To: David Andrews Esqr September
30th 1856
From: James W. Carrick Short Creek Harrison County Ohio
Respected
friend Your favor of the 12 of June
came to hand punctualy
and we
were much pleased to hear that you were all well we and the friends
generally
are all well the health of this region
has been good since I
last
wrote you I received a letter from
Joseph Minteer a few days ago
they
with Stewards family were all well they
still continue to be well
sattisfyed
with their location and business Josephs
has entirely recovered
his
health he says he has worked so hard this summer that the hair of his
head is
all coming out. him and Eliza Jane had
been over at parrs a
short
time before and they were all well aunt
peggy has got quite fat and
hearty
we do not know what time she will be home
she intends to come as
soon as
she can get a good chance of company and we know of one or two
good
chances that she will have this fall. We
have had a very dry summer
and of
cours we have verry poor crops of corn I
think on an average not
more
than one third of a crop. we had a great
crop of grass and middling
good
wheat and oats. we have got our grain
all thrashed out and reddy
for
market. wheat is selling at a dollar and
fifteen to a dollar and
twenty
five owing to quality oats is worth from
33 to 35 and corn 60
and
going up and som people thinks it will be a dollar before spring
I would
just inform you that unkle Davy has entered a suit against the
estate
for wages he claims $4.00 a week from the first of April 52 till
the
first of April 53 and $10 a week from then till the first of Febuary
54 making in all with intrust from the last date
a little over six hundred
and 90
dollars I offered him two hundred
dollars for a compromise but he
said he
could take no such money as that how it will end I am not able to
say. it is the opinion of the neighbours generally
that he will not get
as much
as I offered to give him and the cost of his other suit is not
yet paid
off and if he gains anything in this case the court will keep
their
claim out of it and he will be about where he started. I expect it
to com
on the next term of the court which will commence on the 4th of
November you must try and excuse me for not riting to
you sooner we
have
been verry throung[?] we had a middling tedeious
harvest and as soon
as that
was over we went at building the dam at the saw mill which was
a verry
heavy job since that time we have been hauling
manure and
ploughing
and seeding and cutting clover seed and at this time we are
engaged
in getting out coal for the winter and as I would rather do almost
anny
thing els than write a letter I always put it of to the last. we
would be
verry much pleased to see some of you in hear this fall you wrote
that you
would like som of us to go out this fall
I think that will be
out of
our power at this time if your mother
could com in this fall we
would
like to see her if she should take a notion to com I would like to
know a
while before hand and I would try and be reddy for her if she
dont come
and no convenient opportunity offers I may probably to out this
winter
if I keep my health but I would rather
not go this winter if we
could
fix it anny other way pleas write soon as convenient after you get
this and
let us know what you are engaged in give
our best respects to
your
mother and all the family I have been
sitting writing so long that
my hand
shakes verry much I am afraid you cannot read what I have written
James
W Carrick
David
Andrews Esqr
NB you will wonder what the scribbling on the
fourth page of this letter
means well I will tell you I just went to the door a few minits ago and
Robert
thought
that he would write a little and that accounts for it all
[the
scribbling is just a small child’s running circles and a few straight lines]
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