Samuel Davis Wilson : letters describing his family's journey to Minnesota and life in the mid-1800s / compiled and presented by Robert DeGroot. 1996

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Samuel Davis Wilson : letters describing his family's journey to Minnesota and life in the mid-1800s / compiled and presented by Robert DeGroot. 1996

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Correspondence from Samuel and Polly Ann (Meteer) Wilson that describes their stay at Swan Lake and St. Peter (in present Nicollet County, Minnesota) between 1857 and 1864. Their later correspondence was sent from Forbesville, Illinois. Also: correspondence from various persons, written between 1854 and 1912 and saved by the family of John Benson Crum and his wife Sarah Meteer, sister of Polly Ann (Meteer) Wilson, who lived first in Ohio and later in Illinois; and correspondence written by the compiler, Robert DeGroot and descendants of the earlier Crum and Meteer family members.

1 v. (loose-leaf, in binder) ; 30 cm.

Nicollet County Historical Society