Potter, Nathaniel Jr. Letter to Isaac Post.

Title

Potter, Nathaniel Jr. Letter to Isaac Post.

Creator

Potter, Nathaniel Jr

Contributor

Post, Isaac, 1798-1872

Date

1845-09-18

Description

Handwritten letter from Nathaniel Jr Potter to Isaac Post, September 18, 1845.

Is Part Of

Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers

Rights

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Identifier

647

Location

Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester

Transcription

(Page 1)

                                             Buffalo 9,, 18,, 1845
Dear Friend
                              Having an opportunity of sending
a line by Moses Wards Wife, who pass through
your city on their way home (Newark N.J.) I shall
improve the same if only to inquire after a hat
which Lydia P. Mott left on board a canal Boat
yearly meeting time and which the agent here
says was delivered by the capt. to some friend in
Rochester who had an order for the same. He could
not tell me the name. As I have to send to
Lydia a few articles left in my charge by
Joseph W. Brown Deceased. I think it best to
send the hat at the same time if I can get it.
^Please enquire of Lindby M. Moore^ Excuse me for sending that Catholic communica-
tion- and write to me by mail or otherwise as
may suit convenience and thou mayest thereby
not only oblige me but Lydia P. Mott also.
     My health is very good at present- and with
desire that you may be equally blest and con-
tinue to enjoy that peace which the world can
neither give nor take away. I remain your Friend
                                                            N. Potter –
Isaac Post
                    Joseph W. Brown was buried two weeks
ago today. I was with him the latter part of his sick-
ness and believe he made his peace with God before
he died. Moses Wards wife is sister to J.W. Brown, & Cinthia Cronk

(Page 2)

I hope to attend Quarterly meeting and visit you by the
way- but as Cinthia Cronk has proposed to attend
and that I should go with her. [Obliterated] –
provided W^m can not leave home – I can not
give an opinion how I shall go or whether
I shall go at all – for some of my friends are
sick and likely to be for some time to come.
     I feel that I have yet to suffer in society- If
you have suffered your share then of course
it is time for you to journey forward I confess
you have been more faithful in the cause
of the downtrodden slave than I have and therefore
more worthy of the blessing pronounced by
lips that spake no guile. Blessed are they that
are persecuted for righteousness sake for theirs is the
kingdom of Heaven. If I have any doubt of being
are of this number- it is because I have not
been as faithful in the cause of the oppressed as
I ought to have been. others may judge different
but I would say “Let God be true tho it make every
man a liar”. for this was his language to me
when he took in mine “own blood” as I was and
“said unto me line.” He told me I could not be lost
if I continued faithful in this one thing. Pray for
me that I may be more faithful. Painful as it was
that you should leave society while I felt required
to remain, it would have been a hundred times
more so if you had abandoned the cause of
the down-troden slave.
     How do you all get along? All harmonious
in the meeting I hope, since it is the faith of the
society that “the peace of God rule our minds.”___
Isaac                                                                  N.

(Page 3)

[Text middle page downward]

Isaac Post
Rochester City

(Page 4)

[Text normal with large X’s marked through]

I see I have taken the wrong
sheet ofErie Co paper
                              To. JW Brown            Dr.
1844
9^th Mo. 30^th       To 2 Barrels of Soap at 16/-   $4,00
10,, “     7 ,,        ,, 2       do.          do.                    4,00
,,             15,,        ,, 1       do.           ,,      2,00
,,             ,,            ,, 1       do.           A.     2 00      4,00
[Obliterated]
1844                                  Cr.
9^th Mo. 30^th By   3 Bushels Ashes      8‚Çµ   $0,24
                       “    78 tbs grease             3‚Çµ     2,34
                       “     8 tbs do.                  3‚Çµ       ,24
10^th Mo. 7^th        41 tbs grease             4‚Çµ     1,64
“        “   15,,        87.      do.                  4‚Çµ    3,48
“             21,,        60.      do.                 4‚Çµ     2,40
                   2 ½ Bushels ashes             (A)       ,20

[Text in right margin written downward]

I have not time to write an other
now. If I should it might be
no better than this

Tags

Abolitionism; Family; Quakers

Collection

D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers

Citation

Potter, Nathaniel Jr, “Potter, Nathaniel Jr. Letter to Isaac Post.,” RBSCP Exhibits, accessed November 23, 2024, https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/items/show/2939.

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