Jim, Re: The message below. Have you found any mention of an Ingalls in your old letters? They were neighbors and possibly relatives of the Danleys. Benjamin, James, and Seth Ingalls are mentioned in the 1810-1830 Henderson Town Meeting notes. We are fairly sure that Benjamin was the father of James, and possibly of Seth. James was my ancestor. James homesteaded in Burton Twp, Genesee County, MI, in 1835. His son Benjamin moved to Seattle. As far as we know now, all the rest of James' children stayed in Michigan. Jay =============== Subject: The Dewey-Penney Letters #7 Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2000 21:04:53 EDT From: Enosgen@aol.com To: NYJEFFER-L@rootsweb.com Hi Jeff Listers and all you others curious about sisters writing gossip to one another: To bring you up to date, Asher Penney and his wife Harriet Dewey Penney have moved from Henderson to Waupaca Wisconsin. In this letter, little sister Adelia (Del)Penney has married Abell Danley. She also tells that a cousin, Lorriette Dewey, sister to Harriet Penney has married Orsamus Greenly. They later leave Jefferson County, not sure where "out west" they go. Henderson, March 22, 1856 Dear Brother and Sister: I now embrace this opportunity to write a few lines to you to let you know that we are in the Land of the Living but we don’t know what has become of you. We have not had a letter from one of you in three months. Mother says that you have forgot that you have got a father and mother and brother and sister who think of you if you don’t of them. Harriet I wish that you was here today. Mary is here and Eber and his wife. We are making sugar this Spring. Harriet I want you should write me a good long letter. I had a letter from Emily, she says Lorriette is married but what would you say if I should tell you that I was Married to Abell Danley. I think that you have seen him. I was married three weeks ago today. [March 1st, 1857] -[ed. note - the last digit of the date of this letter is very diffficult to read - original transcriber read it as 1857, I prefer 1856] I must draw my letter to a close now. I want you should answer this. Give my love to all inquiring friends - from your sister Adelia Danley [nee Penney] to Harriet Penney [the next few lines are written in a bold hand] Well Asher seeing there is room I thought I would write a few lines to let you know what I am adoing. I am agoing to [bold hand ends here - continues in Adelias hand] work for Martin Grant this summer. Asher you can see that Eber [brother Eber Penney] commenced to write some to you but he went home and did not finish it. He gets $22 dollars per month and has his cow pastured. He wanted to go a sailing but his wife ain’t very well but I think she will be better before Fall. I think I shall stay home this summer. Abell has got to go back West and he thinks he will stay out West until Fall. You may wonder why I don’t go back with him but Mother and Father ain’t long for this world and I want to stay as long as they are alive as I don’t think they are long for this world. Asher I think that I shall be up where you are if I ever go West. Write as soon as you receive this - Good bye [from Adelia (Del) Penney Danley to her brother, Asher Penney and sister-in-law, Harriet Dewey Penney] [Ed. Note: I hope someone finds just a clue to their search or history in these letters and enjoys them as much as the satisfaction I get from sharing them. Again, I post MY search here, for the parents they refer to as Mother and Father (who Adelia says "ain't long for this world", the parents of Charles, Asher, Jarvis, twins Eli and Eber, and Adelia Penney. Thanks, Jim Enos]