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Hempstead family papers, 1810-1984. - 14 items. 1 container. 0.4 linear feet.

Open to research.

Genealogical material concerning the Hempstead family of Connecticut and New York. Includes a deed, wills, a book written by Ambrose C. Smith titled Memorials of the Life and Character of Mary Manuel Lisa (1870), photographs, and other papers. Also includes a notebook containing photocopies of deeds, wills, biographical essays, genealogical data, printed material, and letters written by Henry T. Cook while aboard the frigate Constitution in 1862 and by Octavia W. (Lorrain) Cook.


In part, photocopies.
[S.l.].


One daguerreotype
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
transferred to


Family of Robert Hempstead who is associated with the founding of Hempstead, N.Y., and New London, Conn.


Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room.

LCCN: mm 84061789

Subjects--Personal Names:
Cook, Henry T.--Correspondence.
Cook, Octavia W., 1811- --Correspondence.
Lisa, Mary Manuel, 1782-1869.
Hempstead family.

Subjects--Corporate Names:
Constitution (Frigate)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Genealogy--Connecticut.
Genealogy--New York (State)