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You searched for: Year start: 1900✖Year end: 1910✖Contributor: Great Cranberry Island Historical Society✖Date: 1870s✖Subject: People✖Type: Document✖Type: Letter✖
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Letter 7 of group of letters to Frances (Fannie) S. Spurling Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Letter 7 of group of letters to Frances (Fannie) S. Spurling Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Letter 7 (with transcription) in a collection of letters to Frances (Fannie) S. Spurling. This one is from her older half-brother A. B. Spurling in 1874 Andrew Barclay Spurling writes from New York City and states he learned of their mother’s illness from Fannie’s letter of the 16th, and of her death (January 17, 1874) in a letter from their brother William of the 19th, both of which he received on January 21, 1874. Too late to go home. He reminisces fondly about his mother and offers have Father Preble live with him now if he wishes to. A.B. Spurling (Civil War General Andrew Barclay) who wrote letter 7 is one of Samuel E. Spurling’s younger brothers (Samuel wrote letters 1-6 to Fannie). Frances (Fannie) A. Preble was Samuel and Andrew’s half-sister, the daughter of the widowed Abigail Cobb Hadlock Spurling and her second husband William P. Preble. [show more] | ||
Letter 6 of 6 from Samuel Spurling to Fannie Preble Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Letter 6 of 6 from Samuel Spurling to Fannie Preble Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Letter 6 of 6 letters (with transcriptions) written 1865-1874 from Samuel E. Spurling (1827-1895) to his much younger half-sister Frances (Fannie) A. Preble (b. 1849). Samuel moved from Great Cranberry to California about age 23 ca.1850. In these six letters, he writes from Gold Hill, Nevada, where he works in gold mines. This letter #6 is from Gold Hill Nevada. Jan 11th 1874 to My dear Sister Fannie from S.C. or S.E Spurling. Samuel learns from Mr. or Wm Henry that his mother is ill. He’s having a brutal winter, Samuel was ill in Nevada; he’s now working at Crown Point Mine where he worked 7 or 8 years ago; can’t come home at present. Samuel E. Spurling is the eldest son of Abigail Cobb Hadlock Spurling and Samuel Spurling. A.B. Spurling (likely Civil War General Andrew Barclay) who wrote letter 7 is one of Samuel’s younger brothers. Frances (Fannie) A. Preble was Samuel and Andrew’s half-sister, the daughter of the widowed Abigail Cobb Hadlock Spurling and her second husband William P. Preble. [show more] | ||
Letter from William H. Preble to his father Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Letter from William H. Preble to his father Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Letter is from William H. Preble to his father William P. Preble, written in Portland, about his mother (Abigail Preble) ill-health, herring, and brother Andrew. Transcribed. | ||
Letter from Guptill to Stanley Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| ![]() Letter from Guptill to Stanley Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Letter and envelope from C.J. Guptill Winter Harbor, 14 Feb 1879, to Capt. Stanley, friendly business letter about fish & visit | ||
Envelope addressed to Capt. Enoch B. Stanley Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Envelope addressed to Capt. Enoch B. Stanley Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Envelope, addressed to "Capt. Enoch B. Stanley, Portland, Maine", with 3-cent stamp, franked 12 Dec 1876, apparently the envelope that letter item 178 was delivered in |