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Start Over Collection Benjamin Tallmadge collection, 1777-1864, Date acquired: 01/01/1933, bulk 1778-1833

Copy of a protest of a bill of exchange of Henry Frederick Helmerhausen to Josiah Stoddard, 1780 1 items Folder 1

Protest of Helmerhausen's bill of exchange written by Gottlieb August Mitreuter and others dated Wethersfield; notarized and sealed; indorsed in Benjamin Tallmadge's handwriting.

  1. The Litchfield Historical Society
  2. Benjamin Tallmadge collection, 1777-1864, Date acquired: 01/01/1933, bulk 1778-1833
  3. Legal papers, 1780-1844
  4. Court documents
  5. 1780, 1782

Correspondence, 1776-1856

Series 1, arranged chronologically, consists of letters from Benjamin Tallmadge to George Washington during the American Revolution, and letters among Tallmadge's family members after the war. The letters are fair copies in Tallmadge's hand. Tallmadge's letters to Washington document his military activities, as well as his activities as George Washington's chief intelligence officer and the organizer of the Culper spy ring. The collection also contains two original letters from George Washington to Tallmadge (in folders 12 and 18). After the war, Tallmadge's correspondence with his family members record his business activities as well as religious, political, and social news in Litchfield, New England, and Washington, D. C.

  1. The Litchfield Historical Society
  2. Benjamin Tallmadge collection, 1777-1864, Date acquired: 01/01/1933, bulk 1778-1833