Letter

Archive

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King Manor Museum

Name/Title

Letter

Entry/Object ID

2021.1.33

Scope and Content

Handwritten, in ink, letter from George W. Allen to the King Manor Association presenting KMA with a "Hessian bomb shell" plowed up by farmer "a few miles from Jamaica." Allen received the shell in 1861 from James Rider. Handwritten in pencil across top of letter: Geo. W. Allen Hessian Bomb Shell

Collection

King Manor Historical Documents Collection