John G Andrews to Samuel Andrews
June the 18th 1864
Dear
Friends: these are to inform
you that we are all well at present
hoping these few lines will
find you all enjoying the
same blessing
we have got in
our own house at last been in
it about four weeks we have
a verry comfortable house to live
in we
have it painted in side
and out side with lime and
sand
their is the best kind
of haying now and has been for ten
days past
i have been chopping last
week i want to get three acres for
corn and five acres more for wheat
the boys are going to school now we
have a female teacher rather a poor
thing but we cant do no better
now the young men have all gone to
the war
i hope for better times soon
i
cant get no letter from james
i under stand by your letter that
he was drafted and has not reported
yet i think he is verry foolish for
not reporting but i dont blame
him altogether
he has some friends
that is verry bad advisers and if i
could see James i think i could persuade
him to do what is rite i think he
will have a nice time skulking
around this winter he mite get a cold
nose i
have wrote to D Johnston
i think i will get all the parti
culars
shortly i have been looking
for a letter from Joseph for a long
time tell Mother that i will look
for her next spring and stay
through shugar making i would
like to have her come and see wheir
we live in the back woods if she
takes a notion to come let me
know and i will give you the
rout i
will give her al
l
the shugar she can carry
i want to make a thousand pounds
in the spring
wintering is going
to be verry scarce hay is verry
scarce
the straw stacks are verry
much damaged as the fall was verry
wet hay
is worth $30 for ton
i could get no hay to cut on shares
i brought home some little [p]aches of one
of the neighbors i got about two
and
a half the oats crop was verry
light we had just corn enough
to fatten two hogs that was all
we had to fatten as one died in the
fall
the bigest and best we had
tell will to come out here and
kill a deer as they are verry
plenty
wild turkey no end to them
but they all run safe for me
our little girl says that she would
like to see grand mother verry much
the
markets the close
wheat
$200 corn $150
oats 80 cts
butter 40 cts
eggs
20 cts
we have sold $53 worth
of butter this season
write
soon and give all the particulars yours
respectfully
J
G Andrews
to
Samuel Andrews
and
lady
we
have got our cloth for our
wool we
got 11 yds for pants 11 yds for
shirts
7 yds for coats and 6 yds to
come yet
i will send you
a sample of our factory cloth
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