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Letters, Postcards, Clippings

French Spoliation Letter #3

Lynbrook, N.Y. Nov 19 1925
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Dear Cousin –

Just a few lines to say we received your interesting letter of the first, and also

to say that I am still waiting patiently for the papers which you sent to cousin

Kate. Can you furnish me with the dates of [your?] father’s birth marriage and

death, you mother’s maiden name, dates of birth and death cousin Will’s birth date

and date of death, cousin Kate’s date of birth and marriage, also your own?

We note that you say you do not know who this John Adams was, well here goes

so far as I know – JOHN F. ADAM – not Adams – was the ship owner born

Aug 14, 1782. He and the original John Jacob Astor married sisters. J.F.A.

married MARIE WILLIAMS, June 16, 1800. Tradition has it that Adam and

Astor were next door neighbors. John Corgan married MARY AUGUSTA

ADAM July 10, 18—one of John F. Adam’s five or six children. We are

somewhat up a tree on records concerning John Corgan as I have been given to

understand that the Corgan records were destroyed in a fire in Philadelphia in

the 1800’s.

There is one thing certain Gussie, if this money is ever to be had Geo. W. Worth

is the boy to see it through.

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