Letter from Ebenezer Clapp to Samuel Downer regarding a note from Winslow Battles requesting an invitation for Seth Mann

Letter from Ebenezer Clapp to Samuel Downer regarding a note from Winslow Battles requesting an invitation for Seth Mann

In this letter Ebenezer Clapp states that he has received a note from Winslow Battles and he wants to make Samuel Downer aware of it. Clapp then says that knows the Battles family but not Winslow Battles. He continues on to state that he believes Henry Humphreys should be invited to the reunion of the Free Soil Party since he was one of the signers of the first Free Soil document. After ending the letter he includes part of the note from Winslow Battles, who asks for an invitation to the reunion for Seth Mann.

Downer, Samuel, 1807-1881

Battles, Winslow, 1818-1889

Mann, Seth, 1817-1881

Birney, James Gillespie, 1792-1857

Humphreys, Henry, 1801-1896

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Clapp, Ebenezer, 1809-1881

Hingham Public Library

1877 August 7

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Boston (Mass.)

1848

1877 August 9

Hingham Public Library

Boston Aug 7, 1877 

Dear Friend Downer

On the other page you will see a note I rec^d [sic] from W. Battles this morning which I thought you might be glad to know of.  I know the family although not personally acquainted this man.  I do not know as you have thought of our good neighbor Dea. [sic] Hum-phreys which I think was one of the original signers of the first document of the first town to commence the fight

Truly yours

Eben Clapp 

Seth Mann 2^d . Randolph

He used to vote for James G Burney [sic] prior to 1848.  Fine as steel to the present time.  He would like to be at the reunion - the 9th.  Can you get an invitation for him + send it to me this day.

W. Battles

222 Congress St.

8” x 10 ½ ”