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Dr Sr Last month I was at yr Brothers in Company with yr Mother she Desires
to be remembered to you & very desirious to see you but I informed her that yr business
would not admit of yr traveling so great a distance at that season of the
year. She is in good Health as is all yr relations Except yr sister which
in a bad State of Health they would all be very much rejoyced to have a
Letter from y Especially yr good Mother. [Dominick?] & Nancy has made
out after a long tryal a Statly Boy & Named him after you & is most
as Large or at Least is as fine a child as Ever I saw their Neighbour
the widow Glascocke is Dead and old Mdm Griffin the Ghust Damaged
their Tobo. greatly over their as well as in our parts but Corne is
very plenty among them & God Send it was so in our parts instead
of that it is very Scarce I was informed yesterday y was Living in
Corbintown but I understood by Jas Rigsby who I sent a message to
you by Last fall y was not there As for News in our Government there
is not any worth Mentioning people Continues in their old station
poor & proud for it Generally takes two Slates to Discharge one Mans
Debts I have just Bin at Wmsburg & thank God has at Last got
a final Discharge but I have Never Recd one farthing from Wager
Nor Singleton I have Nothing Strange to offer I am with Due
Respect Yr Esteem well wisher

And most Obedient Hbl Sevt
Hugh Williams

18th of February 1770