Scope and Content From the Collection: The Silas Talbot Papers, 1767-1867, consist of approximately 3,000 pieces including accounts, bills, receipts, account books, genealogical notes, printed materials, and correspondence contained in nine boxes. They illustrate well the varied career of Talbot as an Army and Navy officer during the American Revolution, merchant, gentleman farmer, land speculator, state legislator, Congressman, agent for the United States in the West Indies to protect American seamen, and Navy officer during the...