Collection #:
SC 1225

SILAS PUMPHREY
LETTER, 1817 MAY 5
DEARBORN COUNTY, IND.
[TO] JACOB ZELLER, HAGERSTOWN, MD.

Collection Information

Biographical Sketch

Scope and Content Note

Cataloging Information

Processed by
Chris Harter
4 March 1998
Updated 1 November 2004

Manuscript and Visual Collections Department
William Henry Smith Memorial Library
Indiana Historical Society
450 West Ohio Street
Indianapolis, IN 46202-3269

www.indianahistory.org

collection INFORMATION

VOLUME OF COLLECTION: 1 folder

COLLECTION DATES: 1817

PROVENANCE: Timothy H. Bakken, P.O. Box 34, Clarendon Hills, IL 60514, February 1974

RESTRICTIONS: None

REPRODUCTION RIGHTS: Permission to reproduce or publish material in this collection must be obtained in writing from the Indiana Historical Society.

ALTERNATE FORMATS: None

OTHER FINDING AIDS: None

RELATED HOLDINGS: SC 0741, Pumphrey Family Papers

ACCESSION NUMBERS: 1974.0217

NOTES:

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

The Pumphrey family settled in Fayette County, Indiana, around 1812. Silas Pumphrey (fl. 1817-1824) married Rachel Mills (fl. 1817-1819), daughter of Levi Mills. Silas and Rachel had at least one son, Levi Mills Reason Pumphrey. According to the letter in this collection, he and Rachel also had a daughter. She was born in March 1817, but died the following month.

Barrows states that Silas Pumphrey, Sr., purchased ten acres and laid out a cemetery in Fayette County on 8 October 1851 (p. 544). It is likely that he was the Silas mentioned above.

Sources: Material in the collection.

Barrows, Frederic I. (ed.). History of Fayette County, Indiana (1917). p. 544.

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE

This collection consists of one letter, dated 5 May 1817, from Silas Pumphrey to Jacob Zeller, near Hagerstown, Washington County, Maryland. Pumphrey wrote the letter in Dearborn County, Indiana, but it was mailed at Brookville (Franklin County). In the letter, Zeller is asked to collect Pumphrey's rents and deposit them in a bank. Appended to it, is a note from Zeller stating the amount deposited.

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