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yesterday we did little except coming here found Elisabeth looking very well in her new to her abode we were very agreeably [disappointed?] in their house they have plenty of room perhaps they might arrange some things better if they had had the building but they have it that Elisabeth likes it better than the large house that they lived in near the store - learning which we were glad and William and wife are snugly living in the ^little^ house they left find William has left the store and has three Sloops or Boats under his care is now in quite a quandary what to do Cornell has a load of manure at Troy and wis- hes William to send for it and he is afraid it will be to late in the season etc., etc. Wallace is store man and Edmond and a coloured man has gone to South after a load of hay with three horses. Whether cloudy for the first since we have been in these parts thus far we have prospered in our movements we first went to G. Willets seventh day evening Love to all IP