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Vetch, Margaret, 1681-1758 to Johanna Livingston re: hopes of seeing her sister in Boston

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC03107.00996 Author/Creator: Vetch, Margaret, 1681-1758 Place Written: Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, Canada Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 1713/01/24 Pagination: 3p. + docket 17.6 x 11.6 cm Order a Copy

Also contains ALS from Samuel Vetch to Jo[h]anna Livingston in which Vetch apoligizes that his wife missed Jo[h]anna earlier that year, and he hopes that they may meet in Boston in the Spring. Both send their sympathies for the death of Mary Winthrop.

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