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http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8gb29zb No online items Gott and Hastings Families Papers mssGott Brooke M. Black The Huntington Library September 2019 1151 Oxford Road San Marino, California 91108 [email protected] URL: http://www.huntington.org Gott and Hastings Families mssGott 1 Papers mssGott Language of Material: English Contributing Institution: The Huntington Library Title: Gott and Hastings families papers Creator: Gott family Creator: Hastings family Identifier/Call Number: mssGott Physical Description: 20 Linear Feet(30 boxes) Date (inclusive): 1700-1985 Date (bulk): 1810-1920 Abstract: Family papers of several generations of the extended Gott, Hastings, Sedgwick, and Baldwin families of Connecticut and New York state. Conditions Governing Access Open to qualified researchers by prior application through the Reader Services Department. For more information, contact Reader Services. Conditions Governing Use The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining permission rests with the researcher. Biographical / Historical Daniel Gott, New York Congressman, was born in Hebron, Connecticut, in 1794. Ann Baldwin Sedgwick Gott was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, in 1786, to Isaac Baldwin, lawyer and member of the 24th Regiment, Connecticut Militia during the Revolutionary War, and Hannah Sacket Delancey, daughter of prominent Presbyterian preacher Reverend Samuel Sackett. Daniel Gott and Ann Baldwin Sedgwick married in 1819 after her divorce from her first husband Stephen Sedgwick. After having three sons with her first husband, James, John, and Charles, she and Gott had four children: Samuel, Ann, Amelia and Daniel Francis. In 1846, Gott was elected as a Whig to the 30th Congress (1847-1849). In 1848, Gott introduced a resolution abolishing the slave trade in Washington, D.C. which passed, but was later repealed after protests from Southern lawmakers. Daniel Gott died in 1864; Ann lived until 1872. Their daughter Amelia married Francis H. Hastings; they had 11 children. One of their daughters, Ann Clark Hastings married Frederick E. Gott (they later divorced); they had one son, Francis Hastings Gott. Francis Hastings Gott attended Harvard from 1911 to 1913 and when the United States entered the first World War in April 1917, he was sent to France to work with the United States Army Corps of Engineers to supply the allies with lumber. In the 1930s, Gott served in Colorado and New Mexico as a regional inspector of the National Park Service. Scope and Contents Family papers of several generations of the extended Baldwin, Sedgwick, Gott and Hastings families dating from before the American Revolution to the 1980s. The two largest groups of material that constitute the collection are the papers of Daniel Gott and Ann Baldwin Sedgwick Gott and their daughter Amelia Gott Hastings, her husband Francis H. Hastings, and their children. The following subjects are covered: abolition; lawyers and physicians of New York; the American Revolutionary War; the Mexican War; World War I; Hamilton College (Clinton, New York); Litchfield Law School; Litchfield Female Academy; the United States 30th Congress, 1847-1849; and the United States Army Corps of Engineers. The collection also has material related to women in New York and Connecticut, and the history of Litchfield, Connecticut, Pompey and Rochester, New York, and Washington, DC. The collection covers many aspects of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries of American history. The collection also contains genealogical material for of the Gott, Hastings, Sedgwick, and Baldwin families. The collection contains a variety of formats, including correspondence, legal documents, photograph albums, photographs, cartes-de-visite, daguerreotypes, tintypes, pencil drawings, watercolors, ephemera, scrapbooks, manuscripts, speeches, and sermons. There is also one family Bible printed in 1700. Immediate Source of Acquisition Purchased from Michael Brown Rare Books, LLC, by the Library Collectors' Council, January 2012. Preferred Citation [Identification of item]. Gott and Hastings families papers. The Huntington Library, San Marino, California, 91108. Arrangement Gott and Hastings Families mssGott 2 Papers mssGott Arranged in the following series: Correspondence (Boxes 1-9); Manuscripts and documents (Boxes 10-15); Photographs (Boxes 16-21); Ephemera and genealogy (Boxes 22-29); Watercolors and drawings (Box 30). Subjects and Indexing Terms Abolitionists -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources Lawyers -- New York (State) Mexican War, 1846-1848 Physicians -- New York (State) Women -- New York (State) Women -- Connecticut World War, 1914-1918 Connecticut -- History Litchfield (Conn.) New York (State) -- History Pompey (N.Y.) Rochester (N.Y.) United States -- History -- 18th century -- Sources United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources United States -- History -- 20th century -- Sources United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 Washington (D.C.) Bibles -- United States -- 18th century Cartes-de-visite (card photographs) Daguerreotypes (photographs) Diaries Family papers Genealogies (histories) Legal documents Letters (correspondence) Pencil drawings Photograph albums Photographs Printed ephemera Scrapbooks Tintypes (prints) Watercolors (paintings) Baldwin family Baldwin, Isaac Gott, Ann Baldwin Sedgwick, 1786-1872 Gott, Ann Clark Hastings, 1850- Gott, Daniel, 1794-1864 Gott, Daniel Francis, 1829-1899 Gott, Francis Hastings, 1886-1966 Hastings, Amelia Gott, 1825- Hastings, Daniel Gott, 1861-1942 Hastings, Frances Amelia, 1853-1942 Hastings, Francis H. (Francis Henry), 1814-1895 Sedgwick family Hamilton College (Clinton, N.Y.) Gott and Hastings Families mssGott 3 Papers mssGott Litchfield Law School Litchfield Female Academy (Conn.) United States. Army. Corps of Engineers United States. Congress (30th : 1847-1849) Series I. Correspondence 1768-1964 Physical Description: 3.75 Linear Feet (9 boxes) Scope and Contents The correspondence series contains mostly family correspondence, but there is also some business-related correspondence. The series covers 1768 to 1964. Arrangement Series is arranged alphabetically by author. Box 1, Folder 1-6 Charles Augustus Baldwin (1790-1818) 1768-1826 Scope and Contents Letters to and from Charles August Baldwin: Hannah Sackett Baldwin, James Henry Baldwin, and Ann Baldwin Sedgwick Gott (1786-1872) and others. Box 1, Folder 7 Clarissa Baldwin letters to Ann Baldwin Sedgwick Gott (1786-1872) 1809 Scope and Contents Fragile; torn. Box 1, Folder 8 Horace Baldwin letter to Isaac Baldwin 1817 September 9 Box 1, Folder 9-10 Isaac Baldwin 1799-1810 Scope and Contents Letters to Hannah Sackett Baldwin and Ann Baldwin Sedgwick Gott (1786-1872). Box 1, Folder 11 Isaac Baldwin (1784-1884) 1881 March Scope and Contents Letter to "Dear Aunt." Box 1, James Henry Baldwin (1788-1811) 1797-1810 Folder 12-17 Scope and Contents Letters to and from James Henry Baldwin: Charles Augustus Baldwin (1790-1818), Hannah Sackett Baldwin, Isaac Baldwin, Samuel Sackett Baldwin (1781-1854), Ann Baldwin Sedgewick Gott (1786-1872) and others. Box 1, Samuel Sackett Baldwin (1781-1854) 1806-1852 Folder 18-19 Scope and Contents Letters to Hannah Sackett Baldwin and Ann Baldwin Sedgwick Gott (1786-1872). Box 1, Albert Brown and Helen H. Brown 1929-1939 and undated Folder 20-21 Scope and Contents Letters to Martha Barker Gott and Frances Amelia Hastings (1853-1942). Includes genealogy and photographs of Betsy Jane Colvin. Box 1, Ann H. Davies and Catherine M. Davies 1805-1809 Folder 22-23 Scope and Contents Letters to Ann Baldwin Sedgwick Gott (1786-1872). Gott and Hastings Families mssGott 4 Papers mssGott Series I. Correspondence 1768-1964 Box 1, Gertrude Hastings De Wolf Smyth 1867-1893 Folder 24-25 Scope and Contents Letters to Ann Clark Hastings Gott (1850-) and Frances Amelia Hastings (1853-1942). Box 1, Folder 26 Jannette Bowdish Dickson 1904-1915 Scope and Contents Letters to Frances Amelia Hastings (1853-1942). Box 1, Robert L. Douglass 1850-1871 Folder 27-28 Scope and Contents Letters to and from Robert L. Douglass: James Isbell and others. Box 1, Sophia Hastings Douglass (1829-) 1884-1909 Folder 29-33 Scope and Contents Letters to and from Sophia Hastings Douglass: Ann Clark Hastings Gott (1850-), Frances Amelia Hastings (1853-1942), family and others. Box 1, Folder 34 Dorothy Durden 1875-1892 Box 1, Folder 35 Morton W. Eason 1892-1898 Box 2, Folder 1-2 Edwin Pickett Farnham and S. T. Farnham 1875-1879 Scope and Contents Letters to Francis H. (Francis Henry) Hastings (1814-1895) and Amelia Gott Hastings (1825-). Box 2, Folder 3 Nathaniel Foote 1890 Scope and Contents Letters to Ann Clark Hastings Gott (1850-). Box 2, Folder 4 Bert Garner 1940-1963 Scope and Contents Letters to Ethleen Wilson. Box 2, Folder 5-14 Elizabeth Gilbert, Grove S. Gilbert, Julia Gilbert, and Sylvester Gilbert 1845-1887 Scope and Contents Letters to Ann Clark Hastings Gott (1850-), Amelia Gott Hastings (1825-), James W. Sibley, Frances Amelia Hastings (1853-1942), and Daniel Gott (1794-1864). Box 2, Folder 15 Frank M. Gott 1894-1898 Scope and Contents Letters to Daniel Francis Gott (1829-1899). Box 2, Ann Baldwin Sedgwick Gott (1786-1872) 1798-1870 Folder 16-24, Scope and Contents Box 3, Folder 1-6 Letters to and from Ann Baldwin Sedgwick Gott: James Henry Baldwin (1788-1811),