Moseley family letters, 1833-1849.

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Mosley family. Moseley family letters, 1833-1849.

Moseley family letters, 1833-1849.

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This collection contains letters from the 1830s and the 1840s by members of the Moseley family of Buckingham County, Virginia, and Jessamine County, Kentucky. The earlier two letters were written by William Moseley in Buckingham County to his brother, Colonel John Moseley, a resident of Keene in Jessamine County. The first letter, written in 1833, concerned business and land sales. To safeguard a payment being transmitted through this letter, William Moseley sent half a check. He requested his brother to provide family information such as the maiden names of their mother and grandmother, the names of John's children, and other similar facts only John would know. When William received this information, he would mail the second half of the check. The other letter written by William Moseley of Virginia is dated 1836. It contains family news, including the death of their brother Thomas, the birth of a son to William, and the marriage of William's daughter. This letter also discusses national and local politics at length. The other two letters in this record group were written in 1848 and 1849 by John R. Moseley, also a resident of Jessamine County and possibly the son of Colonel John Moseley. Both letters were written to J. Quincy Smith of Waynesville, Ohio. The first letter describes in detail the final illness and death of John's young brother, William, who died just short of his twenty-second birthday. Moseley also asked Smith's views on political figures Henry Clay and Tom Corwin. The second concerns social activities, including Christmas customs, and politics, particularly the prospect of the election of Clay to the U.S. Senate again.

4 items.

Kentucky Historical Society, Martin F. Schmidt Research Library