| Description | DSCAM/5/6/5/40-58: Correspondence (1861-65, 1869, 1872) received by Edward Bridgwater and by Messrs Bourne and Owen, Dudley from: Thomas and Lydia Siveter, Salem, Iowa, Richard and Rachel Homer, New Harmony, Indiana, Thomas Bradley, Millfield Furnaces, Bilston, Brooke Robinson, Dudley, M. Godfrey, Kent Terrace, Kendal, Sarah Godfrey, Honeybourne; terms for sale of property and division of proceeds; death of Joseph Bridgwater and coolness between him and Homer, possibly caused by Thomas Siveter telling false tales; spurious mortgage [#12 above], drawn up by William Fellowes, who told Joseph Bridgwater that it was worthless, as did Richard Homer, to whom Joseph Bridgwater brought it at Liverpool in about 1831, who had assigned all his property to his trustees in bankruptcy in 1826 and bought back some interest in 1839; claims of Homer on Joseph Bridgwater for period (1825-28) of latter's illness and insanity; illness, family affairs and news, esp. of the Homers' 7 children; comments by Siveters and Homers on the war between the states/American Civil War. |
| DSCAM/5/6/5/61: Letter from Thomas Siveter, Union Springs, New York (dated 12th Mo. 21st 1840) addressed to Mary Siveter care of John Willetts, near Stourbridge for Joseph Bridgwater near Birmingham. Birmingham postmark, 23 Jan. 1841. Seeks remittance of money, gives instructions how it should be sent; intends to buy some government land in Iowa - on the Mississippi, 200 miles north of St Louis, Missouri - and would be glad of Bridgwater's company on the expedition; knows nothing of the Homers except where they live. |