Victory Parade

 
Among the most interesting of the paper relicts from our past are the letters that have survived to give us tiny bits and pieces of personal, as well as, commercial life.
 
The letters listed below offer a sample of the correspondence generated by the citizens of Trenton and its environs in the first half of the 19th century:
CONTENT
DATE
RECIPIENT GREETING SENDER POSTMARK
Patronage
04/15/1811
Samuel Meredith sir John Read (phi)
Family Gossip
12/10/1836
Beulah Coates dear Sherman (Trenton)
Food Buy
01/20/1837
Mfs. Law & Todd gentlemen B. Rose Trenton
Note
04/28/1838
Messrs. Law & Todd gentlemen Stephen B. Rose (Trenton)
Business
05/23/1839
Charles ?ently ? L. ?Ropell Trenton
Abolitionists
02/13/1840
Beulah Coates cousin ?L. T. L. Trenton
Rent Farm
03/27/1840
Philemon Dickinson, Hon. sir Stephen B. Rose Trenton
Death Notice
05/05/1842
Dr. P. J. Stryker sir Isaac Southard Trenton
Marrying Time
11/19/1842
William Balderston brother ?J. S. Balderston Morrisville
Real Estate
04/09/1844
George Sykes sir Henry W. Green Trenton
Lawyer's Bill
06/21/1844
Charles P. Relf, Esquire sir R. P. Thompson Trenton
Family Affairs
04/05/1849
Wm. S. Cooley son E.G.? Cooley (Trenton)
Carpet
04/12/1850
Mrs. Samuel Gummere mother Elizabeth Gummere Trenton
 
Walter Patykula's Letters written home to Trenton during World War II provide a window into the experiences of one local man who did not return home after the war. Walter was shot down over Japan on December 3, 1944.
 

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