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<p><span font-size="medium">July the 26th 1853 Henry Co [Ind?] Dear Cousin this morning I take my pen in hand to drop you [a] few lines in Answer to your kind letter which I received some weeks ago I would have righten You A answer before now but I have bin laid up with A Soar hand I had what is cold A [Colarrh?] in the inside of my hand I have not worked Any for 3 weeks of Any Concequence and father was laid up with A [beeling?] on his foot one week in the [hith?] of wheat harvest and now he is got A very Soar hand that he can not do A thing You may suppose we had A tolerable hard time of getting A [way?] our harvest but we are getting prety well through we have all our hay up and oats + wheat accept one field of wheat and if it dont [rain] Any more between this and 12 oClock I think we will go at that we are all well accept our Soar hands and hopeing these few lines may find you and all our friends + relations enjoying good health You rote as if You thought I had forgotten you but I have not I never forget the batchlars for I am getting along that way myself Some of these hoosier girls [leave?] me A batchlar now they [?] A man here A Young batchlar at 25 + at 30 An old batchlar – – – I will tell you something About our Crops wheat Crops is tolderable good in this neighborhood but A good many have bin [thratching] round + say [thair] wheat dont out likes I did last year</span></p>
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<p><span style font-size="medium">July the 26th 1853 Henry Co [Ind?] Dear Cousin this morning I take my pen in hand to drop you [a] few lines in Answer to your kind letter which I received some weeks ago I would have righten You A answer before now but I have bin laid up with A Soar hand I had what is cold A [Colarrh?] in the inside of my hand I have not worked Any for 3 weeks of Any Concequence and father was laid up with A [beeling?] on his foot one week in the [hith?] of wheat harvest and now he is got A very Soar hand that he can not do A thing You may suppose we had A tolerable hard time of getting A [way?] our harvest but we are getting prety well through we have all our hay up and oats + wheat accept one field of wheat and if it dont [rain] Any more between this and 12 oClock I think we will go at that we are all well accept our Soar hands and hopeing these few lines may find you and all our friends + relations enjoying good health You rote as if You thought I had forgotten you but I have not I never forget the batchlars for I am getting along that way myself Some of these hoosier girls [leave?] me A batchlar now they [?] A man here A Young batchlar at 25 + at 30 An old batchlar – – – I will tell you something About our Crops wheat Crops is tolderable good in this neighborhood but A good many have bin [thratching] round + say [thair] wheat dont out likes I did last year</span></p>
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<p><span font-size="medium">Corne Crops looks tolerable promising at this time although it has bin very dry for several weeks untell yesterday we had A good rain - - - we mad upwads of 12 hundred dozens of wheat - - - wheat is worth from 60 to 65 cts per bushels Corne 50 cts oats 25 cts [?] 8 to 10 cts per lb beef 4 ½ to 5 ½ cts per lb tell uncle Samuel that father says he ought to have righten to be fore now but he has not had an opertunity but as soon as his hand gets so that he can right he will answer your letter he rote that he was comeing out this fall tell him and fetch ant Hony tell them that we will be glad to see them Come but would be much glader if they would Come to stay when they do Come tell uncle Samuel I have A few frog hams laid up drying for him I must now Come to A Close and go to work we all join in Sending our love to all our friends + relations tell them to right to us when Convenient forgive me for not righting to you long Ago and right to me as soon as You get this letter and I will do better hereafter - - -. I think you ought to Come out and see our Country I think You would never go back to old Va to live I no idea if ever Comeing back to Va to live again but if life should last I will See You all some Day but I dont when | so pore you well and fare you better when you get married right one A letter nothing more but remain you affectionate cousin George Young To William H Young</span></p>
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<p><span font-size="medium">Corne Crops looks tolerable promising at this time although it has bin very dry for several weeks untell yesterday we had A good rain - - - we mad upwads of 12 hundred dozens of wheat - - - wheat is worth from 60 to 65 cts per bushels Corne 50 cts oats 25 cts [?] 8 to 10 cts per lb beef 4 ½ to 5 ½ cts per lb tell uncle Samuel that father says he ought to have righten to be fore now but he has not had an opertunity but as soon as his hand gets so that he can right he will answer your letter he rote that he was comeing out this fall tell him and fetch ant Hony tell them that we will be glad to see them Come but would be much glader if they would Come to stay when they do Come tell uncle Samuel I have A few frog hams laid up drying for him I must now Come to A Close and go to work we all join in Sending our love to all our friends + relations tell them to right to us when Convenient forgive me for not righting to you long Ago and right to me as soon as You get this letter and I will do better hereafter - - -. I think you ought to Come out and see our Country I think You would never go back to old Va to live I no idea if ever Comeing back to Va to live again but if life should last I will See You all some Day but I dont when | so pore you well and fare you better when you get married right one A letter nothing more but remain you affectionate cousin George Young To William H Young</span></p>
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Southwest Virginia Counties Collection (Ms2000-092)
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History of Food and Drink
Local/Regional History and Appalachian South
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The collection includes letters from various members of the Godwin, Young, Trevey, Williams and other families of Botetourt, Rockbridge, and Roanoke Counties establishes the relationship between them. In addition to correspondence, the collection also contains deeds, promissory notes, invoices for goods and services, toll bridge fee receipt, a child's watercolor, 13 pen and ink drawings of weaver's coverlet designs with titles of designs included. The collection also contains five bound leather volumes include accounts and recipes
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Figgat, Nancy Godwin
Godwin, Ann
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1783/1878
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George Young Letter Jul. 26, 1853
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Young, George
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1853-07-26
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Letter from George Young to his cousin William H. Young.
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Ms2000-092, Box 1, Folder 12
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