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I charge you & Joseph too to leave your business there a week at least in the month of July, tis your duty so to do, for the preservation of your health.

 Send me my Son when you have opportunity a half lb of good green tea - and do

Eliab write to me tis a long long time since I have had a letter from you it is just as much gratification to me now to know all what you do and think and feel as it ever was - but you'll never know how much that is unless you should live to have "offspring" of your own.

 Charles has got 2 acres of corn planted just coming up grass looks very well

I haven't heard anything said about the wheat & oats.

 We have got some ground nuts planted in the garden - Some few fruit trees

set out this spring but no front yard fence made yet.

 I told Isaac that if I could get near what his worth I would sell the beauty line back Cow

when she has calved which will be perhaps in a month and send him the money if we couldn't make out some without, will it sell well or will it be too late in the season do you guess.

writing upside down: Joseph - Charles now wants to come to some Settlement or arrangement about the property wants I should propose how & what I want he should propose something but he says wont__ So what shall we do__ He is a poor "critter" as he says he has brought up a family of children (and they ten times better off than he is) Spent the best of his life got to be an old man and no better off than 15 years ago nor much prospect of being

 What should you consider the whole farm here worth  or what do you think he ought to give for my

part of it __ I have told you his side of the story but you know it all and all the circumstances about it you and Eliab think it over and say what to do will you __I have just recd a letter from Isaac which I suppose expresses your mind Somewhat_but I dont know what will be done

I have just been sending a little about the west The Ladies Society for Education till I think if Lucy enjoyed

real good health I should think (hard as it would be for me) I should think that it was her duty to offer her servises