Harrison County September 1st 1855
Respected friends I now sit down according to promise
to inform you that I got home on wensday
evening before
sundown
the first day I drove to New Philadelphia which was
between 45 and 50 miles I found the family all well in middling
health
Wm is complaining a little with the headache our
people got a letter from Steward and
Ellen the day that we
left home
they are both in middling good
health they have got
back to Illinois they expect to be home the fore part of
October
we have been verry busy thrashing yesterday and the day before
and I had not time to write till this morning
and I do not intend
to write much for the breakfast is nearly
ready and Mary
Ellen is going to town as soon as she eats you can tell aunt
Peggy that Jacob Riggle and Mary Ann has come
back bag and baggage
and she is shaking with the ague they are going to live in one end
of the house with Ezra Thompson and Jacob is
going to farm
old John Matson’s place Sarah wants you to come in with
William and aunt Peggy She says she wants to see you badly
But I must close give my bes respects to
all the family no more
at present but remains yours [……..]
JW Carrick
to Miss Mary Jane Andrews
PS
I intend to write to Steward
in a few days and see if he will come home by
your country
or not
I understand that Ellen wrote to Nancy McLaughlin
that they had promised to come home past Logan
and aunt susan
kerr
Wm Kerrs widow was to come home with them if that is the
case it is likely that they will come strait
through and
not make any stop
Second page
Tell aunt Peggy that I got along
very well by myself
I did not get asleep and fall out of the buggy
I never felt a bit sleepy
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