Wayne County PA Archives History - Letters .....Letter From Elijah H. Webster, Sterling, To His Uncle Simeon M. Webster In Connecticut March 23, 1848
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                                 Hamilton, March 23, 1848
  Dear Uncle,
       My father requested me to write to you and let you know we are all well 
  and enjoying tolerable good health.  The family are all married, except 
  myself.  Gilbert was married last March and lives about 15 miles from where I 
  do, Gustavus was married the third of last June, he lives on my place; father 
  lives first with one, and then with another just as a notion takes him.  My 
  mother does about the same.  Lucy continues to reside in Carbondale.  Benjamin 
  & Dan lives in the western part of this state, we do not hear from them oftener 
  than once in five years, they seldom write home.  Conrad lives near where I 
  do.  That compleats a history of the whole family.
       I almost forget to mention that Gustavus & Gilbert have each a son to 
  perpetuate the name of Webster.  Times are hard in these parts.  Money is 
  scarce although produce is high and cattle also, the country is improving quite 
  fast and settling fast by natural population.
       I have been teaching school for some time, but I do not like the 
  business.  Cousin John Watrous' family are well, his second son is a preacher 
  of the gospel, he belongs to the methodist.  My father want you or someone to 
  write immediately back, now don't neglect it from day to day and from week to 
  week but do it right off and have it off your hands.  Write all the deaths and 
  marriages of our acquaintance.  We all unite in sending our Love, to you and 
  all our friends.  Believe me your friend. (signed) E.H. Webster
       To: S.M. Webster                   Return address:
           Lebanon                        Sterling, Pa. D.P.O.
           Exiter Parish                  March 24th
           New London County, Conn.
  
  
  
  Additional Comments:
  Levi Abel Webster, the father of the writer, moved from Lebanon, Ct. to 
  Sterling, Wayne Co., Pa., in 1817 and died there in 1849.  He and his wife, the 
  former Martha Munn of Colchester, Ct., had seven children, all of whom are 
  mentioned in this letter.
  
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