1833 Steamboat Letter New York to
Glastenbury, Connecticut via Hartford

Notes: .This letter is from the Sellew Correspondence which has never been on the market. It is part of an extensive family correspondence from 1803 to 1973 which we acquired directly from the family estate. Glastonbury is just south of Hartford, Connecticut and presumably the steamboat was from New York to Old Saybrook at the mouth of the Connecticut River, and possibly up the Connecticut River? Hartford was roughly the half way point on the Northern and Middle Boston Post Road Routes and about 110 miles from New York.
Pencil marking states "Care of Mr. D Derby? - Hartford"
Contents: Letter is written by Eliza Sellew about her arrival in New York. There is also a nice timely reference to the Cholera situation (the worst outbreak was in the summer of 1832, better in 1833 and little in 1834). The Sellew family expanded from New York with the westward movement of America up the Hudson to the Mohawk Valley, across to Elmira then to Cincinnati and finally down the Ohio to St. Louis where one of them made his fortune by inventing the articulated stovepipe.

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