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Author/Creator:Woolsey family.
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Title:Woolsey family papers, 1750-1976 (inclusive), 1811-1921 (bulk).
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Physical Description:52.5 linear feet (108 boxes)
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Links:View a description and listing of collection contents in the finding aid
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Notes:Gift of Edith Woolsey and Laura Heermance, 1954-1960; Ann La Farge, 1988; Stratford Historical Society, 1991 (Accession 2015-M-032); Louise Heermance Tallman, 1995 and 2005; Richard C. Woolsey, 2008; Robert Bayard Severy, 2019; and Richard Salisbury Nutt, 2021.
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Organization:Arranged in nine series and six additions: I. Correspondence. II. Theodore Dwight Woolsey - Writings. III. Theodore Salisbury Woolsey - Writings. IV. Printed Materials, Miscellaneous Writings, and Photographs. V. Genealogical Records. VI. Family Business Documents. VII. William Walton Woolsey Estate. VIII. William Walton Woolsey Business Papers. IX. Theodore Dwight Woolsey - Other Papers. Additional materials.
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Access and use:The collection is open for research. Copyright status for collection materials is unknown, though much of the material in this collection is likely in the public domain. Additional information is provided in the finding aid.
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Summary:The Woolsey Family Papers span three generations (1760s to the first quarter of the 20th century), centered mainly around William Walton Woolsey (1766-1839), a prosperous land owner and merchant in New York City; his son, Theodore Dwight Woolsey (1801-1889), Greek scholar, political theorist, and president of Yale College; and Theodore Salisbury Woolsey (1852-1929), who gained renown as professor of international law at Yale Law School. The papers of William Walton Woolsey contain extensive business correspondence, ledgers, legal papers, documents relating to land sales in New York and Ohio, as well as family and personal letters. Since he was engaged in the importation of sugar, cotton and hardware, some of his business correspondence is political with discussions of the Jay Treaty of 1794, the problems of piracy, American neutrality in the 1790s and the general politics of the period. Important correspondents are Chauncey Goodrich, Archibald Gracie, Eli Whitney, Noah Webster, Elihu and Nathaniel Chauncey, Oliver Wolcott, Benjamin Tallmadge, Jedidiah Morse, James Roosevelt, John A. Schuyler, Comfort Sands, John Broome, and Nicholas Bayard. The papers of Theodore Dwight Woolsey contain his writings on Greek language and literature, the Bible, international law and the texts of his sermons.
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Other formats:Account book of a general store kept by George Woolsey also available on microfilm (137 frames on 1 reel, 35mm.) from Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library, at cost. Order no. HM113.
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Indexes/Finding aids:Finding aid is available in the repository and on the Internet.
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Cite as:Woolsey Family Papers (MS 562). Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library.
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Subjects:Abbot, Ezra, 1819-1884.
Adams, Henry, 1838-1918.
Adams, John, 1735-1826.
Adams, William, 1807-1880.
Angell, James Burrill, 1829-1916.
Atwood, Charles B. (Charles Bowler), 1849-1895.
Bache, A. D. (Alexander Dallas), 1806-1867.
Bacon, Leonard Woolsey, 1830-1907.
Bacon, Leonard, 1802-1881.
Baird, Henry Carey, 1825-1912.
Baldwin, Simeon E. (Simeon Eben), 1840-1927.
Baldwin, Theron, 1801-1870.
Bancroft, George, 1800-1891.
Barnard, Frederick A. P. (Frederick Augustus Porter), 1809-1889.
Barnard, Henry, 1811-1900.
Barnard, J. G. (John Gross), 1815-1882.
Bayard, Nicholas, 1644-1707.
Beecher, Edward, 1803-1895.
Beecher, Henry Ward, 1813-1887.
Bidwell, W. H. (Walter Hilliard), 1798-1881.
Binney, Horace, 1780-1875.
Boardman, Henry A. (Henry Augustus), 1808-1880.
Bolles, Frank, 1856-1894.
Bristed, Charles Astor, 1820-1874.
Broome, John, 1738-1810.
Brown, John Mason, 1837-1890.
Buckingham, William A. (William Alfred), 1804-1875.
Burritt, Elihu, 1810-1879.
Campbell, William Henry, 1808-1890.
Carrington, Henry Beebee, 1824-1912.
Chamberlain, Daniel Henry, 1835-1907.
Chase, Thomas, 1827-1892.
Chauncey, Charles, 1777-1849.
Chauncey, Elihu, 1840-1916.
Chauncey, Nathaniel, 1789-1865.
Clifford, John H. (John Henry), 1809-1876.
Colden, Cadwallader D. (Cadwallader David), 1769-1834.
Cooper, Jacob, 1830-1904.
Crosby, Howard, 1826-1891.
Cushing, Caleb, 1800-1879.
Dana, James Dwight, 1813-1895.
Dana, Richard Henry, Jr., 1815-1882.
Day, George Edward, 1815-1905.
De Forest, J. H. (John Hyde), 1844-1911.
Dexter, Franklin Bowditch, 1842-1920.
Dexter, Henry Martyn, 1821-1890.
Dike, Samuel W. (Samuel Warren), 1839-1913.
Dodge, William E. (William Earl), 1805-1883.
Dwight, Benjamin W. (Benjamin Woodbridge), 1816-1889.
Dwight, Sereno Edwards, 1786-1850.
Dwight, Theodore W. (Theodore William), 1822-1892.
Dwight, Timothy, 1828-1916.
Edwards, Pierpont, 1750-1826.
Eliot, John, 1604-1690.
Elliot, Charles William, 1834-1926.
Evarts, William Maxwell, 1818-1901.
Everett, Edward, 1794-1865.
Farrand, Max, 1869-1945.
Felton, C. C. (Cornelius Conway), 1807-1862.
Field, Cyrus W. (Cyrus West), 1819-1892.
Field, David Dudley, 1805-1894.
Field, Henry M. (Henry Martyn), 1822-1907.
Fisher, George Park, 1827-1909.
Garrison, William Lloyd, Jr., 1838-1909.
Godkin, Edwin Lawrence, 1831-1902.
Goodrich, Chauncey, 1759-1815.
Gurney, Ephraim Whitman, 1829-1886.
Hackett, Horatio B. (Horatio Balch), 1808-1875.
Harrison, William Henry, 1773-1841.
Haven, Henry P. (Henry Philemon), 1815-1876.
Hayes, Rutherford B., 1822-1893.
Heermance, Edgar L. (Edgar Laing), 1833-1888.
Henry, C. S. (Caleb Sprague), 1804-1884.
Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878.
Herrick, Edward Claudius, 1811-1862.
Hitchcock, Henry, 1829-1902.
Hoadly, George, 1826-1902.
Holt, Henry, 1840-1926.
Hopkins, Samuel, 1807-1887.
Howard, O. O. (Oliver Otis), 1830-1909.
James, William, 1842-1910.
Jay, John, 1745-1829.
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826.
Jessup, Henry Harris, 1832-1910.
Johnson, Charles Frederick, 1804-1882.
Johnson, William Samuel, 1795-1883.
Johnson, William Woolsey, 1841-1927.
Keep, Robert P. (Robert Porter), 1844-1904.
Leavitt, Joshua, 1794-1873.
Lee, Alfred, 1807-1887.
Lieber, Francis, 1800-1872.
Linn, William Alexander, 1846-1917.
Lippincott, J. B. (Joshua Ballinger), 1813-1886.
Lloyd, Henry Demarest, 1847-1903.
Lord, Daniel, 1795-1868.
Madison, James, 1751-1836.
Magoun, George F. (George Frederic), 1821-1896.
Merrill, Selah, 1837-1909.
Morse, Jedidiah, 1761-1826.
Morse, Samuel Finley Breese, 1791-1872.
Packard, Lewis R. (Lewis Richard), 1836-1884.
Palfrey, John Gorham, 1796-1881.
Park, Edwards Amasa, 1808-1900.
Peabody, Andrew P. (Andrew Preston), 1811-1893.
Perry, Arthur Latham, 1830-1905.
Pierrepont, Edwards, 1817-1892.
Pomeroy, John Norton, 1828-1885.
Porter, Noah, 1811-1892.
Quincy, Josiah, 1772-1864.
Robinson, Edward, 1858-1931.
Rosenthal, Albert, 1863-1939.
Ruggles, Samuel B. (Samuel Bulkley), 1800-1881.
Salisbury, Edward Elbridge, 1814-1901.
Sanborn, F. B. (Franklin Benjamin), 1831-1917.
Sands, Comfort, 1748-1834.
Scarborough, William Woolsey, 1819-
Schaff, Philip, 1819-1893.
Schurz, Carl, 1829-1906.
Scribner, Charles, 1821-1871.
Sears, Barnas, 1802-1880.
Seymour, Edward, -1877.
Shelton, F. W. (Frederick William), 1814-1881.
Silliman, Benjamin, 1816-1885.
Sophocles, Evangeline Apostolides, 1805-1883.
Sparks, Jared, 1789-1866.
Sprague, William B. (William Buell), 1795-1876.
Saint-Gaudens, Augustus, 1848-1907.
Stearns, William A. (William Augustus), 1805-1876.
Storrs, Richard S. (Richard Salter), 1821-1900.
Strong, Selah Brewster, 1792-1872.
Stuart, Moses, 1780-1852.
Taft, Alphonso, 1810-1891.
Tallmadge, Benjamin, 1754-1835.
Tappan, John, 1781-1871.
Tarbox, Increase N. (Increase Niles), 1815-1888.
Taylor, Nathaniel W. (Nathaniel William), 1786-1858.
Thacher, Thomas Anthony, 1815-1886.
Thayer, Joseph Henry, 1828-1901.
Thompson, Joseph P. (Joseph Parrish), 1819-1879.
Trumbull, H. Clay (Henry Clay), 1830-1903.
Trumbull, Lyman, 1813-1896.
Twining, Alexander C. (Alexander Catlin), 1801-1884.
Villiard, Henry, 1835-1900.
Ward, Henry Dana, 1797-1884.
Ward, William Hayes, 1835-1916.
Warren, William Fairfield, 1833-1929.
Washington, George, 1732-1799.
Watson, William, 1834-1915.
Wayland, Francis, 1796-1865.
Webster, Noah, 1758-1843.
Weir, John F. (John Ferguson), 1841-1926.
Wharton, Francis, 1820-1889.
Whitaker, Epher, 1820-1916.
Whitney, Eli, 1765-1825.
Winthrop, Elizabeth Woolsey, 1794-1863.
Winthrop, William, 1831-1899.
Wolcott, Oliver, 1760-1833.
Woolsey, Elizabeth Martha Salisbury, 1812-1852.
Woolsey, John Edward, 1803-1873.
Woolsey, John Mumford, 1796-1870.
Woolsey, Sarah Chauncey, 1835-1905.
Woolsey, Sarah Sears Prichard, 1824-
Woolsey, Theodore Dwight, 1801-1889.
Woolsey, Theodore Salisbury, 1852-1929.
Woolsey, William Walton, 1766-1839.
Woolsey, William Walton, 1831-1857.
Yale University--Curricula.
Yale University--Faculty.
Yale University--Officials and employees.
Yale University--Presidents.
African Americans--Education (Higher)
Antislavery movements.
Armed Forces.
Art.
Business.
Classical education.
Cotton trade.
Enslaved persons--Connecticut--History.
Families.
Greek language--Study and teaching.
Greek literature--Study and teaching.
International law.
Law.
Slavery--History.
Slave trade--Connecticut--History.
Slave trade--History.
Sugar trade.
Travelers--Europe.
Women--United States.
Europe--Description and travel.
New Haven (Conn.)
New Haven (Conn.)--History.
New Haven (Conn.)--Social life and customs.
New York (State)
New York (State)--Social life and customs.
United States--Commerce.
United States--Foreign relations.
United States--History--1783-1865.
United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
United States--History--French and Indian War, 1754-1763.
United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.
United States--Politics and government--19th century.
United States--Politics and government.
United States--Religion--19th century.
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Genre/Form:Deeds.
Sermons.
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Occupation:Clergy.