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Hon Mother, you wished in your last letter to have me write how I got along I get a long with my work verry well by working hard early and late I suppose you will say I am a fraid Hannah will work too hard but mother I try to stop when I think I have gone as far as my strength will a low of I write to you with a thankfull heart that I am ? the heartiest of your children & all the ? of my family our three oldest children go to school Frances begins to sow & knit so that she helps me considerable I wrote a letter to Sister Polly the day before I receivd yours & heard of her sickness I wish it was so I could come & see her this summer & Lucy to & all the rest of you I want to see you verry much but I cannot come for Mr H L is a building a shop & fulling mill between cooperstown & cherrivalley which will take up the summer they talk some of coming to Windsor to get their tools if they do Julia can go home with them they will stay but a short time if they come at all so that I shant come I dont quite give up the thoughts of ever coming to see you I wish Father & you would com & see me this fall or anny of the rest of you would be verry agreeably receivd do come some of you if you possibly can you dont now how much I want to see you write to me whether I may futter my self of seeing any of you or not Julia & I have spun between 60 & 70 run of chain it was verry fine yarne ten run that went into a 60? mother twice that went into a 40 for slips it looks like gingham and som brown went in to who &c &c Hannah Hayden give my love to brothers and sisters Father Haydens family & to Aunt Marium and all other inquairing friends