.MTIzNQ.OTc3NTU: Difference between revisions
imported>SamSLB No edit summary |
imported>SamSLB No edit summary |
||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
How favoured your Mother is to have such first rate boys hant she a leetle reason to be proud of ye all. J& E are both sons of Temperance. Brown has grown very fast a few years back has lately enlarg'd & new furnished his house. Had a party a few days, before E came home gave out 420 invitations but the evening was stormy they had between 100 & 200 and Joseph went also. Ann has as many scholars as she can well get along with and has no difficulty about getting her pay for she is patronized by just the very elite of the City, but she don't "lay up", anything & I doubt if she ever would if she had ever so good a chance - We got A fixt up quite nicely i.e, better than we expected C takes care of her cattle & sheep her house is not occupied. | How favoured your Mother is to have such first rate boys hant she a leetle reason to be proud of ye all. J& E are both sons of Temperance. Brown has grown very fast a few years back has lately enlarg'd & new furnished his house. Had a party a few days, before E came home gave out 420 invitations but the evening was stormy they had between 100 & 200 and Joseph went also. Ann has as many scholars as she can well get along with and has no difficulty about getting her pay for she is patronized by just the very elite of the City, but she don't "lay up", anything & I doubt if she ever would if she had ever so good a chance - We got A fixt up quite nicely i.e, better than we expected C takes care of her cattle & sheep her house is not occupied. | ||
Tuesday morning Dec 8 Charles got home last night they made a visit at Mr John Cutler on their way from Dover to Bangor. C spent the Sabbath in Bangor - he brought home a letter that you wrote lately to Eliab by which I perceive you have already received pretty much all news I have written in this but believe I'll send it as not time to make a new one - Don't forget to write to me now they're all gone I shall be quite lonely. Do tell me why for you are going to Yale - They are about trying to begin to build a meeting house in this town & as there are so very very few to do it they calculate to solicit aid & beg beg everywhere there is any prospect of success.. Mr Sewall preaches here one eighth of the time but all the folks that have mov'd here lately are universalists. the enemy in every form is coming in like a flood & we shall be alone & with the means of grace if there is not some exertion I say do you try and beg something for us we are feeble poor and discourage'd - the Congregationalist and Baptist will unite together in building a house - there are so few of the former that the latter intimate that it will be a Baptist house partly tho' perhaps because that Mr: Pratt the proprietors Agent proposed to give something towards it he is a Baptist but no matter what the name is Mrs Chase lives in Eliot St or Eliot place - Direct to care of Mr Chauncey Chase perhaps unless she [[ | Tuesday morning Dec 8 Charles got home last night they made a visit at Mr John Cutler on their way from Dover to Bangor. C spent the Sabbath in Bangor - he brought home a letter that you wrote lately to Eliab by which I perceive you have already received pretty much all news I have written in this but believe I'll send it as not time to make a new one - Don't forget to write to me now they're all gone I shall be quite lonely. Do tell me why for you are going to Yale - They are about trying to begin to build a meeting house in this town & as there are so very very few to do it they calculate to solicit aid & beg beg everywhere there is any prospect of success.. Mr Sewall preaches here one eighth of the time but all the folks that have mov'd here lately are universalists. the enemy in every form is coming in like a flood & we shall be alone & with the means of grace if there is not some exertion I say do you try and beg something for us we are feeble poor and discourage'd - the Congregationalist and Baptist will unite together in building a house - there are so few of the former that the latter intimate that it will be a Baptist house partly tho' perhaps because that Mr: Pratt the proprietors Agent proposed to give something towards it he is a Baptist but no matter what the name is Mrs Chase lives in Eliot St or Eliot place - Direct to care of Mr Chauncey Chase perhaps unless she [[turn some smudged word]] other way | ||
Revision as of 19:00, 5 August 2020
How favoured your Mother is to have such first rate boys hant she a leetle reason to be proud of ye all. J& E are both sons of Temperance. Brown has grown very fast a few years back has lately enlarg'd & new furnished his house. Had a party a few days, before E came home gave out 420 invitations but the evening was stormy they had between 100 & 200 and Joseph went also. Ann has as many scholars as she can well get along with and has no difficulty about getting her pay for she is patronized by just the very elite of the City, but she don't "lay up", anything & I doubt if she ever would if she had ever so good a chance - We got A fixt up quite nicely i.e, better than we expected C takes care of her cattle & sheep her house is not occupied. Tuesday morning Dec 8 Charles got home last night they made a visit at Mr John Cutler on their way from Dover to Bangor. C spent the Sabbath in Bangor - he brought home a letter that you wrote lately to Eliab by which I perceive you have already received pretty much all news I have written in this but believe I'll send it as not time to make a new one - Don't forget to write to me now they're all gone I shall be quite lonely. Do tell me why for you are going to Yale - They are about trying to begin to build a meeting house in this town & as there are so very very few to do it they calculate to solicit aid & beg beg everywhere there is any prospect of success.. Mr Sewall preaches here one eighth of the time but all the folks that have mov'd here lately are universalists. the enemy in every form is coming in like a flood & we shall be alone & with the means of grace if there is not some exertion I say do you try and beg something for us we are feeble poor and discourage'd - the Congregationalist and Baptist will unite together in building a house - there are so few of the former that the latter intimate that it will be a Baptist house partly tho' perhaps because that Mr: Pratt the proprietors Agent proposed to give something towards it he is a Baptist but no matter what the name is Mrs Chase lives in Eliot St or Eliot place - Direct to care of Mr Chauncey Chase perhaps unless she turn some smudged word other way