Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of genealogies of families of Curtiss, Barnes, Newell, Potter, Woodruff, and Hart in Connecticut, particularly from the towns of Southington and Farmington. The volume includes copies of wills; land deeds; detailed accounts of where they resided; and personal anecdotes, including family members' involvement in religious activities; the American Revolution; and the Civil War. The manuscript notes the marriage of Hawkins Hart of Wallingford to Mary Widow of Street, "grand daugthter of Rev John Eliot the Apostle to the Indians, Author of a translation of the Bible into the Indian language ..."
Description:
In English., Tipped in: dealer's description of manuscript., Seventeen leaves at the beginning left blank., Laid in at p. 178: newspaper clipping of "the only complete record now existing of citizens of Southington who enlisted in the late War of the Rebellion.", Laid in at p. 341: small square of embroidered cloth., Paper blind-embossed stamp: Congress J. Smith., and Binding: machine-grain black morocco.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and Missouri
Subject (Name):
Andrews, Gad, b. 1803., Barnes family., Curtis family., Hart family., Newell family., Potter family., Woodruff family., and Yale College (1718-1887)
Subject (Topic):
Alumni and alumnae, Genealogy, History, and Religious life and customs
Negative photostatic copy, circa 1912-1924, of an editorial written about William Graham Sumner and another written by him in response, published in the New-York Standard 1871 March 18 and 22. Editorials pertain to Sumner’s views of the Yale Corporation and the future of Yale College. Articles unrelated to Sumner are also present in the copy
Description:
William Graham Sumner (1840-1910) (Yale 1863), American social scientist. From 1870 to 1872, he was Rector of the Church of the Redeemer in Morristown, New Jersey. Sumner returned to Yale in 1872 as professor of political and social science, becoming the first professor in sociology in the United States., In English., and Title supplied by cataloger.
Subject (Geographic):
New York (N.Y.)
Subject (Name):
Sumner, William Graham, 1840-1910. and Yale College (1718-1887)
