Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852 to James William Paige

GLC01946.30

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GLC#
GLC01946.30-View header record
Type
Letters
Date
1845
Author/Creator
Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852
Title
to James William Paige
Place Written
Marshfield, Massachusetts
Pagination
4 p. : docket ; Height: 24.2 cm, Width: 20.1 cm
Primary time period
National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
Sub-Era
Age of Jackson

Thanks his brother-in-law for sending a beautiful basket. States that he went with his son Edward Webster to a pond where they acquired some ducks to send to Paige. Referencing the killed ducks, declares it "murderous, & hardly fair sport; but it shows how things are done, down here in Marshfield." 1845 written on this document in pencil at a later date.

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