Letter, Benj[amin] Blanchard, Lima, New York, to Mr Jacob Blanchard, Peacham, Vermont, 7 April 1812

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Benjamin reports that both he and his brother Mark took jobs teaching school the previous winter. Mark is now gone to the "Alegany"; Benjamin plans to stay at Lima (east of Batavia) and make bricks for a house being built by a Mr. John Morgan. Again speaks of the region's superior access to markets, via the Genesee River, Lake Ontario, and the St. Lawrence.