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Contains 124 Results:
Letter from A. W. Loomis, Coast of China on board ship Great Briton [sic] to Mr. Seba Loomis, Cazenovia, New York., Sept. 24, 1849
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Weather; their diseases increase daily, he has throat trouble, doctor wants Mary Ann to return to US soon.
Dates:
Sept. 24, 1849
Letter from A. W. Loomis, Canton [China] to Mr. Seba Loomis, Cazenovia, New York., Oct. 10, 1849
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They have taken first boat for US, stopped at Canton; AWL has bronchitis.
Dates:
Oct. 10, 1849
Letter from A. W. Loomis, Canton [capital of Kwangtung Province, China] to Dear Parents., Oct. 23, 1849
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Waiting for passage to US.
Dates:
Oct. 23, 1849
Letter from A. W. Loomis, Canton [China] to Mr. Seba Loomis, Cazenovia, New York., Nov. 18, 1849
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Still waiting for passage from Canton to US, visited a Buddhist temple.
Dates:
Nov. 18, 1849
Letter from A. W. Loomis, Canton [China] to Mr. Silas L. Loomis, Cazenovia, New York., Dec 10, 1849
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"probably leave here about the middle of December and the captain counts on about 110 days passage."
Dates:
Dec 10, 1849
Will of Seba Loomis, Cazenovia, Madison Co., New York., Dec. 24, 1849
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COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
From the Collection:
Collection includes letters to relatives in Cazenovia, New York, from Augustus Ward Loomis and his wife, Mary Ann, Presbyterian missionaries to Chekiang Province, China (1845-1849), Indian Territory (1852), and to the Chinese in San Francisco (1865-1867). These letters are mainly concerned with the Loomis' religious views and activities, their impressions of the places to which they traveled, in particular Hong Kong, Canton, Chusan, and Ningpo, China; Chicago and Galesburg, Illinois; St....
Dates:
Dec. 24, 1849
Deed from Zudic? Zadock?, Lucy & Sarah Sweetland, Cazenovia, New York, to E. Dwight Loomis, Cazenovia, New York., Rec. Apr. 10, 1850
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Regards Cazenovia, New York property.
Dates:
Rec. Apr. 10, 1850
Letter from E. Dwight Loomis, Cazenovia, New York, to Dear Son Thomas [Thomas R. Loomis], Mexico, Oswego County, New York., Dec. 18, 1850
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Family news.
Dates:
Dec. 18, 1850
Deed from Joseph & John White, Trustees of the Cazenovia South Burying Ground, to E. Dwight Loomis, Cazenovia, New York., Feb. 3, 1852
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Sale of burial lots.
Dates:
Feb. 3, 1852
Deed from John A. & Mary King, Jamaica, Queens County, New York, to William Sherman, Georgetown, Madison County, New York., Mar. 17, 1852
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Regards Georgetown, New York property.
Dates:
Mar. 17, 1852