DANIEL MELTON
3 June 1810
(Drawn from the original)
Letter to brother Eli
Dear Brother & sister (meaning sister in law): I take this
opportunity of writting to you and can inform you that we are all well
at present. Thanks be to God for the same hoping that these few lines
will find you and your family in the same state of health & we
received your letter the 15 of June (1809) and there is a fine crop of
corn in the General of our settlement and wheat in general is mighty good
& don't heare of none of your brothers talk as if they would come out
there to live and we have had no letter from Va. since you started out
to Canetuck & I would live if a settlement where there was no danger
of Indians and by land out one side and let it by till it was inhabited
around it and not fo into danger with you family. Robert has killed
3 snag buck.
And I am glad to heare you live in Religious settlement hoping you
will close in with the gospel on it's own terms and think of the future
times no more at present but remaining your loving brother.
Daniel.
Daniel served Revolutionary War and rec'd his homesite for services in Golden Valley, NC. [Rutherford Co.]
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J.D. MELTON
Sept the 22AD 1862
Camp martin greenville Tennessee
Dear Mother I site my self to drop you a fiew lines to let you no that I am well at this time and I dont no when we will leave heare. We hav drod our muney to day ($27.86) and I want you to no aboute my money, whether it is good or not, and if not, change it off or leade it to some good man.
And I wnte you to do somthing with stears in some say but do the best you can with them, And take good care off all my property, and collect all my dets.
Wm. Melton is due me $4.37 1/2 and John M. Pitman $300.
And I would like to no how the corn looks, and if you are don puling fodder and cuting tops, and it is time you was soing some wheat.
I have nothing mulch to write to you. The yankes has left the cumbrling gap and left 54 canons thare and aboute 600 yankes sick, and 800 lbs of powder and bacond and iron and several other things.
And they have followed them up and taken several of them prisoners. George C. Alexander is here now and I will send this letter by him to Asheville and I will send in it $10 and I want you to write to me whether you have received it or not and if you have received the money and what you have now will make $150, and if you think that it is in any danger you can lend it to some good man.
So no more at this time. Direct you letter to Greenville, Tennessee, Mcdowells Batalian in care of Capt. West, Company B. So I remain your affectionate son J.D. Melton.
To Jane Melton
(Jane Craig Melton, Mrs. Elderege Melton)
PS. Tell Harriet and Mary to write to me soon and I will write to them. And tell all the girls to write to me.
SOURCE: George Coggins, original owner. He states he has a beautiful
powder horn left by this writer, J.D. Melton (called "Tinker"). The
horn had been left with his mother, Jane Craig Melton
M/M Pot V. 3 pg. 24.
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