Letter from Benjamin Jennings Seward to William Henry Seward, November 10, 1838
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Letter from Benjamin Jennings Seward to William Henry Seward, November 10, 1838
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Repository:Rare Books and Special Collections
Date:1838-11-10
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Letter from Benjamin Jennings Seward to William Henry Seward, November 10, 1838
action: sent
sender: Benjamin Seward
Birth: 1793-08-23
Death: 1841-02-24
location: Westfield, NY
receiver: William Seward
Birth: 1801-05-16
Death: 1872-10-10
location: UnknownUnknown
transcription: gew
revision: ekk 2015-10-21
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Wd 10 Nov.
Dr H.
Fearing that returns may be as
tardy in finding their way to you as they
have been in coming here, I hasten to give
you what is supposed to be a full & corr-
ect return: viz 1973 Maj. for S.
Some errors were found in our first reports
& Ellery came in rather better than at first
we expected & we now think we have
done gloriously by sustaining S in one
of his three homes, in one where especial
efforts were made to discredit him.
I am of opinion that S. did not
lose an abolition vote in the Co. & I have
heard of only one lost by B.
of Anti A.
Williams
some 40 votes on a bargain which brought
our Whig candidate the same number.
There proved in the canvass to have been
very little splitting of tickets – of Whig V.
for G.
the tickets were mostly all straight. The
result shows an abiding whig strength.
Our last day was stunning. & we have
lost a few votes in each town, perhaps
1 or 200 in the Co.
Pray, do no forget to inform me, if I may
use your name as agent in preparing the papers.
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Wd 10 Nov.
Dr H.
Fearing that returns may be as
tardy in finding their way to you as they
have been in coming here, I hasten to give
you what is supposed to be a full & corr-
ect return: viz 1973 Maj. for S.
Birth: 1801-05-16 Death: 1872-10-10
Some errors were found in our first reports
& Ellery came in rather better than at first
we expected & we now think we have
done gloriously by sustaining S in one
of his three homes, in one where especial
efforts were made to discredit him.
I am of opinion that S. did not
lose an abolition vote in the Co. & I have
heard of only one lost by B.
Birth: 1783-09-15 Death: 1863-08-30
by a spiritof Anti A.
Williams
Birth: 1786-12-12 Death: 1857-07-04Certainty: Probable
ran ahead of his ticketsome 40 votes on a bargain which brought
our Whig candidate the same number.
There proved in the canvass to have been
very little splitting of tickets – of Whig V.
for G.
Birth: 1792-12-01 Death: 1868-08-31
were written as Van B.
Birth: 1782-12-05 Death: 1862-07-24
tickets – otherwisethe tickets were mostly all straight. The
result shows an abiding whig strength.
Our last day was stunning. & we have
lost a few votes in each town, perhaps
1 or 200 in the Co.
Pray, do no forget to inform me, if I may
use your name as agent in preparing the papers.