Found 3 collections related to Fitch, Asa, 1809-1879

Asa Fitch (1809-1879) of Salem, New York was an entomologist and genealogist. He was the grandson of Jabez Fitch (1737-1812) of Norwich, Connecticut and Hyde Park, Vermont, a soldier in the French and Indian War and the Revolutionary War. The collection consists of Asa Fitch's transcripts of Jabez Fitch's narrative account of his treatment as an American prisoner of war after the Battle of Long Island, 1776-1777, his brief digest of diaries for the years 1749-1756, and his diaries continuing from late 1756-1772 May, 1774 Jan.-Oct., and 1777 Dec.-1793 Jan.; as well as Asa Fitch's transcripts of some miscellaneous items relating to the Fitch family; and his index with notes of family members and events mentioned in the Jabez Fitch diaries. Miscellaneous items include transcripts of Capt. Samuel P. Fitch's Voyage to the Pacific, from a New London, Connecticut newspaper, 21 Dec. 1808; the pension warrant of Joanna Walker, widow of Cordilla Fitch; and genealogical notes on the Fitch family from the volume known as the Brewster Book. less