8 July 1794

Hoffman, Nicholas, 1736-1800

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Informs Knox he has received several orders and thanks him for recommending his services to the United States. Requests Knox to inform Mrs. [Lucy] Knox they have a new grandson.

GLC02437.06139

22 September 1794

Hoffman, Nicholas, 1736-1800

Autograph document signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Encloses a draft to Henry Knox for $54 on behalf of Abraham Wilson. Docket notes on verso Wilson's order for a "Negro Women (Cook)." "Free" stamped on address leaf with no signature.

GLC02437.06209

26 April 1863

Allen, George D., fl. 1859-1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mary Mayberry

Writing to tell her he is alright, even though it is not his turn. Says he is about 10 miles from Washington, North Carolina under batteries which have caused them a great deal of trouble for the past 3-4 weeks. It was the cause of them not going to Philadelphia. Says the rebels sneaked in and built the batteries during the night and "They built them a little back from the river so that they could not be seen when they got them finished they cut the trees down in front of them." They were also built under the ground so they could not be shelled out. Says Commodore Hull ran the gauntlet of…

GLC02829.08

6 September 1862

Tillotson, George W., 1830-1918

Autograph letter signed

Title: To his wife

Sleeping on open ground, commending wife's economy, speculating that Jackson has been allowed to cross over into Maryland to cut him off.

GLC04558.042

circa 1867-1884

Rogers

Photograph

Title: [Harriet Beecher Stowe's winter home]

Cabinet card showing the winter home of the Stowes with four people sitting on the front lawn, including Harriet Beecher Stowe and her husband, Professor Calvin Stowe. Inscription on verso states the house has been torn down. Inscribed "For my friend Chas G. Ball[illegible] / Fm. Mercer[?] / Apr 6-1914."

GLC01584.02

circa 1870-1880

Hastings, fl. 1880

Photograph signed

Title: [Harriet Beecher Stowe]

Side profile image of Stowe as an older woman. Signed by Stowe beneath the image. Photographed by Hastings. "Dunbar" is written in the upper-left corner.

GLC01584.03

8 July 1864

Tittle, George A., fl. 1862-1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to his sister

References her letter of 21 June, which he received on his arrival to Dover from Cherbourg on 6 July. Will cross over the English Channel tonight to Boulogne, and if they stay there long enough he will buy her the gloves she requested. Reports that "At Cherbourg we were crowded with visitors, among them where Louis Napoleon and the Prince Consort - since our arrival here we have been completely overrun, everybody in England seems anxious to see the famous 'Kearsarge and her guns.'" Says as he is writing this there are two steamers together with a large number of yachts and rowboats, all…

GLC02828.18

21 October 1860

Allen, Joseph H., fl. 1859-1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mary Mayberry

Written by Allen on the USS "Congress." Says his health and spirits are well. Reports there is no news other than "the Ball[.] I expect it will be a grand afair [sic] as the men at the head of it are the most respectable in the ship." Sends regards to individual friends and family members. Says I "hope soon to get our orders for home not that I am tired of the ship but I would like to see you all again." Says he would like to hear from his friends and in "particular the young Ladies." Postscript asks her to bundle letters as the Navy charges for each individual letter brought to the ship.…

GLC02829.03

18 [December] 1861

Tillotson, George W., 1830-1918

Autograph letter signed

Title: To his wife

"I am not disappointed much as to soldiers life it is easier if anything as yet than I expected...." Also, "Damn the schoolmaster but then you know I an't [sic] afraid of him caus[e] why I've got good faith in my little wifes constancy besides I told Israel to take good care of you." Mentions money.

GLC04558.003

16 February 1862

Tillotson, George W., 1830-1918

Autograph letter signed

Title: To his wife

No mail, sickness (fever). Includes a letter on the last page to his daughter Georgiana in which he encourages her to learn to read and write so she can send him a letter. Written at Camp Winfield Scott.

GLC04558.011

28 June 1862

Tillotson, George W., 1830-1918

Autograph letter signed

Title: To his wife

Shock at daughter Lucy's death, sick in hospital.

GLC04558.028

19 July 1862

Tillotson, George W., 1830-1918

Autograph letter signed

Title: To his wife

Still in hospital. Family: "...how I do wish Dear Lib that I was at home to share your troubles, anxiety, sorrows, and to relieve you in some of your phisical [sic] labors.... How I tremble to think how near Georgiana also had been to the brink of the grave." Recounting his own problems with typhoid, increasing health, lack of news from regiment. Written at Camp Dickinson.

GLC04558.032

24 July 1862

Tillotson, George W., 1830-1918

Autograph letter signed

Title: To his wife

Laying around, regiment ordered from Newport News to Richmond, problems with fleas. Discusses rations from Uncle Sam and NC peddlers: "that come from main land in boats. There is sometimes as many as ten or a dozen here in a day and some of them come forty or fifty miles and get here before noon. They wouldnt trade much though if they traded only for cash but they will trade for old clothes, shoes, grease, packing salt out of the bottoms of meat barrels or any thing to eat or wear. But we have to pay sesession prices for every thing a dollar a bushel for potatoes, a dollar and a half for…

GLC04558.034

11 August 1862

Tillotson, George W., 1830-1918

Autograph letter signed

Title: To his wife

Addressed "Dear Elizabeth". Still at Fredericksburg but things are packed. Trying to get rid of extra clothing, still feels weak. Nurses and women's work: "Tell Mrs Rosa that if she feels so bad she had better enlist herself, as a nurse. I understand that twenty five or thirt[y] ladies in Binghamton and vicinity have lately enlisted as nurses so Mrs Rosa's change is good and she wont have to beg but get paid for it.... I believe that cooks name that made my pie was Mary but the pie was just as good for all that."

GLC04558.037

26 August 1862

Tillotson, George W., 1830-1918

Autograph letter signed

Title: To his wife

Signed "your affectionate Husband" and addressed to "Mrs. A.E. Tillotson." Joking to his wife at how quickly haying was done on the farm: "I suppose that that fifth hand with petticoats on is what drove business, dont you think so?" Diarrhea problems, denying reports of McClellan being surrounded, newspaper subscription. "The firing I spoke of in my last was between Pope's[,] Siegel's and Reno's forces and Stonewall Jackson's who is trying to cross the Rapidan river.... [...] There is a great excitement among the inhabitants of Fredericksburg on account of their expecting Jackson to…

GLC04558.040

1802

Scott, John B., 1761-1814

Document signed

Title: [Indictment of Phiby in the Easter Plot]

One document dated 1802. Item is an indictment of Phiby written by John B. Scott, Deputy Attorney for the Commonwealth in a court of Oyer and Terminer. Phiby is identified as Black woman enslaved by Daniel Price. Document details that she has been charged with conspiring to murder Price and to organize an insurrection with other freedpeople, enslaved people and "mulattoes."

GLC06338.03

17 April 1802

Spragins, Mel, fl. 1802-1819

Document signed

Title: [Writ of summons for the sheriff of Halifax County to summon county justices for a trial of slaves involved in the Easter Plot]

Writ of summons signed by Spragins and Dejurnatt (some ancestral records cite "Dejarnett," among various other spellings). Ordering the county sheriff to summon justices for a 23 April trial of "Sanco [Sancho] a Negro Man Slave now in possession of Richard Booker, Frank the property of Archer Robertson[,] Jim the property of James Booker and Phebey a Negro Woman Slave the property of Daniel Price." Notes that these four slaves were committed to county jail that day as per warrant.

GLC06338.08

17 April 1802

Spragins, Mel, fl. 1802-1819

Document signed

Title: [Warrant to the jailer of Halifax County to receive Abram, a slave, into custody until 23 April]

Spragins and Dejurnatt order the Halifax County jail keeper to receive into custody "Abram a Negro Man Slave the property of William Smith...he being a Witness in behalf of the Commonwealth" against Sanc[h]o, Frank, Jim and Phebey. A note at bottom specifies that "It is necessary that the above Witness be kept Separate from the persons he is a witness against." A note on verso states: "Sank [Sancho?] said he wd kill Danl Dijarnatt & take his wife. / Frank said he would take Danl. Perkins wife / Jim - [unclear if the latter is a signature or an unfinished sentence]." Docket indicates this…

GLC06338.09

17 April 1802

Spragins, Mel, fl. 1802-1819

Document signed

Title: [Warrant to the Halifax County jailer to receive the slaves Sancho, Frank, Jim, and Phebey into custody]

Spragins orders the Halifax County jail keeper to receive into custody "the body of Sancho a man slave now in the possession of Richard Booker of the s[ai]d County and said to be the property of John Booker of Amelia County Frank a negro man slave the property of Archer Robertson, Jim a man slave the property of James Booker and Phebey a negroe woman slave the property of David Price....and them safely keep till they shall be thence discharged by due course of Law." Docket indicates this is a mittimus (a type of warrant). Spragins was a justice of the peace. Also signed by [James?]…

GLC06338.10

24 November 1861

Coit, Charles M., 1838-1878

Autograph letter signed

Title: to his family

Discusses the group of soldiers who are acting as a guard to the city. Describes how they mostly arrest drunken or rowdy soldiers and keep them for a few days before allowing them to return to camp. Relates an incident involving six rowdy cavalrymen challenging ten of the guard's men. Mentions that he must write to A. A. Perkins though he "can't quite settle who she is."

GLC03603.037

18 June 1862

Coit, Charles M., 1838-1878

Autograph letter signed

Title: to his family

Writes that he will attempt to take a furlong at the end of the month. Makes reference to staying at Miss S. G. C.'s house during his time off. Thanks his family for the photograph of his brother ("the young man in the Insurance Company"). Also scolds his family for spreading the information of him seizing the liquor from the soldiers.

GLC03603.114

21 October 1861

Coit, Charles M., 1838-1878

Autograph letter signed

Title: to his family

Describes the Dress Parade and writes that he believes his performance to have gone very well. The townspeople are very kind to the soldiers and have given them bread and apples. The field staff, including Coit, are staying in an empty house which the townspeople believe to be haunted. Also describes the "splendid" greenhouse bouquet that he received when leaving Hartford and carried to Long Island, where it sits on the mantle in the dining room of the "haunted" house. Reports that he will soon have a servant. Written from Camp Buckingham.

GLC03603.014

27 October 1861

Coit, Charles M., 1838-1878

Autograph letter signed

Title: to his family

Comments on the skill and performance of different officers in his regiment, especially of the Lieutenant Colonel and the Major. Invites his family to come and see him in Dress Parade and says that he will be able to find them accommodations near the camp. Writes: "Tell Ellen I have not had a single flirtation.." Also asks his sister if she knows Miss L .C. Collins of Hartford or Miss Chuver of Providence as they were the two women that signed the card on the bouquet he received upon leaving Hartford. Requests that his family not tell people about the regiment moving to Annapolis (mentioned…

GLC03603.017

27 October 1861

Coit, Charles M., 1838-1878

Autograph letter signed

Title: to his family

Tells his family about Professor Andrews, a family friend who had stayed at the Coit house last time he was in Norwich. Andrews is a professor at the female seminary college near the camp and invited Coit and the Captains of the regiment to his home the next evening. Written from Camp Buckingham.

GLC03603.018

22 November 1861

Coit, Charles M., 1838-1878

Autograph letter signed

Title: to his family

Writes about the trouble he is having using the $5 bills sent from Connecticut and requests no more be sent. Complains about Annapolis calling it a "one horse town" and assures his sister that he will not lose his heart here because he "doubt(s) whether there are any girls here." Says Daly will need a paper signed by the Governor if he is to travel to Annapolis.

GLC03603.035