Richard Maffitt - 1870s letter to his children
Added 17-Jul-2001.
Richard Bird Maffitt (see picture),
great-grandson of Benjamin Bird and Elizabeth Allison wrote a letter in
the 1870s to his children Emily Virginia Maffitt
and John Walton Ward Maffitt.
A transcription of the letter was published in the Johnson County Arkansas
Historical Society Journal Vol. VII No. 1 Apr-1981:
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Cover page - Johnson County Arkansas
Historical Society Journal information
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Page 55 - details on grandparents and
great-grandparents (including surnames Whittaker and Bird)
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Page 56 - details on brothers and sisters;
details on Bird, Westlake, and Curtis ancestors
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Page 57 - details on Cox and Tennessee
ancestors
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Page 58 - details on home in Clarksville,
Arkansas
The letter does not mention Richard's great-grandparents by name, but it
does give the names of the 5 children for Benjamin Bird and Elizabeth Allison
along with the spouse for their daughter Cassandra Bird:
Mother's grandfather was a Virginian but moved to McDowell
Co before the Revolution. He had some sons and one daughter: Jonothan,
Thomas, Richard and Benjamin Bird were their names. Kasander married
a man whose name was Thomas Allison who proved to be a Tory.
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