Autograph Letter, Signed from Wisconsin settler to his family back East

by Wisconsin, Ira Gridley

$400 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

2-1/2 pages. 1 vols. Folio. A little worn at the folds. Item #32161 A letter to his family in Conn. Enthusiastic account, stating that he is holding several claims and hoping that some of his eastern friends will join him before he is forced to sell to strangers. I am living on Long Creek, 6 miles north from the old Indian town of Wappelo, nearest post Office Burlington, Wisconsin Territory, opposite side of the Mississippi River from Warren

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