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as soon as you receive this letter send to Dan Dan Ste-
vens & tell him not to make a gallery on the Top of
the Dwelling house, if he has began it to stop & do
no more at it. git all the money you can from
Edmond Johnson at [Hones?] ferry send to him every
week or two set all the money in writing you receive
& the day of the month. I hire a man to take this letter to
Smithland & bring me letters if any from the Office.

I wish you could keep the boys at school dont
enter them for more than a quarter at a time.

There is a misserable set of people in this country.
I have wrote everything I have to write from here
I am greatly destress in my mind & I cant
tell when I shall be relieved from it

Give my love to all the Children and
accept my best wishes for your wellfare
and Happyness in this & the next world

Green Clay

Sunday Morning Jany 9th
Tuesday morning the man I hired to go with Jeff to hunt
my horses has returned & no news of them at all
The men were [steeting?] on the Ohio at Smithland last
cold weather in Gangs - a man was taken sick

Tell Cassius there is one John [Derro?] making shoes
at this house, who says he and another man gathered
in the Ohio lowgrounds in six days 65 Bushels
of Pecon nuts The weather is as cold again as ever felt
nearly Jany 11th 1820. farewell again:
Green Clay