William Gay Butler letter to Jonathan Butler 2nd, 1833 December 25

Letter addressed from Kalamazoo County, Michigan Territory, and sent from the Bronson post office with no postmark, for 25 cents postage. The blue paper is torn and stained with red wax where it was sealed, and Jonathan Butler performed some arithmetic near where it is torn on the address page. William Gay Butler writes to his father Jonathan Butler in West Hartford to request him to transfer money to the clerk in the land office of White Pigeon, MI, where William has purchased land. He worries that his last letters may have been lost in transit. William writes that he intends to purchase another lot of land for Jonathan, and urges him to come visit him the next summer, with all his and Hiram Roberts' accounts against William so he can settle them. He advises Jonathan to take the canal boat from Albany and then cabin passage in a steamboat to Michigan, as there will be a regular line there, and to have William's brother Nathan Butler accompany him. William writes that he has contracted with three men there to chop 1000 cords of wood for steamboat use. He asks Jonathan to solicit cousin Lucy Mix to write to them.