MacKay_Letter_026
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Title
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MacKay_Letter_026
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Description
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Letter from Ducan McArthur to Mordecai McKay. Most of the letter is asking Mordecai to have his uncle contact the family. He asks after Mordecai’s family, including his mother and sister Peggy. Small mention of military activities in the last paragraph. November 12, 1813.
Transcription:
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Port George Nov 12th 1813
Dear Sir,
I had the honor to receive your favour of the 6th Inst - presuming that our acquaintance with each other was on gravel run, when children, I would be extremly happy to have a more detailed account, both of your relations and mine in that quarter.
You say “this morning I saw uncle Findlay”. I have understood that I have an uncle of that name in the Genesee country, some years from Scotland, who I would be extremely happy to see, or hear from. His brother Donald, his second wife and six children - live with me near Chillicothe in the State of Ohio they were well last account I had from home and were truly anxious to hear from my uncle Findlay and his family. I hope you will have the goodness to communicate this to the old gentleman and get him, some of his family, or friends; to write to my uncle Donald. Any letter will find him which is addressed thus “Mr Donald McArthur near Chillicothe, Ohio”, and put into any regular Post office in the United States.
I would also be much gratified to hear from you again and have the history of your family. Say if you please, whether your mother is yet alive, and how many of the children? Where your sister Peggy is, and to whom married her? And if this ever finds you please to give me your address more particularly the name of your nearest post town, and how and where a letter will find you, or any of my friends in your quarter?
It is true that the Northwestern army has been more successful this year than last, and I trust that next year at farthest, twice rid upper Canada at least, of both British armies and British influence. And thereby the Western Country (the gardin of the world), will be forever freed from an Indian war.
Please give my sincere respects to both your relations and mine.
And accpt for yourself the best wishes of your friend
[signed] Duncan McArthur
Mr. Mordecai McKay
[outside]
Nov 21
Nillgood
Mr Mordecai McKay
Calladonia
Near Genesee River
N. York
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Identifier
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MacKay_Letter_026.1-3.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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Izzy Moyer; Kristen Walker; Jill Johnson; and Renee Guerin
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Date
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1813.11.12
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Date Created
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2023.10.30
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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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