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CATALOG NUMBER S 1023
OBJECT NAME Letter
DATE July 28, 1805
AUTHOR Sybil Farnham Sawyer (mother)
RECIPIENT Hannah & Mary Anna Sawyer (Schuyler)
MEDIUM Paper, ink
PEOPLE Benjamin ??, Aunt Hay (Katharine Farnham Hay), “Catharine”
(also (Katharine Farnham Hay?), Mr S. Kirkland, Dr. Micajah
Sawyer (father), Captain Sargent, his wife Sargent, Mrs. Parsons, Thomas Sawyer (brother), Mr. Dutton, Mrs. Haskell, her husband Haskell, Mr White, Mr Blanchard, Rev. Dr. Joseph Buckminster (“Mr. Buckminster”, or was it his son Joseph Stevens Buckminster), Mr. [Charles?] Lowell, Mrs Marquand, “Nancey”, “her father”, Nancy Philips Frothingham, Captain William Knap, William Sawyer, Mr [Theophilus?] Parsons and wife [Elizabeth Greenleaf?],
PLACES “Little Cambridge”, Boston, [Willmantown?]
KEYWORDS girls visited state prison, Sybil returned to Newburyport,
Washington light infantry, their anniversary celebration (“receive
the standard”), Mrs. Gilman Frothingham died (Nancy), death of
Captain William Knap, death of Mrs. Stev-[ens?], Mrs Mors has a son,
July th28 1805
The agreeable accounts, My dear Children of your health and / happiness ougth to excite, gratitude and thanks, Benjamin handed / [^us] your letter yesterday, I was very glad to hear such agreeable accounts / from your aunt Hay, Catharine left us the day that you was there / she had a very good opportunity of going with Mr S. Kirkland, as / your Father was so polite as to make me the chief subject of his letter / it is unnesary for me to say more . we were very sorry to hear that Cap’t / Sargent was so sick again, wish you to write how Mrs. Parsons left him / and his wife. You mention Thomas being with you and well, your Brothers / have been highly favoured with health, one of the heavens best Blesings, / you have been very good in writing, you have so many visits and other / excurtions that time pases of very rapidly you can hardly realize that it / is five weeks since you left home, we were very much pleased with / Mr Duttons ovation it was full of sentiment and quite to the point, / you mention visiting the dreary aboads of the state prison, what more / convincing [^ proof] need we of the depravity of human nature, /
I have gone out but very little since my return, my first and only walk / so far, was to see Mrs. Haskell whose disagreeable situation you have been / informed of, her husband still remains in prison.
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On Wednesday last the Washington light Infantry celebrated their / anniversary and paid their annual compliment where they received the standard / unfortunately you are generally out of town. We see the gentleman of / your acquaintance some times, Mr. White spent last evening here / Mr Blanchard one even this week they both enquired after you and / asked when you where coming home,
As the young ladies of both / families correspond with you it is unnecesary for me to mention them / only in general there all well, hope to have the satisfaction of hearing / Mr Buckmister and Mr Lowell. Oy od equally dry with us as what / you represent there has been frequent appearances of rain, I was in hopes / that you had been refreshe with showers,
Mrs Marquand and / Nancey have been at [Willmantown?Gillmantown?] for a week or two, her Father has been to see them he don’t think his daughter any better, / Mrs [G?] Frothingham is dead, and there is two other sudden deaths / Capt W Knap and Mrs Steve-[n?], both melancholy, Mrs Mors has a son / My love to William and Thomas not forgetting the Mrs Frazers, / your Father unites with me in very pertucular love regards to / Mr Parsons and wife, you will have an o-[^p]-portunity of writeing / by Mr Sawyer he expects to be down soon,
Yours affectionately
S Sayer
Sutables to all enquiring minds
[ADDRESS]
Mrss Hannah For Mary Anna sawyer
At Little Cambridge or
BostonTranscriber
Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
English
