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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, 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, 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, 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 Charity Rotch, 6th day noon, no year
No full textLydia Rotch Dean discusses family news without an indication of the year in which it was written. She asks for Charity's address and thus the date of the letter may be close to 1800 when the Rotches left New Bedford to establish themselves in Hartford. 7.2" x 8.85" (18.3 by 22.5 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, 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 Thomas Rotch, New Bedford, 4th mo 27th 1808
No full textLydia Rotch Dean discusses the last days of a close friend who was thought to be asleep but had died peacefully. There is no mention of the name of the deceased. She advises resignation to God's will, "We cannot admit a doubt of the extension of Divine Mercy even at a late period." 8" x 9.8" (20.2 by 25 cm
Lydia Rotch Dean letter to Thomas Rotch, New Bedford, 2nd mo 23rd, 1808
No full textLydia Rotch Dean discusses her concerns about Charity Rotch's health to Thomas Rotch. Charity Had several bouts of fever in 1808 and in 1809. Her recurrent illness in the harsh damp winters of New England was one reason she and her husband decided to consider relocation to a potentially warmer climate in Ohio country. 7.7" x 9.7" (19.5 by 24.5 cm
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