1901 Elizabeth Hart Jarvis Colt Fire Arms Hartford Connecticut Ct Signed Deed

Description

Background:
Early Ephemera removed from the Historic Colt Building in Hartford Connecticut. From 1877-1901 Atlantic Screw Works rented Space from Elizabeth Hart Jarvis Colt, Widow of Samuel Colt (Colt's Firearms Manufacturing Company) in the West Armory. In 1903 they moved to a newly build structure located on Charter Oak Avenue. Ephemera we are offering has been sealed for 100 plus years and was removed from the Charter Oak Location in 1975.
Before 1877 the Proprietor of Atlantic Screw Works George W. Bruce operated a successful business located on 1 Platt Street in New York City, selling Hardware, Cutlery, Tools, Chains, Horse/Mule Shoes & Nails, Anvils, Vices and Hammers. Around 1874 he started purchasing Threding Machines and European Patents to Threding Machines for his new business inside the West Colt Armory, Hartford Connecticut.
Because of Health Issues, George W Bruce sold The Atlantic Screw Works to a Superintendent David Tilton in 1886, company ownership remained under the Tilton name until closing in 1975.
Listing:
Deed from Elizabeth Colt to David Tilton for part of the Historic Armory Estate. Dec 21st 1901
We have confirmed the Signature of Elizabeth H Colt. As Mrs Colt signed as Mrs Samuel Colt on non Legal Paperwork she signed Elizabeth H Colt on Legal. Signature appears after Signed, Sealed and delivered in presence of. Document was written out by the Justice of the Peace Arthur (illegible) with two signatures. Elizabeth H Colt and Arthur B Peck.
16" X 10" Very Good Condition
Please See our listing for "Capewell Horse Nail Co Hartford Ct Elizabeth H Colt Firearms Armory Trustees" . Gives some background on how this deed was acquired.
"Following her husband's death in 1862, Mrs. Colt inherited a controlling interest in the manufacturing company (worth .5 million at the time and closer to 0 million in today's money), and played a key role in rebuilding the main armory following arson in 1864.Her brother, Richard Jarvis took over as president of the company in 1865, following the death of Elisha K. Root, and the two transitioned the company from the end of the American Civil Warthrough the early 20th century, seeing the evolution from percussion revolvers to cartridge revolvers to semiautomatic pistols and machineguns.
Colt served for 22 years as the president of the Union for Home Work, an organization that provided daycare for the children of working mothers. She became the first President of the Hartford Soldiers Aid Society and, in 1869, organized the first Suffragette convention in Connecticut. For these actions, she was dubbed "The First Lady of Hartford".
In 1867, she had an Episcopal church designed by Edward Tuckerman Potter built as a memorial to her husband and the three children they lost. The church's architecture contains guns and gun-smithing tools sculpted in marble to commemorate her husband's life as an arms maker. In 1896, a parish house was built on the site as a memorial to their son, Caldwell, who died in 1894. In 1975, the Church of the Good Shepherd and Parish House was listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Retirement and death
She sold her interest in Colt's Manufacturing Company in 1901. She was involved in society life in Hartford, CT and President of the Hartford Women's Auxiliary.
Colt died of paralysis in Newport, Rhode Island on August 23, 1905. The Hartford Courant ran a full page obituary of Colt on the front page of the newspaper the following day, calling her the "First Lady of Connecticut". It was the first time that the newspaper recognized the death of a woman in this manner.
In her will, Elizabeth Colt left a collection of nearly 1,000 objects, artworks, firearms and documents to the Wadsworth Atheneum as well as a fund to build the Colt Memorial. The Elizabeth Hart Jarvis Colt Memorial Wing was the first American museum wing bearing the name of a woman patron.
She is buried along with her husband and children in Hartford's historic Cedar Hill Cemetery."