Bagillt
December 28, 1849
Dear John,
We send these few lines to you in hopes that they will find
you in a good state of health as it leaves us at ___ excepting your Mother. She is but very indifferent altogether indeed
and we were very glad to hear that you and Price are both well and that you
have had him to your ___. So __ for me
to think that you are happier a good deal more than as it was, and we should be
very glad to hear what place of worship you get to go for you made complaints
in one of your letters that there was no church in the town you were in and if
it was impossible for you to know you would be sadly surprised for to see so
many that goes to all places of worship have none since the fever was about. Some of the drunkest men in the place and
indeed by all appearances that they will __ __.
And to inform you that we have buried a good many of our neighbors since
you went away. There is E. Taylor, the
Smith, by Col--, and John Williams, shoe maker by Col--, and John Barker after
some lingering illness. Old John Hughes
the Confectioner died after been ill sometime.
Harriet Williams John __ __ his wife died after been ill some time. Also Mary Hughes the wife of Enon Hughes the blacksmith
buried her on Christmas day. And there
is a great number of grown up people as well as children been buried that I
cannot mention them at present.
Dear John I am beginning to complain to you about myself for
we had notice lately about the poor rates and I went to the meeting myself and
they start charging me of three pounds with cost and all, and little before
that I had paid one pound ten shillings and they would not allow me only a week
for to pay them and we did not know what to do about them. And Jane Parry came to our house and we told
her of these things and she went to her mother and she borrowed some money from
her for us and ever since the __ __ that we never can make them up and we should
be very glad if you would be so good as to help us a little for we never have
such times as it is with everybody here.
They have turned the poor in the work house to eat barley bread, all of
them, and they do not get enough of poor rates.
Mary Ellen is at home ever since you went away and we can’t
get a place for her nowhere and you wanted to know about her, and Edwin been at the night school. There is no night school here at Flint and to
inform you about our house. There has been
a sale on it in Holywell often but it was bought in again the same as at
___. And about my cousin Will Jones he
sailed on the ___ out of Liverpool for New Orleans and you might receive a
letter before you have this for he said that he would write to you and to us as
soon as he would get his feet on land, and I am informing you that your old
friend William Pierce has got married last Saturday and they took their flight
for their honey moon on Sunday to London and returned on Wednesday. I have no more news at present so I conclude
with our kind love to you both. Likewise
your brothers and sisters all join in love to you and very glad to hear that
you are well and happy at all times.
Also William ___ and his sisters send their kind respects to you and he
is very much surprised that he has not has never had an answer to his letter to
you.
Love from your affectionate Father and Mother,
Robert and Sarah Benjamin
Send a letter as soon as you can.
Tom Jones ___ sends his kind respects to you and wishes very
much he was with you. Edwin Benjamin,
James Benjamin, Little Harriet, Charlotte,
Mary E. Benjamin, they send their names to you so you can see their
handwriting. Also your mother and she
sends you a lock of your hair and that you must keep it until she sees you
again.
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