Box 1

Collection Overview From the Collection: The Trott family papers consists largely of genealogical materials documenting various related and inter-married families, with some primary materials included as well. The collection is composed of correspondence, photographs, brief family histories and genealogies, research notes, newspaper clippings, drawings of family crests, and other materials organized into series by family. The Trott family series contains research and social correspondence, notes, a photograph of a 1703 Nicholas...

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Includes receipts (1903), and letters (1888, 1902) regarding Cambridge family history, with photocopies of other correspondence.

Collection Overview From the Collection: The Trott family papers consists largely of genealogical materials documenting various related and inter-married families, with some primary materials included as well. The collection is composed of correspondence, photographs, brief family histories and genealogies, research notes, newspaper clippings, drawings of family crests, and other materials organized into series by family. The Trott family series contains research and social correspondence, notes, a photograph of a 1703 Nicholas...

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Letters and newspapers clippings regarding return of Union soldier's sword (1882) by family of H. W. Hendricks, who promised to see to it at Civil War battle of Drury's Bluff, Virginia.

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Includes dates, by Henry W. Hendricks, as sailor on U.S. ship Cyane on the Pacific Station, 1841-1844, with later copies of the same document.

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Oversize Hendricks/Hendrix family tree (photocopy) with another family tree and genealogical notes and correspondence regarding Hendricks, Sinclair, Ackis, Hamlin and related families, with family record from a bible, and an 1870 marriage certificate.

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Materials on Henry W. Hendricks include a typed biography, with a recapitulation of his Civil War service, with a circa 1870s letter of General Johnson Hagood, summarizing his gallantry, information regarding his Civil War service and imprisonments and letter regarding Union Colonel Bedel captured at Battery Wagner and held in various Prisoner of War camps. With list of Confederate POWs at Fort Delaware and a mention of Confederate spy Belle Boyd imprisoned along with Hendricks

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Statement (1864) regarding the death of Corporal R.W. Ackis, killed at Gettysburg, PA; data on other Ackis soldiers; letters (1871) to Henry W. Hendricks, Chief of Police, from Washington Light Infantry; with printed testimonial to Henry W. Hendricks, Chief of Police and circular seeking contributions for memorial to Roswell Ripley.