Regarding Mary Levison purchasing Nick Nax from Jesse Haney for $2,500. Transcription: [Jesse] Haney sells out to Mrs. [Mary] Levison. Harrow for a garden,' keeps bees and sells honey; his wife [Minnie Gunn] 'looking much better in health.' Mrs. [Charlotte] Bennett, my Hannah's mother, has 'something the matter with her eyes that makes the family uneasy.' Mary Ann [Greatbatch] has written home, and of her inquiry about my father [Samuel Gunn]'s age my mother [Naomi Butler Gunn] [word crossed out] says: 'I hardly know whether it is correct, for he was registered in some chapel in Banbury, whic
Regarding Mary Levison purchasing Nick Nax from Jesse Haney for $2,500. Transcription: [Jesse] Haney sells out to Mrs. [Mary] Levison. Harrow for a garden,' keeps bees and sells honey; his wife [Minnie Gunn] 'looking much better in health.' Mrs. [Charlotte] Bennett, my Hannah's mother, has 'something the matter with her eyes that makes the family uneasy.' Mary Ann [Greatbatch] has written home, and of her inquiry about my father [Samuel Gunn]'s age my mother [Naomi Butler Gunn] [word crossed out] says: 'I hardly know whether it is correct, for he was registered in some chapel in Banbury, which was burned down, so we have to guess by Mr. Bolton's age. I think he is older, for he looks it; he is a sad, miserable-looking man, always complaining. I need not tell you it makes us all unhappy.' Down-town with [Frank] Cahill, to Wiley's. 'Courier' Office, met Briggs and had talk with him, to Post Office, Bank, then to 'Nic-nax' office. Haney and Cahill there; the former having just sold out 'Nic-nax' to Mrs. Levison for -?2500, half of what she bid for it six months ago, which Haney's honesty prevented his accepting. The woman has always suspected him of being what Cahill calls 'a b____y wolf in sheeps-clothing,' will probably punish herself most effectually by this purchase. Up- town with Haney, he dining with me, then off together to Bleecker Hoboken. At the Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 12, page 197, May 5, 1860 . 5 May 1860. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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