Letter from Augustus Henry Seward to Lazette Miller Worden, January 7, 1839
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Letter from Augustus Henry Seward to Lazette Miller Worden, January 7, 1839
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Institution:University of Rochester
Repository:Rare Books and Special Collections
Date:1839-01-07
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Letter from Augustus Henry Seward to Lazette Miller Worden, January 7, 1839
action: sent
sender: Augustus Seward
Birth: 1826-10-01
Death: 1876-09-11
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receiver: Lazette Worden
Birth: 1803-11-01
Death: 1875-10-03
location: Canandaigua, NY
transcription: les
revision: crb 2018-10-25
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Albany Jan 7.th 1839
My dear Aunt & Cousin
I recieved your letter on the
5 of Jan and as you were goig home I do not think
my New Years letter will reach you so I will write one to
Canindaigua. New Years. we had 5 tables set with turkeys
ham beef corn beef alamode beef new years cakes crackers
chees champaign wine. We had 8 barrels of New Years cakes
1 barrel of crackers 4 heads of chees 8 baskets of bottles of champaign
1 barrel of wine all of the meat was trimed off with fringed
paper of all coulers, white, red, blue, straw couler, pink
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I was up to the capitol and saw Pa
office. And I went into the Asssembly and saw some of
the officers ellected and heard the Message read but while
the Message was bei ^n^ g read Pa come home and let about
2 or 3 thousand people in the ho ^u^ se and they crowded in so
fast that they upset one of the tables. When I come back
from the Capitol I tried to get in I went up on
the stoop and could not get in nor I could not get
off of the stoop again any way except to jump
off of the side of the stoop so I jumped off of the
side and went around the house two or three times
trying to get in the house but after a while I got
in the kitchen window and upstairs where Mrs Dewitt
was a back way then after a while, I got out of
the setting room window and went down to Mr Weeds
and staid about and half hour then I come up home
and got in the kitchen window with about a dozen
boys at my heals as quick as I got in, another
boy got half way in then we shut the window down
on him then he began to squel to get out we kept
him there about a minute then we let him out
this is all I shall write I guess this time though
I wrote a letter bafck home and put a piece of
full of writing in it to write all I wanted
Your Nephew & cousin
Augustus H Seward
Albany Jan 7.th 1839
My dear Aunt & Cousin
Birth: 1826-12-12 Death: 1909-08-24
I recieved your letter on the
5 of Jan and as you were goig home I do not think
my New Years letter will reach you so I will write one to
Canindaigua. New Years. we had 5 tables set with turkeys
ham beef corn beef alamode beef new years cakes crackers
chees champaign wine. We had 8 barrels of New Years cakes
1 barrel of crackers 4 heads of chees 8 baskets of bottles of champaign
1 barrel of wine all of the meat was trimed off with fringed
paper of all coulers, white, red, blue, straw couler, pink
I was up to the capitol and saw Pa
Birth: 1801-05-16 Death: 1872-10-10
sworn in hisoffice. And I went into the Asssembly and saw some of
the officers ellected and heard the Message read but while
the Message was bei ^n^ g read Pa come home and let about
2 or 3 thousand people in the ho ^u^ se and they crowded in so
fast that they upset one of the tables. When I come back
from the Capitol I tried to get in I went up on
the stoop and could not get in nor I could not get
off of the stoop again any way except to jump
off of the side of the stoop so I jumped off of the
side and went around the house two or three times
trying to get in the house but after a while I got
in the kitchen window and upstairs where Mrs Dewitt
Birth: 1805-12-20 Death: 1842-05-05
was a back way then after a while, I got out of
the setting room window and went down to Mr Weeds
Birth: 1797-11-15 Death: 1882-11-22
and staid about and half hour then I come up home
and got in the kitchen window with about a dozen
boys at my heals as quick as I got in, another
boy got half way in then we shut the window down
on him then he began to squel to get out we kept
him there about a minute then we let him out
this is all I shall write I guess this time though
I wrote a letter bafck home and put a piece of
full of writing in it to write all I wanted
Your Nephew & cousin
Augustus H Seward