Series 10 - Letters from Irish settlers in McCutchanville, Indiana

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P/P155/71/10

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Letters from Irish settlers in McCutchanville, Indiana

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  • 1824-1973 (Creation)

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Reproductions of the McCutchanville letters were provided to Kerby A. Miller by Leona T. Alig, Manuscripts Librarian, William Henry Smith Memorial Library, Indiana Historical Society, via letter of 30 November 1973. The original manuscripts are held in the Andrew Erskine papers, W.H. Smith Memorial Library, Indiana Historical Society [call number SC0552].

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Reproductions and transcripts of five letters written by or to Irish settlers in McCutchanville, just north of Evansville, Indiana, between 1824 and 1853. The village was named for Charles McCutchan-Johnstone (Charles McJohnston), a native of Granard, County Longford who settled there with his family in 1819.

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