Name/Title
Hillard Family ScrapbookEntry/Object ID
2016.121Scope and Content
Hillard Family Album, containing handwritten genealogies and biographies of members of the Hilliard, Noyes, Dickens, Dension, Slack, Gallup, Williams, Chesebrough, Crandall, Miner, Palmer, Hewitt, Sheffield and Standin families. News clippings, correspondence, photographs and other original documents interspersed through the pages.
Highlights include: photographs of Civil War soldiers in uniform (Co. G. 21st Regt. Conn. State Vols.), military records (1794-1806), citizenship papers (1795, 1805), a document signed by Jonathan Trumbull as Connecticut Captain-General and Commander-in-Chief, appointing Avery Noyes as Ensign (1800), citizenship papers of Jessie Dickens signed by Jedediah Huntington as New London Collector/Revolutionary War General (1805), ALS from Jessie Dickens re. trying to land vessel at Gibraltar (1804), ALS from Jeremiah Sheffield re. death of Jessie Dickens (1812), a document signed by Jonathan Trumbull appoint Avery Noyes Lieutenant (1801), manuscript regimental orders of the 30th Regt. Conn. Militia signed by Lieutenant Col. Isaac Williams (1806), manuscript brigade orders signed by Brig. Gen. Williams Williams (1806), citizenship papers for Amos Slack signed by John Keese (1795).
Rev. William Noyes, Rev. James Noyes, Rev. James Noyes Jr., Deacon John Noyes, Joseph Noyes, Avery Noyes, Caroline Matilda Noyes, John Gallup, John Gallup Jr., William Gallup, William Chesebrough, Samuel Chesebrough, Christopher Avery, John Avery, James Avery, Nathaniel Dickens, Thomas Dickens, Daniel Dickens, Amos Dickens, Tristam Dickens, Jesse Dickens, William Hilliard, David Hilliard, William Hilliard, William Hilliard Jr., John Hilliard, Sabrina Hillard, Paul H. Hillard, William Avery Hillard, George Dewey, Israel Dewey, Jabez Dewey, Daniel Dewey, Christopher Dewey, Cornelius Crandall, Margaret Hillard Sisson, Maurice Hillard Crandall, Marguerite Miller, Lucy Hillard, Caroline Noyes Hillard, Geneva Trumbull, Eliza King, Trumbull King, Luke Hillard, Addie Hillard.Collection
Hillard Family Collection