A silver message from ‘His Excellency’ Sam Adams and ‘The Most Worshipful’ Paul Revere

 

1. Neat - I found this huge Department of State paper issued to my Great grandfather in 1903 granting him and his family ‘safe passage’ - wondered exactly where they went to need something like this. Via ancestry.com I discovered that it was the ‘passport’ of the day. He and the family did some sort of medical missionary work (he was the son of a Methodist minister) in South America - gone for a year.

   The historical papers of the past are so interesting.

   And like your picture - my maternal grandparents had their wedding invitation engraved on the back support of a frame for their wedding picture. I’d never seen that before.

   Posted by wardmama4       01/07/2015  at  08:59 AM  



2. This is a fascinating story. Thanks for sharing Doc.

   Posted by LyndonB       01/07/2015  at  11:19 AM  



3. Neat stuff… I wonder if those old newspapers could be safely unfolded and scanned for online reading.

   Posted by JimS       01/07/2015  at  12:53 PM  



4. JimS - newspapers.com - I’m still working on the best search parameters but a heck of a lot of old papers come up when I do a search.

   Posted by wardmama4       01/08/2015  at  09:46 AM  

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