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Unusually for an early merchant, pressed for time, Leavitt kept a long-running diary about events in
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Leavitt's appointment to the border commission flowed from his mercantile interests in the region. In 1805, he joined with several citizens of
Connecticut and Massachusetts to form a company designated by the legislature as "The Proprietors of the Springfield Bridge". The corporation's aim was
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Connecticut, which the state had offered for sale in exchange for funds paid into the state's treasury for educational purposes. Thaddeus Leavitt Esq. and Suffield businessmen
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furniture was emblazoned with a brass plaque to commemorate the couple's marriage, and given to them, probably by
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merchant, but fled during the War of 1812, returning to
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were other of the state's most powerful men. Another investor in the new western lands was Leavitt family relation
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