JOHN ORDWAY TO His PARENTS 269
John Ordway & Stephen Ordway
The letter is written on two pages of paper 7x1214 inches in size, with 23 lines on the first page and 26 lines on the second page. The third page is blank, and the fourth page is blank except the space reserved for the ad- dress, which is as follows:
"Stephen Ordway "Hebron
"Newhampshire
"divert this to Concord post office, it being older than Plymouth Post Office, or Hanover post office."
The letter was "diverted" because in another hand writ- ing these words appear: "Concord N H Jun 27 Missent and Fow'd"
The letter was postmarked with a stamp thus : "Caho : April 14, 1804," meaning "Cahokia," as that was a mail station at that date.
- The original copy of this letter was presented to the Oregon Historical
Society by Mrs. Eva Emery Dye in 1903. During the year 1900, while en- gaged in securing sources of material relating to the Lewis and Clark Expe- dition of 1804-6, which formed the basis of her volume entitled The Conquest, she received this letter from a niece of Ordway. George H. Himes.
