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Our crops the past season were very poor I lost two thirds of my oat crop (which is something that was never known in this country before, and I hope never will be again, we have but a very little to sell this year, which is very unlucky for us as we have used up all of our spare meanes the past summer in building, and have got lumber to build a barn next Summer, for which I shall be obliged to get in debt some in order to complete it I bought my lumber this last fall on credit which amounted 115,000 we Shall enough to sell to pay for that and perhaps more then there will be my Shingles nails hinges &c which will amount to about 100,00 more which I shall be obliged to get in debt for which goes acros the grain for I have always paid down for every thing I have bought since I been in the country, and by that means I believe almost every body thinks my purse bottomless but they are greatly mistaken, we do all our own work here with horses instead of oxen we have a pair of large horses double waggon steed and a good buggy have fifteen head of Cattle Shall milk seven cows next summer we have a good house with finished and painted up stairs and down inside & out, have about fifty acres under improvement have logs stables for our stock I built a log house last summer for a grainery but I hired a man last August for one year so I make a tenant house of it my hired man is a half breed French & Indian he is a first rate man to work the best help I have ever had in this country he has a wife and five children clothed decently I suppose our property would sell for two thousand dollars but I dont care about selling at present Your &c T. Furber