Phinehas Adams Papers

This collection contains 200 items of the family of Phinehas Adams of Connecticut and Ohio. The bulk of this collection contains letters, manuscripts, documents including Connecticut and Ohio land deeds, documents, personal and business affairs of the Adams and their relatives, chiefly concerning land transactions; everyday life in Ohio in the middle of the 19th century. There are also genealogy notes relating to the Adams and Bennett family in ephemera; 1 map; and several printed items.