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Springfield Feb 20 in pencil: 1817?

  Dear Sister   I once more take my pen in hand to in form you of our good health   I have nothing of consequence to write   I have got a good girl to help me   she has lived with me 4 months   I had 20 pounds of wooll after Mother went from here & had it all spun in one week   we hant began our flax yet   my  babe is got to be a verry good girl   one of our oxen got choked to death with a  potatoe last fall   Isaac I sincerely feel for you in your troubles   O that I could but gest stop in evry now & then & share with you in your troubles but my Dear Brother we must all bare our own affliction   If Susan is able to ride in the spring you must come up herere   it may be of servis to her   I have ben verry anxious to hear form her for some time & all the rest of you