Numbered
pages 383, 384, 365, 366, 367. No signature page.
Warren
House Belvidere N.J. Sept. 9th 1899
Dear
Cousin Henry J.:
Your
kind letter of the 6th inst., is at hand, and read with pleasure.
I knew you would be disappointed in the report of our
family reunion. For as I said in my
previous letter I too was greatly disappointed in more things than one,
connected with the gathering. I am not
going to let the reunion die if I can prevent it, as I will take the matter in
charge next year in more earnest than ever.
I send to you two slips from
newspapers , to show you how the descendants of two other old families, all seem to work together to have a family reunion. I desire to say to you, and I know you will not think I am bragging; that if I had three or four earnest workers in the cause to help me (those who live about here) we could have just as pleasant and entertaining reunion gatherings as the papers speak of.—
Mrs.
Hay is quite well now.—she brought her little Grand-daughter Beattrice down to
our house the other day and spent part of the afternoon. The little girl grows quite fast.
I am glad to inform you that Henry Aten of Hope is
recovering from his attack
[Charles
Harris Clerk of Warren County]
I
will see Miss E.M. Cummins, of Delaware and see what she can give about our
ancestor Nicholas Albertson, and we will try and get up something to comply
with your request for a short sketch of him.
The ferry property at Delaware was sold to Mrs. Meyers the widow for
$5.00 above the mortgage on the property.
Mrs. Susan Hauser holds the mortgage. Mrs. Hauser is a grand daughter of
John Aten and a Great Grand daughter of Derick Aten—Her husband was the
administrator and her second cousin H.M. Hageman,
a Great
Grandson of John Aten was the atty. You
met lawyer Hageman at the Station in Belvidere, and you met Mrs. Hauser at the
reunion—you see the Aten’s and their descendants are clanish people I send to you a slip containing the notice
of sale and notice to bring in claims.
Mrs. Hauser was down here the other day and she called in a few moments—she
is a lady of some means and she said she expected she would have to take the
property for her claim—and still thinks it will be only a year or two when she
will be compelled to take the property—she also said she thinks very strongly
of buying the old Derick Aten property and ferry—where her Grandfather John
Aten lived and
where
Derick Aten owned, and lived and died; and put the two properties together
again.
Wouldn’t
it be quite romantic if a Great Grand daughter of Derick Aten should own the
property where he lived and died. You
will remember that Mrs. Hauser’s father and mother are buried in the old Aten
GraveYard. “Morris Mann and Mary
(Aten) Mann his wife.” Mrs. Hauser was
their only child. ~~~~