“Deer mother and father and sisters i root thes few lines hooping to find you All well for I arr in gudd halth my self and i wood root befor onley i wos very un setled and now i have root i houp you will rite back as soon as you can and send how you all arr and likwise our frends and i am hired my self for a sheeprd 12 munts for 19 pound and my keep too for it wos to soun for our work when i arive in the cuntry it is a plesent and a helthay cuntry and most peple dows well in it as liks onley it is a grait cuntry for durnkerds and you do not Xpket for them to do well no weer i have not got any folt to find of the cuntry for after few theres man can bee is own master if hee liks for the wagers is higher then tha arr at hom and the previshen is seeper and peple do not work so hard as thay do at tom and if any wne wish to com com at wonce and don with it same as i did and take no feer oof the see whot ever for i did not see any danger whot ever and it is a cuntry that puur peapole can get a gud living in hoostlue wich thay can not at tom i arr vrey well plesed off the cuntry and i should bee very happy if i had som relishon over with mee and i am 230 miles up the cuntry and wee had a very plesent voyge over in deed and likwise luckey and vrey litle sickenss and no deths deer mother and father i houp you will lett our frends no how i am geeting on and der frends you take no heed what pepole says about horstler take and past your own thouths about it and if any body wishes to com i wood swade them to com con pepole can geet a gud living there wer tha cant at tome and pepole beter com and geet a belly full then to stop at tome and work day and night then onely get haf a bely ful and i am shuur that no body can not find any folt off the cuntry eXcep tis pepole do not now when tha arr doing well [price of pervison] tee lb 1_s_ to 3_s_ suuger lb 2_d_ to 6_d_ coofe lb 8_d_ to 1_s_ bred lb 1_d_ to 2_d_ beef lb 1_d_ to 2_d_ mutten ditto baken lb 6_d_ to 1_s._ poork lb 2_d_ to 4_d_ butter lb _6_d to 1_s_ chees lb 4_d_ to 8_d_ pertos price as tome sope lb 4_d_ to 6_d_ starch and blue and sooder home price candles lb 4_d_ to 6_d_ rice lb 2_d_ to 4_d_ hags hom price trekle lb 4_d_ to 5_d_ solt lb 1_d_ peper nounc 2_d_ tabaker lb 1_s_ to 6_s_ beer 4_d_ pot at sednay and up in the pool 1_s_ spirts hom price frut happles pars horengs lemns peshes gusbryes curneth cheerys cokelnut storbyes rasberys nuts of all sorts vegtbles of all sorts price of cloths much the same as tome stok very resneble sheep 2_s_ 6_d_ heed wait about 80 pounds fat bullket about 1000 wit 3_l_ pour hors from 2_l_ to 10_l_ ther is wonderful grait many black in the cuntry but tha will not hurt any one if you will let them aolne. traitment on bord ship,