Container List Record
Metadata
Object ID number |
2013.04.165 |
Container |
Box 6 |
Description |
Photocopy of five pages from newspaper article "The Hartford Times Sunday Magazine" 1969 Mar 30 describes peddlers (Eli Terry selling clocks; Paterson brothers selling tin ware; James Scoville selling buttons) travelling from Connecticut during 1790 to early 1800's. Southern businessmen rank these peddlers in a "list of the plagues next to yellow fever." Comments by others including Dr. Jarvis Means Morse, Amos Bronson Alcott, Wilbur L. Cross, and Odell Shepard describe the questionable nature of the peddlers. There is information about Lambert Hitchcock dispatching peddlers from his Hitchcocksville mill to sell decorative chairs. The final page is a picture of a horse-drawn wagon typical of the ones used by these peddlers. |