MacKay_Letter_004
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Title
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MacKay_Letter_004
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Description
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Letter from John B Scout to his cousin Mordecai McKay speaking of how he hadn't heard from him in quite some time and discussing a Lot of land he presumed to be owned by Mordecai McKay that someone else was selling. October 27, 1873.
Transcription:
Northumberland Oct 27th 1873
Dear Cousin it is with pleasure that i anser you for many years that i did not no weather you was a living or not as I never herd enything of you nor no one from your place. Old Samuel Hacket was the last deth that i heard i had made up my mind that you were all dead or left country as i never heard enything from eny of you - So when the lot was sold i told some of my neigbors that Lot did not belong to Mrs Walles that i belonged to a party in York State if you don’t beleave me go to Sunsbeury Ofice to look for your self and you will find the deed recorded their in the rite oners name & the Book shoes that their never was eny transfer to eny other party – he said that Mrs Walles has a deed forty 2 years i don’t care a bout that if you have a deed for a hundred years i can find one that is still a little older o yes one of the party said if i did not hold my Tung that he wood prosecute me that it was hurting the sale of his lots i told him prosecute & bee damed I ask no favors of eny of your party they are cutting the lot up in small lots & dublin their money on it 2 men that bargend for a bit has thoed up wont take one man has went on & built a very nice hous on his bit i suppose the house wont cost less than fiftee hundred dollars meby more this is whare the trouble begins he has got possion that is a great thing in law they will stand a sute – now if you could get some rite sharp man to take hold of this I think you wood recover the Lot But it will goe to Cort i no it is worth looking after the Lot is worth a thousan dollars & they will make more money than that out of it in the way they cut it up in small Lots if this thing had a bin atended too rite a way when i rote to Wm Hacket a Bout it I think they wood of halled of with out much trouble but since then have built on it they will hold on till they are put off By law i had them pretty well scart now if you or eny of you are a goeing to due anything a tall I want you to due it soon or not a tall if it was my case I wood try it if i had to give it to the Loyers for their fees Hunt up all the paper you can find in Relashion to the Lot their is a paper some place we call it a counter part it wood be called by meny people a Receipt that is a very important paper in this case i think you have it a long time with the dead as it generaly given with the dead that counter part goes to shoe that every thing clea nothing a gaints the Lot at the time the dead is given – I have said a Bout all for this on the lot mater your Mother & ant Hacket wanted to no a bout unkle William Burk he is a living in Suleven County a bout 60 miles from me
My family is scaterd a bout my oldest boy John is a liveing in Virginia a bout 2 hunared milles from us Charles the Second Boy is a liveing in Shamoken a bout 20 miles from us Frank the younger boy is at home with us he is a singl lad he is our baby 26 years old this is a bout all for this time rite soon to let me no what you are a goeing to due – rember me & family to ant Hacket also Wm Hacket this leaves us all well at this time you must look over mistakes & bad riteing i am getting old & nervis Born 1805
[signed]
John B Scout
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MacKay_Letter_004.1-2.jpg
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Creator
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Kristen Walker
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Subject
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Letter
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Publisher
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Izzy Moyer; Kristen Walker; Jill Johnson; and Renee Guerin
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Date
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1873.10.27
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Date Created
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2023.10.25
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Type
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Correspondance
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Letter
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Format
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.jpg
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Medium
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Paper
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Rights Holder
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Genesee Country Village & Museum
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Rights
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