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Title Chauncey Whittelsey papers 1707-1852 [box 01]

Date Created 1731-1811

Place Connecticut, United States

Subjects Armies, Business enterprises, Cost and standard of living, Cost of, Land grants, United States

Description Forms part of the Midwest Manuscript Collection (Newberry Library)

Summary Land grants, town receipts, commercial accounts, business letters, etc., relating to the commercial activities of Chauncey Whittelsey. The bulk of the material is between 1731 and 1811, with much dating 1779 and 1780 when Whittelsey was the clothing purchasing agent for the Continental Army in Connecticut. Included are 180 receipts issued by Whittelsey to Connecticut town authorities documenting clothing contributions to the army, 150 letters and accounts pertaining to his clothing business, and 20 items relating to his administration of the confiscated properties of James Jauncey, a loyalist. There are land deeds (1731-1758) of father-in-law Seth Wetmore; documents containing the signatures of Jonathan Trumbull, Roger Sherman, and Jedediah Huntington; and a short business letter from Isaac Sears. Also included: an 1852 land grant issued by the U.S. General Land Office to War of 1812 veteran Constant B. Jones for property in what is now Grandview, Edgar County, Illinois, and the extensive research notes of Charles H. Good.

Biographical/Historical Note Eighteenth-century Connecticut businessman and Continental Army purchasing agent.

Extent 412 items (2 boxes)

Format Deeds, Manuscripts, Receipts

Archival Collection Title Chauncey Whittelsey papers

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Newberry Open Access Policy The Newberry makes its collections available for any lawful purpose, commercial or non-commercial, without licensing or permission fees to the library, subject to these terms and conditions.

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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Call Number Midwest MS Whittelsey

IIIF Resource Type Manifest

IIIF Resource ID https://collections.newberry.org/IIIF3/Presentation/Manifest/2KXJ8ZSGOTQH5

Filename 991621028805867_mms_whittelsey_box_01_fl_01_01

Unique identifier NL11DWNS

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