Griswold family papers

Scope and Contents Daybook of general merchandise sales, money borrowed, notes exchanged, and other financial transactions of Stanley Griswold, in New Milford, Connecticut, dated 1790-1801. Entries mostly reflect trade with merchants, laborers, and shopkeepers, of shoes, stockings, medicines, farm and dairy produce, wheat, lumber, and West Indies and British commodities like molasses, rum, sugar, gunpowder, and dry goods. Griswold hired out his horses and paid taxes on behalf of certain residents. There are...

Scope and Contents Contains papers and notebooks of Samuel Griswold related to his college experience and his ordainment as gospel minister of First Congregational Church in New Milford, dated 1782-1801. There are a loose account of dates of each term Griswold attended Yale College (1782-1786), and a volume entitled "An account of my studies at College," describing his undergraduate courses each year; a number of the pages are in Hebrew and Latin. Additionally there is a notebook containing of an oration by...

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Includes one receipt of Stanley Griswold to Mary & Hannah Brunson for payment of the society rate in 1799.

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Includes promissory notes from Stanley Griswold to various people, including David Boardman, Stephen Collins, Lucy Merwin, and Thomas Wells.

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Includes an account current of Stanley Griswold with Enoch Perkins, an investor in the Connecticut Land Company, in 1799, showing cash receipts and payments.

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Contains receipts to Stanley Griswold for taxes on his shares in the Connecticut Land Company, and an account of Griswold's property in the Connecticut Western Reserve, dated 1796-1810.

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Includes several copies of letters to Brinsley Norton from Stanley Griswold in 1799 and 1800 about financing and land development.

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Contains correspondence among investors and others involved in the Connecticut Land Company, primarily related to difficulties selling land in the Connecticut Western Reserve, and obtaining payment, dated 1797-1812. There are letters of Stanley Griswold, Brinsley Norton, Enoch Perkins, Thomas Gaylord, Aaron Olmstead (1753-1806), N.W. Howel, and Ephraim Starr.

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Includes a letter from Shubael Griswold to his brother Stanley Griswold and his wife, dated 1799, about fabric he was sending for a gown for her and "a very fatiguing journey to New York" where he "found goods scare & dear."