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Bailey, Hannah, fl. 1813 to Jacob Bailey

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02669.009 Author/Creator: Bailey, Hannah, fl. 1813 Place Written: New Gloucester, Massachusetts Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 17 June 1813 Pagination: 2 p. : Height: 30.6 cm, Width: 19.1 cm Order a Copy

A letter written by Hannah Bailey to her husband Jacob Bailey. Bailey writes that while she misses her husband greatly, but that she trusts in God and hopes it is the Lord's will that he return home from the war.

Yetten, James, fl. 1806-1813
Bailey, Hannah, fl. 1808-1813

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