Past Voices: Letters Home

Find your roots and hear your ancestors' words across the generations. Discover your origins in old letters as ancestors tell their stories and reveal family relationships, past events, moments in time and details of family history. Add branches to your family tree as you search your ancestry and build your genealogy.

Friday, January 25, 2008

John Burgess & Edward Rutledge Letter

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The letter begins :This indenture made the fifteenth day December one thousand eight hundred twelve Whitnesses John Burgess & Edward Rut...
Friday, January 18, 2008

NEW YORK LETTER 1861

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Letter dated New York, April 30, 1861, from Nelson Cross to the law firm of Small and Cogswell regarding legal matters. Cross comments that ...
Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Dean Letter From New York 1808

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“Respected Friend, John Draper, I received thy letter and have included a rough sketch of a plate intended not only to be inserted in m...
Thursday, January 10, 2008

Waterloo High School, Watertown, N.Y. 1888

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Martha's Vineyard Summer Institute, Cottage City, Mass." It is dated August 6, 1888 To Whom It May concern, I have known Mr. Willa...
Friday, January 04, 2008

1850's-80's New York Herrington family letters

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GROUPING OF 15 LETTERS FROM THE 1850'S TO 1880'S. MOST BEING SENT TO MRS. OSCAR AND IDA HERRINGTON OF SOUTH HANNIBAL, MERIDIAN AND C...
Sunday, December 23, 2007

J B F Russell, General Land Agency, Chicago, Feb. 24, 1842

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Letter signed of J B F Russell, General Land Agency, Chicago, Feb. 24, 1842, with integral printed broadside, circular, 8" x 10", ...
Friday, December 14, 2007

1843 Cork Ireland to Nantucket Letter.

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1843 Ireland to Nantucket letter Item number: 250195696989 Mother of boy, Charles Fudger, who left home in Cork Ireland to go whaling writes...
Friday, November 23, 2007

Elmira Prison Letter 1864

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Civil War Elmira NYV Prison Guard Letter Jan 9 1864 Item number: 320185669996 Civil War Soldiers Letter from Jacob Larben (or Larfen) of the...
Tuesday, November 20, 2007

1749, Noddles Island.

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1749,Noddles Island,Boston, Wm.Clarke letter, Item 170162458877 Letter dated December 1749, Noddles Island; where William Clarke has written...
Monday, November 19, 2007

1806 Letter, Burlington Vermont

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1806 Letter Burlington Vermont Item number: 300171869686 Dr Brother: We arrived safe at home a few days a ago - I sipt (sic)at Middlebury ...
Friday, November 16, 2007

1903 Kansas City, Missouri Letter

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1903 Kansas City, Missouri Letter Item number: 200172634566 A personal letter by the Clerk of the Criminal court addressed to “My old friend...
Tuesday, November 13, 2007

1857 Abner J. Lowell Letter

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1857 Abner J. Lowell Letter Item number: 230189476815 A May 25th 1857 letter from Abner J. Lowell to his cousin that mentions fishing voyage...
Saturday, November 10, 2007

Pittsford, Culpepper, Vermont, 1864

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1864 Culpepper Vermont letter 10th Vermont Item number: 160176966468 1864 soldier's letter written camp near culpepper, Vermont. April 4...
Wednesday, November 07, 2007

Spanish & Philippine American War Letter

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Spanish & Philippine American War letter Item number: 160176735028 Bayambang, PI Company I, 17th Infantry April 19th, 1900 Mrs. E. C. Ba...
Monday, November 05, 2007

1796 Moses Jewett New Salem, Massachusetts

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Autograph Letter Signed from Moses Jewett, dated New Salem, Massachusetts, May 10, 1796. Addressed to Mr. David Joseph Mallibran. It reads, ...
Saturday, November 03, 2007

John Prince Knight. San Francisco California Letters

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1850s San Francisco California Letters Item number: 330180082954 38 Pre Civil War Handwritten Letters. Most to: John Prince Knight. San Fran...
Monday, October 29, 2007

Moses Jewett to David Jewett Massachusetts Letter

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1799 WWeston Massachusetts Letter JEWETT Jaffrey NH MANN's TAVERN Item number: 300164522801 letter dated June 24, 1799 Weston, MA to Dav...
Sunday, October 28, 2007

John H Greider Civil War Letter

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1862 Manchester Tenn illustrated soldiers letter Ebay Item number: 280165030665 Manchester August 3rd from John H Greider- no unit designat...
Friday, October 26, 2007

Hannah Osborne in Keene, NH to David Jewett, Jaffrey, NH

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Letter from From Hannah Osborne in Keene, NH to David Jewett, Jaffrey, NH. The letter, though with a Keene postal, is datemarked Paris, NY, ...
Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Morriss family Letters of Lynchburg, Va

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Spanning a time period beginning 1920 thru 1930, 5 envelopes addressed to various Morriss family members of Lynchburg, Va. There is family ...
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