Post, Joseph. Letter to Isaac Post.

Title

Post, Joseph. Letter to Isaac Post.

Creator

Post, Joseph

Contributor

Post, Isaac, 1798-1872

Date

1857-10-19

Description

Handwritten letter from Joseph Post to Isaac Post, October 19, 1857.

Is Part Of

Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers

Rights

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Identifier

1186

Location

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

Transcription

(Page 1)

[Preceding pages written by Mary Robbins Post and transcribed as letter 1185]

Second day 19^th have been puting [sic] up apples this forenoon to send
to New York and as it is to [sic] stormy to go to the boat with them
have set down to add a little to Marys letter our apples many
of them small but they have sold prety [sic] well apples that
we do not pick in common except for cider we have sent
away have brought from 4/ to 16/ per barrel without the
barrel according to quality have our last in barrels to go to
morrow except what we keep for ourselves have sold and given
away near 100 barrels, on the Starr of last week we see Benjamin
Fish invitation to help it along as well as other invitations before
you may pay our subscription for another year and 3 dollars
besides as a donation. also ^have received^ 2 dollars ^of^ for Jacob Jackson for the starr
to be sent to Jericho Post office please see that your express buis=
=ness [sic] had closed and George Willets out of buisness [sic] again I
think the prospect seems very dull for George if he had the
energy of some men I suppose he would soon get agoing
at something About 3 weeks ago Stephen Rushmore went up
the river to kingson and bought a small drove of cattle
and sold them out and then had another drove therr [sic] and they
bought 17 of them cows and heifers for over 500 $ they seem
to like to do buisness [sic] on a largely scale Joseph Hicks has had a drove
of sheep and now has a drove of sheep and cattle not large,
We hear you have some new manifestations in the spirit
line of writing on the wall. it seems to me that if the spirits
can rap and write not unreasonably to require them to talk,
have you heard any thing from the H Bush to prove how he
succeeds in his new se^a^rch after goald [sic] wither it does seem
me very uncertain way of geting [sic] it although I suppose some
have found conciderable [sic] quanties [sic] but many have been and
will ^be^ much disappointed I have no dought [sic]

Tags

Abolitionism; Agriculture; Spiritualism

Collection

D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers

Citation

Post, Joseph, “Post, Joseph. Letter to Isaac Post.,” RBSCP Exhibits, accessed November 23, 2024, https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/items/show/3476.

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