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Springfield June 3th 1811 Dear, Sisters I have been a trying this long time to write to you. we have sold our place to strong & purchasd 50 acres of land in springfield. we are building a shop larg enough to live in a year or two we expect to build a barn this summer. I have 13 in my family. I have no help but fanny. I sent her to school two days but I shal send her no more for I found she was a great help to me. we have lived here 4 weks. we shall move into the shop in two weks. I like this place verry well. our children have got the chicken pox. my babe has had thre swellings one on the side of his neck & one under each of his armes. it was four weeks from the time the first one began to come till the last was fit to be open?. he has got to be a verry good boy. we have name him Isaac. if he has had the whooing caugh he had it verry light. he had a hard caugh about 6? weeks but he never hooped any. I have not mad any cloath this spring except a little for the boys some close soon after I came her had a fall into the suller their being a trap door. I fel backwards from the top to bottom it was verry deep. I was in great pain for ten days at turns I could hardly get up or sit down or walk about. I have about got over it now. Mr. Michel braught some saddles up last fall. there is two of the best of them sold & his harness it is a time of year to ride horse back. I hope we shall have better luck in selling them than we have had. he braught one side saddle I should be verry glad to get it but I don't think we can unclear.