
          Very dear Sir, might our heartfeelt [heartfelt]
 wishes in our letter expressed at the first
 Januar [January], on beginning of the new year,
 find a kind heart and hear by You. 
 The imperfect words in congratulating 
 You for the new year I have dared to 
 dedicate to You all in my writing, wich [which]
 Mr. Merkert has brought to You, are 
 but a small translation of our sincerest 
 Thankfullest feels to our preservers and
 protectors. Once more we pray, to keep
 us Your further kind benevolence and 
 protection, assuring, always to endeavour
 us, to be worthy for so much benignity
 and to deserve that. Surely, dear Sir, 
 Your good works are not lost!


 With highest respect and reverence


 High honourable Sir


 Yours


 attached, thankfullest


 Bogenhard.


 Williamsbourgh [Williamsburg]


 8. Jan. [January] 1853.                  


                                           
        