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Lemuel Colton to Ruth Colton\, 1839 March 10
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    • Creator: Colton, Lemuel.
    • Description: Topics include the ill health of his sister Susan, the coming marriage of Ruth to Andrew Fletcher, the hard winter past in Ohio, which he thinks was not hard but is causing an exodus further west, and the possibility of other family members coming west to meet him.
    • Parent Collections: Fletcher Family


    Harriet Hodgkin to Ruth Fletcher\, 1851 April 18
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      • Creator: Hodgkin, Harriet.
      • Description: Topics include the death of Ruth's daughter.
      • Parent Collections: Fletcher Family


      Betsey Verona Colton to Ruth Fletcher and Lydia Willey\, 1852 May 20
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        • Creator: Colton, Betsey Verona.
        • Description: Topics include the death of Betsey's grandmother (Ruth's mother), their home and farm in Indiana, her health, age, and physical statistics, and the activities of family members.
        • Parent Collections: Fletcher Family


        Ellen Colton to Ruth Fletcher\, 1858 October 31
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          • Creator: Colton, Ellen.
          • Description: Topics include her mother's poor health and medicinal use of opium, her brother Carlos' teaching activities, and her loneliness after the death of her brother Curtis.
          • Parent Collections: Fletcher Family


          Moses S. Colton to Andrew and Ruth Fletcher\, 1856 September 20 and Betsey Verona Jagua to Ruth Fletcher
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            • Creator: Colton, Moses Shepard., Jagua, Betsey Verona.
            • Description: Topics include building a small house, the dry weather in Otsego, IN, and the effects on crops and fruit trees, and the health of various family members.
            • Parent Collections: Fletcher Family


            Della Oakes to Ruth and Andrew Fletcher\, 1889 December 25 and 1890 January 5
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              • Creator: Oakes, Della.
              • Description: Topics include Della's impressions of Pleasant Lake, Indiana, the activities and health of her children, and her suspicions of her Vermont relatives' attitudes toward her.
              • Parent Collections: Fletcher Family


              Cyrus Cornelius Pratt to Ruth Fletcher\, 1886 September 12
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                • Creator: Pratt, Cyrus Cornelius.
                • Description: Topics include Pratt's children and wife (second), the difficulties and expansions of his insurance companies, and his bridge and building truss and anchor designs and marketing schemes.
                • Parent Collections: Fletcher Family


                Ella [s.n.] to Ruth Fletcher\, 1889 February 5
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                  • Creator: [s.n.], Ella.
                  • Description: Topics include Ella's ideas about moving her parents up to live with her in Johnson.
                  • Parent Collections: Fletcher Family


                  John Lester Barstow to Laura
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                    • Creator: Barstow, John Lester, 1832-1913.
                    • Date Created: 1862-05-03
                    • Description: Topics include an overview of the daily schedule in camp, firing on Fort Jackson and Fort St. Philips by General Butler, General Phelps, and about 10,000 men that lasted for three days, and orders for the rest of the regiment to head for New Orleans.
                    • Parent Collections: Vermonters in the Civil War, John Lester Barstow Correspondence


                    John Lester Barstow to Laura
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                      • Creator: Barstow, John Lester, 1832-1913.
                      • Date Created: 1863-05-16
                      • Description: Topics include moving up the Red River, on the march can not catch the Rebels on horseback, dealing with snakes, joining forces with General Grant and his campaign in regard to Port Hudson or Vicksburg, inquiries about the draft in Shelburne, wishing to be with family, the beauty of flower gardens at the residences, plenty of corn planted but folks in need of other goods, the murder of a soldier by another soldier (later confined as a lunatic), a surgeon administering medicine only to discover is was poisoned resulting in the death of five soldiers.
                      • Parent Collections: Vermonters in the Civil War, John Lester Barstow Correspondence