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Title: 1837-05-09 YPSILANTI MICH---BLACK CDS & MS 25 RATE----ROBERT GEDDES TO WILLIAM GEDDES---PS BY JOHN GEDDES (1850,60,70,80 US CENSUS, MICHIGAN MARRIAGE RECORDS, FIND A GRAVE, B. PENN. MAR 1801, D.4 NOV 1889, FATHER, ROBERT GEDDES {FATHER, WILLIAM GEDDES, MOTHER, SARAH McCALLON GEDDES[MOTHER, ISABELLA LOCK McCALLON, FATHER, ROBERT McCALLON-1732-1800, WAS CAPTAIN OF A COMPANY OF FOOT OF THE LANCASTER ASSOCIATORS AT THE BATTLE OF BRANDYWINE. HIS SWORD IS STILL IN THE FAMILY], MOTHER, JANE SAWYER GEDDES, SPOUSE, M. "FANNY" FRANCES ELIZA SAVAGE GEDDES 6 APR 1837, CHILDREN, SARAH GEDDES-B. 1840 {SPOUSE, WILLIAM T RANDALL, CHILD, SARAH GERTRUDE RANDALL}, HENRY GEDDES, JOHN GEDDES-B. 1843, RACHAEL GEDDES-B. 1845, DOMESTIC, LELIA ALEXANDER-B.1831)---GFP--BX1--#25----DATELINED ANN ARBOR 1837-05-08--NOTE!!!!--CONVERSATION ABOUT PROPER NEWSPAPER RATE--"I RECEIVED A NEWSPAPER FROM YOU SINCE I WROTE TO YOU. IT WAS CHARGED 25 CENTS. OUR POSTMASTER GAVE IT AS HIS OPINION THAT IT WAS MARKED 25 CENTS WHERE IT WAS MAILED. IT IS AT ALL UNLIKELY THAT THE WRAPPER WAS TAKEN OFF OF IT AND AND WHAT WAS IN IT READ AND THEN PUT ON AGAIN AND THE CHARGE OF TWENTY-FIVE CENTS MARKED ON IT AND A KIND OF WAY BILLSENT ALONG WITH IT. THE PAPER BEFORE THE LAST ONE WAS SIMILARLY MARKED. I HOPE YOU WILL SEND NO MORE PAPERS WITH WRITING ON THEM".---GIVING HIS BROTHER POWER OF ATTORNEY, BUSINESS HE DISLIKES REGARDING THEIR FATHER'S ESTATE---MENTIONS JOHN SAWYER, GRAYDON---GENEALOGY 2---2PGS---Courtesy of Bentley Historical Library at University of Michigan - N Item ID: E0-5698 View Map
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