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Robert Everett - incoming - Powell, Llewellyn, Everett family correspondence, 1867

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Title Robert Everett - incoming - Powell, Llewellyn, Everett family correspondence, 1867

Date 1867

Language English, Welsh

Subjects Abolitionists, Brothers and sisters, Congregational churches, American Civil War (United States : 1861-1865)

Extent 6.9 linear feet (16.5 boxes)

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User-Contributed Transcription Ebensburg July 13th, 1857?Dr EverettTruly venerable & tome long revered Friend he?.Indeed such are always myfeelings in writing to you but especiallyto none in this more private & confidentialmanner altho at present having neither thetime nor the knowledge I can give you no veryfull information no more than to drop a few linesrespecting our present news & intentions as we are juston the eve of removing our little family to Alliance in Ohiowith the view of helping our poor people there all I can(for a while at least) towards planting & raising a Con. l littleunclear there few in number & feeble in strength as they now arehowever - For more than a year seeing their prospectingview rather dark & precarious had I been fighting againsttheir proposals & yet have never been able to give it entirely upif possibly any good might be done there. You are aware thata small infant little church was organized there last Spring althothe Cal. Meth. had made an organization much earlier & was unclearstronger in number & strength even the mills as they intended &I answered? it being sort of a "church & state concern" seeminglyOurs were, but, 2 or 3 small families already involved? indebtedin the ,ice? & in building their humble dwellings houses they numbernow in all about 20 members. I have now occasionallyback & forth supplied them for a number of unclear or other& in answer to their humble but earnest request told themthat if they agreed to do their best faithfully I would likewisedo my best for them for one year late more fully what can be done & to have I colored? to their cannot to farnot wishing to despair this "day of small things"Apart from this discouraging aspect of things thereI was strongly tempted to relinquish this enterprisethe Cong. Ch. in Cambria Wis., a fine healthy country& a very promising field of labour were we younger to cupit at once & lately an urge invitation to the same purposeto receive a like call from 3 united churches aroundDodgeville Wis. one Welsh Conge.? & one Eng. Cong. ch. in town& Bethel on Coed? out in the country. But very same reasonI had to give up these two calls unclear they wereIn many ways very tempting as I had to give a?

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Archival Collection Title Everett family papers

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Call Number Midwest MS Everett Box 1 Folder 65

BibID 998218028805867

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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