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    Transcription of Letter #3, envelope addressed to Mr Alx Wilson, Harveys Settlement by Fredericton New Brunswick North America, mailed Morpeth Jy 17, 1867, written by his uncle, James Brown.

(Spelling transcribed as close to the way it was written as possible.)

 

Scan of four page letter and envelope is found below.
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              Lane End

              Nr Morpeth

              July 14 th , 1867

 

My Dear Nephew

  I rec'd your kind letter and happy to here from you all as this leves us all well at present thank God for it.   You say you have not rec'd a letter from me but I can not say for sarton ( certain ) but I exp't I had wrote you as I ware in hops of herein from you soner.   Your letters are not long in comen you had posted it on the second of April and received on Seventeen.   I would have wrote you soner but I have had a _?_ to __?_ this Spring & I intended to see your aunts Martha & Fanny before I wrote you.   I have not seen them but there daughters has been here all well.   Trusten you have had a letter from Sarah Reed as she intended to write you.

 

  I hope your sister Jane will write me and any of you as I do miss your dear Father and Mother.   I had maney of his letters he gave me so good a count of you all.   Let me know if your brother Robert are with you and what your all dowen for Farmen as a very bad (?) traid with us here and if you ever here from your Uncle Thomas.   It are a boute three month since I had a letter I wrote him trusten to here from him sone but I feer he are in a very dangerest place where he lives and such a cold place and no one neare them but there one selfe ware your Brother there.

 

  You say you have had a bad winter I am sorry to say we have had the worst for this twelve years the winter before ware such a weat one but this so much snow and crops are looken very thin The Hay are fare short of last year the wheat are not a level crop the oats I fear will be short as it has been such a summer for runches (?)   It has bet some crope interley (?) They are gone to cut them now the fields are quite yalow with them.   The Turnips are looking much better this last week the Hay are nearly all up.   Your Uncle Jonathan has a boute thorty acres very good and nearly all up his wheat are thin.   He has one son & three daughters the son are seventeen past very tall not very strong.   We have one daughter and one son William and Frances Jane.   You will have hard what a lose there has been in England with the cattle plague but I have not sean aney as it are very Smittle (?)   I have not hard of a case latley but we can not be moved with out stock licence and this licence shall be available for six days from date here of and no longer but no animal can be moved under it upon any Highway between Sunset & Sunrise.   I am happy we have not had it I have lost three cows but not of it of a lingren dease which has been a heavy lose to me but I thank God I have plenty yeat.   I must now conclude trusting you will not be so long before you write again.   Your Aunt unites with me in kind regards to you all and believe me to remain your well wishing Uncle and Aunt,

 

                  James & Frances Brown.

 

  I hope you will remb me to all of you as I many a time think of you.  

 

 

	Envelope Front Medium Sized Pop-up Image 700 X 442 jpeg; 101 k; 72 dpi Full Sized Pop-up Image 750X 441 jpeg; 167 k; 150 dpi
	Letter Page 1 Medium Sized Pop-up Image 693 X 1125 jpeg; 288 k; 72 dpi Full Sized Pop-up Image 693 X 1125 jpeg; 438 k; 150 dpi
	Letter Pages 2,3 Medium Sized Pop-up Image 700 X 746 jpeg; 320 k; 72 dpi Full Sized Pop-up Image 1155 X 1123 jpeg; 935 k; 150 dpi
	Letter Page 4 Medium Sized Pop-up Image 688 X 1098 jpeg; 382 k; 72 dpi Full Sized Pop-up Image 688 X 1098 jpeg; 603 k; 150 dpi

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