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Size: Medium (101 - 500)

Gershom Bulkeley
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Library Information
Library date
1713-12-02
Location
Glastonbury, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
Connecticut
USA
Library size (titles)
~300
Library size (volumes)
Sources
Will; A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records, Vol. II, pp. 165-167 (dated 26 May 1712)
Thomas W. Jodziewicz, "A Stranger in the Land: Gershom Bulkeley of Connecticut." Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series 78:2 (1988), pp. 73-94. Includes a transcription of a 1714-15 lists of Bulkeley's library drawn up during a probate dispute.
Library notes
Those mentioned in Bulkeley's will have currently been added; the titles listed in Jodziewicz remain to be entered.
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Provenance marks
Legacy categories
Libraries of Early America
Scientists
18th Century
Total book value
Total inventory value
Contributors
jbd1
Entity Information
Date of birth
1636/1637
Date of death
1713-12-02
Gender
male
Places of residence
New London, New London County, Connecticut, USA
Wethersfield, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
Glastonbury, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
New London County, Connecticut, USA
Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
Education
Harvard College (1655)
Occupations
Clergyman
Physician
Alchemist
Legacy connections
Edward Bulkeley (son)
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