Transcribed Letter from William E. Avery1 - Geni
Transcribed Letter from William E. Avery1 (1805-1826)to his sister Maria Barber Avery2 (1801-1826), written at Springfield Mass, November 30, 1822. Cover – Postmarked Springfield Dec. 2 Single and one sheet only Miss Maria B Avery Sipio Cayuga County New York To the care of Elias Avery Esqr Springfield Nov 30th 1822 My Dear Sister Is my name no longer Registered in your memory and also that of my Dear Brother & Sister- Albert3 & Lucy’s4 it is not most two months since we have Known your situation or had the least stems of your Prosperity or what the wheal of time has brought and added to your happiness or sorrow has it how ever so great either way We are here out of your reach and must be left to pass away our time [missing passage] Unacquainted with the happiness or Unhappiness [missing passage] friends where we claim a title. It may be you [missing passage] not the power of informing us destitute of Ink and [missing passage] of so just mention it we have a large supply of [missing passage] We will furnish you on the most accomodating [missing passage]. I am entirely willing to leave it to [missing passage] Excuse for I cannot believe it is the first -- You no [missing passage] Have recd two Letters one from Albert and one from [missing passage] Since our Return from the West which has left you [missing passage] In our debt. But if you are inclined thaks be to Kind Providence it is very easily paid which I hope will be without delay How doe you get a long are you Joging about in the old sort – yes this moment I can almost discerne your proceedings Were it not for that great black cloud that Extends almost Three Hundred Miles we might exactly discerne your proceedings & were it not for that we might every moment of our lives be under the comprehension of each others sight-- But I fear that obstruction is to be to long and to permanent But hope it is the best thing that Kind Providence has ordered for our future Welfare and happiness -- But I may say with candour that I am this present moment laboring heard [sic] very heard [sic] under the dispensation of Providence for the situation he has thus placed me in. It appears to me at times that I am the onely one Unhappy – on account of the great dividend made between me and My Friends which deprives me of that good society that I feel I ought to enjoy
It is now evening my Dear Maria, and I am locked up in my contemplating Room where my thoughts move to their utmost bounds – Amoung the numerous things that are at this present moment prying at the foundation of my mind – is the subject I am not to enter uppon— Charlotte -- O – Charlotte – yes --- I presume by this time is in her drawing Room – and --- by her – side that pretty young Man who is soon to be hers forever--- His – Name -- O – Great – indeed – yes – high on the List -- Benjamin – C – Jackson5-- Well let her go I can give the welcome hand – it will never cause me[ ] moments of Look back [missing passage] to the Supreme she has not so thourely drawn me by those [missing passage] ting charms which she possesses to her heart – that it is a going [missing passage] around which is never to be erased -- Think not my Dear [missing passage] that I mean to give her a blast or make her appear low in your [missing passage] tion or even mine – or think she is cold and indifferent towards me [missing passage] Exactly the reverse She shows me every mark of respect and even [missing passage] so far as to tell me that I was in her estimation and fondness next [missing passage] I. the above mentioned Gentleman – he is a young Lawyer a very [missing passage] , Bow -- Bowmonde, But in my Estimation not one of the first of [missing passage] tan nor best bred -- But is rated one of the first amongst our [missing passage] -- B -- M -- L -- for ever I presume you will recollect the Enitials -- My Dear Maria – my thoughts are now changed and they return back to my native Soil – the place of my birth – Aurora – where are all those charms that I have so often seen in her face all those ties that I thought would ever remain with me and bind me to that soil are fled – Aurora – is no longer the place it was - My playmates my Friends where are they all they leave it_ yes_leave it for ever. And I am among the Unhappy numbers that is deprived of the watchings and society of faithfull Beloved and ever Respected Parents -- But Maria we grow to maturity we must spread and go to seek our lively Hood out of the reach of our never failing Friends_ O my Dear Sister how greatly have we ben blessed and favoured - with such good Parents as we have What doe we ow them a debt I Know certain on my part that never can be canceled they we ow our ixistence yes were it necessary I deem nothing that in my power lies to good to serve them ever my life – Maria how greatly am I indebted to thee and Sister Elizabeth22 for your good advice on the subject I am now a going to renew to your memory – How great is your Superior Knowledge I presume to you Maria the circumstance of our walk one evening while I was at Aurora – will be perfectly familiar - You Maria Cousins Abby6 Edwin7 and myself went to Mr Stewarts8 to hear her the Miss Stewart9 play or give us a chant on her (damnible) Pianna Most Unfortunate Unlucky eve for me that temper of mine which I wished might always remain the same as it was when I talked with you on the present Subject _ I fear will always be to [sic] great a (cus) for me how many sorriful moments has that transaction cost me by night and by day-- My favouor I have to only of you that is one your Rues to implore [missing passage] For me - her whose feelings and inocense I have to [sic] wrongfully [missing passage This is Saturday Evening- last Sunday evening [missing passage] Mr. Sargents10 in Company with Albert3 Lucy4 and Uncle Smith11 [missing passage] are all in very good health -- Lucy4 has ben quite unwell [missing passage] cold – Albert3 has had a very bad turn of the cholie – but [missing passage] restored to them both – but – Bill12 is as fat and harty [missing passage] his cheecks stick out as big as your two hands – but he has [missing passage]
of good exercise - The evening is almost spent – but stop [missing passage] forgot one thing tell now - My Friend Amos D Sm[ ]en13 [missing passage] very sick indeed his life has been disposed of for sometime but he is now on the going hand - I have not seen him since my Return as he is at Groton and has ben there all through his sickness but I hope soon to have the pleasure of seeing him again – The last accounts from Groton were very favourable all friends well excepting our poor old Grand Ma Ma14 – You must Give my love to all Uncle A. Morgan15 [missing passage] Aunt Rachels16 Uncle Nezars17 – Uncle H Averys18 – poor Charles19 and in all and all the whole of my friends - Remember me in particular to Miss Phebe [Emmels]20 – and all the rest of the Girls - give your armful of love to cousin Abby21 --- Our family my prayers for their good welfare as to every night Write immediately my Dear Maria To your Effectionate brother William E Avery (pay postage for only one sheet, this is one) Excuse Errors [Post Script:] Tell Sister Elizabeth22 I shall write her next time then brothers John26 Noyes23 J S that dear little fellow (doe not let my brothers heart [sic] themselves with guns I fear every Letter ----) How is my mothers24 health doe not let her work to hard -- How is Papas25 lameness doe not let him work to hard – Good night my dear Sister
- William -
Footnotes: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26.
[William E. Avery (1805-1826)] [Maria Barber Avery (1801-1826)] [Albert Morgan (1789-1860), William’s half brother] [Lucy Avery Miner (1798-1869), Albert Morgan’s wife] [Unknown / researching] [probably Abigail Avery (1817-1901), daughter of Daniel Avery (1766-1842)] [probably Edwin Avery (1795-1856), son of Daniel Avery (1766-1842)] [unknown / researching] [unknown / researching] [unknown / researching] [possibly William Smith (1796 – unk), however “Uncle” William Smith would have been William E. Avery’s brother-inlaw] [unknown / researching] [unknown / researching] [probably Deborah Avery (1742-1825), widowed, William E. Avery’s grandmother residing in Groton] [possibly Amos Morgan (1774-1845)] [possibly Rachel Avery (1777-1856)] [unknown / researching] [unknown / researching] [unknown / researching] [unknown / researching] [probably Abigail Avery (1817-1901)] [Elizabeth Denison Avery (1803-1824)] [Noyes Latham Avery (1815-1901)] [Sarah “Sally” Barber (1773-1837)] [Elias Avery (1768-1837)] [John Barber Avery (1808-1898)]
It is now evening my Dear Maria, and I am locked up in my contemplating Room where my thoughts move to their utmost bounds – Amoung the numerous things that are at this present moment prying at the foundation of my mind – is the subject I am not to enter uppon— Charlotte -- O – Charlotte – yes --- I presume by this time is in her drawing Room – and --- by her – side that pretty young Man who is soon to be hers forever--- His – Name -- O – Great – indeed – yes – high on the List -- Benjamin – C – Jackson5-- Well let her go I can give the welcome hand – it will never cause me[ ] moments of Look back [missing passage] to the Supreme she has not so thourely drawn me by those [missing passage] ting charms which she possesses to her heart – that it is a going [missing passage] around which is never to be erased -- Think not my Dear [missing passage] that I mean to give her a blast or make her appear low in your [missing passage] tion or even mine – or think she is cold and indifferent towards me [missing passage] Exactly the reverse She shows me every mark of respect and even [missing passage] so far as to tell me that I was in her estimation and fondness next [missing passage] I. the above mentioned Gentleman – he is a young Lawyer a very [missing passage] , Bow -- Bowmonde, But in my Estimation not one of the first of [missing passage] tan nor best bred -- But is rated one of the first amongst our [missing passage] -- B -- M -- L -- for ever I presume you will recollect the Enitials -- My Dear Maria – my thoughts are now changed and they return back to my native Soil – the place of my birth – Aurora – where are all those charms that I have so often seen in her face all those ties that I thought would ever remain with me and bind me to that soil are fled – Aurora – is no longer the place it was - My playmates my Friends where are they all they leave it_ yes_leave it for ever. And I am among the Unhappy numbers that is deprived of the watchings and society of faithfull Beloved and ever Respected Parents -- But Maria we grow to maturity we must spread and go to seek our lively Hood out of the reach of our never failing Friends_ O my Dear Sister how greatly have we ben blessed and favoured - with such good Parents as we have What doe we ow them a debt I Know certain on my part that never can be canceled they we ow our ixistence yes were it necessary I deem nothing that in my power lies to good to serve them ever my life – Maria how greatly am I indebted to thee and Sister Elizabeth22 for your good advice on the subject I am now a going to renew to your memory – How great is your Superior Knowledge I presume to you Maria the circumstance of our walk one evening while I was at Aurora – will be perfectly familiar - You Maria Cousins Abby6 Edwin7 and myself went to Mr Stewarts8 to hear her the Miss Stewart9 play or give us a chant on her (damnible) Pianna Most Unfortunate Unlucky eve for me that temper of mine which I wished might always remain the same as it was when I talked with you on the present Subject _ I fear will always be to [sic] great a (cus) for me how many sorriful moments has that transaction cost me by night and by day-- My favouor I have to only of you that is one your Rues to implore [missing passage] For me - her whose feelings and inocense I have to [sic] wrongfully [missing passage This is Saturday Evening- last Sunday evening [missing passage] Mr. Sargents10 in Company with Albert3 Lucy4 and Uncle Smith11 [missing passage] are all in very good health -- Lucy4 has ben quite unwell [missing passage] cold – Albert3 has had a very bad turn of the cholie – but [missing passage] restored to them both – but – Bill12 is as fat and harty [missing passage] his cheecks stick out as big as your two hands – but he has [missing passage]
of good exercise - The evening is almost spent – but stop [missing passage] forgot one thing tell now - My Friend Amos D Sm[ ]en13 [missing passage] very sick indeed his life has been disposed of for sometime but he is now on the going hand - I have not seen him since my Return as he is at Groton and has ben there all through his sickness but I hope soon to have the pleasure of seeing him again – The last accounts from Groton were very favourable all friends well excepting our poor old Grand Ma Ma14 – You must Give my love to all Uncle A. Morgan15 [missing passage] Aunt Rachels16 Uncle Nezars17 – Uncle H Averys18 – poor Charles19 and in all and all the whole of my friends - Remember me in particular to Miss Phebe [Emmels]20 – and all the rest of the Girls - give your armful of love to cousin Abby21 --- Our family my prayers for their good welfare as to every night Write immediately my Dear Maria To your Effectionate brother William E Avery (pay postage for only one sheet, this is one) Excuse Errors [Post Script:] Tell Sister Elizabeth22 I shall write her next time then brothers John26 Noyes23 J S that dear little fellow (doe not let my brothers heart [sic] themselves with guns I fear every Letter ----) How is my mothers24 health doe not let her work to hard -- How is Papas25 lameness doe not let him work to hard – Good night my dear Sister
- William -
Footnotes: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26.
[William E. Avery (1805-1826)] [Maria Barber Avery (1801-1826)] [Albert Morgan (1789-1860), William’s half brother] [Lucy Avery Miner (1798-1869), Albert Morgan’s wife] [Unknown / researching] [probably Abigail Avery (1817-1901), daughter of Daniel Avery (1766-1842)] [probably Edwin Avery (1795-1856), son of Daniel Avery (1766-1842)] [unknown / researching] [unknown / researching] [unknown / researching] [possibly William Smith (1796 – unk), however “Uncle” William Smith would have been William E. Avery’s brother-inlaw] [unknown / researching] [unknown / researching] [probably Deborah Avery (1742-1825), widowed, William E. Avery’s grandmother residing in Groton] [possibly Amos Morgan (1774-1845)] [possibly Rachel Avery (1777-1856)] [unknown / researching] [unknown / researching] [unknown / researching] [unknown / researching] [probably Abigail Avery (1817-1901)] [Elizabeth Denison Avery (1803-1824)] [Noyes Latham Avery (1815-1901)] [Sarah “Sally” Barber (1773-1837)] [Elias Avery (1768-1837)] [John Barber Avery (1808-1898)]
