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Roxbury March 20th 1784
Kind Sir
Sur I have Recd a Letter Dated November
20th from you which Gives me Great
Pleasure to hear you are a Live and I
hope well It Seames you Desire to Know
the affairs of my Family my Good Mother
Dyed in Less than a year after the wars
Began, we have had five Children all
which are Dead Except one which Is
our first Borne which is Joseph I hope
a Promising youth I Rejoice with you
the Unhapy wars are over which
have Seperated very friends I am
very Sory Captn Curtis hurt your
Interest but I Know not what Curtis
It was, I understand you want
Two Plows and a Pair of Cartwheals
I Did not Receive your Letter till the
12 of March Instant you have not
wrote wheather I Should Gett Shers
to the Plows or Not, they ask
aske me a Dollar & halfe for a Small Plow
and Two Dollars for a Large one.
the Shears will Coste about five Dollars
the cart wheale & hoops & Boxes will Cost
about Twelve Dollars
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