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James Nelson has a distinctive style of hand writing & typing.
Handwriting
James Nelson (1840 to 1917) has writen hundreds and hundreds of documents
regarding his Nelson family and also allied families. He also collected many articles obtained
from newspaper articles also that PCHS has in binders. There is a vast collection of his works at Putnam County Historical Society
in Cold Spring, NY.
When I first started this venture about a dozen years or so ago, I did not intend to go this troute so you will see some of my comments
on many documents.