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Springfield May 9th 1814 Dear Parents I received the malencholy tidings dear Sister Julias Death April 28th the news was not at all unexpected to me I had daily expected it Oh may we all be enabled to bare with the infliction that God sees fit to inflict upon us with out murmuring my afictions hav ben severe for 2 years past o may it be good for me to be afflicted it has ben verry trying to me to now of your troubles & to think I could not come to assist & sympathize with you but that is my lot I must bare my troubles here a great distance from my friends I have atended upon our once dear Sister Julia threw her sickness almost evry night but in the morning be hold it would be a dream I was verry glad to hear you were all comfortably well we are all enjoying the same blessin I have 12 in my family next week I shall have one or two more we are building a shop for a cording machine we are expecting to set up the spinning and weaving next summer I fell ? of so much building I have work I have girl that lives with me but I keep her a spinning I have