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new home.
_25th Mary took away our little girl & boy in
the buggy, a sad sight to see the children
taken away from you that you have nursed
& tended day & night for ten years, _ Oh that I
m ay be more resigned to my lot, or I do not,
[pg 58]
know what will become of me, _Elizabeth
c ame up on the boat, Nelson going for her
_26th they came back in the evening for some
o f their things, Lydia & Deborah went to Coopers
for some black-water,____
27th Sarah Levens brought Aunt Rachel’s
bonnet, Lewis Levens called in to see how
w e look in our new home.
_28th Elizabeth went to meeting with father
& m yself also Nelson & Rachel, got our dinner
at Levi’s, it did not look much like home,
Eliza Brewer had a meeting in the afternoon.
Levis Birth day 4 6 __
29th Elizabeth & Rachel sewing carpets togather [sic]
beautifull [sic] weather Cherrie Plumb trees out
in blossom. Musketoes [sic] troublesom [sic].
[pg 59]
4m 30th Elizabeth gone home Rachel took
o
her to the boat.
5mo5th Levi Mary & the Children here also
Nathaniel & Isabela, ____
_6th Quite unwell had sick head-ach [sic]
Joseph Baker & P W. here for a call, _
_7th Lydia’s birth day 40 years old it does
not seem possable [sic], washing no little Children
_25th Mary took away our little girl & boy in
the buggy, a sad sight to see the children
taken away from you that you have nursed
& tended day & night for ten years, _ Oh that I
m ay be more resigned to my lot, or I do not,
[pg 58]
know what will become of me, _Elizabeth
c ame up on the boat, Nelson going for her
_26th they came back in the evening for some
o f their things, Lydia & Deborah went to Coopers
for some black-water,____
27th Sarah Levens brought Aunt Rachel’s
bonnet, Lewis Levens called in to see how
w e look in our new home.
_28th Elizabeth went to meeting with father
& m yself also Nelson & Rachel, got our dinner
at Levi’s, it did not look much like home,
Eliza Brewer had a meeting in the afternoon.
Levis Birth day 4 6 __
29th Elizabeth & Rachel sewing carpets togather [sic]
beautifull [sic] weather Cherrie Plumb trees out
in blossom. Musketoes [sic] troublesom [sic].
[pg 59]
4m 30th Elizabeth gone home Rachel took
o
her to the boat.
5mo5th Levi Mary & the Children here also
Nathaniel & Isabela, ____
_6th Quite unwell had sick head-ach [sic]
Joseph Baker & P W. here for a call, _
_7th Lydia’s birth day 40 years old it does
not seem possable [sic], washing no little Children