Transcription

[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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