Letters 1761 1792 PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 edition. Excerpt: ... FIRST PERIOD. 1761-1792. CONTAINING MAINLY THE LETTERS WHICH PASSED BETWEEN THE HON. BENJAMIN HUNTINGTON AND HIS WIFE ANNE. FIRST PERIOD. 1761-1792. When the correspondence opens, Anne Huntington is not yet married, and is living with her mother at Windham, Conn. She writes to her elder sister, Hannah, wife of Gideon Tomlinson, of Stratford, Conn., an officer in the army: Dear Sister! Our last News from Stratford was by Mr. Chandler and then no Letter which I thought was cruel we are impatient to hear from you and hope Shortly to hear good News thinking if any thing to the contrary had happend we Should have heard from you before now. O my Dear Sister I am with you in my thoughts almost continually as well in my Sleeping as waking Hours last "Hannah Tomlinson's only child, Jabez Huntington, was born December 24, 1760. His son, Gideon, was Governor of Connecticut from 1827 to 1831. Night I wakd my Self Talking to Sister Hannah & Lucy I fain would have gone to sleep again and Dreamd on but so great was my Disappointment in finding all to be a Dream that I could not compose my Self to sleep for some Hours. I have no News except what I have wrote to Sister L. Honrd Mama & all Friends at Windham are in Health through Divine Indulgence, and Nothing would add more to my Happiness than your presence Mama Designs to hold you to your Promiss of coming to Windham in the Spring I cant but Long for its approach for if you come it will be a Spring indeed to me. Pleas to give my compts. to Capn. Tomlinson tell him I shall Heartily Rejoice to see him at Windham I Congratulate him & you on his return from the Champaign The close of the war between England and France, called in the American colonies "The Old French and Indian War." It ended with the...