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Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
The Huntington Library
Title: Gott and Hastings families papers
Creator:
Gott family
Creator:
Hastings family
Identifier/Call Number: mssGott
Physical Description:
20 Linear Feet
(30 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1700-1985
Date (bulk): 1810-1920
Abstract: Family papers of several generations of
the extended Gott, Hastings, Sedgwick, and Baldwin families of Connecticut and New York
state.
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permission rests with the researcher.
Daniel Gott, New York Congressman, was born in Hebron, Connecticut, in 1794. Ann Baldwin
Sedgwick Gott was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, in 1786, to Isaac Baldwin, lawyer and
member of the 24th Regiment, Connecticut Militia during the Revolutionary War, and Hannah
Sacket Delancey, daughter of prominent Presbyterian preacher Reverend Samuel Sackett. Daniel
Gott and Ann Baldwin Sedgwick married in 1819 after her divorce from her first husband
Stephen Sedgwick. After having three sons with her first husband, James, John, and Charles,
she and Gott had four children: Samuel, Ann, Amelia and Daniel Francis. In 1846, Gott was
elected as a Whig to the 30th Congress (1847-1849). In 1848, Gott introduced a resolution
abolishing the slave trade in Washington, D.C. which passed, but was later repealed after
protests from Southern lawmakers. Daniel Gott died in 1864; Ann lived until 1872. Their
daughter Amelia married Francis H. Hastings; they had 11 children. One of their daughters,
Ann Clark Hastings married Frederick E. Gott (they later divorced); they had one son,
Francis Hastings Gott. Francis Hastings Gott attended Harvard from 1911 to 1913 and when the
United States entered the first World War in April 1917, he was sent to France to work with
the United States Army Corps of Engineers to supply the allies with lumber. In the 1930s,
Gott served in Colorado and New Mexico as a regional inspector of the National Park
Service.
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.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased from Michael Brown Rare Books, LLC, by the Library Collectors' Council, January
2012.
[Identification of item]. Gott and Hastings families papers. The Huntington Library, San
Marino, California, 91108.
Arranged in the following series: Correspondence (Boxes 1-9); Manuscripts and documents
(Boxes 10-15); Photographs (Boxes 16-21); Ephemera and genealogy (Boxes 22-29); Watercolors
and drawings (Box 30).
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Abolitionists -- United States -- History -- 19th century --
Sources
Lawyers -- New York (State)
Mexican War, 1846-1848
Physicians -- New York (State)
Women -- New York (State)
Women -- Connecticut
World War, 1914-1918
Connecticut -- History
Litchfield (Conn.)
New York (State) -- History
Pompey (N.Y.)
Rochester (N.Y.)
United States -- History -- 18th century -- Sources
United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources
United States -- History -- 20th century -- Sources
United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783
Washington (D.C.)
Bibles -- United States -- 18th century
Cartes-de-visite (card photographs)
Daguerreotypes (photographs)
Diaries
Family papers
Genealogies (histories)
Legal documents
Letters (correspondence)
Pencil drawings
Photograph albums
Photographs
Printed ephemera
Scrapbooks
Tintypes (prints)
Watercolors (paintings)
Baldwin family
Baldwin, Isaac
Gott, Ann Baldwin Sedgwick, 1786-1872
Gott, Ann Clark Hastings, 1850-
Gott, Daniel,
1794-1864
Gott, Daniel Francis, 1829-1899
Gott, Francis Hastings, 1886-1966
Hastings, Amelia Gott, 1825-
Hastings, Daniel Gott, 1861-1942
Hastings, Frances Amelia, 1853-1942
Hastings, Francis H. (Francis Henry),
1814-1895
Sedgwick family
Hamilton College (Clinton,
N.Y.)
Litchfield Law
School
Litchfield Female Academy
(Conn.)
United States. Army. Corps of
Engineers
United States. Congress (30th : 1847-1849)