Letter To Mrs. Harriet Castor from her Sister Wilhelmina Foster, Carlisle, 1820
Wilhelmina Foster is writing to her sister Harriet Castor of Philadelphia who had married barely seven months ago.
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Miss Esther Lamberton (1799-1880)
Esther Lamberton and her twin brother Christopher James were born six years after their father James Lamberton killed John Duncan of Carlisle in a duel in June 1793.1 Esther wrote her will on September 23, 1878.
Relics: Lost and Found
Relics are fragments or objects that have survived from the past, and in the case of relics found in Cumberland County, they are gold and silver coins, buttons, silver spoons, and cannonballs.