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next Sabbath (a week last Sabbath). She had been sick a long time & suffered much. thus does the voice of Providence tell us to be also ready. the old & young are alike called. "It matters not how long we live but how". I would so live that the messenger of death shall find me working just in my proper place. In other respects things remain much the same as when you left. Amelia is with her aunt Hannah- is expecting to marry a Mr. Cooper a Baptist minister of L. Royalston in the Spring. O I forgot - Sabrina Bigelow was married last Wednesday. To a Mr. Abel Paul Pierce of Royalston a widower with four children. It is said she never saw him until a fortnight previous to their marriage but I cannot much for this truth of this. Rosonna, her sister is going to marry a Mr. Williams of Petersham a widow also with a family of children. Now cousin it I am given you quite an account of matrimonial alliances a subject quite unusual for me to touch upon largely but these old acquantances, future prospects I thought would interest you. Is cousin Sarah going to lay aside her maiden name & not speak a word to me of it. The time is almost at hand that it is reported in Petersham she is to become a bride. Please give much love to her & say to her It would give me pleasure to hear from her. Sister R. had a letter from her a week since wh. she handed me to read. Cousin Mary ann Bragg was married in church on Thanksgiving day. I enjoyed listening to an interesting discourse fr. Mr. P. upon the character of the Puritans. I wish you had heard it. it was as good as his Thanksgiving sermons always are. I took dinner at home. OUr circle consisted of Father, Mother, Gamchil & wife, & Hattie Nurding & Poly & Mary Lo - Lucinda Pete, Harriet & Roena & myself. In the evening we three girls went up & spent the evening at Ploard's & sisters by invitation. I watched the night previs with Mr. b. so at ten oclock I was happy to visit the land of dreams.

  Here I am at the close of my sheet much sooner