1832 Salembridge to New Haven stampless letter Royal Hinman CT Secy of State ALS

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1832 Salembridge to New Haven stampless letter Royal Hinman CT Secy of State ALS:
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1832 Salembridge to New Haven stampless letter Royal Hinman CT Secy of State ALS 1832 Salembridge to New Haven stampless letter Royal Hinman CT Secy of State ALS

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Description I have acquired an interesting large lot of ephemera from the 1st half of the 19th c. mostly to do with Connecticut, specifically, Hartford, Wethersfield, Litchfield and environs. If you are collecting paper for genealogy or whatever, please be sure and check back.

Here is an 1832 autograph letter from Royal Ralph Hinman in Salembridge, CT (which is now known as NAUGATUCK) to Samuel Hitchcock, esq in New Haven, CT. Hinman was a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives, the Post Master of Roxbury, Ct and served as Secretary of State for CT. Here is more info from Wikipedia:

Royal Ralph Hinman was born in 1785 in Southbury, Connecticut, the son of General Ephraim Hinman, a successful Connecticut merchant, and Sylvania (French) Hinman. He graduated Yale College in 1804, and Litchfield Law School in 1806, where he studied law with David Sherman Boardman and Noah B. Benedict. In 1808 he was admitted to the bar in Litchfield County Court, and began to practice law in Roxbury, Connecticut.[2]

In 1814, Hinman married Lydia Ashley Hinman. He was elected a Connecticut State Representative in 1814, 1825 and 1831. He was Postmaster of Roxbury from 1823 to 1833, and was Secretary of the State of Connecticut from 1825 to 1842. Between 1835 and 1836 he was a member of the Committee to Revise Public Statutes of Connecticut. In September 1844, the Port of New Haven appointed him the Collector of Customs.[2]

There are a pile of Hitchcocks in CT and i find a reference to Samuel Hitchcock as a member of the New Haven Grays Militia.

Other names found in this letter are M??? Goodyear and a Mr. Stevens--they were adversaries in a lawsuit..

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