POLITICIANS/FEDERAL JUDGE LAWYER NEW HAVEN CT LAND DOCUMENT SIGNED BRISTOL 1840!

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Here’s an
1840
Document Signed by Prominent Politicians, Judges and Lawyers from New Haven County, Connecticut.
A SALE OF LAND IN THE WASHINGTON DISTRICT NEAR CONGRESS AVENUE IN THE CITY OF NEW HAVEN, CT, BY MERIT MACUMBER TO ABIGAIL HULSE, DATED AT NEW HAVEN, JAN. 15
th
1840.
THE DOCUMENT IS SIGNED BY:
MERIT MACUMBER
Birth
2 Nov 1805
Death
12 Aug 1849 (aged 43)
Burial
Grove Street Cemetery
,
New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut,
Merit Macumber served as an Ensign, 2
nd
Brigade, 2
nd
Regiment, 1
st
Battalion of Connecticut Militia Infantry ca. 1829.
WILLIAM BROOKS BRISTOL
Birth
19 Jun 1806
Death
10 Oct 1876 (aged 70)
Burial
Grove Street Cemetery
,
New Haven, Connecticut
Plot
52 Laurel Ave West
WIlliam Brooks Bristol was a native of New Haven, graduated at Yale College in 1825,
was admitted to the bar in 1833, and practiced until his death in 1876.
Son of prominent
New Haven
attorney and Superior
Court
Judge, William Bristol
.
William Brooks Bristol, Yale 1825 (born in New Haven, Conn., in 1806, died in New
Haven, Conn., in 1876), was a lawyer, the son of William Bristol, Yale 1798
(died March 7, 1836), a lawyer by profession, afterwards a judge of the Superior Court
of Connecticut, and subsequently one of the judges of the Supreme Court of Errors of
Connecticut. He was also a judge of the United States District Court over the District of
Connecticut, and was the son of Simeon Bristol, Yale 1760, who died in 1805.
JOHN SCARRITT
Birth
1768
Death
18 Oct 1854 (aged 85–86), New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Burial
Grove Street Cemetery
New Haven, Connecticut
Plot
Central Ave. East
John Scarritt for many years an educator and schoolmaster and, also the highly respected Town Clerk of New Haven in the 1840s-50s.
The document measures 8” x 12½” and is in very fine condition for its advanced age.
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