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Springfield June 3th in pencil: 1811 Dear, Sisters I have been a trying this long time to write to you we have sold our place to strong & purchasd 50 acres of land in springfield we are building a shop larg enough to live in a year or two we expect to build a barn this summer I have 13 in my family I have no help but fanny I sent her to school two days but I shal send her no more for I found she was a great help to me we have lived here 4 weks we shall move into the shop in two weks I like this place verry well our children have got the chicken pox my babe has had thre swellings one on the side of his neck & one under each of his armes it was four weeks from the time the first one began to come till the last was fit to be open he has got to be a verry good boy we have namd him Isaac if he has had the whooing caugh he had it verry light he had a hard caugh about ? weeks but he never hooped any I have not mad any cloath this spring except a little for the boys some close soon after I came he had a fall into the suller their being a trap door I fell backwards from the top to bottom it was verry deep I was in great pain for ten days at turns I could hardly get up or sit down or walk about I have a bout got over it now Mr. Michel braught some saddles up last fall their is two of the best of them sold & his harness it is a time of year to ride horse back I hope we shall have better luck a selling them than we have had he braught one side saddle I should be verry glad to get it but I don't think we can pa