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Coventry . Aug t 15th 1804
Dear Son & Daughter I duly received your Letter dated March 12th - 1804 and it afforded me great Consolation to hear of your health and welfare. A person of the Name of Ralph Wigan - of Wigan in Lancashire called on me at Bablake on the 2d of Augt. said that he had dined with you on the 15th of March last - he informed me that you had been robbed to the amount of near 100 £ but that notwithstanding the Loss, You were in very flourishing Circumstances when he came away and that you keep a Carriage, and deal in all sorts of Cloth, Silk, Rum, Brandy, Liquors, & in short every thing but Bread - That you gave a hundred Guineas for a Mare and kept her 1 year and sold her for that same sum again - That the weekly return of your business amounted to 100 £ - That you was grown very Fat - All these things gave me great pleasure to hear of particularly of your regularity in keeping the Sabbath very strict - Susan is Married to Wm Ralphs a Shoemaker of Coventry but is now with her Husband at Bixall Barracks above 180 Miles from Coventry - . Mrs [ J indecipherable] , Wm Hewit & his. Wife [indecipherable] Mrs Fletcher & Mr Sander Unite with me in respects to you and Family - Wishing you every Spiritual & Temporal Blessing- I remain your affectionate Father James Hassall
PS. I have seen the letter you sent to the Rev J Evans
Ralph Wigan informed me that £20 or £30 was no more to you than be a penny or twopence to me -
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