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I feel that it is due to my Brothers and Sister Post to inform you of my recent disposition of property instead of having the same in Jacob’s hand, at indirect as I have the most perfect confidence therein. But the time had come when my daughter ETJ ought in justice to have her turn. She had not had any share while the two younger ones (from sickness and the other away) have been the recipient of hundreds. Now I am with them and ETJ is bound to make me comfortable. She wishes to have a lot in the new settlement and I think she will enjoy owning a right of soil (tho’ only 5 acres). I don’t see how I could be made more comfortable in my advanced age her family is very small and her husband is not at all dispos’d to burden[?] her with any more than she can perform with comparative comfort. She is entirely domestic in her habit and tho’ she would like a little more social intercourse with the enlightened and refined men and women who do congregate in more popular[?] places yet as her husband (and also his mother’s family now including at home only at most his mother keeping house and one brother’s family is a part of the same) has no intention to go from home much or to call round him any thing but good reading and is mostly employ’d in farming operations.