Collections : [The Litchfield Historical Society]

Receipt from B. and S. DeMilt in New York, dated 1823 Jun 12 to Mr. Demming for one Patent Lever watch made by M.J. Tobias in Liverpool.

Certification by Samuel Catlin, a surgeon, that Benjamin Gibbs, Jr. is unfit for military service due to lameness in his right foot.

Two deeds to William F. Baldwin for land in Litchfield, Conn.

The Benjamin Tallmadge Collection documents the personal life and professional career of Colonel Benjamin Tallmadge through his correspondence as well as his legal, financial, and personal papers. An army officer, chief intelligence officer, and organizer of the Culper spy ring during the Revolutionary War, Tallmadge became a businessman and U.S. Representative from Connecticut in Congress after the war.

Letter regarding a payment. Also included are bank check from Tallmadge to Samuel Buel in the amount of $1700; a calling card of Thomas R. Proctor; and an engraving of Tallmadge.

A printed broadside enlisting subscribers for an octavio volume by Benjamin Trumbull with the title "A complete history of Connecticut, from the time of the emigration of its first planters from England, in 1630, to 1712." to be printed by Hudson and Goodwin, Hartford, Conn.

Small collection of items that consists of Sixth Annual Ball of the Bantam Fire Company program (1921); Camp Wonponset brochure (1910); The Bantam Bell newspaper (1920); M. H. Hallee letter to Barber Lynn.

A handwritten list of men who received knapsacks, both new and old, with the price and whether it was paid or not paid. The date and place are uncertain but it is possible that it was from Vermont during the Civil War as some names may be matched to that state and time period.

Bills of Frederick Wiggin (1977-34-0) includes 21 bills for goods purchased from mainly Litchfield businesses between 1879-1890 (there is one bill from Paris in 1890). Among the businesses included are Albert L. Judd, F.D. McNeil and Co., E.E. Champlin, Echo Farm, and R.E. Tyrrell.

Letters and deeds of the Bird family, mostly John Bird and Dr. Seth Bird.