Title: 1839-04-17---YPSILANTI MICH---RED CDS---JOHN GEDDES TO WILLIAM GEDDES---PAGE 1---DATELINED ANN ARBOR 1839-04-17--GFP---BX1--#32---COURTESY OF THE BENTLEY HISTORICAL LIBRARY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN Read More..
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Date: 1839-04-17
County: Washtenaw
City: Ypsilanti
Category: Michigan Stampless Letters
Associated Pages: 3

Title: 1839-04-17---YPSILANTI MICH---RED CDS & BLACK MS 18 3/4THS RATE---JOHN GEDDES (1850,60,70,80 US CENSUS, MICHIGAN MARRIAGE RECORDS, FIND A GRAVE, B. PENN. MAR 1801, D.4 NOV 1889, FATHER, ROBERT GEDDES {FATHER, WILLIAM GEDDES, MOTHER, SARAH McCALLON GEDDES[MOTHER, ISABELLA LOCK McCALLON, FATHER, ROBERT McCALLON-1732-1800, WAS CAPTAIN OF A COMPANY OF FOOT OF THE LANCASTER ASSOCIATORS AT THE BATTLE OF BRANDYWINE. HIS SWORD IS STILL IN THE FAMILY], MOTHER, JANE SAWYER GEDDES, SPOUSE, M. "FANNY" FRANCES ELIZA SAVAGE GEDDES 6 APR 1837, CHILDREN, SARAH GEDDES-B. 1840 {SPOUSE, WILLIAM T RANDALL, CHILD, SARAH GERTRUDE RANDALL}, HENRY GEDDES, JOHN GEDDES-B. 1843, RACHAEL GEDDES-B. 1845, DOMESTIC, LELIA ALEXANDER-B.1831) TO WILLIAM GEDDES---DATELINED ANN ARBOR 1839-04-17--GFP---BX1--#32---ROBERT MARRIED MISS CHLOE LANE, A SISTER OF HIS FIRST WIFE "IT WAS THOUGHT QUITE STRANGE BY ALMOST EVERYONE AND THE DIFFERENCE IN THEIR AGES WOULD SEEM TO SAY A FOOLISH MOVE. IT WAS KEPT A SECRET AND MYSELF AND THE YPSILANTI LANES KNEW NOTHING OF IT UNTIL TWO OR THREE DAYS AFTER THE KNOT WAS TIED. WHY ROBERT MARRIED HER MAY BE EASIER TO ASK THAN ANSWER"; THE YPSILANTI AND TECUMSEH RAILROAD HAS BEEN STOPPED AND THE HANDS DISMISSED "INDEED IT IS SAID NOT EVERY LINE WOULD PAY THE EXPENSE OF RUNNING THAT LINE. JUST TO THINK FIVE ROUTES OF RAILROAD AND CANAL ACROSS THE PENINSULA OF MICHIGAN. HOW RIDICULOUS!"; THE LEGISLATURE PASSED AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A STATE BANK; MORE RAILROAD NEWS, POLITICS, CROP PRICES, PLANS FOR BUILDING THE UNIVERSITY, SAWMILL NEWS, INFORMATION ABOUT HORSES IN THE COUNTY, THE YPSILANTI BANK FAILED ON THE 18TH OF JANUARY; "WE MICHIGANDERS ACKNOWLEDGE OUR STATE HAS A BAD NAME AND IS DESERVING OF IT. THAT THE FLOODGATES OF VILLANY HAS BEEN THROWN OPEN EITHER BY KNAVES OR FOOLS AND WE ARE NOW RECEIVING OUR REWARD."---MENTIONS THEIR SISTER ANN, SAMUEL COOPER AND POLLY---GENEALOGY 2---3PGS---COURTESY OF THE BENTLEY HISTORICAL LIBRARY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN - N Read More..
Year: 1839
Date: 1839-04-17
County: Washtenaw
City: Ypsilanti
Category: MI Covers , MI Genealogy , Michigan Stampless Letters , Railroads , Letters Containing Correspondence , Publicly Owned , Crops/ Agriculture Econ , Revolutionary War
Associated Pages: 3

Title: 1839-04-17---YPSILANTI MICH---RED CDS---JOHN GEDDES TO WILLIAM GEDDES---PAGE 2---DATELINED ANN ARBOR 1839-04-17--GFP---BX1--#32---COURTESY OF THE BENTLEY HISTORICAL LIBRARY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN Read More..
Year:
Date: 1839-04-17
County: Washtenaw
City: Ypsilanti
Category: Michigan Stampless Letters
Associated Pages: 3

Title: 1839-04-17---YPSILANTI MICH---RED CDS---JOHN GEDDES TO WILLIAM GEDDES---PAGE 3---DATELINED ANN ARBOR 1839-04-17--GFP---BX1--#32---COURTESY OF THE BENTLEY HISTORICAL LIBRARY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN Read More..
Year:
Date: 1839-04-17
County: Washtenaw
City: Ypsilanti
Category: Michigan Stampless Letters
Associated Pages: 3

Title: 1839-04-17---YPSILANTI MICH---DUPLICATE--DUPLICATE--RED CDS---JOHN GEDDES TO WILLIAM GEDDES---DATELINED ANN ARBOR 1839-04-17--GFP---BX1--#32---COURTESY OF THE BENTLEY HISTORICAL LIBRARY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN Read More..
Year:
Date: 1839-04-17
County: Washtenaw
City: Ypsilanti
Category: MI Covers , Michigan Stampless Letters
Associated Pages: 0

Title: 1839-04-17---YPSILANTI MICH---DUPLICATE--DUPLICATE--RED CDS---JOHN GEDDES TO WILLIAM GEDDES---PAGE 1--DATELINED ANN ARBOR 1839-04-17--GFP---BX1--#32---COURTESY OF THE BENTLEY HISTORICAL LIBRARY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN Read More..
Year:
Date: 1839-04-17
County: Washtenaw
City: Ypsilanti
Category: Michigan Stampless Letters
Associated Pages: 0

Title: 1839-04-17---YPSILANTI MICH---DUPLICATE--DUPLICATE--RED CDS---JOHN GEDDES TO WILLIAM GEDDES---PAGE 2--DATELINED ANN ARBOR 1839-04-17--GFP---BX1--#32---COURTESY OF THE BENTLEY HISTORICAL LIBRARY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN Read More..
Year:
Date: 1839-04-17
County: Washtenaw
City: Ypsilanti
Category: Michigan Stampless Letters
Associated Pages: 0

Title: 1839-04-17---YPSILANTI MICH---DUPLICATE--DUPLICATE--RED CDS---JOHN GEDDES TO WILLIAM GEDDES---PAGE 3--DATELINED ANN ARBOR 1839-04-17--GFP---BX1--#32---COURTESY OF THE BENTLEY HISTORICAL LIBRARY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN Read More..
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Date: 1839-04-17
County: Washtenaw
City: Ypsilanti
Category: Michigan Stampless Letters
Associated Pages: 0

Title: 1839-04-19 + GRAND RAPIDS MICH-----KENT CO----V6----BLACK #MANUSCRIPT CANCEL & MS 25 RATE & STAMPED PAID CROSSED OUT & LANSINGBURGH APR 21 & PENCIL "fr"---TO J. BALL, COUNSELOR AT LAW, LANSINGBURGH, RENSSELAER CO, N.Y.---DOCKETING NOTING FROM SANFORD & MARSSELIS----NICE USAGE DURING THE PERIOD WHEN GRAND RAPIDS P.O. WAS NAMED KENT-----GENEALOGY-----COURTESY OF ELLIS I /WHITFORD AUCTION 2018 LOT 214 Read More..
Year: 1839
Date: 1839-04-19
County: Kent
City:
Category: MI Covers , MI Genealogy , Manuscripts , Michigan Stampless Letters , Privately Owned
Associated Pages: 0

Title: 1839-04-19 DETROIT MICH ---PPP3 COVER & PAGES DON'T SHOW Wayne--- BLUE CDS 30MM --- LETTER TO ELIZABETH BRADFORD AT #5 SANSOM STREET PHILADELPHIA PENN FROM HER DAUGHTER JULIET S. BRADFORD AT DETROIT---THEY HAVE BROKEN UP HOUSEKEEPING, SO VINCENT WILL HAVE NO PLACE TO STAY IF HE GOES BACK ALONE; POLITICAL TROUBLES; COUSIN SUSAN HAS DECIDED TO STAY AT THE PRAIRIE ANTHER SEASON; "MONEY IS ALMOST AS SCARCE AS HONESTY AND EITHER AS HARD TO FIND AS THE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE"; MENTIONS THOMAS, HENRIETTA, BROTHER BEN, MAJOR BRADFORD, ELIZA, MR. DWIGHT, UNCLE NICK, MR. COLLINS, ELIZA SMITH, REV. AD MRS. WHITING, MRS. BISPLAM, AND MRS. TEN EYK---GENEALOGY-- ERNIE'S COLLECTION Read More..
Year: 1839
Date: 1839-04-19
County: Wayne
City: Detroit
Category: MI Covers , Ernie's Michigan Collection , MI Genealogy , Michigan Stampless Letters , Women's Correspondence , Letters Containing Correspondence , Privately Owned
Associated Pages: 8

Title: 1839-04-19 DETROIT MICH ---PAGE 1 ---- ERNIES COLLECTION Read More..
Year: 1839
Date: 1839-04-19
County: Wayne
City: Detroit
Category: Ernie's Michigan Collection , Michigan Stampless Letters , Women's Correspondence
Associated Pages: 8

Title: 1839-04-19 DETROIT MICH --- PAGE 2 ---- ERNIES COLLECTION Read More..
Year: 1839
Date: 1839-04-19
County: Wayne
City: Detroit
Category: Ernie's Michigan Collection , Michigan Stampless Letters , Women's Correspondence
Associated Pages: 8

Title: 1839-04-19 DETROIT MICH --- PAGE 3 ---- ERNIES COLLECTION Read More..
Year: 1839
Date: 1839-04-19
County: Wayne
City: Detroit
Category: Ernie's Michigan Collection , Michigan Stampless Letters , Women's Correspondence
Associated Pages: 8

Title: 1839-04-19 DETROIT MICH --- PAGE 4---- ERNIES COLLECTION Read More..
Year: 1839
Date: 1839-04-19
County: Wayne
City: Detroit
Category: Ernie's Michigan Collection , Michigan Stampless Letters , Women's Correspondence
Associated Pages: 8

Title: 1839-04-19 DETROIT MICH---PPP --- BLUE CDS 30MM --- LETTER TO ELIZABETH BRADFORD AT #5 SANSOM STREET PHILADELPHIA PENN FROM HER DAUGHTER JULIET S. BRADFORD AT DETROIT---THEY HAVE BROKEN UP HOUSEKEEPING, SO VINCENT WILL HAVE NO PLACE TO STAY IF HE GOES BACK ALONE; POLITICAL TROUBLES; COUSIN SUSAN HAS DECIDED TO STAY AT THE PRAIRIE ANTHER SEASON; "MONEY IS ALMOST AS SCARCE AS HONESTY AND EITHER AS HARD TO FIND AS THE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE"; MENTIONS THOMAS, HENRIETTA, BROTHER BEN, MAJOR BRADFORD, ELIZA, MR. DWIGHT, UNCLE NICK, MR. COLLINS, ELIZA SMITH, REV. AD MRS. WHITING, MRS. BISPLAM, AND MRS. TEN EYK---GENEALOGY-- ERNIE'S COLLECTION Read More..
Year: 1839
Date: 1839-04-19
County: Wayne
City: Detroit
Category: MI Covers , Ernie's Michigan Collection , MI Genealogy , Michigan Stampless Letters , Women's Correspondence , Letters Containing Correspondence , Privately Owned
Associated Pages: 8

Title: 1839-04-19 DETROIT MICH ---PAGE 1 ---- ERNIES COLLECTION Read More..
Year: 1839
Date: 1839-04-19
County: Wayne
City: Detroit
Category: Ernie's Michigan Collection , Michigan Stampless Letters , Women's Correspondence
Associated Pages: 8

Title: 1839-04-19 DETROIT MICH --- PAGE 2 ---- ERNIES COLLECTION Read More..
Year: 1839
Date: 1839-04-19
County: Wayne
City: Detroit
Category: Ernie's Michigan Collection , Michigan Stampless Letters , Women's Correspondence
Associated Pages: 8

Title: 1839-04-19 DETROIT MICH --- PAGE 3 ---- ERNIES COLLECTION Read More..
Year: 1839
Date: 1839-04-19
County: Wayne
City: Detroit
Category: Ernie's Michigan Collection , Michigan Stampless Letters , Women's Correspondence
Associated Pages: 8

Title: 1839-04-19 DETROIT MICH --- PAGE 4---- ERNIES COLLECTION Read More..
Year: 1839
Date: 1839-04-19
County: Wayne
City: Detroit
Category: Ernie's Michigan Collection , Michigan Stampless Letters , Women's Correspondence
Associated Pages: 8

Title: 1839-04-20 STOCKBRIDGE MICH-------BLACK #MANUSCRIPT---FROM OLNEY F. RICE AT STOCKBRIDGE TO JOHN THAIHER AT HOPEWELL, ONTARIO COUNTY NEW YORK---MUSINGS ON HIS LIFE AND RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD---MENTIONS J. THACKER AND N. LEWIS---2 PAGES---GENEALOGY---PRIVATELY OWNED—--COURTESY OF A MICHIGAN COLLECTOR - N Read More..
Year: 1839
Date: 1839-04-20
County: Ingham
City:
Category: MI Covers , MI Genealogy , Manuscripts , Michigan Stampless Letters , Letters Containing Correspondence , Privately Owned
Associated Pages: 2

Title: 1839-04-20 STOCKBRIDGE MICH---MANUSCRIPT---PAGE 1---PRIVATELY OWNED—COURTESY OF A MICHIGAN COLLECTOR Read More..
Year:
Date: 1839-04-20
County: Ingham
City:
Category: Manuscripts , Michigan Stampless Letters , Letters Containing Correspondence , Privately Owned
Associated Pages: 2

Title: 1839-04-20 STOCKBRIDGE MICH---MANUSCRIPT---PAGE 2---PRIVATELY OWNED—COURTESY OF A MICHIGAN COLLECTOR Read More..
Year:
Date: 1839-04-20
County: Ingham
City:
Category: Manuscripts , Michigan Stampless Letters , Letters Containing Correspondence , Privately Owned
Associated Pages: 2

Title: 1839-04-23---DETROIT MICH----CDS---*AHMS LETTER 1426 1/2//630-----DATELINED MOUNT CLEMENS---FROM REV. JOHN DUDLEY AT MT CLEMENS---COURTESY OF THE BENTLEY HISTORICAL LIBRARY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN Read More..
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Date: 1839-04-23
County: Macomb , Wayne
City: Detroit
Category: American Home Missionary Society , MI Covers , Michigan Stampless Letters , Letters Containing Correspondence , Publicly Owned
Associated Pages: 7

Title: 1839-04-23 DETROIT MICH --AHMS LETTER 1426.5/630 --- PAGE 4 --DATELINED MT CLEMENS-- Courtesy of Bentley Historical Library at University of Michigan Read More..
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Date: 1839-04-23
County: Macomb , Wayne
City: Detroit
Category: American Home Missionary Society , Michigan Stampless Letters , Letters Containing Correspondence , Publicly Owned
Associated Pages: 7

Title: 1839-04-26 +WATERLOO MICH----JACKSON CO-----#MANUSCRIPT CANCEL & MS FREE P HUBBARD P M------FREE FRANK----TO RANDOLPH MANNING, SECRETARY OF STATE AT DETROIT MICH-----FIRST CALLED EAST PORTAGE, THIS TOWN WAS RENAMED BY THE WRITER OF THIS LETTER, SAWMILL OPERATOR PATRICK HUBBARD, WHO, IN 1837, BECAME ITS FIRST POSTMASTER. HUBBARD NAMED THE TOWN AFTER THE CELEBRATED BATTLE. THIS LETTER INQUIRES ABOUT THE LAYING OF A ROAD FROM MANCHESTER TO INGHAM CENTER.----EX-FRANCISCO COLLECTION---COURTESY OF ALLEN- WHITFORD AUCTION 2001 LOT 428 Read More..
Year: 1839
Date: 1839-04-26
County: Jackson
City:
Category: MI Covers , MI Free Franks , MI Genealogy , Manuscripts , Michigan Stampless Letters , Privately Owned
Associated Pages: 0

Title: 1839-04-30 +BRANCH MICH-----BRANCH CO----V6----BLACK #MANUSCRIPT CANCEL (X2) & MS PAID 12 1/2 RATE-----TO RANDOLPH MANNING, SECRETARY OF STATE, DETROIT, MICH-------LETTER OF C.P. WEST DATELINED CLERKS OFFICE, BRANCH----REGARDING THE COMMISSION OF LEONARD ELLSWORTH AS NOTERY STATING IN PART "...APPOINTING OR COMMISSIONING TO MY OFFICE, SUCH A MAN AS LEONARD ELLSWORTH---A NOTORIUS DRUNKARD:-A PERFECT SOT!"---WITH MENTION OF GOV. MASON, JUDGE RANSOM, ETC.-----GENEALOGY-----EX: RASDALE, 1950----COURTESY OF ELLIS I /WHITFORD AUCTION 2018 LOT 104 Read More..
Year: 1839
Date: 1839-04-30
County: Branch
City:
Category: MI Covers , MI Genealogy , Manuscripts , Michigan Stampless Letters , Privately Owned
Associated Pages: 0

Title: 1839-05-05 +JACKSONOPOLIS MICH-----JACKSON CO----RED CDS & BLACK MS 25 RATE-----TO ELIZUR MITCHELL, SOUTHBURY, NEW HAVEN CO, CONN-----FROM LEWIS KULER, DATELINED CONCORD, JACKSON CO, MICH----GENEALOGY 2-----COURTESY OF EBACH-WHITFORD AUCTION 2003 LOT 538 Read More..
Year: 1839
Date: 1839-05-05
County: Jackson
City: Jackson
Category: MI Covers , MI Genealogy , Michigan Stampless Letters , Privately Owned
Associated Pages: 0

Title: 1839-05-05 +JACKSON MICH----JACKSON CO----#MANUSCRIPT CANCEL & MS 10 RATE-----TO RANDOLPH MANNING, SECRETARY OF STATE AT DETROIT MICH----FROM B PORTER AT JACKSON MICH-----GENEALOGY 2----COURTESY OF EBACH- WHITFORD AUCTION 2003 LOT 527 $55 Read More..
Year: 1839
Date: 1839-05-05
County: Jackson
City: Jackson
Category: MI Covers , MI Genealogy , Manuscripts , Michigan Stampless Letters , Privately Owned
Associated Pages: 0

Title: 1839-05-07 YPSILANTI MICH --- PAGE 3 --- ERNIES COLLECTION Read More..
Year: 1839
Date: 1839-05-07
County: Washtenaw
City: Ypsilanti
Category: Ernie's Michigan Collection , Michigan Stampless Letters
Associated Pages: 5

Title: 1839-05-07 YPSILANTI MICH --- CDS 30MM --- BROWN CANCEL--A LETTER FROM MARY R. ORVIS AT YPSILANTI TO HER FATHER JACOB---WRITES OF MR. ORVIS, "WE LIVE IN A MUCH MORE PLEASANT AND AGREEABLE PLACE THAN PORT HURON"; BUSINESSES IN THE VILLAGE AND CROPS; PEOPLE RESIDING HERE FORMERLY FROM HILLSBORO COUNTY, MR. GILMAN MC ALLASTER AND CHARLES MOORE FROM BEDFORD, MRS. MC ALLASTER FROM GOFFSTOWN, MRS. WEED (PRESBYTERIAN MINISTER'S FAMILY), MISS DUTTON FROM HILLSBORO-HER SON MR. ATWOOD IS ACQUAINTED WITH COUSIN ASSENOTH, MISS CLARK A SCHOOL TEACHER FROM DERRY, AND A YOUNG MAN NAMED SHOOLT WHO FORMERLY LIVED WITH YOUNG CLARK CROMBIE; "THERE HAVE BEEN FIFTY OR SIXTY CONVERSIONS AND A NUMBER OF BACKSLIDERS"; BROTHER LEVI, WILLARD ORVIS, THEIR MOTHER, AND WHO SHOULD CARE FOR HER; MR. NASH REMAINS AT PORT HURON; L.M. MASON, ESQ. IS MARRIED TO MISS CHARLOTTE LUCE; MR. SANBORN AND MR. NORRELL VISITED; ALSO MENTIONS JOHN BRADFORD, LOUREN AND ELVIRA, AND MR. CROIS---AG/ECON---GENEALOGY 22--- ERNIE'S COLLECTION Read More..
Year: 1839
Date: 1839-05-07
County: Washtenaw
City: Ypsilanti
Category: MI Covers , Ernie's Michigan Collection , MI Genealogy , Michigan Stampless Letters , Women's Correspondence , Letters Containing Correspondence , Privately Owned , Crops/ Agriculture Econ
Associated Pages: 5