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1817 Peter Loop Letter |
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"AN INTERESTING OLD LETTER"
---- Which Peter P. Loop Wrote in 1817 - Some Extensive Financiering of
that Early Day.
Edward
S. Loop was very much pleased the other day at being handed by Edward Welles
a letter written by Mr. Loop's father, Peter P. Loop, to George M. Hollenback
in 1817. The letter was written while Mr. Loop was yet a young man,
and the chirography is beautifully neat. After telling Mr. Hollenback
about the safe arrival of goods (at Athens, where Mr. Loop was clerking
for Mr. Hollenback) by John Griffin's boat, he goes on to gossip very pleasantly
on social topics. He had just attended a ball at Chemung with Lyman
Covell and Lathrop Baldwin. He expressed himself as wearied with
the dullness of Athens and put in his leisure studying French. Were
it not for the hope of returning to Wilkes-Barre, he could not be content
to stay at Tioga Point.
He
was happy to hear the Bridge Company were doing so well and hoped they
would finally triumph over their enemies.
"I
have been of great service here to their paper. I have done away
with many false reports which were in circulation and have given it a good
name, and it passes well. Their tickets pass better than any others.
I have been assured that it is in the power of your father and Mr. Tuttle
to get from the Bridgeport or Derby Banks $0x,xxx, paper payable in New
York at three per cent. (all of which I suppose you are acquainted
with-if not, keep it still,) to put the new bank in operation. I think
they ought not to sleep on such an opportunity of completely vanquishing
the new school. A gentleman acquainted with the circumstances declared
to me a few days since that they (the old school) ought not to stop at
a loss of $5,000 to put it into operation. Should anything be done, I rely
on your and your father's promises of doing something in it for me.
My respects to all who feel any interest in my good or evil fortune, and
especially to Emily and Mrs. Cist."
It
is not difficult to see in the light of this letter, where the younger
Loop gets his taste for financiering. He has the same faculty for
"getting in on the ground floor" that his father had.
The
letter is full of scholarly sentences and quotations. Mr. Welles
could not have disposed of the old manuscript more appropriately than by
placing it in the hands of the son. The postage on it was 12 1/2
cents.
Peter
P. Loop was born in Elmira, N.Y., in 1793 and died at Belvidere, IL, in
1854. His father, also named Peter, was one of the commissioners
appointed by the Susquehanna Company, September 25, 1786, any five of the
commissioners constituting a court with power to determine whenever a form
of interval government shall be established in that country. Peter
P. Loop married Elizabeth Irene, daughter of Gen. William Ross, born 1799
and married 1820. Their children, all living are D.J.M. Loop, Edward Sterling
Loop and Rev. Dewitt Clinton Loop.
In a message dated 12/2/2006 5:19:31 AM Eastern Standard
Time, geoff.broadfirs@btinternet.com writes:
Hi
We have an old armchair made
simply of stained pine but with a carved back panel on which is 'Peter
Loop 1858'. It has been in our family for over 100 years but we cannot
trace any Loops in our ancestry. It would seem strange if the chair had
originated in the USA but not impossible. It looks as though it would have
sat comfortably in the cottage in your web site !!
If the year 1858 has any significance,
or you have any interest I would be happy to forward pics of the chair;
it would be nice to trace its origins or even reunite it with its family.
Hope to hear from you.
Geoff Marshall
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In a message dated 8/2/2007 7:40:17 PM Eastern Standard
Time, msmoody@cox.net writes:
I have a letter that Keziah Parshall Hulce wrote to Jesse P.Hulce before
she died. She is concerned of his salvation. I am a decendant of Keziah's.
The letter was handed down to my grandmother Juanita Jones Hill.
Here is the words Keziah wrote to her son, Jesse.
. My name is Marilyn Hill Moody
Yes, Keziah lived in Candaigua, New York. She was the daughter of Israel
Parshall.
Canandagua Feb 1, 1828
My Dear Child:
It is impossible for me to know with what feelings you will read
these lines,but I assure you they are the expressions of a heart full of
maternal affection towards you and of tender solicition for your best overall
welfare. The time of my departure is at hand. I have reason daily to look
for my great change. Under the infirmities of and in the immediate prospect
of the eternal world. I now write this letter. It may be my last farewell
advice. O' my dear child, how can you neglect the welfare of your precious
immortal soul when so much has been done for your salvation. In Christ
there is a feeling of salvation for the whole world if they will come to
him, he will be able and willing to save, he has laid down his life for
such creatures as we are and will you trample under foot his precious blood
and reject his kind invitation. So my child,be in earnest for the salvation
of your soul and may God who delights not in the death of a sinner, but
rather that he turn and have mercy on you. In immediate repent there is
hope, he is a prayer hearing God. He is still merciful and gracious man,
the Father of mercies graciously regard you and the Holy Spirit convinced
humble and sanctify you. It is not likely my Dear Son that I shall ever
see you again. I am very weak and I am not able to see you anymore, I want
very much to see you, your wife and children. I hope that you will not
neglect my dying advice to attend to your immortal soul. That if we never
meet again on earth, we may meet in another and better world where tears
are no more and I know the weary are at rest. Your Father, Brother and
Sisters send their love to you and your family. This from your affectionate
Mother,
Keziah Hulce
Mr. Jesse P. Hulce
Keziah Hulce is my name English is my nation Candangua is my dwelling
place And Christ is my Salvation When I am dead and in my grave And all
my bones is rotten I leave these things for you to read that I may not
be forgotten.
Letter added to Tri-Counties Sitge 05 MAY 2008 by Joyce M. Tice
