Letter from Benjamin Jennings Seward to William Henry Seward, July 10, 1834

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Letter from Benjamin Jennings Seward to William Henry Seward, July 10, 1834

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Distributor:Seward Family Papers Project

Institution:University of Rochester

Repository:Rare Books and Special Collections

Date:1834-07-10

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Letter from Benjamin Jennings Seward to William Henry Seward, July 10, 1834

action: sent

sender: Benjamin Seward
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Person

Name: Benjamin Seward Birth: 1793-08-23 Death: 1841-02-24

location: Albany NY
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Place

Name:  City:  Albany County:  Albany State:  NY Country:  US

receiver: William Seward
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Person

Name: William Seward Birth: 1801-05-16 Death: 1872-10-10

location: Auburn NY
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Place

Name:  City:  Auburn County:  Cayuga State:  NY Country:  US

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revision: ekk 2015-10-15

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Albany July 10. 1834
Dear Henry
I recieved a line from you
a few days since, just as I was
setting off from New York
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Place

Name:  City:  New York County:   State:  NY Country:  US
. I cannot
recollect its date; but well remember
its contents & thank you for it.
My enquiries and your intimations
do not seem not to tally in regard
to the Gubnatoreal candidate; while you
seem to think Jesse
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Person

Name: Jesse Buel Birth: 1778-01-04 Death: 1839-10-06
would be, if not the
best, yet a very good one; others consid-
er him a Jackson
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Person

Name: Andrew Jackson Birth: 1767-03-15 Death: 1845-06-08
man; and if otherwise,
few or none would be willing to support
an eleventh hour man. Stowe
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Person

Name: Horatio Stow Birth: 1809 Death: 1859-02-19Certainty: Probable
says
he conversed with him & told him he
could not support him upon any re-
cantation he ever knew or heard of, of
his alleegence to the Regency. And
as far as I can learn there is an
indisposition to take up V.
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Person

Name: Gulian Verplanck Birth: 1786-08-06 Death: 1870-03-18Certainty: Possible
much of
the same cast – and some go so far
as to say that himself & friends
have determined upon his return to [ C ]
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Alternate Text

Alternate Text: Congress
].
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Collier
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Person

Name: John Collier Birth: 1787-11-13 Death: 1873-03-24
has been spoken of. Sam S.
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Person

Name: Samuel Stevens Birth: 1794-09-01 Death: 1854-09-11Certainty: Probable
also
and Granger
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Person

Name: Francis Granger Birth: 1792-12-01 Death: 1868-08-31
, of course, & though you
say he will in no event be a candi-
date, Hazeltine
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Person

Name: Abner Hazeltine Birth: 1793-06-10 Death: 1879-12-20
says he speaks ad-
visedly when he says that he may
become a candidate. The discordant
expression of public feeling as it comes
to my ears, alarms me. The
"Whig" and the [ Ultra ]
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Alternate Text

Alternate Text: Ulltra
Anti-masons
seem determined to have a candidate.
The Argus is goading on such
spirits and I do really fear the
drawing off of some seven or ten
thousand votes, & this is death to
the Whigs. All this would only ef-
fect the Lieutenancy, insofar as division
would have a tendency to discourage
effort – and still I think success may
be safely counted on.
Burr W.
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Person

Name: Burr Wakeman Birth:  Death: 
says he knows nothing
of what suit this must but , the costs
of which you ask of him. I had pre-
viously called on him, & found him
in, the day after I wrote you last –
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he says he will see you in town in Sept.
How unfortunate for us: we had
schemed much during winter to bring
you & Frances
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Person

Name: Frances Seward Birth: 1805-09-24 Death: 1865-06-21
& Cornelia
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Person

Name: Louisa Canfield Birth: 1805 Death: 1839-01-04
together in New York
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Place

Name:  City:  New York County:   State:  NY Country:  US
this Autumn, spoke to you & re-
cieved some encouragement; mentioned it
to Cornelia: begged you to write her; and
told you she complained: but subsequently
when I saw Frances & Marcia
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Person

Name: Marcia Seward Birth: 1794-07-23 Death: 1839-10-25
spoke
with her, she seemed not to have the
least expectation of being down; & Cor-
nelia wrote me that your
letter did not mention it;
and so we gave up all hope.
Now when we are all dis-
banded – some in one place & some in an-
other, & no two members of the family in one
place; & all our arrangements made for
an absence of 60 or 80 days, we learn
sister Frances talks of coming down.
How delighted we should have been to
have known that she could come & to
have had her company in a tour into
New England. We are expecting Brown
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Person

Name: William Brown Birth: 1796-11-09 Death: 1867-06-17

& Harriet
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Person

Name: Harriet Brown Birth: 1807-04-20 Death: 1883
on, late in the season, from
Vandalia
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Place

Name:  City:  Vandalia County:  Fayette State:  IL Country:  US
. Marcia & her little boys
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People

Name: Clarence Seward Birth: 1828-10-07 Death: 1897-07-24 Name: Augustus Seward Birth: 1820-05-18 Death: 1889-05-08

& her domesticks, are at present in Orange Co
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Place

Name: Orange County City:   County:  Orange State:  NY Country:  US
[ . ]
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Father
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Person

Name: Samuel Seward Birth: 1768-12-05 Death: 1849-08-24
& mother
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Person

Name: Mary Seward Birth: 1769-11-27 Death: 1844-12-11
have been down & paid
us a hurried visit. I scarcely saw them
– mother is thin & feeble – dear old lady
I fear she will not last long.
I plead hard for that the Portraits
might either be exchanged for yours
(which I offered to get & pay for) or
be left till I could get copies – but
failed – am grieved & wounded. Remember
me affectionately to your Frances. Yours &c B.J.S.
Hon Wm H Seward
Auburn
New York
ALBANY JUL 11
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Stamp

Type: postmark

seward-pen
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Person

Name: William Seward Birth: 1801-05-16 Death: 1872-10-10
BJSeward
July 10. 1834.
date: 
Thursday, July 10, 1834
year: 
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