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did on red river, recollect that your Mother and Brothers, future happyniss and Comfort depend on you, if kind providence pre- serves your valluable health and life, I can not help Anticipating future pleasurs and pleasing tranquility of mind in the Society of my beloved Children. I well know you will have Innumerable dif- ficultys and dangers to go through before that happy period arrives, when you will have a plain but comfortable home for yourselves and Mother moast ardently do I pray that your health and Con- stitution ma7 be equal to your Industry and resolution, the latter will eneable my Sons to Surmount every difficulty-if diprived of the former you can do nothing, may heaven, in mercy, avert this great calamity I hope and trust, your Brother will be of great Service to you in many Instances, you will discover a great Simi- lar[i]ty of disposition and manners to his dear Father, which is a Sattesfaction to me [to] see his Counterpart,-although I fear he prossesses two much of his Sanguine temper and will, licke [like] his unfortunate parent, Anticipate a thousand pleasing projects which he will never realize, god forbid he should meet with as many disappointments and Sevear mortifications as his poor Father ex- perienced in consequence of this, and placeing Confidence in men that deceived and defrauded him, indeed my Son the more I See of the world, the more reason I have to dislike its Inhabitants, Bryan is now Ingaged in Setling what is left of our once Inclipendant Estate-and I apprehend he will have trouble for even those who gave notes, trumps up accounts and presents them as ofsets to their notes, none has been accepted and theay must prove them before theay will be-he has conversed with J. Austin on the Subject of a Settlement but he puits him of[f] in the same way he did your Father for years- I well know he was anxious for their accounts to be Settled long before he left the mines and numerous periods was set to adjust them and I am convinced it was his fault that their old business was not arranged long since, although he now says it was the fault of your father, their appears a mistory in his conduct, he now Says the Estate Justly owes him 16 hund dollors-now you know the Situattion he has been in for years past and at times much Embariessed and you father has to my knowledge releived him in Several Instances, and my Idea, was that he was Indebtted to us instead of the estate oweing him so large a Sum, however I Shall not multiply words on this Subject-but mearly obse[r]ve that a final Settlement with J A-and E Bates will never be effectd without your aid-Bryan thinks, and not without some cause, the latter has Injur<' him to Such a degree, he can never forgive him and their is no Intercoars whatever between the two famalys-as administra- tor B-must call on him, but I have no Idea that any thing will be
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