Series 5 - Kennedy-Forsythe letters

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P/P155/75/5

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Kennedy-Forsythe letters

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  • 1810-1857 (Creation)

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Tom Roberts of Rhode Island donated the reproductions of the Kennedy-Forsythe letters to Kerby A. Miller post-1990.

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Reproductions of 12 letters, mainly sent from family members to Samuel Forsythe, a native of County Derry who emigrated to New Brunswick before 1815 and then to New York state in the early 1820s. Many of the early letters are written by fellow emigrant Rev. James Kennedy, Forsythe's uncle in Knox County, Tennessee.

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