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Staunton Ills Jan 15:62 Dear Son we received your favor of the 23 Dec and was glad to hear that you was well and that you had concluded to change your locality, I have just received a letter from Wm he says the farm is not sold nor does he know when it will be they did not get a bid that they thought would do he has moved back to his farm in Indianna you need not look for the bibe and likenesses yet he has not got them coppied yet he will write to you when he sends them he says we had better buy though if we can to advantage there is $2000:500 dollars in notes and accounts to be paid in and then there will be a dividend struck to make Marys children and me equal to the rest and Jacob has had four or five $100 dollars and Henry nine Wm about the same and Crispin 8 hundred but Crispin has put