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AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION.
a Short time we shall succeed in getting a free toleration for all Religions, but a few fanatic and imprudent preachers at this time would ruin us-we must show the Govt that we are ready to sub- mit to their laws and willing to do so, after that we can with more certainty of success hope to have our previleges extended Adieu my Dear sister-my lot is cast in the wilderness but I am content, trouble and fatigue have become so very familiar to me that they begin to appear like bosom friends. I hope and pray how- ever that for the future you will not be tormented by Such friends Remember me to your husband and the :rvir. Perries and their families and tell my New Brother in law that he must write me, let him inform me what his prospects are there, and I can the better judge wheither a removal would benefit or injure him and know better how to advise him If Brother Brown is with you Make him study Spanish every day and tell him to be industrious in doing what he can to see what is the state of the wreck of our property-I have disposed of the land I intend[ed] for aunt Austin's family as there ap- pears no prospect that any of them will come on-I am still ver7 poor and live poor-corn coffee-corn bread-milk and Butter and a Bachelors household, which is confusiort, dirt, and torment, are small items of my living-your marriage will force either Brother or me to marry for I must have somebody to keep house. So that you have made a lucky escape for my house is a thoroughfare for the whole country- ' I sent in two wagons to meet you at Alexandria, they are on the way back as I hear from report, empty of course-it has cost me a good deal-,Vhat has become of faithful old Jacki you must take care of him in his old age for what he has been-I am much more contented and happy since you are married than I was before the thoughts of your destitute situation sometimes almost ran me mad, that trouble is now gone and I have one less than I had-I am fast loosing the desire I once had to make a fortune, which encourages me to hope that I am yet to enjoy much happiness, for a greatly man can never be happy, the loss of a cent makes him miserable. forever your always aft.
STEPHEN
CHARACTER CERTIFICATE
State of Louisiana
Parish of La Fayette
This is to Certify that Coatsworth P. Welborn (the bearer of this) is a man of respect and Esteem among us, and I do not hesitate to
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