Edna Edith Sayers - The Life and Times of T. H. Gallaudet

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Abbreviations

ACSP: American Colonization Society Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

ASD: American School for the Deaf Museum.

CFP: Cocke Family Papers, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library.

CHS: Connecticut Historical Society Library.

EMGP: Edward Miner Gallaudet Papers, Gallaudet University Archives.

GFP: Gallaudet Family Papers, Gallaudet University Archives.

GP LoC: Thomas Hopkins and Edward Miner Gallaudet Papers, Library of Congress.

GUA: Gallaudet University Archives.

HBP CHS: Henry Barnard Papers, Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford.

HBP Trty: Henry Barnard Papers, Watkinson Library, Trinity College, Hartford.

Hills: Hills Library, Andover-Newton Theological Seminary, Newton, Massachusetts.

JLKP: James Luce Kingsley Papers, Sterling Library Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University.

LoC: Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

MFCP: Mason Fitch Cogswell Papers, Beinecke Library, Yale.

MFCFP: Mason Fitch Cogswell Family Papers, Sterling Library, Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University.

SMSS: Small Manuscripts Collection, Gallaudet University Archives.

Stg: Sterling Library, Yale University.

Stg MSSA: Sterling Library Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University.

THG: Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet.

Preface

Paddy Ladd, Understanding Deaf Culture, p. 88.

See, for example, Harvey Prindle Peet, Tribute to the Memory, p. 74.

See his Dedication to Colts widow in his Armsmear: The Home, the Arm and the Armory of Samuel Colt: A Memorial (New York: Alvord, printer, 1866).

Joseph Harringtons Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet in the Christian Examiner states that profits went to Sophia, the deaf and dumb widow. Luzerne Raes review of Tribute to Rev. Thomas H. Gallaudet in the 1852 American Annals of the Deaf and Dumb remarks on the value of the appendices on p. 193. For the hopes of Gallaudets children, see Edith Nye MacMullen, p. 186.

ONE Philadelphia to Hartford

Gallaudets passport, GP LoC. His report of his weight is in an 1846 letter to his son William, reproduced in Heman Humphrey, The Life and Labors of the Rev. T. H. Gallaudet, LL.D. (hereafter, Life), pp. 322323.

Calvinism and Federalism are discussed in chapter 2.

Wayne Franklin, James Fenimore Cooper, discusses Coopers time in Albany on pp. 4146.

On the Hartford Grammar School as teacher training for Yale tutors, see John Fulton, ed., Memoirs of Frederick A. P. Barnard, p. 41.

Eric R. Schlereth, An Age of Infidels, pp. 45; Henry F. May, The Enlightenment in America, p. 231.

The riots are discussed in Schlereth, pp. 3140. Records of the Second Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia are held by the Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia.

Mathew Carey, A Short Account of the Malignant Fever, p. 13.

The address appears on a classified ad in The Pennsylvania Packet and Daily Advertiser, 1787 Oct 2, p. 4.

Charles Brockden Brown, Ormond, chapter 4.

Both quotations are from Brown, Arthur Mervyn, part one, chapter 15.

Brown, part one, chapter 18.

Brown, part one, chapter 15.

THG to James L. Kingsley, 1810 Dec 3, JLKP.

According to Billy G. Smith, Ship of Death, p. 237. Full-scale outbreaks of yellow fever in New York City continued even later, the last one occurring in 1822, described by Wayne Franklin, James Fenimore Cooper, pp. 358359.

Brown, Ormond, chapter 7.

A Record of the Hopkins Family, and P. W. Gallaudet to THG, undated, GP LoC.

Peter Wallace Gallaudets account books, CHS. The harpsichord is advertised in the Pennsylvania Packet and Daily Advertiser, 1787 Oct 2, p. 4. P. W.s obituary in the NationalIntelligencer, 1843 May 19, is quoted by Eric P. Newman, The Continental Dollar of 1776 Meets Its Maker, p. 923.

Lydia H. Sigourney, Letters of Life, p. 202. Jane Hopkinss antecedents are to be found in Lucas Barnes Barbour, Families of Early Hartford, and in William L. Porter to THG 1848 Jul 14, GP LoC. She sometimes appears in genealogies as Jennet, a diminutive of Jane that today is spelled Janet or Jeanette.

George Leon Walker, History of the First Church, pp. 352, 460463; Gretchen Townsend Buggeln, Elegance and Sensibility, pp. 430435. Pews were sold to raise money for the church; those who could not afford a pew made shift to seat themselves in the rear or in balconies, or to stand, out of sight.

William A. Alcott, Tall Oaks from Little Acorns, p. 264.

For one of the more legible instances, see Peter Wallace Gallaudet Diaries, 1820 Dec 27, CHS.

Family history here follows the paternal line because this line of descent was what Gallaudet himself valued and preserved in his miscellaneous papers.

Nathan Chang, The Legacy of Jonathan Edwards, pp. 4547.

Peter Lewis De St. Croix to THG, 1825 Dec 31, GP LoC. Leah married Tory, and they lived in Nova Scotia after the Revolution. Of their five children, one became a physician with the British army.

of Mrs. James Fenimore Cooper who moved to New York and joined the Anglican Church.

In an undated note from Peter Wallace Gallaudet to THG in GP LoC, P. W. tells of his Aunt Leahs strong mind, saying that she and her Tory husband De St. Croix were of the Episcopal Church and that she was a professor of Religionthat is, one who has made a public profession of faith. About his own father, Thomas, he says nothing.

Some sources give this name as Peter Elihu, a mistake that seems to go back to Humphrey, Life, p. 17.

For Connecticut Congregational churches regarding themselves as Presbyterian rather than Congregationalist, see Walker, History of the First Church, pp. 358359. A 1799 pronouncement from the Congregationalist Association to which the two Hartford churches belonged states that the confession of faith, heads of agreement, and articles of church discipline, adopted at the earliest period of the Settlement of this State, is not Congregational, but contains the essentials of the church of Scotland, or Presbyterian Church in America, quoted in Walker, p. 358.

The Breton name means powerful, having authority and is a fairly common family name in Brittany. Le Gonidec, Dictionnaire breton-franais, 1850 (St.-Brieuc: L. Prudhomme, 1847).

Robert Munro Erwin to Leonard M. Elstad, 1959 Apr 6, EMGP. Although we dont have independent corroboration of Erwins evidence for this synagogue, there would have been no conceivable reason in 1959 for a Protestant to invent Jewish ancestry.

Claude Tocz and Annie Lambert, Les Juifs en Bretagne, pp. 2224.

Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables, chapter 11.

Gallaudet, Every-Day Christian, p. 50. The discussion of diet is drawn largely from Lydia Maria Childs 1838 American Frugal Housewife and Amelia Simmonss 1796 American Cookery. See also Sarah F. McMahon, A Comfortable Subsistence and All Things in Their Proper Season.

Richard J. Purcell, Connecticut in Transition, p. 69.

On the country jail, see Daniel Sterner, Vanished Downtown Hartford, p. 57.

On agricultural exports, see Anne Farrow, Joel Lang, and Jenifer Frank, Complicity, p. 49; on manufactured goods for sale, see J. Eugene Smith, One Hundred Years, p. 3940; on Jew Street, see Morris Silverman, Hartford Jews and the Oxford English Dictionary, sv Jew.

On the Center Green auction block, see Hilary Moss, Cast Down on Every Side, p. 151.