Author : William D. Vaughan
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Page : pages
File Size : 33,82 MB
Release : 1820
Category : Abbeville County (S.C.)
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Collection consists of: letter, 1820, from William D. Vaughan to his brother, Elijah D. Vaughan, at Willington P.O., Abbeville District, South Carolina, making inquiries about his brother's proposed journey-- "You stated in your letter that you should take a rout[e] over the new purchase of Georgia this summer and if you like you expected to purchase land and make your home"; and letter, 5 August 1823, addressed "Dear brother" from Wilcox County, Alabama, talking about his recent journey that "was thirty four days on the worst road that ever I expected to see." He comments on the disagreeable elements of his new home-- "the musketoes sand flies and horse flies is very bad and the cuntry appeares to abount with snakes and pousnus reptiles." He continues about that the quality of the land, the abundance of water and his "very good looking corn." There are plentiful wild animals "as for game there appears to be plenty of beares panters volves and deer but they are very wild."