Middletown Connecticut manuscripts

The majority of this collection is 18th- and 19th-century documents from around the Middletown area, with some documents from the 17th- and 20th-centuries. Most of the documents contained in this collection are legal documents, such as deeds, petitions, issued tickets, bills, etc. There are documents about the railroad in Middletown, including the documents about the building process of the extension through Middletown. The shipping records in the collection include some information about the ships themselves, as well as some information about where they were coming from and who was part of the crew. There is a folder of financial information belonging to the Addis family, which is primarily a collection of bills for Miss Addis and all the purchases she made. Another folder has financial information related to the Doane family. There are two bound books in the collection. The first has very little written in it, but it includes some correspondence between father and son in the de Zeng family about financial issues. The second bound book is a detailed journal kept by Charles H. Neff about the discovery of Indian relics and old Indian settlements in and around the Middletown area.