17 April

Watter Town

Dear friend

This leaves me quite well and very happy & hope it may find you the same[.] your visit short as it was has made very proud—and happy youre name is on every toung[.] O I am so glade that you came you will not for get yor frainds do come to see me soon as posible—wright and let me now when you will come & well be glade if you will came in June every it lovely then Oh by the way you now I have no parlor or no closet with a skeleton [rather?] we will try make it very pleasant for you

all thou we are poor and loly yet we love the grait and noble Frederickー

let me hear from you soon pleas send me you Paper when you get back from Albany,
ever

Eliza D. BrumleyBrumley, Eliza J.

Eliza Brumley (or Bromley) (1830–?) was a biracial woman who lived in Watertown, New York, from at least 1865 to1875. She was born in Niagara County, New York but, other than this, nothing can be definitively stated. Brumley was married to George Bromley, but he seems to have died around 1865 as her youngest child listed in the State Census that year is not yet one year old. 1865 New York State Census, District 01, Watertown, Jefferson; 1875 New York State Census, Watertown, Ward 04, E.D. 01, Jefferson; 1860 and 1870 U. S. Census, Watertown, Jefferson, New York.

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