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Hartwick March 11th added in pencil: 1809 Dear Sister I now sit down to inform you of my health and inquire after yours. mine at presant is verry good excepting A very bad cold. now I suppose you want to know how we got along when we was on our journey we got along very well indeed Hezza never cried with the cold but twice he had A very good place to sit Mr Denslone carryd him into the house and out every house we stopt at he always had him in his arms it seemd as if I never could got along if it had not been for him we got here on Fryday night. Hez says he dont want to go back again. he goes to School every day he says sometimes he wants to go to Grandpas. I never have been homesick any at all but I expected I should been but I think I had as lieves be here as there if it was as ? we h ad the judges company here 2 nites his horss was sick and lame we had A letter from Marin & he wrote it wa quite sickly in Windsor with the spotted fever I want very much to hear about it and how you get along with your work and how you all do the Children have very bad colds & all the rest of us we have had Henry Bacon here one night to see Martin H he though MH was here he left A letter here for MH and it was not seald and I took the liberty to read it and the judge read it and it was all about A Drake & A Hayden and Lucertia he told me when I wrote to send his love to Lucretia so you may tel her of it I was to Cherry Valley las week and they said that Amos was acomeing up in April to Study ? and I want you to have that red leather made into a pair of shoes for me and now I want if you can that silk frock that I have tryd so much for I really want it very much I did not no but Father might get it to Hartford with wood if you could not no other way I want very much to have you get it if you can