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tomorrow- Jane fussing about and singing as usual. Almeda and the children prosper as usual. Jamie is a real good steady little boy - has done most all his mother's harvesting this fall! It has rained a great deal within a few weeks. The river is very high. Have been expecting a freshet. Mr. Sargent bought the Sebec and Atkinson ferry boat a few weeks since of one of the select men, and took it down here. Mr. Cushing had previously bought it of another one and insisted on keeping it - so he hired men to take it down river & up the Sebec to the mills. They got it fastened on a rock where it yet remains, entirely under water, broken to pieces by the dashing waves - in an ungetoffable place. Total loss. Mr. Sargent felt quite disturbed about it at first. Charles had a fine lot of corn - between 50 and 75 be. he thinks. More than half husked. Has ploughed up all the east field. Getting along finely with fall work. Eben Greenleaf has broken up housekeeping. Children all sent away. Col. Lee and wife are going to live with Ellen at Brownville this winter. Aron and Martha have gone. He to Iron Mountain - she to Oxford. Hector Sargent has moved into his house. Old lady Hill lives alone in her part. Abby gone to Lawrence married. Marshall there too. Nathan Sargent married to Mr. Cushing's wife's sister - lives on the homestead. Lucretia Hashell is not married. Is in a tailor's shop at Bangor. Lissie Quimby is engaged to her cousin West Point Fellow. Married next Spring.

    Samuel was offered last week 480.00 to work from next April to Nov. at Hampden. Sixty dolls. per month. Says 'tis more than he can make in the store. No labor, either, hardly - only care. Keep the account of time of a crew of men etc. I think your descriptions of our Uncles and Aunts are rather droll, to say the least. One grown in a quart pot - another likeness to a carrot grown in a tin tube! Think they would feel themselves flattered? I should like to be acquainted with some of them, really. 

Sabbath eve. Oct: 31st

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