container / Volume:
- Folder 2
- Image Count:
- 19
- Abstract:
- This collection, with its painstaking accounts and administrative receipts, shows the daily complexities of managing a secret service.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain --History --George III, 1760-1820
- Subject (Name):
- Aust, George, 1749-1829, Great Britain. Foreign Office --Officials and employees, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Thomas Coutts & Co, and Wickham, William, 1761-1840
- Subject (Topic):
- Ciphers, Cryptography --Great Britain, and Intelligence service --Great Britain
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Receipts for monies received by George Aust on Lord Grenville's separate account]
33. Journal of the printing-office at Strawberry Hill near Twickenham in Middlesex : manuscript
- Creator:
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
- Published / Created:
- 1757-1789.
- Call Number:
- 49 2506A
- Image Count:
- 45
- Abstract:
- A journal kept by Horace Walpole that documents the opertaion of the Strawberry Hill Press, his private press at his home Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, England). Starting on 25 June 1757 with the erection of the press by William Robinson, the first of several printers hired by Horace Walpole to operate his press, the journal contains a list of the titles published, receipts for payment to the printers and their assistants, the indenture of Joseph Forrester, correspondence between Walpole and his printers about operations and the choice of engravers, receipts for supplies, newspaper clippings announcing the publications from the press, and two vignettes used in the Press's publications. With a medley print by Jacobus Houbraken on front paste-down with portraits of early printers: Joannes Gutenburg, Joannes Faustus, Laurentius Costerus, Aldus Manucius, and Joannes Frobenius which was also the frontispiece to volume 1 of Michael Maittaire's work Annales typographici ab artis inventae origine ad annum MD (Hagae-Comitum: Apud Idssvu, Valillant, MDCCXIX. Also with two prints by Edward Edwards: tFarm yard and printing house at Strawberry Hill; and, a portrait of Thomas Kirgate
- Description:
- Title from text at head of page 1, in Walpole's hand. and In English with some French.
- Subject (Geographic):
- England.
- Subject (Name):
- Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810., Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810,, and Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Private presses and Printers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Journal of the printing-office at Strawberry Hill near Twickenham in Middlesex : manuscript
34. Pay Roll, 1779 : MS.
- Creator:
- South Carolina Infantry. 3rd Regiment of Rangers
- Published / Created:
- 1779 August-October
- Call Number:
- Z40 011
- Image Count:
- 42
- Description:
- Multiple pages removed from end of volume.
- Subject (Name):
- South Carolina Infantry, United States. Continental Army. Southern Department, United States. Continental Army--Finance, United States. Continental Army--History--Sources, and United States. Continental Army--Pay, allowances, etc
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Pay Roll, 1779 : MS.
35. Inventory of books purchased by David Garrick from William Griffin
- Published / Created:
- 1768 December 3
- Call Number:
- OSB MSS 125
- Collection Title:
- David Garrick papers from the Thomas Rackett collection, 1741-1776.
- Container / Volume:
- Box 1 | Folder 41
- Image Count:
- 2
- Abstract:
- Letters, manuscript poems, financial papers, and other documents relating to David Garrick and his tenure as manager of the Drury Lane Theatre. Letters include a lengthy 1751 letter from Richard Berenger describing theaters and operas in Paris; transcripts of two letters from Garrick to Francis Hayman about plans for a series of prints from Shakespeare; and a 1767 letter from the actor Patrick O'Brien discussing his "exiled" life in New York. Manuscript verse consists of drafts of several prologues and epilogues, and copies of comic epigrams and songs. Other papers include a record of receipts for the first season of Drury Lane; "A Scheme for a Theatrical Society;" a list of characters performed by Garrick in 1741-42; and a copy of "Mr. Taylor's address to young students and lovers of landscape painting."
- Alternative Title:
- Other papers
- Description:
- David Garrick (1717-1779) was the most celebrated Shakespearean actor of his time and the successful manager of the Drury Lane Theatre for almost three decades. and Thomas Rackett (1755-1840) received his MA from University College, Oxford in 1780 and named rector of Spetisbury in Dorset shortly after; he held the living until his death in 1840. Rackett devoted much time to his antiquarian interests; he was a member of the Linnean Society, the Royal Society, and the Society of Antiquaries, and contributed several drawings to John Hutchins's History of Dorset. He died at Spetisbury in November of 1840.
- Subject (Name):
- Garrick, David,--1717-1779, Griffin, William, fl. 1758-1776, and Rackett, Thomas,--1757-1841--Ownership
- Subject (Topic):
- Actors--England, Theater--England--18th century, and Theater--Great Britain--18th century
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Inventory of books purchased by David Garrick from William Griffin
36. Bill of sale from Sir Francis Blake Delaval to Sir John Hussey Delaval of the household goods &c, at Seaton Delaval and Dissington, 1761 Sep 11.
- Creator:
- Delaval, Francis Blake, Sir, 1727-1771
- Published / Created:
- 1761 Sep 11
- Call Number:
- Osborn c604
- Image Count:
- 4
- Abstract:
- Manuscript retained copy of a bill of sale containing a household inventory of the contents of Seaton Delaval Hall, sold by Sir Francis Blake Delaval to his younger brother in return for an annuity. The household inventory is particularly complete and includes listings of furniture, decorative items, household equipment, and plate for approximately forty rooms of the hall. "Pictures" are counted but not described.
- Description:
- Accompanied by: "Seaton Delaval Hall, Northumberland," magazine clipping from Country Life, November 6, 2003., Binding: modern case., and For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Northumberland (England)--Historic buildings and Seaton Delaval (England)
- Subject (Name):
- Delaval, John,--Sir
- Subject (Topic):
- Material culture--England
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Bill of sale from Sir Francis Blake Delaval to Sir John Hussey Delaval of the household goods &c, at Seaton Delaval and Dissington, 1761 Sep 11.
