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as to my work I get along as well as I can my steady family is 11 in number since I got rid of my sawmill work men I have done | as to my work I get along as well as I can my steady family is 11 in number since I got rid of my sawmill work men I have done m work myself the only now & then a day ever since last Febuary I have kept Polly a spinn she has been gone 5 weeks this summer I thought I should make a great deal of cloth but I could not get quite 30 wait of flax so I was obliged to spin cotton & that takes a geat while t make a little cloth I hant hardly made a sheet since I can remember I have 50 wait of wool that is half spin I hav had so little wool for years past that I hardly know what to do with it I have got to make George his freedom suit this fall & I expect another aprentice soon I suppose he will come half naked I have got two calico bed quilts almost pieceend but I am fraid we shant get time to quilt them this fall I have so much other work to do it makes me a thousans steps a running after my children because Isaac the water is so nigh the hous the four eldest go to school we have a verry good school I dont now how to spare Frances but I [[?]] can spare her any better | ||
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as to my work I get along as well as I can my steady family is 11 in number since I got rid of my sawmill work men I have done m work myself the only now & then a day ever since last Febuary I have kept Polly a spinn she has been gone 5 weeks this summer I thought I should make a great deal of cloth but I could not get quite 30 wait of flax so I was obliged to spin cotton & that takes a geat while t make a little cloth I hant hardly made a sheet since I can remember I have 50 wait of wool that is half spin I hav had so little wool for years past that I hardly know what to do with it I have got to make George his freedom suit this fall & I expect another aprentice soon I suppose he will come half naked I have got two calico bed quilts almost pieceend but I am fraid we shant get time to quilt them this fall I have so much other work to do it makes me a thousans steps a running after my children because Isaac the water is so nigh the hous the four eldest go to school we have a verry good school I dont now how to spare Frances but I ? can spare her any better