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people come to work with them and they stay two or three months and if they stay so long my father or mother gives them clothes. I have 3 brothers and 3 sisters as soon as they are old enough they bring them to school at Brainerd and one of them has stayed eleven years he now helps my father about the farm and I think he will learn the blacksmiths trade. Please to give any respect to Mr Thatcher and love to all your children. Will you accept this from your young friend. Lucy Mc Pherson.

Rev'd Moses Thatcher. 

Brainerd C N July 17 1829. Respected Madam

Miss Sawyer requested some of the girls to write to some of the ladies in Rindge. We received the tracts you sent to us we thank you for them. I hope we all love to read them. We have a society in the afternoons on Saturdays we sew and knit while our teacher or some other one reads and tells us what is doing among other heathen. I think our society is interesting. Before we had one we used to go and play in the afternoons and now instead of that we work for the heathen. We have a patchwork sufficient for a bed quilt which we shall sell for our society. I should be pleased to write you a long letter but there will be no room as Miss S wishes for four of five to write she wishes you to know the age of each one who writes Nancy Reece is fifteen, Sally is eleven, Lucy Mc P is seven, Lucy A C is eleven. Polly W is twelve. I am twelve. Please to accept these few lines from your Cherokee friend. Ann Bush.
Miss Catharine Johnson.