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Letter, Ben[jamin] Blanchard, Batavia, New York, to Hazen Blanchard, Peacham, Vermont
Part of: Abel Blanchard Family Correspondence
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A report on the brothers' whereabouts in the winter of 1812-13: Benjamin is "tending Bar" at McCracken's Tavern in Batavia; Mark is a distiller at Caledonia, New York, and Lewis is teaching school at Avon, New York. Speaks of the spread of infectious disease among the U. S. troops at Buffalo.