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Tunbridge (Vt.) -- History -- Sources

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

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

Bement family letters

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 3146
Scope and Contents

The collection includes 73 items, including letters between Bingham and Sarah while she was in Kanesville and he was in St. Louis earning money for them to go West; letters between Sarah Bement and Ira and William Mudd discussing payment; and letters between members of the Bement family.

Dates: 1849-1878