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Post by WERT on Dec 31, 2020 18:40:38 GMT
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vikingeck
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Post by vikingeck on Dec 31, 2020 21:02:38 GMT
1760 Letter from my Home town ABERDEEN to Edinburgh with a very faint early straight line handstamp in red . Rated at 3d to Mr James Smyth a Lawyer in Edinburgh From a Mr Lumsden in Aberdeen dateline Nov 8 1760
 
The second scan in deeper intensity shows the mark a little better . Interesting historical side notes to the letter. We are only 15 Years after Bonnie Prince Charlie and his mostly Highland Jacobites were defeated by the armies of George II, ending any hopes of a Stuart King and confirming the Protestant House of Hanover. Europe is fighting the "Seven Years War", Austrians, Prussians, French, Russians British etc all involved Aberdeen was a centre for Shipping young white children, Shanghaied , kidnapped or just sold by impoverished parents, transported to the American colonies and sold as indentured servants (virtual white slaves until they had worked off their purchase price and shipping costs ) for up to 10 years 1760 George III ( Farmer George, he of the "Madness") became King for the next 59 Years 1760 British finally gain Montreal and Detroit and control of Canada in their wars with the French . 1760 New Englanders settle Nova Scotia after the enforced removal of the 14,000 French Acadians |
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WERT
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Post by WERT on Dec 31, 2020 21:05:34 GMT
vikingeck Very nice letter... I am impressed. Robert
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Post by renden on Dec 31, 2020 21:30:14 GMT
WERT and vikingeckI am also - it must be nice to live in "old" Countries  René
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Post by WERT on Dec 31, 2020 21:46:32 GMT
Rene ( renden) will like this one... Mailed to N.Y. City from Fredericton New Brunswick in 1854
Robert
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Post by WERT on Dec 31, 2020 21:55:04 GMT
Here is a cancelled letter just 3 days after Canada entered confederation on July.1.1867 This letter is dated July.4.1867
Also the Post Office from 1853 that it was cancelled.
Robert
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Post by vikingeck on Dec 31, 2020 22:08:51 GMT
Not my oldest letter this time but reasonably early 1814 Letter to a Col Hamilton, who is managing a sugar Plantation in Jamaica , from the lawyer representing Lady Crawfurd discusses the possibility of " purchasing Negroes" . From AYR near Glasgow, Scotland to Jamaica by the Mail Packet ship out of Falmouth .. The letter enclosed a copy of another document which meant it was Triple weight and eventually cost 7shillings and sixpence (a whole week's wages for a workman on a shilling a day ) To pay for the roads in Scotland there was a half penny tax on 4 wheeled coaches, extra to the postage  ![]() |
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Post by vikingeck on Dec 31, 2020 22:53:10 GMT
My oldest Canada Letter . This is a personal letter to my wife's great- great- Grandfather " James Anderson, Farmer at Lochend of Rayne " near to Aberdeen in 1856, from HAMILTON UPPER CANADA which was carried by a Royal Mail Packet boat to Liverpool. The letter is from his Uncle John Forbes , with news of a group of Scots immigrants who had settled in Hamilton and Fergus around 1850, describing the very harsh winter.  |
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Post by WERT on Dec 31, 2020 23:37:02 GMT
If this is as I read it Hamilton Ontario {Upper Canada}, then here is the Hamilton map and the Post Office for Hamilton. If I am wrong, just ignore this post. Robert
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vikingeck
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Post by vikingeck on Jan 1, 2021 10:52:31 GMT
Thanks Robert, but I guess even that town map and post office would not have existed in 1856. I wonder if there is an early directory of the citizens of Hamilton around 1860.?
John Forbes was a blacksmith / foundry man by trade . Apart from that early letter to gt-gt- grandfather we have no record of any Forbes cousins in Canada . The next generation seems to have lost touch.
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Post by WERT on Jan 1, 2021 17:02:25 GMT
vikingeck: I know you don't think a Hamilton post office was around early... Take a look below.
Robert
A post office was opened at Hamilton in 1825, with W. B. Sheldon as the first postmaster.
Also below is a link to see names of farmers, etc that night be of interest to your family..
CLICK NO. 10 map
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Post by renden on Jan 1, 2021 18:28:44 GMT
Rene ( renden ) will like this one... Mailed to N.Y. City from Fredericton New Brunswick in 1854
Robert
Very nice WERT - Robert !! Have not posted my old stampless covers since they were before and do not want to repeat......1827 is the oldest Thanks !! Happy New Year René |
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vikingeck
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Post by vikingeck on Jan 1, 2021 18:44:27 GMT
Robert , @wert of course I was a aware of a PST office in Hamilton , just not the same one you showed in your postcard from about 1900-1910,#
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Post by WERT on Jan 1, 2021 20:11:24 GMT
vikingeck My last post on this letter. There was a Hamilton P.O. at the time of your letter. Take care...stay safe my friend.
Robert
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