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Springfield June in pencil" 1814 My Dear Parents My three eldest Children are gone to school the two small ones are a sleep & two are gone, gone for ever I go into one rome there it seem as if could se little Juliaett breathin her last I go into The other there I can see poor Henry lie lifeless on the floor you can't think what a melancholly place it is to me the feever has greatly abated in this & our neighbourin towns there has ben about 40 Deaths here I feel quite concernd about Sister Polly I think her simptons are bad I hope she will spare no pains nor cost upon the recovery of her health our family is in good health we have two hireed men & a boy this summer George lives with us yet he was Married last week to the girl that has lived with us