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eye lids untill you find pease to your sole you will never have to re- gret that you have turned in with the overtures of mercy, only that you have spent so many of your precious hours in running from god, 0 my Dear if I could but see you if it was but for one hour how glad I should be but why do I talk thus seeing I am deprived of your society for such a length [of] time perhaps it is all permitted for our good I hope it will work out our sole salvation we no not that we ever shall meet in this·untendly world or not if not let us live so as to claim an inheritance at his wright hand where there is no more parting do not think I nm beside myself for I feel the importance of soles so great I feel very unwilling to stop here I feel as if I could write a vollum but time will not permit M• Clopper stay here is but short I would willing[ly] send you some articles of clothtl-~in.g (sic) I expect you need shirts very much but I hope you will not go without anything to make you comfortable I have not received any thing from po1t gibson us yet I hope you will not let any oppor- tunity pass without writing it gives me a great deel of uneasiness when I do not here from you for any length of time M• Clopper has 1 :>rought his family to Cinciµnate there he will leave them until fall 1e sed it would be a con,;•enicnt wey for me to go with them I should >e very willing to meet you half wey your friends think it would not be best for you to return to this place, however, I shall leave this entirely to yourself I expect father has written you more fully upon the subject myself and children have enjoyed uninterrupted health since you left home you[r] friend[s] here are generally well I have not seen your mother for some time to speek to her but I believe she is well E Brooke has united herself to Samuel B Cripps of Browns- Ville she has done very well _as to this worlds goods he appears to be a very fine young man he thinks he will see us-[torn] M• Clopper ses if any of our friend will condescend to pay us a visit he will never live in this Coimtry again he is quite much taken with it as you are sister Brooke and H C sens there love to you your little son grows I do not suppose he would know you tho he talks about you. every day every person he sees wriden ·this wey .he ses mamy here is pnpy is a coming if he sees me looks serious or e,rying he ses rilamy dont cry papy will come home John Ma,;ry nnd David send· there love to you in which l joi1i. them may the god of Isral protect you through your jorney and bring us to gether once more is the pre- vailing prayer of your unaltered wife Martha M did you ever get iny letters to [you] ,directed to Nachitoces I was fearful you did not by my not receiving an anser I wrote two the one after the orrthe1; imieadly I was in hopse you· would get them both your most affec- tionately MARTHA MARP~
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