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John Blair Linn to Lyman C. Draper, January 30, 1883
Draper Manuscripts, 1C72

Transcribed from microfilm copy of the original document from the 
Draper Manuscripts Collection of the State Historical Society of 
Wisconsin, Madison, WI.

Spelling and punctuation are as they appear in the original text.
Transcriber’s notes in {}

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Bellefonte Penna.

Jany 30. 1883

My Dear Sir:  Mr. Hamilton got up that obituary for the most part but I 
recollect of giving him the information about the Boone’s.  I was then 
interested in the connection of Hawkins Boone with Daniel and had a 
genealogy, I cannot find now, of the Boones.  However John Kidd 
Shoemaker gave me the Statement.  He is now dead some years. I may have 
made the mistake in saying “sister” instead of “cousin”; nevertheless 
Mr. Shoemaker ran the obituary and did not say it was error.  Shoemaker 
was an Editor here of Democratic Whig 1840 on – of the Shoemaker family 
of Muncy; and grandson of John Kidd 1st Prothonotary Lycoming County.  
None of the connection here know anything about it.  Judge Huston 
married a Winters, sister of Mrs. Potter, as did Judge Burnside.  Mrs. 
Judge James T. Hale is a daughter of Judge Huston and I occupy Judge 
Hale (dec’d) office.  Last summer I saw a small trunk full of papers 
marked “Winter’s papers” in Judge Hale’s garret.  Did not examine these 
as I was then going through Judge Hustons papers with reference to the 
history of this family and had not time.  When Mrs. Hale comes here in 
the Summer I will get her to let me look through them to see whether I 
can find anything about the Boones.

	There is a man named John L. Sexton Jr. of Fall Brook Tioga Co. 
Penna. who knows the New York branch of the Winters and could possibly 
get the genealogy from some of the older ones.  

	(Old William Winters first wife was a Boone  H.. sister of Col. 
Daniel; she died in 1771, and he married in 1771 Ellen Campbell mother 
of Mrs. Huston, Burnside, Mrs. Benj. Harris, Elizabeth Alexander, Mrs. 
Potter.  This was J. K. Shumaker’s Statement.

	I have just pu__shed a history of Centre and Clinton Cos. 
published by L.H. Everts 725 Filbert Street Phila 672 pages.  He paid 
me as editor, and I have no interest in the book.  But you will find 
when you get to see it, the immense labor I put upon it.  I have been 
at it for two years.  It is very amply illustrated, and the price is 
$12.  I will rest awhile before going through such a Job again.  He 
allowed me to put in all the illustrations I wanted and old maps and 
surveys make it very valuable. Chas. J. ___, of Sunbury, asks me every 
time he sees me when “that man” is going to publish his history of the 
Brady family. “He was here about 40 years ago gathering up material,” 
he adds.

	I lost $2000 on my “Buffalo Valley” Annals.  Hereafter, I will 
publish at other people expense, and I would advise you so to do unless 
you are abundantly wealthy.

Lyman C. Draper Eq:					

John Blair Linn

As Ann Boone was the first wife of Mrs. Potter’s father and not mother 
of Mrs. Potter, it is not likely any trace of her would be preserved in 
the Winter papers.  H___ I will see.