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Paramatta [Parramatta] March13 1802

Dear Madam

I received yours by the Calcutta & need not inform you
we were exceeding glad to hear from you. The seeds you wrote for, Mrs. M.
has just put up in a small Box with some others [indecipherable] I hope you will arrive
safe – I have sent them by one of the Officers of the Calcutta to whom I refer
you for information of this Colony – This gentleman can give Mr Stokes
a particular amount of the wild cattle having paid a visit to the
Cow pastures. Mrs. M. has visited them once about a month ago.
Where the wild cattle feed it is the finest country Imagination
can conceive. The hills & Vales are so beautiful – It was my intention
to have sent you a good collection of seeds by the Calcutta, but have
been prevented from collecting them by the Irish Rebels – They have
given us much trouble lately & put the Colony in some danger – I hope
they are subdued for the present – They had laid a plan for a general
Insurrection fortunately for us it did not succeed. I am truly sorry
to hear of the death of Mrs. Goff & also of poor Millbat Johnson. Both
Mr. & Mrs J will be greatly afflicted. I can feel for them having lost two
fine boys myself – They are not lost in that glorious morning of the Re-
surrection of the just we shall all meet again – Parents & Children shall
see each other. If numbered among the Saints they part no more for ever
If we are conducted to glory from this scene of iniquity it will become