Call Number:

C1049

Repository:

Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division

Extent:

• 1 box
• 0.2 linear feet

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

Citations should be as follows: Oliver Ellsworth Collection, Box #, Folder #, Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Date:

1775-1883 (inclusive)

Creator:

Princeton University. Library. Special Collections and Ellsworth, Oliver, 1745-1807.

Form:

Correspondence -- 19th century

Abstract:

Consists of correspondence, engravings, documents, and printed material related to Oliver Ellsworth, the eighteenth-century Connecticut senator and jurist.

Oliver Ellsworth, a delegate and a senator from Connecticut was born in Windsor, Conn., on April 29, 1745. He attended Yale College and graduated from the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) in 1766. In his junior year at Princeton, he and others founded the Well Meaning Club, which later became the Cliosophic Society. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1771. Ellsworth was appointed Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1796.

The collection consists of correspondence, engravings, documents, and printed material related to Oliver Ellsworth. Correspondents include Charles Chauncey, Blair Lee, Gen. Joseph Reed, Lemuel Roberts, and William Seymour. Two of the portrait engravings are by John Trumbull.

Arranged by accession number.