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Lydia Rotch Dean letter to Charity Rotch, 24th
No full textThis letter from Lydia Rotch Dean was posted to Hartford, Connecticut and probably dates about 1809. Lydia reports on the illnesses and deaths of several family and friends. 7.25" x 9" (18.4 by 22.9 cm
Lydia Rotch Dean letter to Charity Rotch, Salem, 4th mo 7th 1812
No full textLydia Rotch Dean passes on news of family to Charity Rotch in Kendal, Ohio. Charity's health improved and Thomas Rotch is occupied with the business of establishing his farm in northeast Ohio. He platted the town of Kendal in April of 1812, naming it after a prosperous sheep district in England with the same name. 7.75" x 9.5" (19.7 by 24.2 cm
Lydia Rotch Dean letter to Charity Rotch, Salem, 5th mo 13th 1813
No full textNews of family from Lydia Rotch Dean to Charity Rotch in Kendal, Ohio. Lydia comments on the War of 1812, "at the present eventful period when clouds & darkness are round about us & many of our blessings seem more than usual of precarious tenure." 7.3" x 8.95" (18.7 by 22.8 cm
Lydia Rotch Dean letter to Thomas Rotch, New Bedford, 9th mo 24th
No full textLydia Rotch Dean acknowledges receipt of a letter from Thomas Rotch with good and distressful news; there is no mention of Charity Rotch and her illness, thus his letter may have reached the family at a time when his wife's health had improved. 7.2" x 9" (18.2 by 22.8 cm
Lydia Rotch Dean letter to Charity Rotch, Richmond, 4th mo 26th 1795
No full textLydia Rotch Dean describes the missionary travels of Martha Routh, an English Quaker itinerant who visited Quaker settlements in slave holding Virginia. Lydia comments on travel conditions, traveling ministers usually stayed at the homes of other Friends. 'We found the roads rough indeed, almost to dismay man and horses.' Lydia does not mention slaves directly but she asks that her letter be sent onward to Nantucket for perusal by Sister M, probably Mary Rotch. 7.5" x 9.05" (19.2 by 23.4 cm
Lydia Rotch Dean letter to Charity Rotch, Burlington, 2nd mo 25th 1797
No full textNews of family to Charity Rotch in New Bedford in 1797 from Lydia Rotch Dean while traveling in religious service with itinerant minister, Martha Routh. 8" x 9.75" (20.3 by 24.3 cm
Lydia Rotch Dean letter to Charity Rotch, New Bedford, 1st mo 17 1809
No full textLydia Rotch Dean reports the death of an adult member of the Rotch Rodman family with an extended detail of his demise in B-241-9. Meanwhile, Sarah Arnold has given birth to a daughter. Childbirth was extremely hazardous and many women did not announce that they were pregnant until after the actual birth of the child. 7.8" x 9.7" (19.8 x 24.7 cm
Lydia Rotch Dean letter to Charity Rotch, Salem, 10th mo 6th 1817
No full textNews of family from Lydia Rotch Dean to her sister-in-law Charity Rotch in Ohio. The letter is filled to the margins with detail, some writing over previous writing about family births, deaths, moves and marriages. 7.9" x 9.8" (20.1 by 24.9 cm
Lydia Rotch Dean letter to Thomas Rotch, Salem, 11th mo 14th 1817
No full textLydia Rotch Dean describes the demise of the Richard Breed family including children who set out for Ohio. Richard Breed became ill and died suddenly. Lydia is concerned for his children who will set out for the state or who are already in Ohio at the time of her writing. 7.4" x 12" (18.7 by 30.5 cm
Lydia Rotch Dean letter to Charity Rotch, 5th mo 14th [1813]
No full textThis letter from Lydia Rotch Dean reached Charity Rotch at Steubenville. She warns Rotch not to purchase from this party attempting to sell certain property even if the price is reasonable as the party is not trustworthy. Charity resided with friends in Wheeling, Virginia while Thomas Rotch visited perspective sites in Ohio where he might purchase land inexpensively for farming. He eventually bought land in north east Ohio from Bezaleel Wells, founder of Canton and Steubenville. 7.3" x 8.95" (18.7 by 22.8 cm
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