1 handwritten letter to Powell Stackhouse regarding a deed for land in Northumberland Co., Pa

Bear Gap, Pa, 1822. Near Fine. 1 handwritten letter from W.H. Sayre, Bear Gap, Pa., to Powell Stackhouse, Philadelphia. Sayre reports that "my cause was not tried this last court." He hopes that Stackhouse will be able to find "the descriptive part" of Stackhouse's deed. If he can find it and send it to Sayre by the next court, in April, "this will render us secure." Powell Stackhouse (1785-1863) and his wife, Edith Stackhouse (1786-1866), were Quakers and members of Philadelphia Monthly Meeting. He began as a cabinetmaker in the 1810s; was a china merchant for a few years, following his father's profession; and in 1818 became a stove pattern maker. In the 1820s he continued in the iron stove business, and in 1831 he received a patent for an improvement in stoves. He became a prominent stove manufacturer, employing iron from furnaces throughout Pennsylvania; by the end of the century his grandson, Powell Stackhouse (b. 1840), was president of Cambria Iron Co. The land in question in Northumberland Co. may have been of interest to Stackhouse because it contained iron ore. In Near Fine Condition: lightly creased where originally folded; small section lacking from edge of address side, without loss of writing; clean and bright.