[Letter from Mary Nevett Steele to Catherine Steele, April 10, 1819]

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Letter from Mary Nevett Steele to her daughter Catherine Steele. Mary writes about her travels and shares updates on many different shared acquaintances. She reminisces about her deceased husband, James Steele. This letter seems to be written by Mary dictating to her son, James Billings Steele.

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Steele, Mary Nevett April 10, 1819.

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Nanticoke Historic Preservation Alliance

The Nanticoke Historic Preservation Alliance provides letters dating from 1786 to about 1825 from the Steele family who owned Handsell house. The “old brick house” known as Handsell, located in the Indiantown north of Vienna, Dorchester County, Maryland, was purchased by the Nanticoke Historic Preservation Alliance in 2005 with a Preservation Easement from the Maryland Historic Trust. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008, the site is used to interpret the Native People’s contact period with the English, the enslaved and later African American story, and the life of all those who lived at Handsell.

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Letter from Mary Nevett Steele to her daughter Catherine Steele. Mary writes about her travels and shares updates on many different shared acquaintances. She reminisces about her deceased husband, James Steele. This letter seems to be written by Mary dictating to her son, James Billings Steele.

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  • Preferred Citation: Papers of the Steele families, 1786-1864, Nanticoke Historic Preservation Alliance, Vienna, MD.

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Voices of the Eastern Shore

The Voices of the Eastern Shore collection features archival materials such as letters, accounting ledgers and legal documents from the Somerset County Historical Society and the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia that focus on life on the Eastern Shore of Maryland and Virginia from 1796 to about 1837.

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  • April 10, 1819

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Steele, Mary Nevett. [Letter from Mary Nevett Steele to Catherine Steele, April 10, 1819], letter, April 10, 1819; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1809690/: accessed February 19, 2026), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Nanticoke Historic Preservation Alliance.

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