Title: 1842-02-10 SOMERSET MICH---#MANUSCRIPT---FREE FRANK---FROM C.W. FARNSWORTH POSTMASTER AT SOMERSET TO HIS BROTHER THOMAS FARNSWORTH AT GLENNS FALLS, WASHINGTON COUNTY NEW YORK---"IT IS NOW ALMOST SEVEN YEARS SINCE I HAVE SEEN ANY ONE OF OUR FAMILY AND CONNECTIONS AND IT SEEMS SOMETIMES AS IF I WERE TO MEET WITH NONE OF THEM ANY MORE THIS SIDE OF THE GRAVE"---WOULD HAVE WRITTEN SOONER BUT DID NOT KNOW WHERE TO REACH HIM, ALTHOUGH HIS BUSINESS IS DOING WELL HE IS EMBARRASSED BY HIS OUTSTANDING DEBTS IN NEW YORK, BUT MICHIGAN PAPER MONEY WILL NOT PAY EASTERN DEBTS, HE HAS A THREE YEAR OLD DAUGHTER, IN DECEMBER THEIR 10 WEEK OLD BABY DIED OF INFANTILE CONVULSIONS, HIS OLDEST SON CHARLES MASON HAS OCCASIONAL EPILEPTIC FITS WHICH AFFECT HIS MENTAL PROWESS AND MEMORY BUT THE OTHER THREE CHILDREN ARE HEALTHY---"AMONG THOSE ABOUT TO UNITE WITH OUR CHURCH IS MY SECOND SON R. RANDALL WHO THOUGH BUT TEN YEARS OF AGE GIVES US SUCH EVIDENCE THAT HE HAS PASSED FROM DEATH UNTO LIFE THAT WE THINK IT RIGHT FOR HIM TO BECOME A VISIBLE MEMBER OF THE CHURCH OF CHRIST"---GENEALOGY---3 PAGES---PRIVATELY OWNED—COURTESY OF A MICHIGAN COLLECTOR - N More..
Year: 1842
Date: 1842-02-10
County: Hillsdale
City:
Category: MI Covers , MI Free Franks , MI Genealogy , Manuscripts , Michigan Stampless Letters , Letters Containing Correspondence , Privately Owned
Associated Pages: 3

Title: 1842-02-10 BRISTOL MICH {1835-1846} NAME CHANGE-ALMONT----V8----LAPEER CO.--BLUE #MANUSCRIPT CANCEL AND BLUE MS 25 RATE--TO LOUISA JONES AT SPRINGVILLE, ERIE COUNTY N.Y FROM MARY J. WALES AT BRISTOL---FAMILY NEWS; CAROLINE IS MARRIED TO ELISHA; HER SON HORACE DIED A YEAR AGO AT THE AGE OF TWO; MENTIONS JANE, CHARLES, ELIZA, HELEN, SILAS, BEN, AND MR. HOLT; SHE IS TEACHING THIS WINTER IN DRYDEN; "SHE (JANE) IS NOT MARRIED YET AND I SEE NO PROSPECT OF IT SO I THINK WE WILL BE BLEST WITH ONE OLD MAID IN THE FAMILY, AS THE MICHIGAN BOYS DO NOT SEEM TO SUIT HER TASTE AND GIRLS ARE GENERALLY VERY PARTICULAR AFTER THEY ARE 25."---GENEALOGY---3 pg--COURTESY OF A MICHIGAN 3 COLLECTOR More..
Year: 1842
Date: 1842-02-10
County: Lapeer
City:
Category: MI Covers , MI Genealogy , Manuscripts , Michigan Stampless Letters , Women's Correspondence , Letters Containing Correspondence , Privately Owned
Associated Pages: 3

Title: 1842-02-10 +SALINE MICH----WASHTENAW CO----RED MANUSCRIPT CANCEL & RED MS 25 RATE & BROWN MS "OVER CH 6 1/4 =18 3/4 TOTAL RATE-----TO NATHANIEL STACY, COLUMBUS, WARREN CO, PA----FROM DAVID & DEBORAH HEDDEN DATELINED LODI, WASHTENAW CO, MICH COVERING A HOST OF NEWS FROM SICKNESS TO RELIGION & BRIEF MENTION "...GOT THE PROMMICE OF FIVE DOLLARS AND HE WAS TO GET US MUCH MORE AND IN ANNARBOR THEY WAS TO MAKE OUT THE WREST BUT AT THE SAME TIME THE BANCK OF MICHIGAN FAILED AND WE WARE LEFT WITH OUT ANY MONEY..."----GENEALOGY----COURTESY OF ELLIS I /WHITFORD AUCTION 2018 LOT 378 More..
Year: 1842
Date: 1842-02-10
County: Washtenaw
City: AnnArbor
Category: American Home Missionary Society , MI Covers , MI Genealogy , Manuscripts , Michigan Stampless Letters , Women's Correspondence , Privately Owned
Associated Pages: 0