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    The Postal Service of the United States in Connection with the Local History of Buffalo
    The Postal Service of the United States in Connection with the Local History of Buffalo
    The Postal Service of the United States in Connection with the Local History of Buffalo
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    The Postal Service of the United States in Connection with the Local History of Buffalo

    By Nathan Kelsey Hall and Thomas Blossom

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    The Postal Service of the United States in Connection with the Local History of Buffalo - Nathan Kelsey Hall

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    Title: The Postal Service of the United States in Connection with the Local History of Buffalo

    Author: Nathan Kelsey Hall

    Thomas Blossom

    Release Date: September 30, 2007 [EBook #22812]

    Language: English

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    THE POSTAL SERVICE

    Of the United States in Connection with the Local

    History of Buffalo.

    READ BEFORE THE SOCIETY, JANUARY 6, 1865.

    BY HON. N. K. HALL[A] and THOMAS BLOSSOM.

    [B]

    No very satisfactory account of the origin and progress of the Postal Service of the country, in its more immediate connection with the local history of Buffalo, can now be compiled. The early records of the transportation service of the Post-Office Department, were originally meager and imperfect; and many of the books and papers of the Department, prior to 1837, were destroyed or lost when the public edifices at Washington were burned in 1814, and also when the building in which the Department was kept was destroyed by fire, in December, 1836. For these reasons the Hon. A. N. Zevely, Third Assistant Postmaster-General—who has kindly furnished extracts from the records and papers of the Department—has been able to afford but little information in respect to the early transportation of the mails in the western part of this State. Indeed, no information in respect to that service, prior to 1814, could be given; no route-books of older date than 1820 are now in the Department, and those from 1820 to 1835 are not so arranged as to show the running time on the several routes.

    The records of the Appointment Office, and those of the Auditor's Office of the Department, are more full and perfect; and from these, and from various other sources of information, much that is deemed entirely reliable and not wholly uninteresting has been obtained.

    Erastus Granger was the first Postmaster of Buffalo—or rather of Buffalo Creek, the original name of the office. He was appointed on the first establishment of the office, September 30, 1804. At that time the nearest post-offices were at Batavia on the east, Erie on the west, and Niagara on the north. Mr. Granger was a second cousin of Hon. Gideon Granger, the fourth Postmaster-General of the United States, who held that office from 1801 to 1814.

    The successors of

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