1850 ALBION NY Letter - L.C. PAINE M.D. Great Content re Paine Family Genealogy

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1 pg. letter, approx. 7-3/4" x 9-3/4", dated at Albion, Orleans Co., N.Y., June 13, 1850, from L.C. Paine, M.D., to another L. C. Paine (a stranger to him), with great content regarding a genealogy of the Paine Family.
The writer of this letter, L.C. Paine, M.D., (1787-1873), was a physician in Albion, who was in practice until shortly before his death at age 86. In 1814, during the War of 1812, he was appointed Surgeon of the 121st NY Regiment of Infantry by Gov. Tompkins. Dr. Paine was an active genealogist of the Paine family in America, descended from Thomas Paine, who came to Mass. from England in 1621, and settled in the Plymouth Colony.
Includes:
"Dear Sir,
I have been collecting materials for sometime past for a genealogical history of the
Paine family in the United States
, principally for my own gratification and curiosity. In addressing you in this manner and at this time, strangers as we are, I feel that an apology is due for the intrusion, but I indulge the hope that the object in view and the coincidence in our names, will prove satisfactory to you for the liberty taken.
Will you then be good enough to answer this communication, (if it should ever reach your hands) and furnish me with a statement of your line of ancestry from your earliest information to the present time, with the collateral branches, as amply as you can find time to afford for my gratification? The favor solicited will be reciprocated if desirable.
Very respectfully, your ob't Serv't
L.C. Paine
Very Fine.
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