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September th10 1815 in pencil: 1816?

Dear Mother   we hav ben to a baptist meeting to day   there was a woman dipt    it was the first one that ever  I saw dipt   all our children went except the two youngest   we can get our family along to meeting verry comfortably this summer   we have a one horse waggon   Isaac thinks it is a long day to sit still   so long we have not spun a thread of wool yet I have but about 12 pounds but I expect more   I have made 55 yards of tow cloth this summer & baught 30 of factry striped & plad  but it is hardly a garment a piece in my family   little Julia has walked more than three months   she went out to the pond when Father H was here fell in she was took out I thought lifeless  o think what my feelings was to part with another dear child in such a sudden way but in a bout minet & half there began to be sines of life   perhaps she is spard to some harder fate   I think in a few days our children will all have the meazles   they have ben exposed   we are all well except my self   I am not verry well but I say no more a bout it tham I can help   my fate is a gin fixd for a nother 9 months but I dare not complain   my Dear Mother you dont now what a comfort it is to be surrounded with friends when you ant well be caus you never was deprivd of them as I be oh if I could step in now and then and open my heart to