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Collection Overview

The University of Vermont (UVM) is a major repository for Vermont Congressional papers, holding the records of over 30 Members of Congress from 1791 to the present. The Congressional Papers collection will provide access to digitized content from these papers. The intent is to document selected aspects of the legislative history of Vermont's members of Congress. In particular, we look at issues that were important for a particular member as well as issues that have been important over time such as support for dairy farmers, water quality, and slavery.

Time Period Covered: 1818-2004 

Sub-collections

Letters Home From Congress
Dairy and the US Congress
Congressional Portraits
Congressional Speeches

Related Archival Collection(s)

Collamer Family Papers
George D. Aiken Papers
Warren R. Austin Collection
Crafts Family Collection

Published:  October 07, 2006,  University of Vermont, Bailey/Howe Library, Special Collections

Rights:  Requests to reproduce this item should be sent to the UVM Libraries' Center for Digital Initiatives at cdi@uvm.edu. For more information, see http://cdi.uvm.edu/about/rights. More information.


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Title:   Letter to Benjamin Clark, February 21, 1818

Creator:  Crafts, Samuel Chandler, 1768-1853

Date:  1818-02-21

Resource type:   text

Resource type:   letter

Topics include activities of a Congressman; constituent business; imports and export imbalance and its effect on currency and the national debt.


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Title:   Letter to Col. Joseph Scott, April 9, 1820

Creator:  Crafts, Samuel Chandler, 1768-1853

Date:  1820-04-09

Resource type:   text

Resource type:   letter

Topics include Spanish war; Florida and slavery; Representative Henry Clay's (KY) aspirations to become President after President James Monroe; Secretary of State John Quincy Adams; Representative Joel Crawford (GA).


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Title:   Letter to Col. Joseph Scott, March 23, 1820

Creator:  Crafts, Samuel Chandler, 1768-1853

Date:  1820-03-23

Resource type:   text

Resource type:   letter

Topics include soldiers pensions; Federal deficit; duel between Commodore Stephen Decatur and Commodore James Barron resulting in the death of Decatur.


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Title:   Letter to Doctor Eli Todd, January 30, 1820

Creator:  Crafts, Samuel Chandler, 1768-1853

Date:  1820-01-30

Resource type:   text

Resource type:   letter

Letter to brother-in-law. Topics include Federal deficit; debate over Missouri.


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Title:   Letter to Dr. Eli Todd, January 28, 1821

Creator:  Crafts, Samuel Chandler, 1768-1853

Date:  1821-01-28

Resource type:   text

Resource type:   letter

Letter to brother-in-law. Topics include health of members of Congress; health of son Samuel P. Crafts; Representative Henry Clay to introduce a Senate resolution on the admission of Missouri to the United States; Florida treaty and Spain.


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Title:   Letter to Eunice Crafts, December 1, 1823

Creator:  Crafts, Samuel Chandler, 1768-1853

Date:  1823-12-01

Resource type:   text

Resource type:   letter

Letter to wife. Topics include traveling from New York to Washington, DC; lodgings in Washington, DC; start of Congress with organizational matters and election of a Speaker of the House.


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Title:   Letter to Eunice Crafts, February 13, 1825

Creator:  Crafts, Samuel Chandler, 1768-1853

Date:  1825-02-13

Resource type:   text

Resource type:   letter

Letter to wife. Topics include the decision of House of Representatives to make John Quincy Adams the next President of the United States and General Andrew Jackson's response.


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Title:   Letter to Eunice Crafts, February 7, 1824

Creator:  Crafts, Samuel Chandler, 1768-1853

Date:  1824-02-07

Resource type:   text

Resource type:   letter

Letter to wife. Topics include health of Eunice and Samuel P. Crafts; social life and parties in Washington, DC; Byron and Southey's Visions of Judgment.


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Title:   Letter to Eunice Crafts, January 2, 1825

Creator:  Crafts, Samuel Chandler, 1768-1853

Date:  1825-01-02

Resource type:   text

Resource type:   letter

Letter to wife. Topics include visit of General Lafayette to Congress and the United States; Crafts' opinion that the House will select John Quincy Adams as President.


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Title:   Letter to Eunice Crafts, January 22, 1825

Creator:  Crafts, Samuel Chandler, 1768-1853

Date:  1825-01-22

Resource type:   text

Resource type:   letter

Letter to wife. Topics include social life of Washington, DC; typical day for Crafts.


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Title:   Letter to Eunice Crafts, January 9, 1825

Creator:  Crafts, Samuel Chandler, 1768-1853

Date:  1825-01-09

Resource type:   text

Resource type:   letter

Letter to wife. Topics include party for the anniversary of the Battle of New Orleans at General Brown's; Crafts' introduction to General Lafayette and presentation of a resolution inviting him to visit Vermont.


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Title:   Letter to Eunice Crafts, May 16, 1824

Creator:  Crafts, Samuel Chandler, 1768-1853

Date:  1824-05-16

Resource type:   text

Resource type:   letter

Letter to wife. Topics include bill for encouragement of domestic manufactures.


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Title:   Letter to Eunice Todd Crafts, April 15, 1820

Creator:  Crafts, Samuel Chandler, 1768-1853

Date:  1820-04-15

Resource type:   text

Resource type:   letter

Letter to wife. Topics include proposed raising of import duties on Canada.


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Title:   Letter to Eunice Todd Crafts, April 30, 1820

Creator:  Crafts, Samuel Chandler, 1768-1853

Date:  1820-04-30

Resource type:   text

Resource type:   letter

Letter to wife. Topics include negotiations with Spain.


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Title:   Letter to Eunice Todd Crafts, December 10, 1820

Creator:  Crafts, Samuel Chandler, 1768-1853

Date:  1820-12-10

Resource type:   text

Resource type:   letter

Letter to wife. Topics include question of Missouri's acceptance into the United States by Congress and split between Northern and Southern members; federal deficit and consideration of reduction of pay for government employees; social life; invitation to dine at President James Monroe's.


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Title:   Letter to Eunice Todd Crafts, December 19, 1818

Creator:  Crafts, Samuel Chandler, 1768-1853

Date:  1818-12-19

Resource type:   text

Resource type:   letter

Letter to wife. Topics include health of Crafts family; social life and visiting etiquette; boarding houses.


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Title:   Letter to Eunice Todd Crafts, December 25, 1820

Creator:  Crafts, Samuel Chandler, 1768-1853

Date:  1820-12-25

Resource type:   text

Resource type:   letter

Letter to wife. Topics include health of members of Congress; Christmas in Washington, DC.


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Title:   Letter to Eunice Todd Crafts, December 3, 1820

Creator:  Crafts, Samuel Chandler, 1768-1853

Date:  1820-12-03

Resource type:   text

Resource type:   letter

Letter to wife. Topics include unknown state of the Treasury; question of Missouri's acceptance into the United States.


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Title:   Letter to Eunice Todd Crafts, December 31, 1820

Creator:  Crafts, Samuel Chandler, 1768-1853

Date:  1820-12-31

Resource type:   text

Resource type:   letter

Letter to wife. Topics include health of son Samuel P. Crafts; health of members of Congress; two members of the House and one Senator have died from causes possibly related to an influenza outbreak that fall.


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Title:   Letter to Eunice Todd Crafts, December 7, 1819

Creator:  Crafts, Samuel Chandler, 1768-1853

Date:  18199-12-07

Resource type:   text

Resource type:   letter

Letter to wife. Topics include boarding houses; new House chambers and difficulty of hearing speakers.


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Title:   Letter to Eunice Todd Crafts, February 12, 1821

Creator:  Crafts, Samuel Chandler, 1768-1853

Date:  1821-02-12

Resource type:   text

Resource type:   letter

Letter to wife. Topics include health of son Samuel P. Crafts; health of members of Congress; votes on admitting Missouri to the United States with slaves failed by three and six votes on successive days.


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Title:   Letter to Eunice Todd Crafts, February 19, 1821

Creator:  Crafts, Samuel Chandler, 1768-1853

Date:  1821-02-19

Resource type:   text

Resource type:   letter

Letter to wife. Topics include health of Crafts family; coming inauguration of President Monroe; death of Representative William Burwell (VA).


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Title:   Letter to Eunice Todd Crafts, February 20, 1820

Creator:  Crafts, Samuel Chandler, 1768-1853

Date:  1820-02-20

Resource type:   text

Resource type:   letter

Letter to wife. Topics include speeches in the House about Missouri.


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Title:   Letter to Eunice Todd Crafts, February 6, 1819

Creator:  Crafts, Samuel Chandler, 1768-1853

Date:  1819-02-06

Resource type:   text

Resource type:   letter

Letter to wife. Topics include duel between General Mason and Captain McCarty of Virginia over a political quarrel resulting in the death of General Mason; debate over censure of General Andrew Jackson over his engagement of the war in Florida.


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Title:   Letter to Eunice Todd Crafts, January 1, 1819

Creator:  Crafts, Samuel Chandler, 1768-1853

Date:  1819-01-01

Resource type:   text

Resource type:   letter

Letter to wife. Topics include activities of a Congressman; constituent business; death of Representative George Mumford (NC); society events hosted by the President, and the British and French ministers.