Name/Title
John H. Evans letter, 1846Entry/Object ID
2021.39.716Tags
1840s, PostageScope and Content
Letter to John H. Evans, Bondysburg Geauga County Ohio, from Uriah Evans, Gallipolis OH
"Mr.
John H. Evans
Bondsburg
Geauga Co
Ohio
Gallipolis Sunday afternoon Novem 1st 1846
Dear brother. Yours of the 19th of Oct is before me. I can
say as in my last that by the blessing of divine Providence. I am
enjoying good health and have been throughout the Seasons so
far. While I have been surrounded with sickness on all sides-
this having been a remarkably sickly year. not only here but
almost every where else so far as I can learn. you advert
in your letter to my letter to Samuel as being rather
severe and not aplicable to you. Well John, I have onnly one
thing to say in reply, that you may be entirely free from Censure
and the fact of my being almost entirely cheated out of the mare
by the _____ neglect of some one I hardly know I felt myself wronged and my
own relations too. I thought it probable Thomas had made
a contract with you to keep her until his return etc, that mare
was of an excellent stock, celebrated for running and praised highly
here I was offered $55. for her without the riging which cost me
something like $18. I let Thomas have her as a mater of accomo-
dation as he had been to see me and wished to pass through in
terior of the State to visit our Commisions on the route, and at the
end of his journey after recruiting her a little he was authorized
to sell her and forward the money after paying Clark. Thomas
paid me $15. and you say sold saddle bridle martingale whip & foot maintains
to Mrs Brut this would about indemnify him for the money paid, and
this was all he cared for, this treatment coupled with the insolent lett
er received from Daniel when Administrator of the estate saying there
was something due from me which was only $20. and yet a bed of mine
costing me $35 was used and worn out by the family and nothing said
about it, by some misterious slight of hand or jugling my fathers
estate was squandered and kept in profound secret from me. even the
whereabouts of most of my relatives is now, and always has been kept a secret
amongst you. I never know Phelps broke up my father until informed by a
stranger here. can you wonder that I don't come to make you all a
visit. I have been here some 10 years, and if ever I would leave here I would
may not see each other for years to come at all
events I cannot tell when I can visit the Reserve
write as often as you can and let me know how you
are getting along - please accept of my best wishes for
yourself and wife yours affectionately
John H. Evans Uriah Evans"Collection
The Richard Morton Hess and Phyllis Lafferty Hess CollectionAcquisition
Accession
2021.39Source or Donor
Hess, KennethLocation
Location
Container
Hess Collection Box 3Room
ArchivesBuilding
Morgan History CenterDate
December 4, 2021Notes
Folder: Evans Family LettersRelationships
Related Person or Organization
Person or Organization
Evans, John, Evans, Uriah, Evans, John H.Related Places
Place
* Untyped Place
Gallipolis, Oh, Bundysburg (Bondysburg, Bundys Burgh), Ohio, Geauga County, Ohio, Trumbull County