Box 1

Accounts and Receipts, 1823, 1836, 1843-44 (see also Correspondence, 24 September 1836)

Contracts and Accounts for Houses built by Jesse Maltby

Warren Cone, Norfolk, Conn., 1835-36 (see also Correspondence, 24 September 1836)
Solomon Cowles, Norfolk, Conn., 1827
Aaron Gilbert, n.d.

Correspondence

• 18 November 1817, Ira Baldwin, Lexington, to “Dear Friends” (Mariah Herd and Laury Baldwin), on theme of religion
• 14 October 1822, Sylvia Tolles, Winchester, to her aunt Miss Laura M. Baldwin, Goshen, relating family news
• 24 September 1836, unsigned, incomplete letter to Mr. Isaac Bull (?), complaining of the poor quality of “Spanish White” (or putty) purchased by the writer on 14 July 1836 [also written on this paper are several accounts for various individuals, 1836]
• 17 August 1840, Jesse Maltby, Bristol, [Ohio], to Mr. John Dewel, regarding scythes left with Maltby to sell on commission
• 3 March 1842, Jesse Maltby, Bristolville, [Ohio], to Messrs. E.E. Ryan & Co., regarding Ryan & Co.’s wish to procure an agent to sell cloth, postscript refers to arrangements for a sale of scythes by Capt. John Dewel
• 5 May 1887, “ Aunt Sybil,” North Cornwall, Conn., to “Dear Niece” (Laura [?]), relating family news and family history.

Essays (by author)

Dickinson, Lemira, “On the importance of an education,” n.d. (1 p.)
Jones, Laura, “On Happiness,” n.d. (1 p.)
Jones, Laura, “On Friendship,” n.d. (2 pp.)
Huntley, Lydia - see miscellaneous poems below
Phelps, Rebecca, “On Happiness” (Goshen, Litchfield County, Conn.) n.d. (1 p.)

Essays and Poems (no author indicated)

“Beauty,” n.d. (1 p.)
“The evening,” n.d. (1 p.)
“Hymn to be sung by the Charity Children of the Dutch Reformed Church, New York, November 1807” (1 p.)
“A hymn sung by the young people at the interment of Laura Smith of Austinburg, who died January 23d, 1823 (at 19 years) — (A Call to Youth),” 1823 (1 p.)
“Lines composed on the death of an interesting youth,” n.d. (4 pp.)
Miscellaneous poems, n.d. (3 pp.)
“An excuse for not fulfilling an engagement” (written in school by Lydia Huntley)
“Melancholy”
“Ode to sensibility”
“Pleasures of recollection”
“To the ladies”
“A wish”
untitled
“On profane swearing” (author illegible), n.d. (1 p.)
“Sophronia,” n.d. (4 pp.)
“There can be no happiness without virtue,” n.d. (3 pp.)
Untitled Poem (to a friend), n.d. (1p.)

Miscellany

Baldwin, Jonathan F. “Book of definitions” (22 pp.) Norfolk, [Conn.], 8 November 1815
Baldwin, Laura. Teaching certificate, Goshen, [Litchfield County, Conn.], 2 May 1817
Reynolds Directions for Painting (14 pp.) n.d.

Property Deeds and Mortgage

Jesse Maltbie to Norfolk School Society, Conn., deed, 2 December 1820
Uriah Brown to Jesse Maltbie, deed, Norfolk, Litchfield County, Conn., 2 December 1820
Solomon Cowls [or Cowles] to Jesse Maltbie, deed, Norfolk, Litchfield County, Conn., 19 January 1821
Uriah Brown to Jesse Maltbie, deed, Norfolk, Litchfield County, Conn., 18 January 1821
Benoni Mills to Jesse Maltbie, deed, Norfolk, Litchfield County, Conn., 20 April 1822
Ephraim Norton to Jesse Maltbie, deed, Norfolk, Litchfield County, Conn., 3 June 1825
Stephen Norton and Ephraim Norton to Jesse Maltbie, deed, Norfolk, Litchfield County, Conn., 6 June 1825
Stephen Norton and Ephraim Norton to Jesse Maltbie, deed, Norfolk Litchfield County, Conn., 15 June 1825
Aaron Case to Jesse Maltbie, deed, Norfolk Litchfield County, Conn., 13 April 1826
Nathan Atwood to Jesse Maltbie, Norfolk Litchfield County, Conn., 12 February 1827
Jesse Maltbie to State of Connecticut, School Fund, mortgage on Norfolk, Conn., property, March 1828 (2 documents)
Nathan Atwood to Jesse Maltbie, deed, Norfolk Litchfield County, Conn., 29 March 1828
Oren and Catharine Baldwin to Jesse Maltby, deed of sale for 120 acres in See County, Iowa, 30 October 1854

Tax Receipts, Jesse and Salome Maltbie, Trumbull County, Ohio, 1847, 1850-52