Taken from: Somebody's Links, Vol. 4, No. 29, 23 August 2002. Marybeth Corrigall =============== << o 1847 letter (MOORE to AGNEW); Item # 2132476190 Auction ends: Aug-25-02 06:53:17 PDT; Seller: smile4me This stampless cover has a bluish gray circular date stamp for Brownsville, Pennsylvania, a 5 cent rate, and is addressed to Daniel AGNEW, Esq, Beaver, Beaver co., Penna., and has an enclosure of a four [page?] letter written on folded paper, by H. C. MOORE. The headline is "On steamboat on the Monongahela Oct 13, 1847." The letter is written in light pencil. I [seller] had to make a photocopy or two in order to read most of it better. I [Seller] did a little Internet researching and found that this would be Henry C. MOORE, son of Robert MOORE of Beaver, Pennsylvania. AGNEW, a chief justice from Pennsylvania, married Elizabeth MOORE, H. C.'s sister. A Dr. WHIPPO is also mentioned in the letter, who would be the father of Amelia Ann who married H. C. MOORE and died in Connersville, Indiana in 1845. He seems to have been traveling around quite a bit and not knowing if he'd live, mainly due to some serious "stomach trouble" he'd been having. A big part of the letter explains to AGNEW what to do as an executor of H. C.'s estate, should something happen. Almost reads like a will. Some extracts: "I did not get off Beaver till the 'Michigan' yesterday morning & she did not reach Pitts till 5 o'clock last night." "I want you to see the north." "I want a memorial put on my Dear Amelia Ann's grave in Connersville, a good one." ". . . sell the mill . . ." More names and news mentioned. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2132476190 >>