About the Naylor Notebook

The Naylor Notebook is made up mostly of family genealogy information. Any member of the clan which includes many in-laws is encouraged to contact the Naylors by email. Dates and places of birth, death that are unkown by the Naylors can be edited at any time. Just let us know.

SAMPLE OF SOME GENEALOGY FILES IS A LETTER WRITTEN IN 1853. IT FOLLOWS:

"Thursday, Nov. 4, 1853 "Dear Sir:

I have but a few minutes to write. there is much going on here in the morning you might excuse me you know how it is here. i am well as usual and rest of our family but Frank has had the same fever that you had. he has been sick three weeks. he is so now. he rode home yesterday i received your letter in due time Fred has gone to Corning since he left last Sunday there came a leter into the office from Randal they opened it here and then sent it on he said they had got their house ready for plastering they are well there Dea Fitch is very sick with the fever think it will go through neighborhood i hear that you calculate to go home on a raft and dont want i should know it but i suppose that the madam told me so to make me feel bad she is the cause of a great many troubles to me if it so dont you do it risk your life on a raft to save a dollar its pitty if i cant send you home when you want to go more like a man than that i want you to take care of your health when that is gone all is gone worth living for Aunt Phebe was along last week with a Mr. Holden and wife of Rhodiland F Kenyon has gone to Virginia i begin to forget what i want to write so i will stop now before i lose myself intierly I want you to write a week from today if you can i want to know how you are and anything else you have to tell only keep dark about the raft Abram Lippit is in town i saw the long beard the other day. S.B.S. (Sally Buckeley Swan, maternal grandmother of Stephen Holden, grandfather of Audrey Holden Naylor)