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September th10 1815 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 wagon 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 ? cloth this summer & bought 30 of factory striped & ? 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 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 been 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 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 because you never was deprivd of them ? I be ok if I could stop in now and then and open my heart to