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[MS 118]

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[MS 119]

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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