Numbered
pages 113-118.
Hotel
Clarendon, etc. Belvidere
N.J. July 29/99
Cousin
Henry J.:
I
wrote you a postal on Thursday night after my return from Delaware saying that
the family reunion date was set down for August 19th, on the old
Derick Albertson plantation just below Ramseysburg now occupied by John H.
Albertson.
Derick was a son of Nicholas and Japie.—I have written
to Rev. Wm.
Aten
to come and attend our reunion. He is
stationed at Port Murray in our county. I will also write to Dr. Thompson and
invite him and all the other friends in that line.—
I will say to you quietly these about Delaware and about here don’t seem to enter into the spirit of the matter very freely. So many of them are afraid of a cent or two.
We
will go on and have as good a time as we can.
If the distance was not so great, so that many of the
friends and kinsfolk from the different parts of
the
west,--Ohio, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas and other western states could attend, then
we would have a grand Meeting.
I
return to you herewith the manuscript history you so kindly sent to me. I think
it will look well into print and will be very, very interesting.
The
reunion was set for the 19th so as to accommodate Miss Sarah E.
Albertson of New
York
who can only be home about that time, and also Miss Sarah Ribble of Newark who
can only get away about that time. You met both ladies at the reunion last
year. If you have any friends to whom
you would like to extend a complimentary invitation to the reunion I fully
empower you to do so. If however there are any in the west who might come east and
attend, I also fully empower you to invite them. If I can get time to put all the history I have in proper shape I
will give them
an
address from manuscript if not I will
say what I do extempore. I have thought
if you have a pamphlet printed it would look good to have on the first outside page
under what you would put on: the names of the three Albertsons and Atens who
intermarried, thus,
Nicholas
Albertson — Japie Aten
Cornelius
Albertson — Eleanor Aten
Edward Albertson
— Abigail Aten
I give the names as they are spelled in the old records.—I will (if you are not out here) give you a report of the reunion. And if I get some proper remarks put in shape I will send the manuscript to you.
We
are all well at this time; also all your other friends out here are well I hope you are all at your home—Love and
kind regards to you all. Yours
very respectfully Nicholas
Harris