Raynors HCA 2020-02
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/27/2020
A good early postwar Missouri settler's letter, 3pp. 4to., written by Pastor William B. Sunderland, Nodaway Valley, [Missouri], July 12, 1865, to Edgar Bell of Ross County, Ohio, concerning the newly established "Ohio Settlement" in Missouri, in part: "…I expected and am still satisfied that [this] is the place for a poor man. We have a deep rich soil…plenty of water & good pasture that makes it a good stock country. We have not all the advantages you have in Ohio but we think…we have the foundation to build on. That is good land and plenty of it…the society is better than you think for a new country. The people all want preaching & Sunday Schools. They give their money freely for these purposes…the demand for my services is more than I can meet, but I will do all I can…I would like to have your brother Mackey & others with me in this work…they ill add to our Ohio Settlement which is all ready quite large…the war is over & the soldiers are coming HOME. The new constitution is adopted and the Rebels disenfranchised. The Copperheads are in a peck of trouble and cant help themselves for the Law meets them on one side & the Boys with the Revolver on the other…between the two they are kept strait as a shingle. We have a live governor [Thomas Clement Fletcher] in this state and the political sky now looks clear and our prospects are favorable for peace & plenty…direct Hale's Ferry, Nodaway County, MO…W. B. Sunderland…". Some spotting, else VG.
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