1839-01-09 +KENT MICH---KENT CO----BLACK CDS & STAMPED PAID &MS 25 RATE----TO MISS CAROLINE M. HURD AT MIDDLE HADDAM, MIDDLESEX CO, CONN-----FROM W.D. ROBERTS, DATELINED GRAND RAPIDS, TO HIS AUNT TELLING OF HIS FATHER'S JOURNEY FROM CLEVELAND TO CHICAGO THROUGH MACKINAC AND THE ISLANDS WITH "...HE WAS CHOSEN 1ST LIEUT OF THE MILITARY COMPANY--AND HE WRITES ME THAT THEY ARE NOW, DRAFTING MEN TO GO ON THE FRONTIER AS THERE IS MUCH DIFFICULTY BETWEEN THE COMANCHE INDIANS, AND THE WHITES---" AND CLOSING IN PART, "...N YEARS--IT WAS CELEBRATED HERE BY N. YEARS BALL--WHICH FOR SPLENDOR SURPASSED ANYTHING I'VE WITNESSED AT THE EAST THAT IS TO SAY ALLOWING--MICHIGAN WESTERN WILDERNESS." ---GENEALOGY----NATIVE AMERICANS---WATERWAY TRAVEL---COURTESY OF ELLIS I /WHITFORD AUCTION 2018 LOT 274
Year: 1839
Date: 1839-01-09
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, MI Genealogy
, Michigan Stampless Letters
, MI Waterways
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