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Sept the 22 added in pencil: 1817

My dearest Mother you will perhaps think I hav such a family of my own that I think but a little of my other relations but I think of you days & dream of you nights but as to seeing you I dont now when I shall unless you come & see me  I hav always such a larg family  the heaft of my family used to be in the fall of the year but now it is all the time  I feel a most dired of care and hard work altho my health is verry good & I have a good girl that livs with me  I hav to keep her a spinning the most of the time  Fanny & I doe the most of the houswork  fanny is a verry good girl & helps me a great deal  I am afraid I shall never be able to learn her to spin  I dont now how to spare her one hour to go to the wheel  we hav had as much as 60 pounds wool to spin  I hav a bout half of it spun  it was verry late befoore my flax was all spun  our little boy is verry good  we hav named him Henry ?