Letters of Caleb Mekeel to Isaac and Phebe Mekeel, 1835-1850

Letters inform of family members, health, attending Meeting, traveling and visiting Vernon, 1835 10/4. [discussion includes various family members moving west and on farming] Auburn [NY], ? 4/12. [a suggestion that he start a school and villagers would pay $120 per year] Flushing, 1843 8/5. [trouble in the Meeting when John Word posed his query] Ledyard, 1847 1/1. [his daughter attends school taught by a former student at Nine Partners School; Meeting turmoil has no reason, and John Wilbur was “laboured with” in the spirit of meekness, though there are those who would fan the flames and seem bent on separation; now has 250 hams put up] 1850 9/29. [their “Gr[eat?] Meeting has passed, with a lot of business transacted harmoniously] Ledyard, 1851 3/31. [their daughter has attended Nine Partners School; Wilburites are building a Meeting house, leaving them (Gurneyite?) no alternative but to disown them]