Letter from Amos Cahoon regarding Rocky River Bridge

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Letter from Amos Cahoon regarding Rocky River Bridge

Entry/Object ID

2000.FIC.02.214

Scope and Content

Letter from Amos Cahoon to brothers J.D. and D.K. Cahoon, relating family news, e.g. health and current events including building a bridge over the Rocky River. He also mentions W.O. Cahoon and Benjamin Cahoon and updates their recent travels.and endeavors. The big news is that Father William died after a brief illness. Dover November 13: 1831 - Dear Brothers I avail myself of this opportunity to inform you that we are in most perfect health and we hope [hole] trust this letter may find you and family enjoying the same Blesing Please excuse me for not writing sooner I have been engaged in building a Bridge over Rocky River which has kept me more confined then I could wish but I made a finish of it last week to the satifaction of the Commissioners and the public in general. My Job on the Bridge amounts to seven hundred Dollars You wrote that you had not heard from Benjamin and W.O. Cahoon for some time which was new to me for I supposed that W.O. wrote often to you and as for B. Cahoon I could gain no correct information of him until about two days since when I Recd. a letter Over [p. 2] from him stating he was in Cincinnati Ohio and had been down the River to New Orleans and other places but gave no account of his success or misfortunes in his travel, only that his health and spirit were good but stated that he was cutting stone in a shop at the corner of fourth and main streets -- Wm O. Cahoon is at Elyria and Ridgeville a cutting stone for building houses the most of his time and as the story circulates he will soon close a bargain with Nancy Eldred for life -- Father Williams has paid the debt which we all must pay sooner or later he died the fourth of Sept. after an illness of a few days I must close my letter my putting in Polly, Request that is to notify you that she has one more son Please give my love to all inquiring friends if any write often This from your friend and Brother Amos Cahoon J.B. & D.K. Cahoon Folded to create an envelope Dover O 25 Nov 17 2 ________ 27 Mrs J.B. & D.K. Cahoon Frederick Town M.D.

Collection

Early Family Papers: Cahoon

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Cahoon, Amos

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Cahoon, Benjamin

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Cahoon, Daniel Kenyon (b.1803)

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Cahoon, J.B.

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Cahoon, Polly

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Cahoon, W.

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Cahoon, W.O.

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Eldred, Nancy