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isippee through the goodness of God. Altho there is not 

 many of our new England peopple that were able to do 

 that for they had to stay whether they liked the country 

 or not for the people of this country are so kind that they 

 have given the most part of our Yankies a small piece of 

 groun enugh to lay down upon where I left them laying 



after I rote before Mr Stevens and myself undertook the 

 bilding of a mill which we were to work uppon when Mr. 

 Stephens dyed after that I continued to carry the work on 

 myself until I was taken sick myself 



then I was obliged to quit it & I lay sick myself with the 

 fever & aguer about Eight months in which time I got re- 

 duced some so I was so for about four months that I could 

 not tell whether they meant to kill me or not but finding me 

 so tuf they quit the notion and so I got of 



I would mention a little of the situation of the Misippee 

 Country at the present time which is very bad ever since 

 the battle that we had with the Indians at the Wabash which 

 I suppose that you have had an account in the newspapers 

 the Indians have bin very troblison They have kild a grate 

 many this spring 



But what is much more terrible than the Indians on the 

 sixteenth of December We had a Grate Earth Quake which 

 the Shook the Earth to the senter And Shaking Still con- 

 tinued til I left Kaskaskia which was the twenty first day 

 of Febuary. It has damaged and thrown down almost All 

 the houses down in that county and in many plases the earth 

 has Craked open for a quarter of a mild in length and 

 throwne out vast boddies of sand and water and in several 

 plases there is large tracts of country that is all sunk down 

 and overflowed with water The people are moving out of 

 this country faster than they ever moved into it 



As time fails me I must right short I wish you to give 

 my sincere respects to that good old mother of mine and 

 also to all of our family as well as yours. Give respects to 

 my young friend in particular to Zebeus tel them all that 

 I want to see them very much but I cant tell when I shall 

 do it Right to me without fail As soon as you receive 

 this write your letter to Maryette in the State of Ohio for I 



