1845 - FARMINGTON(N.H.) DOCUMENT - Signed by GEN. JERMAIH ROBERTS - 3rd Brigade

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1845 - FARMINGTON(N.H.) DOCUMENT - Signed by GEN. JERMAIH ROBERTS - 3rd Brigade :
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Hereare twodocuments related/from ( General ) JEREMIAH ROBERTS in FARMINGTON, NEW HAMPSHIRE. These 2documentsare handwritten by GEN. JERMIAH ROBERTS and the 1845 letter was written to ( and sent to ) GENERAL ( Charles Hazen ) PEASLEE. *** There are two sides of this document ***

LETTER ( Front Side ) #1 READS: ( Farmington: Feby 10th 1845 )

" GEN. PEASLEE SIR - GEORGE P. WALDRON who was commissioned last fall as one of my staff was taken sick with fever a few days before our musters & consequently did not perform Military duty. wishing to have my staff full I obtained the services of DANIEL J. PARSONS who perform the duty assigned to Waldron with the assurance of a commission.

Therefore I would recommend DAVID J. PARSON to be commissioned as AID-de-COMP in the second division New Hampshire Militia.

Please forward a commission this week as there is to be a Military Ball by STRAFFORD GUARDS at Dover ( New Hampshire ) on the 19th_?_ and he wishes to be commissioned before attending.

Respectfully yours in Haste - JERMIAH ROBERTS "

BACK SIDE OF LETTER READS: ( Farmington: March 25, 1844 )

" Selection of Brentwood ( New Hampshire ) - Gentlemen, we have examined our records and find no such name as JAMES H. TWOMBLYrecorded. We find the name of JAMES TWOMBLY though to be the man your name was taxed here in 1805-6-8 & 14 for his Poll some stock & 25 acres wild(/) land. land valued about forty dollars. 1814 no land taxed.

According to our books & the best information we can obtain from the old inhabitants respecting the value of the land is that JAMES TWOMBLY ( if he was the man ) gained no settlement here.

Respectfully yours, JERMAIH ROBERTS for the Selulmen(?) of Farmington "

This original 1844/1845 letter(s) are sized: 8 1/2 by 8 1/4 inches and in EXCELLENT condition. Guaranteed to be 100% genuine or your money back.

Shipping is $ 2.85 to all U.S. LETTER WRITTEN TO: Charles Hazen Peaslee (February 6, 1804 – September 18, 1866) was a U.S. Representative from New Hampshire.

Born in Gilmanton, New Hampshire, Peaslee attended Gilmanton Academy and was graduated from Dartmouth College, Hanover, in 1824. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1828, commencing practice in Concord. He served as member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives, 1833–1837, and as adjutant general of the State militia, 1839-1847.

Peaslee was elected as a Democrat to the Thirtieth, Thirty-first, and Thirty-second Congresses (March 4, 1847 – March 3, 1853). He served as chairman of the Committee on Militia (Thirty-first and Thirty-second Congresses). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1852.

He served as collector of the port of Boston by appointment of President Pierce, 1853-1857. He moved to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in 1860. He died while on a visit to Saint Paul, Minnesota, on September 18, 1866. He was interred in Harmony Grove Cemetery in New Hampshire

FARMINGTON is a town located in Strafford County, New Hampshire, United States. The settlement began as the Northwest Parish of Rochester, which was chartered in 1722. The last Indian attack in the general region occurred in 1748, but by 1749, Native Americans had disappeared from warfare and disease. Farmers cultivated the rocky soil, and gristmills used water power of streams to grind their grain. Sawmills cut the abundant timber, and the first frame house at the village was built in 1782. In 1790, Jonas March from Portsmouth established a store, behind which teamsters unloaded on his dock the lumber he traded.

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