Captain Nathan Hale, 1755-1776: Yale college 1773; Major John Palsgrave Wyllys, 1754-1790: Yale college 1773; friends and Yale classmates, who died in their country's service, one hanged as a spy by the British, the other killed in an Indian ambuscade on the far frontier. A digressive history now told with many antiquarian excursions, genealogical, architectural, social, and controversial: with an account of some members of a great patrician family, their manorial establishment in Hartford, their custody for generations of the Charter of King Charles the Second, and the story of the hiding thereof.
by
Seymour, George Dudley, 1859-1945
Title
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Captain Nathan Hale, 1755-1776: Yale college 1773; Major John Palsgrave Wyllys, 1754-1790: Yale college 1773; friends and Yale classmates, who died in their country's service, one hanged as a spy by the British, the other killed in an Indian ambuscade on the far frontier. A digressive history now told with many antiquarian excursions, genealogical, architectural, social, and controversial: with an account of some members of a great patrician family, their manorial establishment in Hartford, their custody for generations of the Charter of King Charles the Second, and the story of the hiding thereof.
Author
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Seymour, George Dudley, 1859-1945
Personal Author
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Seymour, George Dudley, 1859-1945
Publication Information
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New-Haven, Priv. Print. for the author [The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co.] 1933.
Physical Description
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xxv pages, 2 leaves, [3]-296 pages, 1 leaf frontispiece, plates, portraits, facsimiles (1 double) 25 cm
General Note
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"1000 copies printed of which 35 copies numbered and signed by the author have been reserved for the Walpole society."
Personal Subject
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Hale, Nathan, 1755-1776. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82126548
Wyllys, John Palsgrave, 1754-1790. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2013047982
Wyllys family.
Subject Term
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Charter Oak (Hartford, Conn.)
Geographic Term
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Connecticut -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85031161
Genre
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History
| Library | Material Type | Call Number | Location |
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| Downtown Library | Archival Material | E280 .H2 S512 1933 HCOLL | Hartford History Center |