Yarmouth
August 22, 1871
Dr. J. Benjamin
Dear Sir,
Your favor of 10th inst was duly received at
Nantucket by my family and brought it to me at this place. Fred & I have been detained a few days in
Lynn shingling and repairing our cottages there. Now the Case is here still and holding me
___. I want to raise more funds for our church
if possible to complete it before we turn Christmas. We want to give concerts enough of our own to
pay for our expenses so far.
Now Brother Benjamin I have just written to Mr. Case
desiring of him to remain at the farm till 1st of November, if possible,
or as long as he can stand. I wish you
should take the first opportunity to go and see him and persuade him to remain,
but if he will not, I wish you would just step in and manage the entire
premises by you & your wife taking the rooms that he has vacated, or let
your oldest son & daughter go over & take charge, or get the best man
you can that will be honest & faithful and of course rush along the thrashing,
plowing, corn harrowing, etc. and I will return at the earliest possible. Can’t __ __ with our boxes and business east and
reimburse yon for all your cost & trouble.
Now Doctor, you are my right hand man that I rely in our town
and if you fail me I shall hurry home never to leave again or come and sell all
out and close up my temporal matters there so as not to be annoyed when I am
away. Have you collected the notes I ___ in your
favor from Dawson’s Bank? Please bring
order out of my confusion that may arise in securing the grain. Put two or three teams plowing and have the doing
properly attended. Take a general
supervision of the entire premises that nothing goes to waste. I shall be ready to sell anything I have
then if I cannot pay expenses by running the farm after the cutting I have already
made in ___. Sell the oxen at the first good offer. Let Kate ___ for some young cattle and have
the pigs butchered early after fattening & hold for what they will bring
saving the best stock for breeders.
I know, Dr., that you have your own cares & business because
you are faithful in little. I believe you will be faithful in much and
I have the faith that you will truly represent me & more too, and that I only
wish to know that you will assure responsiblity till I come and trust that you
will be fully recompensed for the __ on our arrival.
Please write me fully & particularly on receipt of this
2 state what changes you have initiated and how the prospects brighten. What will be the acreage crop on our farm and such
suggestions as you choose to make. We
want to raise something for our church before we set our faces west, but if you
cannot get along without me for two months, say so, and I must leave all my cares
& concerns and come home & stay till something permanent is accomplished.
Regards to all of your family, and believe me,
Truly yours,
Asa B. Hutchinson
Please address us to the care of Dr. J. H. Sherman, Lynn,
Mass.
Please pay faithful Frank for two months services out
of funds gathered in from note or sale of cattle. Yours, ABH
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