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FAMILY PRIVATE COLLECTION
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Family Private collection
Items still in family private collection and not yet donated or sold out of the family to a private collector
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This collection consists of items passed down through the family and still remain in our private collection.
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Elizabeth L. C. Dixon<br />Dr. James Clarke Welling
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Elizabeth L. C. Dixon <br />Dr. James Clarke Welling
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<p>CC BY 4.0 DEED</p>
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An oval portrait of J. Dalton on ivory circa 1800
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Portrait painting, British
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An oval portrait watercolor portrait of an officer in a red uniform, sash bearskin hat with plumme, background is robin's egg blue. Written on verso J Dalton Pinx 1800 J Sillett<br /><br /><div><span></span>
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<p><span>Lost & Found History</span></p>
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<p><span>There are countless pieces of history scattered around the world, many of which are often overlooked or forgotten. Today, we are shining a spotlight on a particular piece that has been lost in the annals of time and recently rediscovered: a portrait on Ivory from the private collection of the Dixon-Welling family.</span></p>
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<p><span>The portrait is a fascinating look into the past, serving as a snapshot of a time and place long gone. Crafted with intricate detail and a keen eye for aesthetics, it is a testament to the artistic skills and cultural sensibilities of its time.</span></p>
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<p><span>The piece is signed on the back, or verso, with the names 'J Dalton' and 'J Sillett Pinx', and the date '1800'. This provides us with some tantalizing clues about its history and origin. The identity of J. Dalton is unknown, which adds a layer of mystery to the piece. However, we do know that the artist was James Sillett, a British miniaturist who was active during the 18th and 19th centuries.</span></p>
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<p><span>James Sillett was known for his miniature portraits, which were often painted on ivory. His work is characterized by its meticulous detail and vibrant use of color. Despite the small size of the miniatures, Sillett was able to capture the personality and character of his subjects with remarkable accuracy. The Miniature on Ivory from the Dixon-Welling collection is no exception, demonstrating Sillett's exceptional skill and artistic vision.</span></p>
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<p><span>Despite its age and the mystery surrounding its creation, the Portrait on Ivory has been preserved in excellent condition. It is currently part of the private collection of Miss Elizabeth Dixon Welling, who has graciously allowed it to be shared with the public. This remarkable piece of history is just one of the many treasures that can be found in private collections around the world.</span></p>
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<p><span>The Portrait on Ivory is a testament to the power of art and the importance of preserving our historical artifacts. It serves as a reminder of the rich history that surrounds us and the stories that can be found in the most unexpected of places. As we continue to uncover these lost relics, we gain a deeper understanding of our past and the people who lived in it. </span></p>
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James Sillett (British artist)
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Private Family Collection
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From the Private Family Collection Archives
Date
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1800
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Miss Elizabeth Dixon Welling
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CC BY 4.0 DEED
Relation
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Passed from Elizabeth L.C. Dixon to Clementine Dixon Welling to Elizabeth Dixon Welling to Caroline Welling Van Deusen
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3" x 2" on ivory
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En-
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Object
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Object-private-portrait-JDalton-JSillett-1800
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1800-2023
#James Sillett
#NorwichEngland
#portraitminiature
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PUBLIC MUSEUM COLLECTION
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Public Museum Collections --United States
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The heirs of the family of Sen. James Dixon, Elizabeth L.C. Dixon and Dr. James Clarke Welling
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Miss Elizabeth Dixon Welling
Mrs. Clementine Dixon Welling
Miss Elizabeth L. Dixon
Dr. James Clarke Welling
Mrs. Elizabeth L.C. Dixon
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CC BY 4.0 DEED
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citizenarchivist.omeka.net
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citizenarchivist.omeka.net
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Natick, Mass August 7th, 1868<br /><br />My dear Mrs. Dixon, <br />Your letter was received last evening and I informed my husband of your wishes in request to Colonel Jones. And he desired me to write you he would send to the War Department and see what would be done in Colonel Jones's case as it would affect him much pleasure to serve the Colone in urgency and also yourself and Senator Dixon for whom he holds in the highest personal regard. Although I never had a daughter I can easily sympathize with you in your anxiety and your daughter’s happiness and shall be most happy if I can aid you in securing hers. <br /><br />My health as you are aware is never good and this summer I have been suffering more than usual from the effects of a cough which is unnerving with me very much. I've tried numerous remedies but have received no relief thus far. Next week I intend to go to Winchester in the western part of the state to spend a few weeks with Dr Russell, our old family physician who has helped me before and I trust will be able to do so again. with kind regards to yourself, family and hoping you may enjoy your time abroad. <br /><br />I am yours sincerely, <br />H. M. Wilson
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Harriett M. Wilson
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Elizabeth L.C. Dixon
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August/07/1869
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Ms. 46829
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1869 Aug 7
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Autographs--Collection of Elizabeth L.C. Dixon
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Harriet Malvina Wilson letter, 7 August 1869, Natick, to Mrs. Elizabeth L.C. Dixon
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Harriet Wilson, the wife of vice-president Henry Wilson, wrote to Mrs. Dixon to discuss her family's happiness as well as present sickness Wilson was having.
The letter is in response of Mrs. Dixon's asking for help with Corporal Jones case.
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Harriet Malvina Wilson
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An Annotated Bibliography of the Dixon-Welling Family Collection at Connecticut Museum of Culture and History
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An Annotated Bibliography of the Dixon-Welling Family Collection at Connecticut Museum of Culture and History
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Harriet Malvina Wilson
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CC BY 4.0 DEED
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Donation to Connecticut Museum of Culture and History by Miss Elizabeth D. Welling, October 1936
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5x7 paper
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-Eng
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1868
1869 Aug 7
Colonel Jones
Harriet Malvina Wilson
Ms. 46829
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I do hereby bargain, sell & convey in absolute property to John Marshall for seventy pounds which I have this received from him one negro wench named Dicey with her child and do bend myself, my heirs executors & administrators to warrant and defend completely totally unencumbered to the said slave & her issue John B. Johnson July 3rd 1787
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Chief Justice John Marshall Bill of Sale – Slave Dicey from John Johnson to Jacqueline Amble
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Genealogy -- Virginia -- African Americans -- records
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Chief Justice John Marshall Bill of Sale – Slave Dicey from John Johnson to Jaquelin Ambler
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<p>Verso side of Chief Justice John Marshall Bill of Sale – Slave Dicey from John Johnson to Jaquelin Ambler.</p>
<p><em>For this within mentioned sum of seventy pounds which I have reserved I bargain, the within mentioned slaves to Jaquelin Ambler Esquire.</em></p>
<p><em>JMarshall</em></p>
<p><em>Chief Justice</em></p>
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PUBLIC MUSEUM COLLECTION
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Public Museum Collections --United States
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The heirs of the family of Sen. James Dixon, Elizabeth L.C. Dixon and Dr. James Clarke Welling
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Miss Elizabeth Dixon Welling
Mrs. Clementine Dixon Welling
Miss Elizabeth L. Dixon
Dr. James Clarke Welling
Mrs. Elizabeth L.C. Dixon
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CC BY 4.0 DEED
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citizenarchivist.omeka.net
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citizenarchivist.omeka.net
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Ms. 46829
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Johnson, John B.
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Chief Justice John Marshall
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1787 Jul 03
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Chief Justice John Marshall Bill of Sale – Slave Dicey from John B. Johnson to Jaquelin Ambler dated 3 July 1787
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African Americans--Genealogy
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Handwritten on the page; <br /><p><em>I do hereby bargain, sell & convey in absolute property to John Marshall for seventy pounds which I have this received from him one negro wench named Dicey with her child and do bend myself, my heirs executors & administrators to warrant and defend completely totally unencumbered to the said slave & her issue John B. Johnson</em></p>
<p><em>July 3<sup>rd</sup> 1787<br /><br />Verso of the page; <br /></em></p>
<p><em>For this within mentioned sum of seventy pounds which I have reserved I bargain, the within mentioned slaves to Jaquelin Ambler Esquire.</em></p>
<p><em>JMarshall</em></p>
<p><em>Chief Justice</em></p>
<p><em> </em></p>
The family of Sen. James Dixon, Elizabeth L.C. Dixon and Dr. James Clarke Welling opposed slavery. Why or how this one page document was among the Welling family papers donated to the Connecticut Museum of Culture and History is unknown.<br /><br />The summer of 1787, John B. Johnson owned and sold an African-American woman, named Dicey, and her child Chief Justice John Marshall for seventy pounds. On verso, Chief Justice John Marshal passes the bill of sale for this mother and child to Jaquelin Ambler, Esq. <br /><br />This transaction in 1787, four years after John Marshall of Virginia married Mary Ambler, daughter of Jaquelin Ambler, Esq. of Virginia.
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An Annotated Bibliography of the Dixon-Welling Family Collection at Connecticut Museum of Culture and History
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Donation to Connecticut Museum of Culture and History by Miss Elizabeth D. Welling, October 1936
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Chief Justice John Marshall
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-Eng
1787 Jul 03
John B. Johnson
Justice John Marshall
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John J. Audubon Letter, 27 October 1821, New Orleans, Louisiana, to F. Rozier, St. Genevieve, Missouri
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Autograph Collection of Elizabeth L.C. Dixon
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Manuscript letter from John J. Audubon Letter, 27 October 1821, New Orleans, Louisiana, to F. Rozier, St. Genevieve, Missouri
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27 October 1821
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Envelope from John J. Audubon Letter, 27 October 1821, New Orleans, Louisiana, to F. Rozier, St. Genevieve, Missouri
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Autograph Collection of Elizabeth L.C. Dixon
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Envelope sent from Lucy Audubon to Elizabeth L.C. Dixon originally sent from John J. Audubon Letter, 27 October 1821, New Orleans, Louisiana, to F. Rozier, St. Genevieve, Missouri
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PUBLIC MUSEUM COLLECTION
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Public Museum Collections --United States
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The heirs of the family of Sen. James Dixon, Elizabeth L.C. Dixon and Dr. James Clarke Welling
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Miss Elizabeth Dixon Welling
Mrs. Clementine Dixon Welling
Miss Elizabeth L. Dixon
Dr. James Clarke Welling
Mrs. Elizabeth L.C. Dixon
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An Annotated Bibliography of the Dixon-Welling Family Collection at Connecticut Museum of Culture and History
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1821 Oct 27
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John J. Audubon Letter, 27 October 1821, New Orleans, Louisiana, to F. Rozier, St. Genevieve, Missouri
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Autographs--Collection of Elizabeth L.C. Dixon
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Audubon, John J.
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An Annotated Bibliography of the Dixon-Welling Family Collection at Connecticut Museum of Culture and History
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Donation to Connecticut Museum of Culture and History by Miss Elizabeth D. Welling, October 1936
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-Eng
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John J. Audubon
1821 Oct 27
Audubon
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Rozier
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PUBLIC MUSEUM COLLECTION
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Public Museum Collections --United States
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The heirs of the family of Sen. James Dixon, Elizabeth L.C. Dixon and Dr. James Clarke Welling
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Miss Elizabeth Dixon Welling
Mrs. Clementine Dixon Welling
Miss Elizabeth L. Dixon
Dr. James Clarke Welling
Mrs. Elizabeth L.C. Dixon
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Items in this collection were at one time part in our private family collection but because of the historic or cultural value were donated to public repositories therefore ensuring public access to these items in the future.
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This collection of Valentines contains cards that were given to Mrs. Elizabeth L. C. Dixon 1819-1871 and Miss Bessie L. Dixon 1841-1931 One card is dated 14 February 1848. This collection features depictions of nature and various floras. The collection is also intriguing due to the processes used to produce the cards including lithography and hand-painting. Gift to Connecticut Museum of Culture and History by Miss Elizabeth D. Welling on 29 March 1976
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Mrs. Elizabeth L. C. Dixon 1819-1871<br />Miss Bessie L. Dixon 1841-1931
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14 February 1848
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Victorian era paper Valentine’s Day cards
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This collection of Valentines contains cards that were given to Mrs. Elizabeth L. C. Dixon 1819-1871 and Miss Bessie L. Dixon 1841-1931 One card is dated 14 February 1848. This collection features depictions of nature and various floras. The collection is also intriguing due to the processes used to produce the cards including lithography and hand-painting. <br /><br />These valentines have not been digitized. <br /><br />Gift of Miss Elizabeth D. Welling on 29 March 1976 <br />Located at Connecticut Museum of Culture and History, Dixon-Welling Collection, Manuscripts and Ephemera
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Miss Elizabeth L. Dixon 1842-1939
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An Annotated Bibliography of the Dixon-Welling Family Collection at Connecticut Museum of Culture and History
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1848-1940
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1976.21.16.22
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Donation to Connecticut Museum of Culture and History by Miss Elizabeth D. Welling on 29 March 1976.
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Gold Cane given to Sen. James Dixon from N.D.S. Esq. and J.D.M. 1865
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Presentation Cane
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Gift to Sen. James Dixon (Whig-CT) in 1865. Gold tip engraved Hon. James Dixon from N.D.S. Esq. and J.D.M. 1865
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FAMILY PRIVATE COLLECTION
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Elizabeth L. C. Dixon<br />Dr. James Clarke Welling
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Elizabeth L. C. Dixon <br />Dr. James Clarke Welling
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<p>CC BY 4.0 DEED</p>
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Gold Tipped Presentation Cane
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Presentation pieces (Gifts) received in 1865 by Senator James Dixon of CT
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In 1865 this wooden cane was given to Sen. James Dixon. Engraved on the gold handle; Hon. James Dixon from N. D. G. Esq. & J. D. M. 1865.
Senator Dixon was given this cane in 1865, the year the Civil War ended. The gift of a cane, sometimes called a presentation cane, was a gesture of respect, admiration or appreciation.
Who gave the cane to Sen Dixon? All we know are their initials. Who was NDG Esq. and JDM? Can you can identify these mysterious friends? If you can pose a guess, please let us know.
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Unknown
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Sen. James Dixon
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1865
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Caroline Welling Van Deusen, Project Archivist
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Eng
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From the Private Family Collection Archives
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Passed from Elizabeth L.C. Dixon to Clementine Dixon Welling to Elizabeth Dixon Welling to Caroline Welling Van Deusen
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From George Washington to William Thornton, 7 October 1799
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Washington, George
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George Washington asks Thornton to take Colonel Walker and the latter’s grandson-in-law sightseeing around Washington, D. C. and to show them the canals and falls in the Potomac River.
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Washington, George
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An Annotated Bibliography of Dixon-Welling Collection at Connecticut Museum of Culture and History
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An Annotated Bibliography of Dixon-Welling Collection at Connecticut Museum of Culture and History
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1799 Oct 09
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William Thornton
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-Eng
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Ms. 46829
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Miss Elizabeth Dixon Welling
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Caroline Welling VanDeusen
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To William Thornton
Mount Vernon Octr 7th 1799
Dear Sir
Colo. Walker, a very res-
pectable Gentleman of this State, will
hand you this letter. He, with Mr. Nelson,
who married his Grand daughter, are on a
visit to the Federal City, and propose
to view the Canals & Falls in the Potomack
before they return.
Colo. Walker is well acquainted
with Mr White, but as the latter may be
absent, I take the liberty of soliciting
your civilities in shewing them such things
as they may incline to see in the City.
I am—Dear Sir
Your Obedt Hble Servant
G Washington
Wm Thornton Esq.
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Text of letter from George Washington to William Thornton, 7 October 1799,
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PUBLIC MUSEUM COLLECTION
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Public Museum Collections --United States
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The heirs of the family of Sen. James Dixon, Elizabeth L.C. Dixon and Dr. James Clarke Welling
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Miss Elizabeth Dixon Welling
Mrs. Clementine Dixon Welling
Miss Elizabeth L. Dixon
Dr. James Clarke Welling
Mrs. Elizabeth L.C. Dixon
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Items in this collection were at one time part in our private family collection but because of the historic or cultural value were donated to public repositories therefore ensuring public access to these items in the future.
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Letter from Geo Washington to Wm Thornton
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George Washington
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William Thornton
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1799 Oct 09
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1799 Letter from Geo Washington to Wm Thornton
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<p>On October 9, 1799 President <span>George Washington wrote a letter to William Thornton asking him to show the City of Washington to Col. John Walker (1744–1809) </span>and <span>Hugh Nelson (1768–1836), son of Gov. Thomas Nelson (1738–1789), who had just married Eliza Kinloch (1781–1834), the granddaughter of Col. John Walker (1744–1809), the son of Washington’s old friend, Thomas Walker (1715–1794). Thornton was to show them around since Mr. White, District of Columbia commissioner, Alexander White was not available. </span></p>
<p>Provenance: The letter from George Washington <span>To William Thornton is in the </span>Dixon-Welling <span>collection at Connecticut Historical Society</span>. How did the family acquire this letter?</p>
<p>Possibly the connection may be traced back to the original autograph collector, Elizabeth L. C. <span> </span>Dixon. <span> </span>It is possible she acquired the letter with help from her stepmother, Jane Eudora Kirkpatrick Cogswell (1799-1864), her aunt was Mrs. Margaret Bayard Smith (1777-1844) and close friend of Wm Thornton. – suggested by Caroline Welling Van Deusen (1956-<br /><br /><br />Located at Connecticut Museum of Culture and History, Dixon-Welling Collection, Manuscripts and Ephemera </p>
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1799 Oct 09
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Caroline Welling Van Deusen, Project Archivist
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-Eng
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Ms. 46829
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Washington, George
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An Annotated Bibliography of the Dixon-Welling Family Collection at Connecticut Museum of Culture and History
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Washington, George, 1732-1799--Employees
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Donation to Connecticut Museum of Culture and History by Miss Elizabeth D. Welling, October 1936
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Document
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Paper
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1799
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1894 Smithsonian Ephemera 1
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<p>ANNUAL MEETING OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS. SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION January 1895</p>
<p><em>Wherein</em> the members of tho Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution has been called upon to mourn the death of their esteemed colleague, the late James C. Welling, LLD., president of the George Washington University, who has long been interested in the welfare of the institution, and who for many years has been a Regent and chairman of its Executive Committee.</p>
<p><em>Resolved</em>, That the Board of Regents feels deep regret in the loss of one whose long and distinguished career of public usefulness, especially in the promotion of institutions for higher education, commanded their report, and whose personal character and unselfish devotion to the highest ideals of scholarship and citizenship, their sincere admiration. <br /><br /><em>Resolved</em>, That in the death of President Welling the Smithsonian Institution has suffered the irreparable loss of an earnest friend, a wise and judicious counselor, and one who was preeminently an exponent of its time-honored policy; and the Board of Regents a friend and associate whom they valued most highly. <br /><br /><em>Resolved</em>, that those resolutions to recorded in the Journal of the Proceedings of the Board, and that the Secretary be requested to send a copy of them to the family of their departed associator and friend, in token of sympathy in this common affliction.</p>
<p><em>Resolved</em>, That the Secretary be requested to prepare a eulogy of President Welling for insertion in the Journal of the Board of Regents.</p>
<p>Dr. Coppée said that he had been long associated with Dr.Welling than any other member of the Board, since 1884, and particularly as a member of the Executive Committee with him, and as he had for Dr. Welling a very high esteem, he thought it proper to say a word in this connection. Dr. Welling was one of the most valuable citizens of Washington, to whom was confided many trusts, among them the presidency of the George Washington University, and the chairmanship of the Executive Committee of this Institution, and he did well everything that was confided to him. He was a man pure in thought, honest in purpose and action, and intelligent in judgment. He held a ready pen, and how polished his public utterances were, all here would remember when he presented papers and other matters before this Board.<br /><br />Dr. Coppée added that Dr. Welling was cautioned by his friends that he worked too hard, and instanced the fact that at the last meeting which he attended, in May, he announced his purpose to write a work with reference to his favorite subject of anthropology, when Senator Henderson, now present, said to him: “The best thing that you can do is to consider one individual of the species of 'anthropos, 'and very carefully, at this time. You are the man; 'take care of yourself.” It was a grave pleasantry. It was good counsel, but it came too late, for Dr. Welling was injured by the hard work that he did. In him is lost a man who was preeminently excellent in counsel, whether to the Board or in private, but he would leave it to the Secretary to speak of him further. Senator Henderson spoke of his long and intimate acquaintance with Dr. Welling and expressed his admiration for him as a citizen and as an officer of the Institution. The Secretary then said: I have lost in Dr. Welling a personal friend, but I only have to speak of him now in his relationship to this Institution - an institution whose conservative character has been partly due to good fortune in the presence and advice of such men. Dr. Welling was one who possessed, beyond anyone else, what may be called the traditions of the Institution; and though these were not of course his exclusive property, in this respect, as in others, his logs can not be supplied. The rules of conduct which have been laid down by the Regents and by the Sectaries who have administered them are not so much derived from a prior views as they are the outgrowth of accumulated experience; and this experience, it has been thought, is in part, perhaps, due to tho exceptionally long incumbencies of members of the Board as compared with ordinary tenures of office here, and to the continuity of the knowledge of its activities, as illustrated in the case of this departed friend. <br /><br />James Clarke Welling, at the time of his death, September 4, 1894, was nearly 70 years of age. Descended from New England colonial ancestors, a native of one of the Middle States, in early adulthood a teacher in the South, and for nearly half a century a resident of the National capital, he was an American of the noblest type, free from sectional bias, personifying the best traits and tendencies of the nation, loyal to the traditions and aspirations of its founders. He was graduated in 1814 from the College of New Jersey, studied law, and was admitted to the bar, but soon afterwards entered upon the profession of journalism. <br />He always retained, forever, a strong inclination for the study of constitutional and international law, and of politics, and his interest in public affairs was greatly stimulated by his connection for fifteen years with the most important of Washington journals, at that time national in its influence. <br /><br />He became the literary editor of the National Intelligencer in 1850, and was its managing editor throughout the entire period of the Civil War. In this capacity he had the privilege of personal acquaintance with all our public men, and confidential access to many of them, including Lincoln, Seward, and Stanton. <br /><br />In later life his attention was given chiefly to educational work. For a time president of St. John's College, Maryland, and later professor of belles - lettres at Princeton, be was, in 1870, recalled to Washington to become president of the George Washington University, an institution founded fifty years before, in the hope that it might fulfill the desire of Washington, Barlow, and Adams, that a seat of liberal learning should exist at the capital.</p>
<p>Dr. Welling was led to accept this position by the urgency of the philanthropist William W. Corcoran and the advice of Joseph Henry, both of whom were influenced by the hope of having with one of the founders of a national university, and who believed that a man of Dr. Welling's character would find in such a position a wide field of influence. <br /><br />His aspirations for the university were never fully realized, owing to the impossibility of securing endowments from private sources for a public institution located so near to the seat of government. <br /><br />He nevertheless secured a considerable addition to its endowment, added new professional schools, greatly increased the number of its faculty and students, removed the institution from the suburbs to a new building in the heart of the city, and accomplished many other things which seemed really wonderful in view of the smallness of the resources at his command. <br /><br />The dream of his life was to establish a school of comparative jurisprudence - the only one of its kind in the world — as a branch of the university. <br /><br />In 1892 he visited Europe, secured approval of his plans from Sir Frederick Pollock and other eminent jurists, and their promise to come to America to lecture as members of the faculty. Failing health interfered with the realization of his plan, which I can but believe he would bare otherwise forced into success. <br /><br />After his resignation of the presidency in 1893, he still retained the chair of international law and the position of dean of the university law school, and, full of hopefulness, it was his purpose to labor on for his beloved project. He confidently expected to live to be 80, and to devote the remaining years of his life to the compilation of a political history of the Civil War, a work for which no one was so well qualified by experience, knowledge, and critical skill as himself. <br /><br />He was a representative man in Washington, identified with all interests which tend toward good citizenship, and held many positions of public trust and honor. <br /><br />He was president of the board of trustees of the Corcoran Art Gallery and of the American Copyright League, and was appointed by President Harrison commissioner to the Colombian Historical Exposition at Madrid in 1892.</p>
<p>His bearing was that of a courteous gentleman of the old school. His scholarship was accurate, broad, and genial, as was shown by the critical reviews which he contributed during his later years to some of the principal American journals. <br /><br />His favorite study in hours of relaxation was that of the sacred poetry of tho early Christian Church, some of which be had translated, though not for publication. <br /><br />In 1894 he was chosen a Regent of this Institution to succeed the Reverend Dr. Parker. For ten years he gave conscientious attention to its interests, and upheld in every way those conservative and dignified traditions of which I have already spoken of him in almost the living embodiment; and while he did this primarily because of their harmony with his own personal tendencies and convictions as to their value, he did so because of his affection and reverence for the first Secretary, Joseph Henry, whose pupil he had been in his youth, and with whom in middle life had maintained the relation of friend and confidant.</p>
<p>After Henry’s death, Dr. Welling consented to add to his already burdensome duties those of the chairman of the Executive Committee, which be performed till his own death, so that he may be said to have been a link between the past and present in the history of this Institution, though happily not the only one, since it has preserved others in his contemporaries.</p>
<p><br /><i>On motion</i>, the resolutions were unanimously adopted by a standing vote.</p>
<p><br />Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895 By Smithsonian Institution Board of Regents <br /><br />Transcription by Caroline Welling Van Deusen January 2021<br /><br />Throughout this text the name George Washington University replaced former name of Columbia College</p>
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<p>ANNUAL MEETING OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS. SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION January 1895</p>
<p><em>Wherein</em> the members of tho Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution has been called upon to mourn the death of their esteemed colleague, the late James C. Welling, LLD., president of the George Washington University, who has long been interested in the welfare of the institution, and who for many years has been a Regent and chairman of its Executive Committee.</p>
<p><em>Resolved</em>, That the Board of Regents feels deep regret in the loss of one whose long and distinguished career of public usefulness, especially in the promotion of institutions for higher education, commanded their report, and whose personal character and unselfish devotion to the highest ideals of scholarship and citizenship, their sincere admiration. <br /><br /><em>Resolved</em>, That in the death of President Welling the Smithsonian Institution has suffered the irreparable loss of an earnest friend, a wise and judicious counselor, and one who was preeminently an exponent of its time-honored policy; and the Board of Regents a friend and associate whom they valued most highly. <br /><br /><em>Resolved</em>, that those resolutions to recorded in the Journal of the Proceedings of the Board, and that the Secretary be requested to send a copy of them to the family of their departed associator and friend, in token of sympathy in this common affliction.</p>
<p><em>Resolved</em>, That the Secretary be requested to prepare a eulogy of President Welling for insertion in the Journal of the Board of Regents.</p>
<p>Dr. Coppée said that he had been long associated with Dr.Welling than any other member of the Board, since 1884, and particularly as a member of the Executive Committee with him, and as he had for Dr. Welling a very high esteem, he thought it proper to say a word in this connection. Dr. Welling was one of the most valuable citizens of Washington, to whom was confided many trusts, among them the presidency of the George Washington University, and the chairmanship of the Executive Committee of this Institution, and he did well everything that was confided to him. He was a man pure in thought, honest in purpose and action, and intelligent in judgment. He held a ready pen, and how polished his public utterances were, all here would remember when he presented papers and other matters before this Board.<br /><br />Dr. Coppée added that Dr. Welling was cautioned by his friends that he worked too hard, and instanced the fact that at the last meeting which he attended, in May, he announced his purpose to write a work with reference to his favorite subject of anthropology, when Senator Henderson, now present, said to him: “The best thing that you can do is to consider one individual of the species of 'anthropos, 'and very carefully, at this time. You are the man; 'take care of yourself.” It was a grave pleasantry. It was good counsel, but it came too late, for Dr. Welling was injured by the hard work that he did. In him is lost a man who was preeminently excellent in counsel, whether to the Board or in private, but he would leave it to the Secretary to speak of him further. Senator Henderson spoke of his long and intimate acquaintance with Dr. Welling and expressed his admiration for him as a citizen and as an officer of the Institution. The Secretary then said: I have lost in Dr. Welling a personal friend, but I only have to speak of him now in his relationship to this Institution - an institution whose conservative character has been partly due to good fortune in the presence and advice of such men. Dr. Welling was one who possessed, beyond anyone else, what may be called the traditions of the Institution; and though these were not of course his exclusive property, in this respect, as in others, his logs can not be supplied. The rules of conduct which have been laid down by the Regents and by the Secretaries who have administered them are not so much derived from a prior views as they are the outgrowth of accumulated experience; and this experience, it has been thought, is in part, perhaps, due to tho exceptionally long incumbencies of members of the Board as compared with ordinary tenures of office here, and to the continuity of the knowledge of its activities, as illustrated in the case of this departed friend. <br /><br />James Clarke Welling, at the time of his death, September 4, 1894, was nearly 70 years of age. Descended from New England colonial ancestors, a native of one of the Middle States, in early adulthood a teacher in the South, and for nearly half a century a resident of the National capital, he was an American of the noblest type, free from sectional bias, personifying the best traits and tendencies of the nation, loyal to the traditions and aspirations of its founders. He was graduated in 1845 from the College of New Jersey, studied law, and was admitted to the bar, but soon afterwards entered upon the profession of journalism.</p>
<p><br />He always retained, forever, a strong inclination for the study of constitutional and international law, and of politics, and his interest in public affairs was greatly stimulated by his connection for fifteen years with the most important of Washington journals, at that time national in its influence. <br /><br />He became the literary editor of the National Intelligencer in 1850, and was its managing editor throughout the entire period of the Civil War. In this capacity he had the privilege of personal acquaintance with all our public men, and confidential access to many of them, including Lincoln, Seward, and Stanton. <br /><br />In later life his attention was given chiefly to educational work. For a time president of St. John's College, Maryland, and later professor of belles - lettres at Princeton, be was, in 1870, recalled to Washington to become president of the George Washington University, an institution founded fifty years before, in the hope that it might fulfill the desire of Washington, Barlow, and Adams, that a seat of liberal learning should exist at the capital.</p>
<p>Dr. Welling was led to accept this position by the urgency of the philanthropist William W. Corcoran and the advice of Joseph Henry, both of whom were influenced by the hope of having with one of the founders of a national university, and who believed that a man of Dr. Welling's character would find in such a position a wide field of influence. <br /><br />His aspirations for the university were never fully realized, owing to the impossibility of securing endowments from private sources for a public institution located so near to the seat of government. <br /><br />He nevertheless secured a considerable addition to its endowment, added new professional schools, greatly increased the number of its faculty and students, removed the institution from the suburbs to a new building in the heart of the city, and accomplished many other things which seemed really wonderful in view of the smallness of the resources at his command. <br /><br />The dream of his life was to establish a school of comparative jurisprudence - the only one of its kind in the world — as a branch of the university. <br /><br />In 1892 he visited Europe, secured approval of his plans from Sir Frederick Pollock and other eminent jurists, and their promise to come to America to lecture as members of the faculty. Failing health interfered with the realization of his plan, which I can but believe he would bare otherwise forced into success. <br /><br />After his resignation of the presidency in 1893, he still retained the chair of international law and the position of dean of the university law school, and, full of hopefulness, it was his purpose to labor on for his beloved project. He confidently expected to live to be 80, and to devote the remaining years of his life to the compilation of a political history of the Civil War, a work for which no one was so well qualified by experience, knowledge, and critical skill as himself. <br /><br />He was a representative man in Washington, identified with all interests which tend toward good citizenship, and held many positions of public trust and honor. <br /><br />He was president of the board of trustees of the Corcoran Art Gallery and of the American Copyright League, and was appointed by President Harrison commissioner to the Colombian Historical Exposition at Madrid in 1892.</p>
<p>His bearing was that of a courteous gentleman of the old school. His scholarship was accurate, broad, and genial, as was shown by the critical reviews which he contributed during his later years to some of the principal American journals. <br /><br />His favorite study in hours of relaxation was that of the sacred poetry of tho early Christian Church, some of which be had translated, though not for publication. <br /><br />In 1884 he was chosen a Regent of this Institution to succeed the Reverend Dr. Parker. For ten years he gave conscientious attention to its interests, and upheld in every way those conservative and dignified traditions of which I have already spoken of him in almost the living embodiment; and while he did this primarily because of their harmony with his own personal tendencies and convictions as to their value, he did so because of his affection and reverence for the first Secretary, Joseph Henry, whose pupil he had been in his youth, and with whom in middle life had maintained the relation of friend and confidant.</p>
<p>After Henry’s death, Dr. Welling consented to add to his already burdensome duties those of the chairman of the Executive Committee, which be performed till his own death, so that he may be said to have been a link between the past and present in the history of this Institution, though happily not the only one, since it has preserved others in his contemporaries.</p>
<p><br /><i>On motion</i>, the resolutions were unanimously adopted by a standing vote.</p>
<p><br />Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895 By Smithsonian Institution Board of Regents <br /><br />Transcription by Caroline Welling Van Deusen <br /><br />Throughout this text the name George Washington University replaced former name of Columbia College</p>
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PUBLIC MUSEUM COLLECTION
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Public Museum Collections --United States
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The heirs of the family of Sen. James Dixon, Elizabeth L.C. Dixon and Dr. James Clarke Welling
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Miss Elizabeth Dixon Welling
Mrs. Clementine Dixon Welling
Miss Elizabeth L. Dixon
Dr. James Clarke Welling
Mrs. Elizabeth L.C. Dixon
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CC BY 4.0 DEED
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citizenarchivist.omeka.net
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Invitation to Lincoln’s 1861 Inaugural Ball
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1861 Inaugural Ball Invitation to Misses Dixon
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Miss Elizabeth Dixon Welling 1885-1976
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<p><span>"Misses Dixon," being the wife of Connecticut' Republican Senator, James Dixon.</span></p>
<p>with this elaborately-engraved document - printed by the Philp & Solomons; hereby invited to attend President Lincoln's 1861 Inaugural Union Ball.</p>
<p><span>The "Union Ball," began at 10 p.m was held in a temporary ballroom constructed behind Washington’s City Hall called the “white muslin Palace of Aladin.” The ballroom had rooms for dancing, rooms for supper, and dressing rooms located within City Hall, the ladies having commandeered the Common Council chamber, and the gentlemen, the courtroom. The President and Mrs. Lincoln arrived at 11 p.m. - and although Lincoln stayed only a half hour, and Mrs. Lincoln two, a grand time was had by all 2,500 guests.<br /><br />Located at Connecticut Museum of Culture and History, Dixon-Welling Collection, Manuscripts and Ephemera <br /></span></p>
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1861 March 4
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Caroline Welling Van Deusen, Project Archivist
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Philp and Solomons, Metropolitan Book Store, Washington D.C.
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President Abraham Lincoln
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An Annotated Bibliography of the Dixon-Welling Family Collection at Connecticut Museum of Culture and History
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-Eng
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1976.21.24
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1802-T-Jefferson-to-John-Mason-3-pecan-trees
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Jefferson’s pecan trees
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<p>Discovered within our Dixon-Welling family papers at the Connecticut Historical Society is an autograph manuscript dated Nov 22, 1802 from Thomas Jefferson to Gen. John Mason asking acceptance of three peccan trees. Pecan trees..... interesting. How this autograph was obtained by my family is a whole other discussion. <br />At this time, that is not known.</p>
<p>Back to pecan trees. It is known that Thomas Jefferson planted pecan trees at Monticello. <br /><br />Searching Jefferson and pecans I find Jefferson and pecans can be traced to his visit to France, May 1787, where a specific tree today stands 30 meters high and 4.5 meters around at the Chateau Carbonnieux near Bordeaux.</p>
<p>It is known as the “Jefferson Pecan” and there is a fascinating initiative underway associated with planting of Jefferson pecan trees around France.</p>
<p>To learn more:<br /><a href="https://pacanierjeffersonpecan.com/thomas-jeffersons-pecan/">https://pacanierjeffersonpecan.com/thomas-jeffersons-pecan/</a></p>
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Mention by Thomas Jefferson about his Pecan trees found in a letter at the Connecticut Historical Society
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Caroline Welling Van Deusen
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PUBLIC MUSEUM COLLECTION
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Public Museum Collections --United States
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The heirs of the family of Sen. James Dixon, Elizabeth L.C. Dixon and Dr. James Clarke Welling
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Miss Elizabeth Dixon Welling
Mrs. Clementine Dixon Welling
Miss Elizabeth L. Dixon
Dr. James Clarke Welling
Mrs. Elizabeth L.C. Dixon
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Items in this collection were at one time part in our private family collection but because of the historic or cultural value were donated to public repositories therefore ensuring public access to these items in the future.
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CC BY 4.0 DEED
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citizenarchivist.omeka.net
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citizenarchivist.omeka.net
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<em>Thomas Jefferson asks Gen Mason acceptance of three peccan trees. The bearer brings two; the 3rd will be sent. Nov 22, 1802</em>
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1802 Thomas Jefferson’s pecan trees sent to Gen. John Mason
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<p>Discovered within our Dixon-Welling family papers at the Connecticut Historical Society is an autograph manuscript dated Nov 22, 1802 from Thomas Jefferson to Gen. John Mason <span>asking </span>acceptance of three peccan trees. Pecan trees..... interesting.</p>
<p>How this autograph was obtained by my family is a whole other discussion. At this time, it is not known.<br /><br />Back to pecan trees. It is known that Thomas Jefferson planted pecan trees at Monticello. Searching Jefferson and pecans I find Jefferson and pecans can be traced to his visit to France, May 1787, where a specific tree today stands 30 meters high and 4.5 meters around at the Chateau Carbonnieux near Bordeaux. It is known as the “Jefferson Pecan” and there is a fascinating initiative underway associated with planting of Jefferson pecan trees around France. To learn more:<a href="https://pacanierjeffersonpecan.com/thomas-jeffersons-pecan/">https://pacanierjeffersonpecan.com/thomas-jeffersons-pecan/</a></p>
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November 22, 1802
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Caroline Welling Van Deusen, Project Archivist
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CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
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En-
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Manuscript collection No. 46865
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President Thomas Jefferson
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An Annotated Bibliography of the Dixon-Welling Family Collection at Connecticut Museum of Culture and History
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