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Author/Creator:Chauncey family.
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Title:Chauncey family-Fowler family papers, 1669-1880.
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Physical Description:13.5 linear feet (18 boxes)
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Links:View a description and listing of collection contents in the finding aid
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Notes:In English.
Purchased from C. A. Stonehill on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2004.
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Organization:Organized into three series: I. Correspondence. II. Financial and Other Records. III. Writings.
- Access and use:This material is open for research.
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Biographical / Historical note:Nathaniel Chauncey (1681-1756), clergyman, of New Haven, Connecticut, was the first graduate of Yale College (1702).
Elnathan Chauncey (1724-1796), son of Nathaniel Chauncey, was a clergyman in Durham, Connecticut, and a graduate of Yale College (1743).
William Chauncey Fowler (1793-1881), clergyman, educator, and author, of Amherst, Massachusetts, and Durham, Connecticut, was the grandson of Elnathan Chauncey. A graduate of Yale College (1816), in 1825 he married Harriet Webster Cobb (1797-1844), the widow of Edward Cobb and daughter of lexicographer Noah Webster.
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Summary:The papers consist of correspondence, account books, Yale College diplomas, and other documents related to Nathaniel Chauncey, and his son Elnathan Chauncey and great-grandson William Chauncey Fowler. The collection contains more than 5,000 letters exchanged by members of the Chauncey, Ellsworth, Fowler, Goodrich, Hand, March, Wadsworth, and Webster families, in particular Rebecca and Noah Webster, as well as prominent friends in New England. Also present are more than 100 sermons, and folders of material related to the Susquehannah Company, a group of Connecticut investors in the Wyoming Valley of Pennsylvania.
- Format:Archives or Manuscripts
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Indexes/Finding aids:Finding aid available.
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Cite as:Chauncey Family-Fowler Family Papers. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
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Subjects:Chauncey family.
Chauncy, Elnathan, 1724-1796.
Chauncey, Nathaniel, 1681-1756.
Fowler family.
Fowler, William Chauncey, 1793-1881.
Fowler, William Worthington, 1833-1881.
Goodrich, Chauncey A. (Chauncey Allen), 1790-1860.
Goodrich, Elizur, 1761-1849.
Goodrich family.
Hand, Joseph Winborn, 1792-1844.
Webster family.
Webster, Noah, 1758-1843.
Webster, Rebecca Greenleaf, 1766-1847.
Susquehannah Company.
Yale University.
Congregationalists--Connecticut--18th century.
Congregational churches--Clergy.
Congregational churches--Connecticut--18th century.
Connecticut--Church history.
Connecticut--Religion.
Connecticut--Social life and customs.
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Genre/Form:Account books.
Diplomas--United States--18th century.
Letter books.
Sermons--United States--18th century.
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Occupation:Clergy United States 18th century.
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Also listed under:Fowler family.
Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/10084803