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Title: Greeves, Mary to O'Brien (n. Greeves), Anne, 1840
ID6078
CollectionThe Transatlantic Letters of an Irish Quaker Family_1818-1877 [B. Jackson]
Filequaker/104
Year1840
SenderGreeves, Mary
Sender Genderfemale
Sender Occupationunknown
Sender ReligionQuaker
OriginNYC, USA
DestinationLake Erie, NY, USA
RecipientO'Brien (n. Greeves), Anne
Recipient Genderfemale
Relationshipcousins
Source
Archive
Doc. No.
Date
Partial Date
Doc. Type
Logunknown
Word Count122
Genreabstract of letter, news of family and friends
Note
TranscriptNew York 16th 6 mo 1840

Mentions Rebecca Bell —. Joseph Beal —. Brother James left for London 1st of this month in the British Queen
—. Jacob Green in company with him —. Aunt Greeves is well —. "Brother Henry in New Orleans dined at J.
G. Greeves’s in company with a son of Aunt Alis Sinton’s who is a clerk on board one of the Mississippi Steam
Boats - out cousin John [Greet Greeves] has a family of 10 child" - two of the young men in England in business,
two at school, the others (4 are girls) are accomplished & interesting; their mother [Marie Forstall] he does not
speak of." Abraham Bell is on the Committee of Indian Affairs.