HISTORY: List of Letters, 1843 Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Annette Lucas ClintonRoots@aol.com Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.org/copyright.htm ________________________________________________________ NOTE: For more information on Des Moines County, Iowa Please visit the Des Moines County, IAGenWeb page at http://iagenweb.org/desmoines/ ________________________________________________________ The following information is available from the Iowa Genealogical Society, 6000 Douglas, P.O. Box 7735, Des Moines, Iowa 50322 The following is a list of letters remaining in the Post Office at Burlington, Iowa on the 30th of September 1843. The list appeared in the Iowa Territorial Gazette and Advertizer, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday 14 October 1843. The list of names was compared with the 1836 Census of Demoine county, Iowa and an asterick placed beside those names that appear in the census. It is possible that this list if the only proof of residence in Iowa of some of these people. Copied at the Newspaper Division, Department of History and Archives, Des Moines, Iowa. Abbott, John G Abbee, John B Adams, John M Allen, William *Anderon, James Anderson, Miss Francis, dau of Anderson, Seth Archer, George *Archer, Hezkeiah Ashmore, Samuel Babb, John Babcock, William Bagnell, James D Baird, William Barnes, James Bates, Rev. William Bay, Samuel R Beal, John A Beard, John Bellville, Mr. Bishop, Philemon Blakemore, Caleb Blakeway, H Blakeway, V or W Bowers, Martin Brentlinger, James *Bridges, John Brown, Henry Brown, James J Brown, William C Buckingham, H C Burlingame, Miss E Burmiester, F Burress, Sarah Buster, Miss L Butter, J *Cameron, James Campbell, E H Cheetam, Miss L H *Churchill, Lewis Clark, George Clarke, Peter Cline, Daniel Clymer, Nancy Cochran, William Cockaye, Samuel Comstock, Dr. Joal Connelly, William Converse, William Coombs, Abigail *Cooper, Thoma Corum, D L Cowrick, Alexander *Crain, Jacob M Criswell, Mark Culbetsen, Capt. T Curry, Richard Dare, Thomas *De'ashmutt, E N Dee, Warren Delashmutt D Dixon, Zepheniah Dizney, Tusan Donellan, N Doroey, Benjamin Downer, Hugh H Driggs, Jeremiah Duncan, James K *Dunham, Amos Dunn, John B Dunwoody, E Eade, Henry Ebey, John N Eddy, J P Ellis, H A Eoff, Leonard or Eoff, G Evans, M Evans, William Evans, William H Ewing, Hon W G Farrell, John Farris, Milton or Menasses, John Fox Feese, Samuel Fisher, John Fitch, H S Fouts, William Fouts, William L Frick, David Z Fry, Conrad H Funck, John Peter *Galand or Wartain Gamage, Calvin Garrison, Jonathan Gifford, Manly Gobble, b or fleenoor, Abraham Goddard, Lewis Green, James Grisley, George Grubb, John Hall, R W Hall, sient Hamilton, W Hammell, Miss Jane Hanna, Jaxes R Hanne, W C Hargrove, Joel Harman, Philip Haroleins, Gen Joseph Harper, Samuel N Hayden, David & Lucretia Hayden, Stephen Hodge, James Helton, John Hendricks, Catherine Hendrix, George R Heny, Samuel G Hermon, A Hillhouse, William Hinson, Joal Hobbe, George W Hodge, John Hoover, Henry Hopkirk, Walter Houston, Paul Howe, O C C Hughes, Wesley Humphrey, Homen Hull, Mrs Electa Hunt, C w *Hunt, Jesse *Hunt, John B Hunt Samuel *Ingraham, Arthur Irwin, George Isett, Edmund Ivers, Charles January, D A Leterer, Joseph Key, George Kinzie, A Kirkwood, John R Knight, John R Knight, Miss Hannah Knott, Wm H Knos, M Kutch, allen Ladd, Amos *Land, Richard Lamphear, Edward P Laren, James Lawrence, Mrs. Margaret Leavitt, John Lee, Hezekiah or Bane, Martin Lefforge, Lewis Leird, William Lennon, Henry Lewis, Daniel Linderman, Richard Lockwood, Mrs. Almira *Logan, John Longley, William *Lorton, John Louize, Philip Lovell, Charles H *Marlow, Edward Martin, James C Matlock, Jefferson Masiutha, A Mason, Christopher Mason, Lincoln Mathews, Benjamin Maxwell, William G Melody, R Miller, David S Miller, Walter or Fell, J Mock, Miss Catharine *Moore, John Morgan, Alexandria *Morgan, John Morris, E Morris, Jonah Morris, Mr *Mooris, William McCalister, Randal McConaughy, John Mc Cormick, E C Mc Curdy, Hugh McDaniel, Hugh Mc Donald, Alexander McHenry, John Mc Ilvan, Samuel McKinney, Archibald McKinney, Gideon McKinney, Wm or *Griffith, B McKley, M W *McKnight, David McMahon, E A McPherson, John Nation, Hamilton Nealy, John D or Nealy, Nelson Nealy, Samuel Nealy, William Nelson, Wm A Nichols, Hudson Nichlin, John H Nugent, Charles O'Brien, W Ogg, Elias B Ogle, Harklus Overbrick, Herrick Packer, William Painter, Robert Parriot, L L Patterson, Adam Payne, William *Pedigo, Edward *Peirson, John Jr Pence, Kouis Penney, Jefferson Petterson, Kund Phillips, George Pike, Miss O B Quinely, James W Ralston, Robert Ramon, Mrs. Robesdean Rankin, James H Rankin, Rev. L Ray, David R Reed, James W Reeves, T. L. Reid, John D Richards, Francis Richmond, David Ritner, Abraham Roberts, Johnathan Rodgers, George Rodgers, Martha Rood, Cyrus *Ross, Ruder, Dr. George Ruimin, Jacob D Salisbury, James Schefer, Jacob Schuatha, A E Seelstey, Jesse Scott, Samuel M Severs, Miss Virginia R Sharr, John Shaver, William Sherfey, Solomon Shortridge, A L Sifers, Jacob Siiler, Samuel Simpson, Jason B Sinnamon, Thomas Sciter, Samuel Sleeth, J C Sloane, S H Smith, Abraham Smith, Andrew Smith, Nathaniel R *Smith, Samuel R *Snelson, Charles H Sparron, Charles Spencer, James Sprately, George Stahl, Frederick Stansbury, George Stephens, John Stewary, Rev. Isaac I Stiles, Warren *Stang, Daniel Strode, W A Stumbrook, Frederick Sturdevant, Miss A Suteliffe, Demas or Robert Suter, David Swan, Henry Talbott, James Tannyhill, a P Taylor, Lewis Taylor, William Taylor, William Jr Trent, Pleasant Trimble, George or Hezekiah Tuel, g W Turn bull, Thomas D Vancleave, Thomas Wade, Catharine L Walker, Henry Westfall, James Williams, Isaac A Wolvertin, John Wood, Lewis K Woodard, Alexander Wooden, Levi Woods, Andrew Woodward, Francis Woodwardm John Wright, Joel B *Wyatt, Thomas Yates, Gilbert Yost, Charles German Letters