History of Ancient Woodbury, Connecticut, from the First Indian Deed in 1659 to 1854: Including the Present Towns of Washington, Southbury, Bethlem, Roxbury, and a Part of Oxford and Middlebury.

COTHREN, William [William Tecumseh Sherman].

$1,200.00

Item Number: 145760

Waterbury, Connecticut: Bronson Brothers, 1854.

Second volume of the first edition of this history of Ancient Woodbury, the location of the Sherman family’s initial establishment in early 1673; from the library of General William Tecumseh Sherman. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth, illustrated with coats of arms from the Graham and Sherman family. General Sherman and his son Philemon Tecumseh Sherman’s bookplates to the front pastedown. Presentation copy, inscribed by Roger M. Sherman on the flyleaf to Ellen Sherman, “Mrs. General Sherman with the compliments of Roger M. Sherman.” The recipient, Eleanor Boyle Ewing Sherman was the wife of General William Tecumseh Sherman and a prominent pro-Union figure before and during the Civil War. The inscriber was likely a descendant of the Founding Father Roger Sherman, the only person to sign all four great state papers of the United States: the Continental Association, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution. In very good condition.

General Sherman’s library was inherited by P. T. Sherman, who transferred the library to his niece, Eleanor Sherman Fitch, the granddaughter of General Sherman through his eldest daughter, Maria “Minnie” Ewing Sherman Fitch, before he died. Until now, this book was held at the family estate in Washington County, Pennsylvania.