The Fay Family: Letters of Heman Allen Fay

THE FAY FAMILY HOMEPAGE

GENEALOGIES

From the Cullum File of Heman Allen Fay July 18, 1855: the letter of John Symington

Contributed by Susan Fay McGinn Mary McGinn Vickers transcribed and annotated by Linda Fay Kaufman

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Heman A. Fay
from
John Symington
Watervliet Arsenal
July 18, 1855

Watervliet Arsenal
18th July 1855

To
Capt. George W. Cullum
U. S. Engineers
Charleston S[?] C
D T[?]

I have just received a note from [word?] Major Fay in which he states that the only information he can give relative to the requests in your Circular, refers to hismelf alone. The remarks[?] in your register are correctly given, since the office of Military[?] Store[?] Keeper at Albany was abolished in 1842, he has resided in Albany not engaged in any

The page ends with the word "any"; I suspect that originally there was another page. Symington's handwriting is very difficult to read, and this transcription should be considered a draft in some respects.