Hawes-Taber family letters 1837-1838 Hawes-Taber family letters

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Hawes-Taber family letters 1837-1838 Hawes-Taber family letters

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Between December 17, 1837, and January 1, 1838, Lucy Williams Hawes and her aunt, Mary D. Taber, wrote 4 letters (11 pages) from Buffalo, New York, about the Canadian rebellions of 1837-1838. Lucy Williams Hawes wrote 2 letters to her father, Richard Williams, who was the postmaster of New Bedford, Massachusetts, and one letter to her brother-in-law, Lawrence Grinnell. Mary D. Taber wrote one letter to her sister, Rebeckah Smith Williams.

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