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Samuel Kent letters

Collection — manuscript box: 12 - folder 1

Identifier: 2115

Scope and content

Ten letters (1828-1833) written mainly from Guilford, New York, by Kent to Timothy Ruggles Green concerning the sale of Green family lands in Chenango County; the writer mentions the current price of lands, surveying expenses, squatters and trespassers, the prospects of the Chenango Canal, land taxes and other matters; one letter (June 1822) to Mary Green asking whether she is willing to sell any of her lands and commenting on low prices for grain potatoes, butter and cheese, June 1822.