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CATALOG NUMBER VC 2479
OBJECT NAME letter
DATE
AUTHOR [John Sharrock?]
RECIPIENT William Miller (“Uncle”)
MEDIUM paper, ink
PEOPLE my father,
PLACES [Catawba?] [Cotula?], May Landing, New Jersey, Philadelphia,
Trenton, Burlington NJ, clerks office, Peekskill,
KEYWORDS travel to find property titles to support possible lawsuit to prove
ownership
[Catawba?] Jan 23 1844
Dear uncle I now sit down for to / inform you that we are in the [eryones?] / of a [portion] of health at present and / I hope that those few lines will find / you and family, in the same state /
I am at present ingaged in a lawsuit /
Respectting a will of [??] father / [such] if we suceede it will make us all / Rich enught we hav found the will / Record at Trenton in the clerks office / the propparty is worth at of one valuation / 26 millions of Dollars it is in Philadelphia / and Burlington New Jersey we hav had / one Suit Brought for to make them / show their titles and ours is the [page torn] / yet we hav got three of the best / Lawyers in [Phl] and our in Jersey / the Lawyers say if the property is not ours / it Belongs to one [that] [p-?-t] that is in / [Jersy] the Person that has it in posesion was / Going to Build a Mansion on the property / he had his Materials on the Ground and / one of our Lawyers informed him of / the title [and] he Removed them off / we are trying to Get it on in [?] [March] / [time?] next the [property] in Philadelphia / Begins a [Callow] hill Street and [lies?] up / to 6 Street and then North to the / [high?] Bridge turn East to the Dallawar / thence South to the Place of Begining / we Give the Lawyers one [furth?] for / Getting my Wif has one Equal 15 [port?] / I want you to write to me and / let me know the Best way to proceed
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I want you let me know wat has be / come of George and how he is Gitting a long / he has bin writing to me - about some / property in the west the belonged to / My Father if you know any thing a bout / it I should be much oblige to you if you / will inform me about it
I want you to write to us / soon as you get this / Give me [Son] to [tell] / that inquire after [him]
I reamin] your
[John] [Sharock]
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[ADDRESS]
Mr William
Miller Peekskill
Westchester County
N Y
[LABEL]
May Landing [??]
[Jan] [?][4Transcriber
Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
English
