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Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, to Antoinette Brigham Putnam Metcalf (wife), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1866

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Open book Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, to Antoinette Brigham Putnam Metcalf (wife), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1866

Title Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, to Antoinette Brigham Putnam Metcalf (wife), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1866

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1850-1866

Place United States

Subjects Bowdoin College, Brothers and sisters, DuQuoin Coal Company, Illinois Central Railroad Company

Format Business records, Correspondence, Diaries, Genealogies, Invoices, Manuscripts, Personal narratives, Records

User-Contributed Transcription This DuQuoin Station property you know cost Mr Keyes about $3500.00 for the whole Four hundred acres. The Sales up to Jan. 1st 1857 amount to considerably over $10.000.00; from which I have received but little over $1600.00 Jan. Sales some $2.000.00 or more. I forgot to say that of the $10.000.00 two or three hundred more than half belongs to my share. Most of the Sales you know are for Notes on interest. The least estimate of the value of the unsold land would be $20.000.00 Besides fifteen or twenty acres which belongs to me alone, the part which we divided, and Mr Keyes has now sold with his new house for $6.000.00 The land being called $3.500.00. I intend to keep my part a spell and get something for it. It is in demand now, but I tell people I have laid that by for my children.I made out on a coal lease a day or two since which binds the lessee to pay Keyes & Metcalf not less than $500.00 per annum. The avails of it may amount to $3.000.00 per year.

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Archival Collection Title Isaac Stevens Metcalf papers, Midwest Manuscript Collection

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Call Number Midwest MS Metcalf Box 7 Folder 179

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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Unique Identifier NL11FJRM

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