Bagillt
April 2, 1852
Dear John & Elizabeth,
I am again obliged to drop a few lines upon the same subject
as before in hopes to find you in perfect state of health as they leave
us. As I told you in my last that your
mother and myself is but very indifferent indeed and I am very sorry that we
have to trouble you so much and likewise to give you so much expense in paying
for letters but we hope that you will forgive us for the present for we have
not the means of doing it at the present time and we hope that the Lord will
pay you double and treble, that is our sincere wish at all times.
And if you please, what I have to inform you of is about the
money as Elizabeth’s uncle has as I wrote to you last week all the particulars
how it past with us and how he had promised to give Mr. Maurice a note for to
send to Denbigh to the attorney if she would write the authority for him
herself. Mr. Maurice was obliged to go
to him three times himself before he got a note from him and now he says he
won’t pay the money except that Elizabeth will send a stamp receipt for twenty
pounds for him of her own hand writing and then he will pay, and Mr. Maurice on
Wednesday last took the trouble on him to come down from Flint to our house of
purpose for to let me know and to send immediately according to that, for he
knew how I had sent last week, and Mr. Maurice is begging on Elizabeth for to
do so that he will wait that long again and if in case that she will do so he
will make him pay and likewise he is begging of her to enclose a kind of a copy
for both him and me of what she will send to him and then he cannot deny
anything about it, and he told Mr. Maurice that his daughter should write to
her cousin likewise but Mr. Maurice wishes for me to write immediately, for he
says to me the Lord knows when they will write, and we hope and beg of you to
send us soon as you can for Mr. Maurice says that they are at Denbigh so cross
about the money that they have been left so long as two years without paying
and he is a little easier with us than he was for we had a little conversation a
little time back about your grandmother at Caerwys and he says he was a great
friend with her and that he had a many a good dinner with her and that he had
paid a many a hundred pounds in her house and I have to inform you that we do
not know what to think of your brother Edwin greatly for he is not half well
altogether at present and indeed he has not hardly lifted his head up properly
since we have buried your sister and while she was ill he used to run home two
or three times a week and he cryed [sic] a deal by coming into her sight,
therefore he looks very bad but we hope that he will take a turn and that soon
or else we doubt it will be bad with him again.
Therefore I must conclude for the present. Your brothers and sisters send their kind
respects to you and that they are all well at present excepting your brother
Edwin as I have told you above. And so
from your dutyful father & mother,
Robert & Sarah Benjamin
PS Your brother in law Robert Jones of Flint is very
desirous to come out to America altogether as I have understood
this week since you went away therefore your sister has told me of it that he
wants her altogether for me to write to
you for he does not like to ask me himself for to send to you for your advice
first for he is very anxious for to come
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