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Beaver dam Sept the 26th 1858
Dear Mother and Brothers I sit down once more to
write a few lines to you to let you know
how we all are for I have got tired waiting
for an answer to the rest of my letters this
is the third one I have wrote to you and
still no answer so this will be the last one
until I get an answer
We are all in reasonable health at the present
time Rebecca is getting a considerable stouter than
she was in the fore part of the summer she
is able to do her own work now Amos
has the ague now for a few days past but the
rest of us is well with the exception of a
few of the biggest biles [boils] that I have got
they are not so numerous as Jobs but a great
deal sorer in my opinion
I have not heard any thing from Dan and
Mary Jane for about five weeks but they
were all well the last time I heard from them
--the health of the country is just middling
there is a considerable of the ague around through
the country but that is about all the
kind of sickness there is as yet =
The crops of wheat was verry poor here
this harvest wheat turned out the porest
I ever saw ther was hardly an average of
12 bushels to the acre in consequence of the
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rust Oats is no crop atall lots of fields
was not cut atall Corn is just a middling
crop potatoes is only about half crop and
hardly that wheat sells at about 90 cts
to $1.00 per bushel. Oats would sell at about
45 cts per bu if there was any to sell
corn none in market as yet-
times is the hardest here in consequence of
money matters I ever saw evry man that
owes a cent is duned for it and there is
not produce enough in the country to
pay peoples debt there is some of the ablest
farmers in the country that cannot pay there
debts and some of the best of our merchants
is broke up -- I want you to write
whether John has gone to Michigan yet
or not -
Now David the last letter that I received
from you you wrote that you never had
received any acknowledgement of that money
that you sent with Mary Jane
I would just say that I sent you a
note in a letter long ago and if you did not
get it I want you to let me know and I will
send you another note
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Now David you wanted to know the least
I would take for my interest in the old place
I would just say that I will sell lower now
than I ever would before on account of the times
being so hard here and I am some in debt and
I am tired of being craved (?) and I have nothing
to make money out of this fall and every
debt that I owe will have to be paid this fall
Now David you and William see what is the
best you can do by me this fall and let
me know and I will go in just as soon as you
let me know and we will draw writings I can
go in and stay about one week and we can fix it
all except Rebeccas signing it and that can be
done at some other time next spring for
instance when you come out
Now David I want you to write immediately
and let me know whether it will be worth
my while to come or not so that I will
have time to fix and go before cold weather
So no more at present but remains your
son and Brother James C Andrews to
David Andrews and all the rest
Write soon Rebecca sends her best respects to Mother and all the rest
P S I traded horses twice and I have now got a
mare four years old last spring handsome as a picture
even- up for old nell, worth one hundred and ten dollars
I like to have forgotten to tell you
that the fly is eating up the early
sowed wheat Robert Reed and Nathaniel
Paxton is agoing to commence to plow
up theirs tomorrow morning and sow
it over and many others
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