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Forbes Family Papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-Coll-293

Abstract

Primarily logbooks, account books, crew lists, passenger lists, protests, and sailing orders for the ships FRANCIS DEPAU (1836-1843) and SULLY (1833-1835), masters Cleaveland A. Forbes and Thomas Forbes. The collection also includes correspondence, estate papers, diaries, records for the family farm in Perth Amboy, and other family materials.

Dates: 1833 - 1880

Found in: Manuscripts

Forest Bennett Diaries

Collection

Identifier: MSS-Coll-251

Abstract Diaries reflecting personal and local events, including many comments on world politics and its effect on the New London, Conn., region. Among local events, Bennett records the Oct. 9, 1936 passage of the HINDENBURG over New London, the hurricane in Sept. 1938 which devastated southern New England, annual Yale-Harvard boat races watched from the New London bridge, events surrounding World War II, and events in nearby towns of Mystic and Niantic and his use of bridges in these towns for his...

Dates: 1935 - 1945

Found in: Manuscripts

Forseth-Tift Family Collection

Collection

Identifier: MSS-Coll-277

Abstract

The Forseth-Tift family collection primarily contains correspondence between various family members regarding Preston and Mystic (Conn.) events and news of friends and family. The collection also contains a a Bill of sale for Phillip and a court summons.

Dates: 1758 - 1846

Found in: Manuscripts