MacKay_Letter_029
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Title
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MacKay_Letter_029
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Description
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Letter from John B Scout to his cousin Mordecai McKay, He is concerned about a piece of property that he believes to belong to Mordecai that is being claimed by another. November 25, 1832.
Transcription:
November 25, 1932 Northumberland
Dear friend i take the operttunity to inform you that we are all well at present and I hope that these few lines may find you in the same state of health. A letter that you sent to my mother you sent the wrong number of a lot in it she gave me the letter and I went and got the town plan and found the lot and found in a different place from whare we thought it was and it is in the upper part of the town in a square in front of the house whare old Mr Mage use to live perhaps you Dont rember much about the place any more but it is the spot whare your lot lays if you didnot make mestake in the number here is the number that you sent in you Letter no. 257 the lot is in the bad lands it is in the hands of Joseph Walles i menchend it to Mr Walles and he flew up in a great passion and swore that he bot the Lot from William A Loyd in our race for the quick some years ago i went to this great man William A Loyd and spoke to him about it and he wood not give me any satisfacsion a bout it got mad and went of and me now if you send me a copy of your papers that you have got and tell me if you ever had the deed recorded in the ofice and what office if the lot is not worth much but that make no difference if it was not worth one dollar rite is rite and if you have the papers and will send me the copy of them i will make them hear me or i be damned if i dont know the reason why. I am small but big words will come some time dont forget one paper when you paid the last tax for the lot and everything you can mind about it and if it can be got i will get it for you.I want you to write as soon as you can for they pretend to clame it by peaceable porsesion for 21 years now the sooner the better no more at present my best respects to all my enquirer friends old & young
[signed] John B Scout
To Mordecai McKay
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Identifier
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MacKay_Letter_029.1-2.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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1832.11.25
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Date Created
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2023.10.30
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Correspondance
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Letter
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.jpg
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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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