LIST OF LETTERS REMAINING

IN THE POST OFFICE OF MACEDON

ON THE 1ST DAY OF JANUARY, 1841

This is a very helpful listing of persons who didn't claim mail from the Macedon post office in 1840. The postmaster was N.B. Beers. The unclaimed letters probably ended up in a bonfire 160 years ago, but the postmaster's list of names survived so that you can pinpoint that your ancestor was living or working in the area of Walworth in the year 1840. As the addressees didn't come in for their mail by Jan. 1, 1841, it's likely that they either joined the tens of thousands moving west out of Central New York, moved elsewhere in the state, or had passed away. The transcript of the list was kindly provided by the Office of the County Historian, and alphabetized by us for easier online browsing.

ADAMS Calvin
BARNHART Isaac
BEERS Valleroy (2)
BRADDISH Charles
BROOKS Henry
BUGBY Tabitha (2)
BUTTS Henry
CHASE James
COKE Charles H.
DISENG Oliver
DORLAND Chastity Ann
DORLAND Ann
EDDY Ira H.
EVES Doct
FULTS George
GILL Lawson
GREEN John N.
HARE Jonathan or MORRISON Sally
HARGRAVES Thomas
HATHAWAY Luther
HAZLETT Wm
HENDRICK Philadelphia
HICKS Elias
HOGDMAN S.
HOPKINS Aurelia
JACKSON Peter
JOHNSON Walter
LAMBERTSON Lawrence (2)
LAWRENCE Ann G.
MOGOWAN John
MORRIS Rev. Thomas
MOTT Edwin
OSBORN John
PRESCOTT Joel
PUCKETT Cyrus
PUCKETT Daniel (2)
RAMSDELL D.L.
RANDOLPH Edmund
REED Elizabeth
REED Nathan
SHOTWELL Zachariah
SLATTERTY Michael
SMITH Chauncey
SMITH Elizabeth D.
STILL Ebenezer
STOCKBRIDGE Adaline
TERRY Joseph
TILLON Henry
VAIL Abel
VanVLIET Ann M.
VOLNEY William
WATERHOUSE Aaron
WHITE Leonard
WILKINSON J.
WOOD Joseph W.

N.B. BEERS, P.M. (Signature of the Postmaster)

A copy of the original typescript is at the Office of the County Historian in Lyons, N.Y. For information about persons listed please contact the Office of the County Historian.

Online copy typed by Allyn Hess Perry, Co-coordinator, Wayne County NYGenWeb

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