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Hannah Allen letter

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230323765]
Identifier: MSS SC 2449
Scope and Contents

Handwritten and signed. The item was not dated but was composed some time in the early nineteenth century. The letter was written to Hannah's granddaughter, Jane Addams. Hannah, who was barely literate, tells Adams about a "Refamation" in the area of Tunbridge and Chelsea, Vermont. The family of Joseph Smith (1805-1844), the first president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, lived in this area in the 1790s.

Dates: approximately 1810