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United States Wisconsin and Michigan
1/-paid
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To Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, 21December,1867-12 days
Paid letter rate paid from Glasgow carried to Boston by British Packet, on Cunard steamer
Cuba, sent via Queenstown, 22 December, handstamped 5 cent credit US for inland
delivery, 2 January, Boston received.
Rate Decreased 6d paid
from li- to 6d
January, 1868
To Smyrna, Michigan, 3 September, 1868-13 days
Paid letter from Glasgow, wing margin single. Handstamped circular Detroit Paid
AH, 15 September received. Initially handstamped, "lnsufficiently Prepaid" and
manuscript over 12 oz., crossed off and accepted at rate paid.
The Wild West was what we know of as the Midwest today. German, Scottish and Irish settlers were well established by the 1860s.
