State Library of NSW
[MS 120]
Coventry August 16th
Dear Brother I received your Letter Dated March the 12 and it is with pleasure I hear that you are and your wife and your Children are whole in health and in flourishing sircumstance may God preserv you and yours long in the Same this will inform you that I have had of Children Six I have but 2 his no more namly James the first born which workes with me in the Shop at my own Bisness Sarah which workes the least William which his in St John Gift Shop Thomas which his now no more Joseph and Samuel which go to day school Thomas the second of the name which now ded John the youngest which his a fine Child so thay be all the eldest often inquires after you it may not be amis to let you no that when you rote before I was at Colchester Barack has destiny had forst me from my wife and fammily but this God ordered for the best [for] the insuing winter was very sevear and had I been at home me and my famaly must have starved for want as there was no imployment and provisions very dear my wife receved 12 Shiling per week from the country I farmed for and may pay which more than I had been used to Live on that I thought myself [indecipherable] of the Severity of the Season and the weakeness of my inside Causd me to take A bad Could which Settld on my Lungs and Causd and asthmattick Complaint through which I am deschargd from his Maggestes service
[MS 121]
While from home I came to a resolution to Get God willing in to the ingene room which I put into practiss and got a ten of [indecipherable] which I manneged very well I now am have a 24 of [indecipherable] and [indecipherable] but my complaint his [is] so that I am often ill for a week [or] two if I take a cold and So Short of Breath that [indecipherable] go to the Bridg Being out of breath My Wife Sends her Best respects to you and your wife [and] Likewise my heldest Son and Daughter I had no more [indecipherable] but may God preserf you your Wife and Children has and prayer of your ever Loving Brother James Hassall
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