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Elizabeth (Rotch) Rodman letter to Charity Rotch, New Bedford, 3rd mo 17th, 1809
No full textElizabeth (Rotch) Rodman is grateful that Charity's life has been spared after bouts of fever in 1808-1809. For fear of spreading the disease, Charity asked that none of her family make the journey to Hartford to care for her during her illness. Close friend Rachel Todd is also ill, Eunice Wells and her daughter have died and Dr. Todd is overwhelmed attending to his patients. he is also extremely fatigued. 7.95" x 9.95" (20.2 by 25.3 cm
Elizabeth (Rotch) Rodman letter to Charity Rotch, New Bedford, 2 mo 15th 1804
No full textNews of New Bedford family with some indication that Charity Rotch was not eager to relocate to Hartford, an event that isolated her physically and emotionally from her close female circle in New Bedford. Elizabeth writes, "With tender solicitude for your & our preservation thru this vale of tears and uncertain state of probation." 8.05 x 12.6" (20.5 by 33 cm
Elizabeth (Rotch) Rodman to Charity Rotch, Wakefield, 10th mo 31st 1808
No full textElizabeth Rotch Rodman writes to Charity Rotch in Hartford. She discusses her probable visit in mid November, 1808 and awaits her husband's approval of the planned dates. Hartford was 130 miles to the west of Bedford. Wakefield is north of Boston and not far from Lynn, Massachusetts. 7.7" x 9.7" (19.6 by 24.3 cm
Elizabeth (Rotch) Rodman letter to Charity Rotch, New Bedford, 1st mo 10th 1808
No full textNews of New Bedford family to Charity Rotch in Hartford, Connecticut. Elizabeth Rotch (1759-1856) wife of Charity's brother Samuel Rodman, (1753-1835) reports that her brother, Benjamin, the Rotch business representative in England has gone to the city of Bath to seek relief from the gout in his stomach. 8.2" x 13" (21 by 34 cm
Elizabeth (Rotch) Rodman letter to Charity Rotch, New Bedford, 1st mo 21, 1810
No full textNews of family to Charity Rotch in New Bedford, shortly before she and Thomas Rotch left New England for Ohio. Elizabeth confirms that she lost a child to illness, also that she was aware that Charity was very ill in 1809. 7.95" x 9.5" (20.2 by 24.2 cm
Elizabeth (Rodman) Rotch letter to Charity Rotch, New Bedford, 3rd mo 13th 1806
No full textNews of family to Charity Rotch in West Hartford, Connecticut where she and Thomas Rotch relocated in 1800 to pursue sheep farming. Thomas Rotch was engaged in cultivation of grapes with the intent to produce his own wine. 8.05 x 9.8" (20.5 x 25 cm
Elizabeth (Rotch) Rodman to Charity Rotch, New Bedford, 3 mo 10, 1802
No full textNews of family in New Bedford to Charity Rotch in Hartford. Thomas Rotch left his father's whaling and shipping business to take up sheep farming and possibly missionary work in a state with few Quaker meetings in 1800. While the reasons for the decision to leave Bedford are unclear, the Rotches may have tired of the membership's turn toward materialism which followers of Elias Hicks viewed as spiritually corrupting. The writer is Charity's sister-in-law and a member of the Rotch family who married Samuel Rodman, Charity's brother around 1780. These inter-family marriages concentrated wealth and resources and provided security for the family's future. 8" x 9.8" (20.4 by 24.8 cm
Elizabeth (Rotch) Rodman letter to Charity Rotch, Wakefield, 10th mo 6th,1808
No full textNews of family from Charity Rotch's sister-in-law, Elizabeth Rodman. The writer describes a journey on horseback to Hartford to visit the Rotches in their home there. Elizabeth reports that rather than have his sheep killed by wild dogs, a brother of Coln. Humphreys, an importer of merino sheep into the US from Spain has sold his sheep for $15 each. 7.75" x 9.7" (19.7 by 24.6 cm
Elizabeth Rotch Rodman letter to Charity Rotch
No full textThis letter posted from Nantucket from Charity Rodman Rotch's sister-in-law, Elizabeth discusses Betsey, a long time Rotch housekeeper, who is preparing to join Charity and Thomas Rotch in New Bedford in the late 1790s. 7.6" x 9.1" (19.4 by 23.2 cm
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