Collection of 412 items in two boxes, consisting of land grants, town receipts, commercial accounts, business letters, etc., relating to the commercial activities of Chauncey Whittelsey. The bulk of the material is between 1731 and 1811, with much dating 1779 and 1780 when Whittelsey was the clothing purchasing agent for the Continental Army in Connecticut.

There are 180 receipts issued to him by authorities of Connecticut towns which document the contributions from around the state for army clothing; 150 letters, accounts and receipts pertaining to his clothing business; and 20 items relating to his administration of the James Jauncey confiscated properties. Earlier items in this collection (1731-1758) include 31 deeds for land granted to Seth Wetmore. Also there are documents containing the autographs of Jonathan Trumbull and Roger Sherman, 22-23 July 1779; a receipt signed by Jedediah Huntington, 16 October 1799; and a short business letter from Isaac Sears, 29 March 1771.

One apparently unrelated item is in the collection: a land grant issued by the United States General Land Office, 9 October 1852, to Constant B. Jones, veteran of the War of 1812. The property, approximately 158 acres, was located in what is now known as Grandview, Edgar County, Illinois.

Also in the collection are the extensive research notes of the donor, Charles H. Good, which include transcriptions of the town receipts and a bibliography of his source materials.