Abstract Deweese Ware DeWitt (1889-1985) was a graduate of Burdett College (Boston, Mass.) who established the DeWitt Grocery Company of Brattleboro, Vermont, in 1889.The collection contains original documents, ephemera, photographs, genealogical material, and newspaper clippings. The original documents include DeWitt’s scrapbook, bank books, ledgers, and his diary. The photo albums include many photographs taken while hiking or at the top of mountains in Vermont. There are also several...

Scope and Contents The collection contains one volume of Preble family genealogy. Included in this volume are family charts, chronologies, autographs, newspaper clipping of obituaries and other family news, several photographs, a self-portrait of George Henry Preble, and representations of the Preble Family coat of arms. The volume also contains four letters from Jedidiah Preble, three of which were written in 1780 to his daughter (Statira) and one which Jedidiah wrote in 1793 asking Stephen Longfellow to act...

Scope and Contents This collection contains research notebooks, scrapbooks, and other documents created or collected by James Fullerton Trott (1815-1898). Most of the collection focuses on his genealogical research, but the collection also contains several notebooks and a scrapbook on various historical subjects. Most of the notebooks include an index to subjects, as well as cross-references to other notebooks and scrapbooks. These cross-references indicate that some of Trott’s notebooks and scrapbooks are...