Description:
Printed paper broadside for the "UNION TELEGRAPH LINE" announcing a new schedule of mail stages between Albany and Boston, about 200 miles, in two days, which descended in the Abercrombie family of Deerfield. In 1742, Robert Abercrombie (1712-1786) emigrated from Edinburgh, Scotland, to Pelham, Massachusetts; he and his wife, Margaret Stevenson Abercrombie (d.1765), had 10 children; their son, Isaac Abercrombie (1759-1847) married Martha McCullough (1768-1837) in 1790, and they moved from Pelham to the Cheapside section of Deerfield (now in Greenfield) about 1830. Their son, Asiel Abercrombie (1807-1874), married Elizabeth Brooks Fuller (1817-1906), the daughter of Aaron Fuller (1786-1859) and his first wife, Elizabeth Hill Fuller (d.1818) of Deerfield, in 1845. Asiel and Elizabeth Abercrombie had three children who lived: Robert (b.1846), William Hyslop (1851-1940), and Hattie Fuller (1860-1955); only Robert married - Ellen Margaret Crawford in 1873. Robert and Ellen's son, James Douglas Abercrombie (b.1878) was the father of James Douglas Abercrombie (1913-1978), husband of the donor.
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