Victory Parade

Among the most interesting of the paper relicts from our past are the letters that have survived to give us tiny bits and pieces of personal, as well as, commercial life.

The letters listed below offer a sample of the correspondence generated by the citizens of Trenton and its environs in the first half of the 19th century:

CONTENT DATE RECIPIENT GREETING SENDER POSTMARK Patronage 04/15/1811 Samuel Meredith sir John Read (phi) Family Gossip 12/10/1836 Beulah Coates dear Sherman (Trenton) Food Buy 01/20/1837 Mfs. Law & Todd gentlemen B. Rose Trenton Note 04/28/1838 Messrs. Law & Todd gentlemen Stephen B. Rose (Trenton) Business 05/23/1839 Charles ?ently ? L. ?Ropell Trenton Abolitionists 02/13/1840 Beulah Coates cousin ?L. T. L. Trenton Rent Farm 03/27/1840 Philemon Dickinson, Hon. sir Stephen B. Rose Trenton Death Notice 05/05/1842 Dr. P. J. Stryker sir Isaac Southard Trenton Marrying Time 11/19/1842 William Balderston brother ?J. S. Balderston Morrisville Real Estate 04/09/1844 George Sykes sir Henry W. Green Trenton Lawyer's Bill 06/21/1844 Charles P. Relf, Esquire sir R. P. Thompson Trenton Family Affairs 04/05/1849 Wm. S. Cooley son E.G.? Cooley (Trenton) Carpet 04/12/1850 Mrs. Samuel Gummere mother Elizabeth Gummere Trenton

Walter Patykula's Letters written home to Trenton during World War II provide a window into the experiences of one local man who did not return home after the war. Walter was shot down over Japan on December 3, 1944.

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