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Springfield Feb 20 1817? Dear Sister I once more take my pen in hand to inform 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 wool 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 every 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 here it may be of servis to her I have ben verry anxious to hear from her for some time & all the rest of you