11th Veteran Reserve Corps 1864

Union Civil War officer's letter dated Headquarters, Company "F," 11th Veteran Reserve Corps, Point Lookout, Maryland, Oct 25 1864, from 2nd Lieut Bargillai J. Inman, to his friend Charles "Charley" Rouse. The content reads, in part, as follows: "Hush woman, hush. Oh: I forgot myself ... I have the honor herewith to transmit to you not muchery. Oh, I am it Charley, I don't know how to write anymore. Notwithstanding, nevertheless, bu,t however, there it goes again. By the eternal your ring. Ah. I got it at least. Now Charley, you will please accept this token of friendship from your esteemed friend and well wisher. I hope it will not be long before you come and see us. Please remember me to Mrs. & Mr. Doyle and I will send a token to Mrs. I. before a great while, also go around to Stokes and drink my health. Tell Stokes I have not forgot him yet. My respects to ... all enquiring friends, and here is that your shadow may never grow less, Old Boy ... [signed] B. J. Inman, 2d Lt. Comdg Co.

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New York, Elizabeth Adam 1785

New York October 15th 1785. Signed "obligation" (bond) of immigrant Elizabeth Adam [her mark], who indents herself and husband Henry Adam to Charles Miller of Philadelphia as servants, to pay for ship passage from Amsterdam to NY paid by Messrs Sean & Smith.
Witness signature of Wm Gordon; and signed 1786 note, Steph. Collins, attorney to Sean & Smith.

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1831 DECATUR COUNTY GEORGIA

1831 DECATUR COUNTY GEORGIA

GEORGIA DECATUR COUNTY I HAVE THIS DAY RECIEVED OF PETER VANLANDINGHAM IN ADMINISTRATION WITH THE WILL ANNEXED OF THE ESTATE OF JOHN RAWLS LATE OF SAID COUNTY,THE FOLLOWING PROPERTY TO WIT ONE NEGO BOY JACK ONE NEGRO GIRL NAMED CHANY ONE WAGON ANE BAY HORSE ONE LOT OF CATTLE ONE LOT OF SHEEP - ALSO ANOTHER NEGRO BOY NAMED DEMPSEY WHICH I AM TO RETURN TO BENJAMIN T. RAWLS WHEN ROBERT AND RICHARD RAWLS BECOMES OF AGE TOGETHER WITH TWENTY DOLLARS PER YEAR FOR EACH YEAR THAT I WILL KEEP SAME NEGRO BOY AND ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS WHICH IS FULL OF MY PART TO SAID ESTATE THIS DAY 19TH DAY OF JULY 1831 signed BENJAMIN RAWLS JOHN T. RAWLS I HAVE THIS DAY RECIEVED OF PETER VANLANDINGHAM ADMINISTRATOR WITH THE WILL ANNEXED OF THE ESTATE OF JOHN RAWLS LATE OF SAID COUNTY DECEASED THE FOLLOWING PROPERTY TO WIT ,ONE NEGRO WOMAN NAMED PATIENCE ONE LOT OF CARPENTERS TOOLS.ONE HORSE CART AND ALSO A LOT OF BEEF CATTLEWHICH IS IN FULL OF MY PART OF SAID ESTATE THIS 20 DAY OF JULY 1831 signed BENJAMIN RAWLS JOSEPH RAWLS".

Last Will & Testament of Ephraim Temple 1789

In Part.....
"I Ephraim Temple of the town of Gardner ...Worcester County...being very sick and weak in body but of perfect mind and Memory for which many thanks be Given to God & Now being Sensible of the Mortality of my body & knowing that it is appointed to all at once to Die do make and ordain this my last will......I Give & Recommend my Soul Into the hands of God that Gave it, to my Body...
I Recommend to the Earth to be buried at the Discretion of my Friends, and as touching Such Worldly Estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me in this life...I bequeath to my son Isaac Temple the Just sum of Five Shillings...to my beloved son Ephraim Temple Nine Pounds of Good & Lawful Money to be paid to him within the ten of five years after my decease...to my son Ahio Temple...sole executor..[Continues]Signed Sealed & Declared by the Said Ephraim Temple...in the presence of ...Jonas Temple, Aaron Temple David Goodale. Signed by Ephraim Temple with "His X Mark"Signed also by the Registrar: Joseph Wheeler.

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Pennsylvaina Land Deed 1794

Land deed from Pennsylvaina. Partly-printed/partly-handwritten dated "the fourteenth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and niney-four" (1794), and is from Northumberland County, Mifflin, Pennsylvania. It is a Deed for land, from ANTHONY CLARK to JOSEPH THOMAS. Witnessed & signed at bottom by ANTHONY CLARK and HENRY STARR.

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Joseph Garret of Goshen in Chester County, Pennsylvania

“A true copy” dated October 9th, 1792 of the last will and testament of Joseph Garret of Goshen in Chester County, Pennsylvania. The Garret’s were a prominent Quaker family and one of first settlers of the area. Joseph Garrett died January 10th 1792. Signed and sealed by George Worrall.

“I give and bequeath unto my dear wife Charrity Garrett the full liberty and privilege of the whole of the mansion house, and plantations in which I now live / except the part herein after willed to my son Benjamin… Until my son Joseph Garrett shall arrive to the age of twenty one years… “ “[Benjamin] paying thereout unto his sister Sarah the sum of One hundred and fifty pounds, when she arrives to the age of eighteen…” “[Joseph] paying thereout unto his sister Betsey the sum of One hundred and fifty pounds, when she arrives to the age of eighteen … I give… my daughter Lydia Garrett the sum of two hundred pounds gold or silver money… “

Part printed testimonial filled in manuscript ruled in red with embossed seal of Chester County probate court signed by George Worrall.

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Mr R.C. McConnell 1837

2 documents dated 1837 concerning the settling of a Southern estate of Mr R.C. McConnell. One document is an accounting of the property of the estate holdings which were left to the widow Sarah McConnell. The second document is a letter about the estate outlining what was left to a daughter, Mrs Mary McConnell Howe. The handwriting is difficult to read but Mr. McConnell was either from South Carolina or Georgia. Both documents refer to slaves in the estate: the estate account states Mr McConnell owned 50 slaves and the letter lists 10 slaves by name, with values for each, which were left to the daughter Mary and her husband George Howe.

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130356523036

Washington, New Hampshire

Letter home to Mark Safford, Washington, New Hampshire, from a couple, Mary and S[amuel] Daniels, at Detroit, enroute on a trip to Jacksonville, Illinois. October 3, 1837, 3pp. with integral stampless cover. The blue circle date stamp is partially faint.
Content in brief: Pleasant journey; beautiful fruit in York state; "I have seen a great many curiousitys"; Niagara Falls "it well payed the way for going there"; dislikes Canada -- "there are so many different kinds of people"; muddy roads; thirteen teams of people on steamboat going to Michigan or Illinois; Detroit-- "does not look like the cobble hills of New Hampshire...every thing in the field are as fresh as they are there in June. The people here in the Citty have to pay twenty five cents pe[r] load to get the Farmers to carry the manure out of their yards, this is a fair specimen of the richness of this country...". S. Daniels also mentions that the East is old and in decay.

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230417954352

Cincinnati in 1818

Document dated at Cincinnati in 1818. The document has the autographs of John Mahard., and Thomas Danby. The two people transferring the 109 acres of land also sign, William and Eliza Lytle. Both from the town of Cincinnati. Land that once belonged to the Miami Indians. It is interesting how they laid out the property, by marks on trees., White Oak and a Sugar Tree on the bank of the Miami River. 109 acres.

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Southampton, New Hampshire,

Document, dated 1767, Southampton, New Hampshire; where Sarah Clough granddaughter of Capt Abraham Brown deceased, has absolved Abel Brown from any estate encumbrances from the estate of her grandfather Abraham Brown.....signed by Sarah Clough with her mark X, Jonathan Dow and Jabez Morrill.....

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