{"id":1359,"date":"2013-07-18T18:11:07","date_gmt":"2013-07-18T18:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/?p=1359"},"modified":"2013-07-18T18:11:07","modified_gmt":"2013-07-18T18:11:07","slug":"good-samaritan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/2013\/07\/18\/good-samaritan\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Samaritan!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2013\/07\/img764.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1361\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2013\/07\/img764-241x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"241\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2013\/07\/img764-241x300.jpg 241w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2013\/07\/img764-824x1024.jpg 824w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 241px) 100vw, 241px\" \/><\/a>Last fall I got a call from a man in Illinois who said he had bought three 19th-century letters on e-Bay related to the Watkinson family, and did we want them? I admitted we were interested, since we are the main repository of <a href=\"http:\/\/illiad.trincoll.edu\/watk\/manuscripts\/watkinsonfamily.htm\">Watkinson family papers<\/a>, asked for a few details, which he provided, and then I asked what he wanted for them.\u00a0 &#8220;I want to give them to you,&#8221; he said, and continued, &#8220;I like to buy historical letters and documents like this, and if I find a place were they belong, I like to give them away.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I was both astounded and pleased, of course, and I wish there were a thousand more like him.<\/p>\n<p>The letter shown here was written March 18 &amp; 19, 1827 by our founder, David Watkinson, to his brother, John R. Watkinson, asking the latter to represent David&#8217;s interest in an insurance claim.\u00a0 &#8220;I am requested by the Hartford Fire Insurance Company to . . . persuade you to accompany one of our Directors to Jewit [sic] City to appraise the damage . . .&#8221;\u00a0 A fire broke out in Jewett City, and the claimants estimated $20,000 in damages, to which David comments, &#8220;probably their property destroyed was not worth more than half the amount.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last fall I got a call from a man in Illinois who said he had bought three 19th-century letters on e-Bay related to the Watkinson family, and did we want them? I admitted we were interested, since we are the main repository of Watkinson family papers, asked for a few details, which he provided, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,39,19,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1359"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1364,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359\/revisions\/1364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}