Letter from Benjamin Jennings Seward to William Henry Seward, May 12, 1838

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Letter from Benjamin Jennings Seward to William Henry Seward, May 12, 1838

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Distributor:Seward Family Papers Project

Institution:University of Rochester

Repository:Rare Books and Special Collections

Date:1838-05-12

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Letter from Benjamin Jennings Seward to William Henry Seward, May 12, 1838

action: sent

sender: Benjamin Seward
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Person

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

location: Westfield NY
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Place

Name:  City:  Westfield County:  Chautauqua State:  NY Country:  US

receiver: William Seward
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Person

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

location: Goshen NY
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Place

Name:  City:  Goshen County:  Orange State:  NY Country:  US

transcription: kac 

revision: ekk 2015-11-11

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Chautauqua Land Office
Westfield May 12.1838
Dear Henry
Upon receipt of your letter I
concluded to wait no longer for dry roads
—and so took my horse & rode out, feeble
as I was, to Roots
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Person

Name: Zeddock Root Birth: 1785 Death: 1856Certainty: Probable
: had a soothing
conversation with him—and brought him
to a willingness, I think, to take the
farm & give a mortgage for it—or
at least, if no more, to agree to keep
possession till march next with a view
to sell his chance: & perhaps pay a
trifle—I shall take counsel in the
case & allow the judgment to lie
withholding the execution for some
months—after which if he will
neither pay nor give possession, we can
eject him.—The present state of
his mind, I think will induce him
to make some mutually satisfactory
arrangement: & he says he will
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be in, early next week.
Genl Camp
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Person

Name: George Camp Birth:  Death: 
has called for the
acceptance for $500. due 1 August—which
I gave him: but publically or privately
there has not been one word said
about the name of the old "Robt Falco- ner
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Person

Name: Robert Falconer Birth: 1780-12-22 Death: 1851-10-20
"—The "days" of this Steamer &
of the Barcelona, have not been
arranged—no advertisement is out—
when their plans are announced, I will
see to it that Weed
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Person

Name: Thurlow Weed Birth: 1797-11-15 Death: 1882-11-22
is furnished
with a copy.
Nothing new.—Business dull.
The spring is backward. all the world
are inquiring if you do not intend
to avail yourself of the advantages
of the new bank law.
It was my purpose to draw off
a transcript of our last months
business, when I commenced this letter—
–but sundry calls have consumed
my time—tis now too late—I will
do it on Monday.
Your Grateful Brother
B. J. Seward
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Wm. H. Seward Esq
Care Amer Life I. & Trust Co
Goshen. Orange Co
New York City
Single.
WESTFIELD N.Y. MAY 13
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Stamp

Type: postmark

NEW-YORK MAY 16
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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
B. J. Seward
May 12. 1838.
date: 
Saturday, May 12, 1838
year: