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Metcalf, Isaac Stevens. Friends' correspondence: Watson, Robert (includes letter about Sioux uprising), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1855, 1862-1863

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Open book Friends' correspondence: Watson, Robert (includes letter about Sioux uprising), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1855, 1862-1863

Title Metcalf, Isaac Stevens. Friends' correspondence: Watson, Robert (includes letter about Sioux uprising), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1855, 1862-1863

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1855, 1862-1863

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 are usually let in your vicinity? What are the crops mostly raised? Is stock kept [[largely?]] What are good cows worth? ditto Horses? & sheep What rent is usually paid for land per acre? What could a small dwelling house & a few acres of land be rented for in the vicinity of Elyria?
I shall feel much obliged if you can give me at your earliest convenience the information indicated by the above queries. Altho I do not know that I can avail myself of it certainly. The probable necessity for a draft of the militia will keep me within State limits for a while; and should our Indian troubles continue I should not feel disposed nor think it right to leave the State while the presance of a large force of men is needed to over[[come?]] and drive back the Indians
If I cannot leave probably my wife & children will go to New Hampshire and spend the winter with Mr Isaac Chandl[[er?]]'s family.
In regard to this Indian outbreak, the cause is not yet definitely ascertained As the Chipaways also stand in a threatening attitude, and are disposed to unite with the Sioux, heretofore their implacable enemies, it is supposed with some reason to be the work of Sesessionists. As yet the Chipaways have committed no outrages; and the prospect now is that they will not. They have been promised that any

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Archival Collection Title Isaac Stevens Metcalf papers, Midwest Manuscript Collection

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Call Number Midwest MS Metcalf Box 8 Folder 211

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

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Unique Identifier NL11FKWO

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