Gott and Hastings families papers

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.