Help With Address

Hi everyone, for the life of me I can't read the town and or the county that this cover is addressed to. I've tried to search for Michigan town and county names but I don't see anything that's close to what I'm seeing............... postmark is Monroe Michigan

Looks like Orocpo or perhaps Oroafso in Shampoo, mich.

Is the usage local (the stamp is for local or within state boundaries use or is it international? (if the contents were basic weight and not overweight.)

The lower right may read Shiawassee, Mich
The town may be Owosso
Census records show an Amos Gould there.
If wt1 is online you may get more info.

City of Owosso
County of Shiawassee

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owosso...ical_Markers

The five cent stamp would pay the rate for single sheet letters weighing under a half ounce and traveling under three-hundred miles.

what appears to be "f" is a "s" ?

A great example of the use of a "F" as an "S"
when the S is repeated.

Oh that's strange that old writing, Thanks everyone for the help! Now I can write up my page for my collection.

I have to agree with butterfly. Of the six Michigan counties beginning with an 's' only Shiawassee comes close to the writing in the lower right.

So the big S that I am interpreting as a lower case f or p, was the way to write double esses at the time to capitalize the first S? Or perhaps the capital-looking S is to denote a stress mark in the writing so the reader / speaker would be sure to stress the second syllable at the capitalization? Or is it not a capitalization at all?

I can see the misspelling happening as people write what they think they hear and so names change over the centuries and years.

he Henry Cherry Letters, 1864-1865, document the military service of Cherry, a Chaplain with the 10th Michigan Cavalry in the Civil War. In nine letters to Amos Gould of Owosso, MI, Cherry provides insight into life as a Chaplain in the Union Army as well as descriptions of Knoxville and the people of East Tennessee. The final letter, dated November 1, 1865, includes post-war descriptions of Jackson and Memphis.

In explanation, from peleography,
the "long S" (which to us looks like an "F")
is called the "medial S" which was used in script
from the middle ages, and used in the middle of a word,
The small "S" was called the "terminal S" and was to be
used as a final "S".

Fascination stuff eh? :) I like to see it used on covers
really gives it that "olde worlde" feel.

Great Rod, Thank you.

Thanks Puzz

Here it is from the horses mouth,
It is one thing to have it in one's database
but finding it was a real head scratcher

I had it under "beftowed" for "bestowed"

I'll now change it to "esses" perhaps
how else to flag this peculiar piece of info

Wow thanks Rod, Thanks everyone, with this computer age we lost the art of writing. I can't remember the last time I used script when I hand write something. educational!

Check this biography out on the Hon. Amos Gould of Owosso, Michigan:

http://books.google.com/books?id=qq...2C393&edge=0

According to Wiki, he was also the first Mayor of that city.