Stone, Horace. Letter to "Brother"

Title

Stone, Horace. Letter to "Brother"

Creator

Stave, J a?

Contributor

Hazael Stave?

Date

1829-03-01

Description

Handwritten letter from J a Stave? to Hazael Stave, March 1, 1829.

Is Part Of

Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers

Rights

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Identifier

1981

Location

Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester

Transcription

(Page 1)

----- day P.M. [?] March 1^st, 29

Dear Brother, I will now take

my pen in hand to write you once

more, we are all well at preasant [sic] except

our oldest child she has the hooping [sic] cough

& has had it very hard all winter but is geting [sic]

along well at presant, [sic] we have a pare [sic] of boys

& one girl our youngest is about six weeke, [sic]

old, Father and Mother are well and living with

Oliver, Father talks of visiting you the comeing [sic]

Summer he soled [sic] his place last spring for two

hundred & thirty dollars and put the money inter [sic]

Olivers, [sic] hands, for his support, Oliver is at his

place which I soled [sic] him yet I am [now on?] the

sixth place which I have owned Since I have been

here I have been offered a thousand dollars for

mine I think I shall sell for about twelve hu

ndred [sic] the comeing [sic] season I have one & pair of hos [horses?]

& one yoke of cattle & two cows, is all the stock

I have I had twenty four head of cattle last

fall & have redused [sic] them to four at the presant [sic]

time, we have a very extrayordnary [sic] hard winter,

the Snow is now about a foot deep & has been

about two feet deep all winter until within a

few days I have been driving Beef Cattle all the

fall & winter, I bye [sic] from ten to twenty at

a time & drive to Chicago market I have drove

(Page 2)

about two hundred since I first commensed [sic]

I can have a chance to by [sic] as many as I please &

have money furnished the Comeing [sic] Season all

which I have bot [sic] on my own [hook?] Unkle [sic]

David Sutherland’s William has been here [?] a packing

Beef & pork on the big Side he is now in Canan

dagua [sic] but has a pardner [sic] here I saw Elick [?] Spen

cer & he tells me that Sutherland is among the Big

[boys?] I saw him at a banking house with a package

of money to the amount of seventeen thousand

dollars for Sutherland Horace I think if you waz [sic]

here we could doe [sic] something at driveing [sic] cattle

to the philadelphia [sic] market next Summer

if you will come and try it I will gow [?] into it

with you I exspect [sic] you can loan money with

you at a reasonable rate we cannot get money here

short of five per cent a month I could loan any

amount at that rate if I had it, I think there

might be money made by driveing [sic] good horses

from here to the eastern market, I have a pair

of four year olds dark [iron?] gray good size & look

as near alike as two pins trot their mile in four

minutes together one of them can get in 31/2

I have been offered two hundred dollars for them

five times & I think I shall let them go & [?] I

have thought I should like to bring them to

your place very mutch [sic] it would doe [sic] you good to

see them mutch [sic] more to ride after them they

are [illegible] and not a white spot on them

(Page 3)

I suppose I could redily [sic] get 1000, for them if

I had them there, I wish you would look arou- [sic]

a little & See if there is any chance for trading

a farm here for one there I would like very

mutch [sic] to traid [sic] my farm here for one there

I have a good place containing 120 acres, which

I should value at fifteen hundred dollars [to buy?]

a small place there if you can see any su-

ch chance for me I wish you to write me &

I will make myself a resident of your

country agane [sic] I hope you may not think me

sick of my country but I think I could enjoy

myself very well with you I wish you to

be sure & write me as soon as you receive

this [George?] is very sick he was taken with

tifoid [sic] fever and has been sick for five weeks & [is not?]

like to recover he looks very miserable in [illegible]

altho he sets up some Las—y’s [?] boy is very s[ick?] with

inflamation [sic] of the lungs the rest of our friends

in this place are all well, Mr Isaac Lewis esq is

now liveing [sic] on [Brases?] place he came here last fall &

has become homesick and thinks of returning to his

dear old home agane [sic] one week from Monday next

he thinks our country is no such country as

michigan this is easily accounted for as he has got

so far from home --- Horace as I have nearly consumed

this little sheet I must close to you soon. doent [sic]

doe [sic] as I have done and neglect to write pleas [sic] give

my respects to all friends of that place [Philia

[da?] & children write me a long leter [sic] doe [sic] not fail

(Page 4)

I should be very mutch [sic] pleased to visit

you all but doe [sic] not know as I shall even be

permited [sic] to this to my Brother & family with

very mutch [sic] respect may these few lines find

you enjoyin [sic] the comforts of good health

Horace Stone Ja Stone

[Address in center of page, running upward]

Mr Horace Stone

Mt Morris Livingston

Groveland Co, [Corners] NY

[Remaining words: Notes in unknown hand]

A contract Made

A contract [Molle?]

for and in consideration

[Running upward at right] April

[M.B. 2/15/2018]

Collection

D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers

Citation

Stave, J a?, “Stone, Horace. Letter to "Brother",” RBSCP Exhibits, accessed November 23, 2024, https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/items/show/4255.

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