Hartford and New-Haven Turnpike Company records, 1799-1853 (bulk 1799-1840).

Published/Created:

New Haven
1802 April 12, undated

Physical Description:

0.63 linear feet (2 boxes)
1 folder (4 p.) ; 33 cm. and smaller

Notes:

The Hartford and New-Haven Turnpike Company was formed in 1798 with the purpose of surveying and laying out "a direct road from New Haven to Hartford through the town of Berlin and through such towns and in such places as will best promote the public travel." The treasurer of the company was New Haven lawyer Simeon Baldwin (1761-1851).
Gift of the estate of Delia Lyman Porter, 1934.

Abstract:

The records contain approximately 300 manuscript papers including, in Box 1, correspondence, contracts and agreements, financial statements, toll both records, lists of stockholders, records for 12 scheduled dividends paid out between 1805 and 1826, dividend orders and receipts, and in Box 2, vouchers (invoices and receipts) for building, maintaining, and repairing the road. Most of the correspondence is addressed to Simeon Baldwin, but letters were also sent to James Hillhouse and Jeremiah Wadsworth.
Also present in Box 2 is an unrelated printed indenture with manuscript annotations, dated September 2, 1799, transferring 100 acres of land in Ontario County, New York, from Oliver Phelps of Hartford, Connecticut, to Oliver Ellsworth of Windsor, Connecticut.

Variant Titles:

[Receipt for Henry Hartley's work on Sugarloaf Hill &c.]
James Hillhouse pd to Joel Cole for work at the well

Associated Names:

Hartford and New-Haven Turnpike Company [Creator]

Topics:

Roads--Connecticut
Toll roads--Connecticut
Transportation--Connecticut

Topics:

Hartford and New-Haven Turnpike (Conn.)

Topics:

Ellsworth, Oliver,--1745-1807
Hartford and New-Haven Turnpike Company
Hillhouse, James,--1754-1832
Phelps, Oliver,--1749-1809
Wadsworth, Jeremiah,--1743-1804

Language:

English

Genre:

Business records
manuscripts (AAT)
Receipts

Format:

Text

Rights:

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Access Restrictions:

Public

Call Number:

GEN MSS 841

Box:

Box 2

Folder:

Folder 12

Orbis Record:

4136233

Orbis Barcode:

39002092860759

Yale Collection:

Beinecke Library

Digital Collection:

General Collection, BRBL, Yale University

oid pointer:

1466497

Citation:

Hartford and New-Haven Turnpike Company Records. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Extent of digitization:

Partial folder digitized.

OID:

10268364

PID:

digcoll:3751445