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Lydia Rotch Dean letter to Charity Rotch, 4th mo 4th 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. Sarah Arnold has given birth to a daughter. Childbirth was 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) 7.8" x 9.7" (19.8 x 24.7 cm
Lydia Rotch Dean letter to Charity Rotch, New Bedford, 8th mo 28th 1803
No full textLydia Rotch Dean mentions Samuel Rodman's 'indisposition from what we thought was little more than the head ache.' She describes the severe illness of a family member but who she is referring to is unclear. 8" x 9.75" (20.3 by 24.8 cm
Lydia Rotch Dean letter to Charity Rotch, New Bedford, 2nd 14th 1808
No full textLydia Rotch Dean describes the nursing care of a female member of the Barney family, an aunt of Charity Rotch. The last Will of the ill woman remembered extended family including the Rotches, Macys, and Starbucks. Women were responsible for their own property and the final distribution of it. The deceased passed on luxury and ordinary gifts and money to the women of her family. 8" x 10" (20.4 by 25.5 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 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, 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 5th 1803
No full textLydia Rotch Dean acknowledges receipt of a letter from Thomas and Charity Rotch with details of their settlement in Connecticut. Lydia confirms that the decision to relocate to Connecticut was motivated in part by a zeal to spread the Gospel to remote parts. Lydia writes, referring to Hartford, "your present allotment in that land where Gospel Power seems gradually arising to dispel the clouds & remove the shackles." She mentions that Thomas and Charity "made a surrender of every other prospect to labor in that part of the Vineyard." 8" x 9.8" (20.2 by 25 cm
Lydia Rotch Dean letter to Charity Rotch, Salem, 4th mo 14th 1813
No full textLydia Rotch Dean passes on news to Charity Rotch in Ohio country; she writes that "that you are likely to have such an agreeable addition to your little circle: May its comforts be continually enlarged, and all its good intentions be crowned with success." It is difficult to know what this line refers to, including the possibility that Charity was pregnant with child. 7.75" x 9.5" (19.7 by 24.2 cm
Lydia Rotch Dean letter to Thomas Rotch, Salem, 1st mo 16th 1819
No full textLydia Rotch Dean writes that travel has been good and not hindered by bad weather. The writer mentions that she hopes that Charity will endeavor 'to be content with your remaining in Ohio." also Lydia hints at Charity's discontent in Ohio, "I have felt much for thee on acct of my brother's being sometimes absent in that wilderness country I think it must be trying, I don't know how I should support it." 7.4" x 12" (18.7 by 30.5 cm
Lydia Rotch Dean letter to Charity Rotch, New Bedford, 12th mo 16, 1802
No full textLydia Rotch Dean mentions Martha Routh, a traveling itinerant English minister who was in New England in the 1790s. The writer discusses accounts of her journey and informs Charity on how preaching by ministers was received. She mentions that Martha Routh paid a visit to inhabitants of the state prison, one of the Brown brothers, (also Quaker merchants) was in New York at the same time, awaiting a passage home. 8" x 10" (20.4 by25.4 cm
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