November 19 - This day in history

alyn Linking Member Stamp Bears Supporter Back to the daily grind. Posts: 5,126 Location (Country): Canada	November 19 - This day in history Nov 18, 2014 19:16:21 GMT -5 via Tapatalk MikeC99, krash, and 4 more like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by alyn on Nov 18, 2014 19:16:21 GMT -5 November 19, 1863 President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address. Image courtesy of www.secretstostampcollecting.com
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November 19 - This day in history Nov 19, 2014 5:01:22 GMT -5 kacyds, Fire, and 2 more like this

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NOVEMBER 19th 1839 & red TAUNTON MASS dial on stampless letter. ~~(A bit too brittle to open but I'll look for the scan of it I done wen I got it.)~~ Misses Samuel D Orrick & Co., Philadelphia, Pa.

Taunton was founded by settlers from England and officially incorporated as a town on September 3, 1639. Most of the town's settlers were originally from Taunton in Somerset, England, which led early settlers to name the settlement after that town. At the time of Taunton's incorporation, they explained their choice of name as being, in honour and love to our dear native country... and owning it a great mercy of God to bring us to this place, and settling of us, on lands of our own bought with our money in peace, in the midst of the heathen, for a possession for ourselves and for our posterity after us. Prior to 1640, the Taunton area was called Cohannet, Tetiquet or Titiquet.

The British founders of Taunton purchased the land from the Nemasket Indians in 1637 as part of the Tetiquet Purchase and the remaining native families were relocated to the praying town of Ponkapoag in current day Canton, MA. The Taunton area was the site of battles (on its soil or in the surrounding area) during various conflicts, including King Philip's War and the American Revolution. Taunton was re-incorporated as a city on May 11, 1864.

The writer appears to be Barney Dean. The Dean family is/was very prominent in southeastern Massachusetts and in fact Taunton has streets named as such.

As far as I can tell Barney Dean was born in 1796 and died on January 24, 1840 at the age of 44.

A reference that Barney Dean was a Director of the Bristol County National Bank from 1833-1839 and was also affiliated at one time with the firm Washburn, Barney Dean, which I understand was some sort of coffee-mill manufacturing business back in the day.

It was called Taunton from 1639 forward (prior to 1639 it was called Cohannet). The re-incorporation recited in the earlier quote was when it was formed into a city from a town. All of these elements are included in the present-day official seal used by the City of Taunton:

The Latin:

"The town's seal was acquired in 1865 and commemorates Elizabeth Poole. It depicts a woman negotiating with Indians. The inscription reads: ‘Dux Femina Facti', meaning ‘A Woman was the Leader of the Things Accomplished'. She is believed to have purchased the Cohannet river from the Indians."

Mrs. Caroline R Orrick, in the 53d year of her age, wife of Samuel D. Orrick, and daughter of the late George Ross, Esq., of Lancaster, Penna. died on the 16th of April last, on board the ship Gloriana, bound from Calcutta to London.

The Ship Gloriana on the Thames. (The ship on which Samuel Orrick's wife passed away on the way from London to Calcutta.)

There are records in a book in the Altoona library that consist of 26 letters addressed to Orrick & Fox, Samuel D. Orrick & Co., Orrick, Grubbs & Parker and E. B. & C. B. Grubb. They are primarily concerned with shipments of iron from the Grubb furnaces and its resale to manufacturers along the east coast. Among the Grubb Furnaces mentioned are Mananda in Dauphin County and Mt. Hope in Lancaster County. Other correspondence includes the famous Tredegar.

State Agency Series Listing at the Maryland State Archives

CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
1836-1837
MSA SSF 512

Date: 1836/04/11
7524: Samuel D. Orrick vs. Isaac Savill and Jane Savill. BA. Petition to sell lot in BC.
Accession No.: 17,898-7524 MSA S512-10-7541 Location: 1/38/3/

Last Edit: Nov 19, 2014 5:14:31 GMT -5 by krash

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Fire Super Stamp Bear Posts: 783 Location (Country): South Africa	November 19 - This day in history Nov 19, 2014 13:25:49 GMT -5 krash likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by Fire on Nov 19, 2014 13:25:49 GMT -5 @krash . Thanks for the interesting information, it makes some great reading.
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kacyds Administrator Stamp Bears Supporter Did you hear the joke about the unstamped letter? You wouldn't get it. Posts: 16,186 Location (Country): United States	November 19 - This day in history Nov 19, 2014 14:25:33 GMT -5 krash and CanStamp like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by kacyds on Nov 19, 2014 14:25:33 GMT -5 November 19, 1985 - Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev met for the first time in Geneva.

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Post by alyn on Nov 18, 2014 19:16:21 GMT -5

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