Morton-Dexter letters, 1813-1845.

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Morton-Dexter letters, 1813-1845.

Family correspondence of Sarah W.A. and Perez Morton; Charlotte M., Sophia, and Andrew Dexter; Griselda E.C. and Joseph H. Clinch; Frances W. and Anna L. Morton; and Sarah A.M. Cunningham. Also, poetry and a fragment of Sarah W.A. Morton's will. One letter (1813) describes the mysterious murder of a young woman in Athens, New York.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6953606

Massachusetts Historical Society

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Dexter family.

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Dexter, Charlotte Morton.

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Morton, Anna Louisa.

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Clinch, Griselda Eastwick Cunningham, 1810-1873.

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Morton, Sarah Wentworth, 1759-1846

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Wife of Boston lawyer and politician, Perez Morton; known as the "American Sappho." From the description of Receipt to George Watson Brimmer [manuscript], 1828 August 4. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647814340 ...

Dexter, Andrew Alfred, 1809-1854

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Civil engineer promoting development of railroads in South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and elsewhere; trained as a civil engineer, Dexter surveyed the first railroad from Charleston, S.C. to Augusta, Ga., 1832-1833, and laid out the town of Aiken, S.C., where he met and married Sarah Williams, ca. 1834; Dexter became a cotton planter in Macon County (Ala.); died of yellow fever, 1854, while surveying a railroad from Mobile to New Orleans; son of Andrew Dexter (1779-1837), a native of Massachuset...

Cunningham, Sarah Apthorp Morton, 1782-1844.

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Morton, Frances Wentworth.

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Morton family.

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Morton, Perez, 1751-1837

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Morton graduated from Harvard College in 1771. He was an attorney of Suffolk County in 1779, a barrister in 1786, and attorney general of Massachusetts (1810-1832). From the description of Letter to William Minot, 31 May 1833. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 235128557 ...

Clinch, Joseph Hart, 1806-1884.

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Dexter, Sophia.

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