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- GLC#
- GLC03432.083-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 29-30 July 1798
- Author/Creator
- Lyman, Cornelius, 1758-?
- Title
- to John Bryant
- Place Written
- Erie, Pennsylvania
- Pagination
- 3 p. : address ; Height: 31.5 cm, Width: 18.5 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- The Early Republic
Lyman informs Captain Bryant that "my Dear Wife and your Sister," Sarah Mason, had died. Gives the details of Sarah's illness and death. She was pregnant and died of a fever not long after giving birth to a son that lived only a short time. Provides a long and melancholy account of the period surrounding her death. Describes his feelings over his loss and worries over how "mama in her advanced age" will bear the pain. The relation to Bryant was through his second-wife, Hannah Mason. Written from Presque Isle, which is now Erie, Pennsylvania.
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