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Frances Taylor - Letter to her granddaughter
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RC0828
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1878 (Creation)
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1 letter
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The letter begins: "I am very pleased that you are interested in your great grandfather's life." The letter contains a biographical sketch of George Stephen Benjamin Jarvis, soldier, judge, and politician who was born in New Brunswick in 1797 and moved to Canada in 1809. He died near Cornwall, Ont. on 15 April 1878.
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Letter was purchased from Garnett, Box 4918, St. Louis, Mo. on 15 May 1968.
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George Stephen Benjamin Jarvis's official biographical sketch can be found in the Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Vol. X.
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