Letter from Rachel Armstrong Seward to Frances Miller Seward, April 5, 1835
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Letter from Rachel Armstrong Seward to Frances Miller Seward, April 5, 1835
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Date:1835-04-05
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Letter from Rachel Armstrong Seward to Frances Miller Seward, April 5, 1835
action: sent
sender:
Rachel Seward
Person
Name: Rachel Seward
Birth: 1805-07-15
Death: 1848-05-14
Person
location:
Summerville NY
Place
Name: City: Summerville
County: Monroe
State: NY
Country: US
Place
receiver:
Frances Seward
Person
Name: Frances Seward
Birth: 1805-09-24
Death: 1865-06-21
Person
location:
Auburn NY
Place
Name: City: Auburn
County: Cayuga
State: NY
Country: US
Place
transcription: keh
revision: ekk 2016-03-07
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Page 1
Summerville April 5th 1835
Dear Sister
I acknowledge the receipt of a letter from your
good husband
Name: William Seward
Birth: 1801-05-16
Death: 1872-10-10
writen by your request and am sorry to hear that
your health is still so feble I hope when the weather becomes
setled you will be better. I consider myself under obligations
to you already and could not accept of the assistance offerd
in your good husbands letter if I was not in great want of
many things which I cannot ask father
Name: Samuel Seward
Birth: 1768-12-05
Death: 1849-08-24
for – he has been
so tried with Polydores
Name: Edwin Seward
Birth: 1799
Death: 1872-04-23
business that I feel backward about
making my wants known. I have been so buisy since I
received your letter and have not had time to think of anything
scarcely but my daily employment. I have got moved and
begin to feel a little more setled. I have taken the back room
for my living room the parlor and a bedroom above for my
part of the house I think we shal have pleasant people to live
with I like them verry much so far. I hope the most pinching
time is over with me – father says he intends the rent of the place
to be for our support it will be some-time yet before any
thing will be paid. I have been almost wild about moveing
to Bargaintown
Name: City: Bargaintown
County: Atlantic
State: NJ
Country: US
father has been quite anxious that we should
go but I believe that jennings
Name: Benjamin Seward
Birth: 1793-08-23
Death: 1841-02-24
has convinced him that it
is not best. The last letter I received from my husband he had
given up the idea of our moveing there but thought he would
stay for 6 months longer. I received a letter from Doct Canfield
Name: Mahlon Canfield
Birth: 1798-11-26
Death: 1865-01-05
& Cornelia
Name: Louisa Canfield
Birth: 1805
Death: 1839-01-04
last week they say exactly as your husband
does about our moveing there they say Polydore has mistaken
ideas altogether about the place and was determined not to
be easyly persuaded out of them.
Page 2
My health is not so good as it has formerly been but
I believe it is nothing but anxiety of mind. I talk of
going back with Polidore to make a visit if our children
children
children
Name: Robert Seward
Birth: 1834-02
Death: 1836-05-11
Name: William Seward
Birth: 1833
Death: 1892
Name: Samuel Seward
Birth: 1830-04
Death: 1835-11-22
Name: Mary Jayne
Birth: 1828
Death: 1905
should should keep well the scarlet fever is all around us
I fear mine will have it – our florida
Name: City: Florida
County: Orange
State: NY
Country: US
friends are well
I believe they were the last I heard from them
my little ones are all around me
and it is almost imposible to make a letter inteligable
you can see this by my crooked writing
Kiss the children
Name: Frederick Seward
Birth: 1830-07-08
Death: 1915-04-25
Name: Augustus Seward
Birth: 1826-10-01
Death: 1876-09-11
for me
I remain your affectionate
Sister
L. Seward
P.S
I have nothing my dear sister
to offer you in return for your
kindness but a thankful heart
and my feeble prayres that the
lord will abundently bless you
and again restore you to health
Name: Frances Seward
Birth: 1805-09-24
Death: 1865-06-21
Lockey - Seward –
April 1835
Summerville April 5th 1835
Dear Sister
I acknowledge the receipt of a letter from your
good husband
Person
your health is still so feble I hope when the weather becomes
setled you will be better. I consider myself under obligations
to you already and could not accept of the assistance offerd
in your good husbands letter if I was not in great want of
many things which I cannot ask father
Person
so tried with Polydores
Person
making my wants known. I have been so buisy since I
received your letter and have not had time to think of anything
scarcely but my daily employment. I have got moved and
begin to feel a little more setled. I have taken the back room
for my living room the parlor and a bedroom above for my
part of the house I think we shal have pleasant people to live
with I like them verry much so far. I hope the most pinching
time is over with me – father says he intends the rent of the place
to be for our support it will be some-time yet before any
thing will be paid. I have been almost wild about moveing
to Bargaintown
Place
go but I believe that jennings
Person
is not best. The last letter I received from my husband he had
given up the idea of our moveing there but thought he would
stay for 6 months longer. I received a letter from Doct Canfield
Person
Person
does about our moveing there they say Polydore has mistaken
ideas altogether about the place and was determined not to
be easyly persuaded out of them.
My health is not so good as it has formerly been but
I believe it is nothing but anxiety of mind. I talk of
going back with Polidore to make a visit if our children
People
People
People
should should keep well the scarlet fever is all around us
I fear mine will have it – our florida
Place
I believe they were the last I heard from them
my little ones are all around me
and it is almost imposible to make a letter inteligable
you can see this by my crooked writing
Kiss the children
People
I remain your affectionate
Sister
L. Seward
P.S
I have nothing my dear sister
to offer you in return for your
kindness but a thankful heart
and my feeble prayres that the
lord will abundently bless you
and again restore you to health
Person
April 1835
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Sunday, April 5, 1835
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