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United States Maryland and Kentucky
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Paid in America
Applied in Liverpool
Baltimore, 2 July, 1854-16 days
Paid letter to Ballindalloch, Scotland from Baltimore, blue circular Baltimore Md.
Datestamped and manuscript 24 rating and P AID, Baltimore. " . Britain" - Scotland.
Carried by surface to Boston, where rated with red handstamp 24 and 19 credit to GB.
From Boston by British Packet Niagara, 5 July departure and 18 July Liverpool arrival.
Liverpool "Paid in America" on front, back stamp 18 July Ballindalloch.
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To Keene, Kentucky, 2 July, 1866 -19 days, approximate
Paid letter from Meigle, Scotland, cancelled with 13 bar numeral 245 obliterator
carried New York packet, 17 July, New York, onward by surface mail to Keene.
Letter addressed to clergy.
Scottish migration to Maryland and Kentucky was initially largely tied to agriculture.
