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.

Saturday, March 22, 2008

Henry Wise Farley 1812

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This letter home, from Harvard medical student HW [Henry Wise] Farley, contains a lengthy and detailed first-person account Farley describes...
Wednesday, March 19, 2008

John Cushing Letters

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Three letters addressed to JOHN CUSHING, ESQ. All letters are asking his help in their dire need for money and help. The first letter., fold...
Monday, March 17, 2008

Boston 1833, Mrs. Isham of Taunton

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Autograph letter signed, "B B Wisner", Boston, April 11, 1833. The letter, sent to an unknown recipient, regards an upcoming Conve...
Thursday, March 13, 2008

Seymore Connecticut, 1853

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Seymore Connecticut, December 4 1853, from George B. Glendining to Charles W. Gillette. [In part:] "My Dear Charles, The multiplicity...
Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Moses Jewett Burlington, Vermont Letter

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18th Century letter from Moses Jewett, [of Burlington, Vermont], datelined New Ipswich, NH to his brother David Jewett of Jaffrey, NH. Read...
Sunday, March 09, 2008

Nelson Linsley Letter, New Haven Connecticut 1860

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Four page letter from New Haven, Connecticut, dated May 14, 1860, from Nelson Linsley, a Melodeon Manufacture in New Haven operating under t...
Wednesday, March 05, 2008

Mr. Christopher W. Wilder Bridgeton ME

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This great old letter is addressed to "Mr. Christopher W. Wilder Bridgeton ME" but you will also find the words "Haverhill Ma...
Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Portland Oregon 1911 Letter

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"Portland Oregon August 28th, 1911 Mr. Walter Beattie, My Dear Brother, I received your long looked for letter Friday so glad to hear o...
Sunday, February 24, 2008

Kansas City 1903 Chas Renick Letter

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Kansas City, MO. Renick, Charles V. Jackson County, Criminal court letterhead. In pencil dated 6/3/1903. A personal letter with great conte...
Monday, February 18, 2008

1819, Post Office in New York City

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Feb. 3, 1819, Post Office New York City. Fascinating handwritten letter from New York Postmaster Theodorus Bailey to R. J. Meigs, Esq., Pos...
Sunday, February 17, 2008

David Coffin, Newburyport, Massachusetts 1807

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Letter from David Coffin, Newburyport, Massachusetts, dated January 22, 1807, to Robert Boyd, a Portland, Maine merchant. Coffin is looking ...
Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Thomas P. Wickes, Yale Letters

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55 letters written to a man by the name of Thomas P. Wickes. They are personal and business letters received by Wickes who just graduated fr...
Friday, February 08, 2008

Salt Family, Babcock Family, Platt Family.

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Huge Family Archive of New York genealogy. 49 Handwritten Letters. Most To The Salt, Babcock and Platt Families. Most From: "Caddie...
Thursday, February 07, 2008

Albert & Rachel Singer Civil War Letter from New York

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Three page Civil War Era Letter from Van Hornesville, New York. August 14, 1864. Albert & Rachel Singer write to their Brother & Si...
Monday, February 04, 2008

18TH VIRGINIA INFANTRY LETTER

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THIS IS A GREAT LETTER WRITTEN ON FOUR PAGES WITH A DESCRIPTION IN SOME DETAIL OF THE BATTLE OF DRANESVILLE AND WRITTEN FROM CAMP CENTERVILL...
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...
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