2 new Jersey Shore covers ~The Martin Family

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2 new Jersey Shore covers ~The Martin Family Sept 28, 2013 10:23:47 GMT -5

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Two new hometown covers from today. These are the sellers images but they're not too bad? I have only ever heard of this family and know nothing about them but I would very curious to know?

Cover #1.
~~Mrs.~~ Miss. Rachel E. Martin, Jersey Shore, Lycoming County, Pa. With a Lebanon, Pa. July 29 1862 cancel.

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krash Gone But Not Forgotten I'm awesome! :) Posts: 1,280	2 new Jersey Shore covers ~The Martin Family Sept 28, 2013 10:24:09 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by krash on Sept 28, 2013 10:24:09 GMT -5 Cover #2. ~~Mrs.~~ Miss. Sarah R. Martin, Jersey Shore, Lycoming County, Pa. with a Hamburg, Pa. October 14th 1861-63? cancel (probably 1862)
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2 new Jersey Shore covers ~The Martin Family Sept 28, 2013 10:24:40 GMT -5

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For being one of a small hand full of prominent families from J.S. Pa. it certainly is hard finding any definitive & concrete information on them! This is the house in which Rachel was likely born and raised in. I have found that this is indeed the same Martin family as told to me by Wayne O. Welshans (author of the history of Jersey Shore, Pa.) but I just can't seem to dig up that one critical document that links the H.H. Martin to either Rachel or Sarah but it's the same family and in the same time frame but 2 properties. There is one that's right in Jersey Shore (shown below) and another farm just a few miles(abt.3) just N.W. of town up Nice's Hollow. Time will tell.

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2 new Jersey Shore covers ~The Martin Family Sept 28, 2013 10:25:03 GMT -5

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1860 Census for Jersey Shore, PA showing that the family consisted of:

James Martin (father), Laborer, age 69, suggesting his DOB was 1791.
Rachel Martin (mother), age 59, suggesting her DOB was 1801.
Sarah R. Martin (daughter), age 29, suggesting her DOB was 1831.
Rachel E. Martin (daughter), Teacher, age 24, suggesting her DOB was 1836.

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2 new Jersey Shore covers ~The Martin Family Sept 28, 2013 10:25:27 GMT -5

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Rachel E. Martin had been a school teacher and participant in the Seventh Annual Meeting of the Pennsylvania State Teachers Association on August 2, 1859 in West Chester, PA:

books.google.com/books?id=v-IBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA75&lpg=PA75&dq=%22Rachel+E.+Martin%22

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krash Gone But Not Forgotten I'm awesome! :) Posts: 1,280	2 new Jersey Shore covers ~The Martin Family Nov 16, 2013 9:17:47 GMT -5 Admin Bear likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by krash on Nov 16, 2013 9:17:47 GMT -5 Tank goodness I found this thread! Thanks to this post I can recover the lost information about these covers from when my computer crashed a week or so ago!
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2 new Jersey Shore covers ~The Martin Family Nov 17, 2013 10:31:19 GMT -5

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OK I'm a little excited because I just had an authority on the subject of color on the (Scott catalog design designation) Washington design of A25 (#64,#65, etc..) contact me about these two covers and this is what he wrote.

"ray.mac" said:

Jeff, your first cover has a nice example of the Standard Rose of 1862, which was a year of mainly roses, carmines and reds. It's a nice shade.

I don't think the 2nd one is '62 at all-- looks like the darker shades where the lakes and browns and clarets were introduced in '63 or '64, and it could be later even-- can't see how much brown is in it, but lots of brown in '65 and later......

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krash Gone But Not Forgotten I'm awesome! :) Posts: 1,280	2 new Jersey Shore covers ~The Martin Family Nov 23, 2013 3:55:48 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by krash on Nov 23, 2013 3:55:48 GMT -5 Thank you Bear! I was recently told that I have a good eye...shows what little he knows! My eyes are terrible, in fact, I have to wear glasses!
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2 new Jersey Shore covers ~The Martin Family

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